Jamie Tirelli
Also Known As: Jaime Tirelli
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 04, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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State of Grace
Overview: Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Fort Apache, the Bronx
Overview: From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tuff cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-06
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Bella
Overview: An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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Kill the Poor
Overview: When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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Sugar
Overview: Like many young men in the Dominican Republic, 19-year-old Miguel "Sugar" Santos dreams of winning a slot on an American baseball team. Indeed, his talents as a pitcher eventually land him a slot on a single-A team in Iowa, but culture shock, racism and other curveballs threaten to turn Sugar's dream sour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-03
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Yellow
Overview: Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Puerto Rican ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame and fortune as a dancer. Amaryllis heads for New York City, where she is forced to work in a seedy strip club to make ends meet. Setting audiences afire with her erotic moves, Amaryllis quickly becomes the strip club's hottest attraction, but must finally decide between true love and realizing her dream of becoming a star.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-08
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Girlfight
Overview: Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers, all while keeping it a secret from her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-01
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Musical Chairs
Overview: When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-23
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In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders
Overview: It is 1985, and a small, tranquil Florida town is being rocked by a wave of vicious serial murders and bank robberies. Particularly sickening to the authorities is the gratuitous use of violence by two “Rambo” like killers who dress themselves in military garb. Based on actual events taken from FBI files, the movie depicts the Bureau’s efforts to track down these renegades.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-27
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Washington Heights
Overview: "Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns a bodega in the Heights, is shot in a burglary attempt, Carlos is forced to put his dream on hold and run the store. In the process, he comes to understand that if he is to make it as a comic artist, he must engage with the community he comes from, take that experience back out into the world, and put it in his work.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-22
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Santa Mesa
Overview: Following his mother's death, Hector arrives in Manila to live with his grandmother. Unable to speak Tagalog, Hector falls in with a street gang before a photographer takes him under his wing. Haunted by memories of his mother, Hector photographs an anonymous woman when suddenly, these seemingly disconnected lives collide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-15
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Match
Overview: A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and social graces erode when the questions turn personal and the true nature of the interview is called into question.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-18
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The Brave One
Overview: A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-12
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Chapter 27
Overview: A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-25
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The Groomsmen
Overview: Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. Brother Jimbo, cousin Mike, and his pals fill the reunion with drinking, boys-will-be-boys antics and a few unexpected personal confessions. But, when the bonding devolves into accusations and regret, Paulie has to decide whether he's ready to tie the knot and take this big step into adulthood.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-09
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City of Hope
Overview: This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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Penn & Teller Get Killed
Overview: The "bad boys of magic" go over the edge in this mind-blowing, role-switching comedy murder mystery set in the dizzying world of Atlantic City casinos. In a TV interview, Penn mentions his idea of a fun practical joke: "I wish someone were trying to kill me. It would give focus to my life, excitement. I'd be like James Bond." Twenty million people hear him. One decides to deliver a punchline he'll never forget. Made by people who thought Psycho was a comedy, Penn & Teller Get Killed (they also wrote the piece) features Caitlin Clarke as the femme fatale and David Patrick Kelly as the Edgar Allan Poe-esque nutcase with a new mission. Arthur Penn, known for hip masterpieces like Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man, directs with roller-coaster pacing and subversive intelligence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-22
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Rooftops
Overview: T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city. Their one passion is 'combat'. Combat is a dance/streetfight during which the contestants try to push each other out of the arena, while not allowed to actually touch each other. When drugdealers move into the neighbourhood and kill T's best friend he embarks on a mission to eradicate the drug-presence in the neigbourhood. His friends are reluctant to help though, knowing what happened to T's friend when he crossed them.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-17
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Big
Overview: When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-03
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The Brother from Another Planet
Overview: An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-07
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Author! Author!
Overview: A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-18
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The Ministers
Overview: A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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Ante’
Overview: Ante' is a powerful film about two brothers subjected to child abuse, following the characters through life as they live each day in turmoil trying to disguise the pain. Both brothers turn to the streets as one of them works his way up the ranks of the mob, while the other brother turns to drugs.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-15
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Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Overview: Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal New York underworld, he enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers-in-crime, Carlito is on the fast track to becoming Spanish Harlem's ultimate kingpin. He quickly learns, however, that the only way to survive at the top is through loyalty to his friends and respect for the rules of the street. (FILMAFFINITY)
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-27
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36 Saints
Overview: When New York Police Headquarters is confronted with the horror of a serial murderer loose on the streets of Manhattan, two detectives (Franky G and Jeffrey De Serrano) are tasked with bringing order to the chaos. Oblivious to the danger, six students from all over the world, who now attend school together in New York, are planning a memorial to celebrate the lives of their 30 lost “brothers and sisters” who died suddenly in a tragic plane crash a year prior.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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A Simple Wish
Overview: Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-11
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The Blue Diner
Overview: Blue Diner is a story of a Puerto Rican mother Meche (Miriam Colon) and daughter Elena (Lisa Vidal) living together in Boston and difficulties they face when Elena mysteriously loses her ability to speak Spanish, he first language. As Elena's language disappears, he boyfriend's (Jose Yenque) painting inexplicably appears at the museum where her mother Meche works.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-08
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Adrift in Manhattan
Overview: The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-10
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Carlito's Way
Overview: A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him, and lead a better life outside NYC.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-10
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You Don't Know Jack
Overview: Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-27
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Forged
Overview: Released from prison after serving a sentence for murdering his wife, Chuco returns to Scranton, Penn., where he meets his son, who naturally wants revenge. The two proceed to wrestle with their emotions and the past, forging an unlikely bond.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-31
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Sudden Death
Overview: A New York City career woman becomes a vigilante after being raped by two car thieves.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-19
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I Believe in America
Overview: Three generations of one family, all involved at different levels with the Puerto Rican underground movement for independence, struggle with their need for identity and their need for a peaceful life, as the dying revolutionary movement struggles with new ideas and old ideals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-02
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In the Line of Duty: Street War
Overview: In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the dead cop's partner, who is also the brother of the gangster. There's nothing civil about this war that has two brothers squaring off against each other. The strong cast includes Mario Van Peebles, Ray Sharkey and Peter Boyle.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-25
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The Chair
Overview: A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.
Genres: Horror Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-08
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Marathon Man
Overview: A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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The Preacher's Wife
Overview: Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Biggs prays to God for help – which arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley.
Genres: Family Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-13
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Prison Song
Overview: Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, sentenced to a minimum of fifteen years, the young man must find a way to keep his soul alive behind bars or turn into a hardened bitter criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-27
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