Alex Colon
Also Known As: Alex Cólon, Alex Colón
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Birthday: January 26, 1941
Deathday: January 06, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Siege
Overview: A drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang. After learning that the police are stymied because the victims are too scared to testify against the bullying leader, a semi-retired toolmaker decides to take a stand.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-26
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Red Scorpion
Overview: A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels.
Genres: Adventure Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-24
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The Hospital
Overview: Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-14
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Battered
Overview: Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-26
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Santiago's Ark
Overview: An early ABC Afterschool Speical about an imaginative and determined 14-year-old Puerto Rican boy who builds a sailing ship to sail around Central Park. Followed in 1975 by the sequel "Santiago's America."
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-06
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The Cross and the Switchblade
Overview: David Wilkerson's first five years in New York City, where he ministered to disillusioned youth, encouraging them to turn away from the drugs and gang violence they were involved with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-01
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The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Overview: A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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Special Delivery
Overview: A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is forced to dump the stolen cash into a mailbox, which he then finds is locked until midnight, forcing him to wait until the mailman makes his late night pickup. As he waits, he discovers that his hiding place has been observed by several other people, all of whom want a share of the loot.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-16
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Sky Heist
Overview: A husband and wife come up with a plan to steal $10 million in gold, using the hijacking of a police helicopter as a diversion.
Genres: Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-26
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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
Overview: An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the poisonous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the poisonous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees
Genres: Adventure Horror Thriller TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-28
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Invasion U.S.A.
Overview: A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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Deep Cover
Overview: Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-15
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Deal of the Century
Overview: Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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The Mighty Quinn
Overview: Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk, insists that small-time thief Maubee is responsible, Xavier has his doubts. This view is complicated by the police chief's personal history with Maubee: The men have been friends since childhood.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-17
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Back Roads
Overview: A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-13
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The Super Cops
Overview: The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Overview: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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Raid on Entebbe
Overview: Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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Hustling
Overview: Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-22
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Death of an Angel
Overview: Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actual blood. When the cross is stolen, Grace decides to help out to get her daughter back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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The Getaway
Overview: Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-11
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Born to Win
Overview: A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Senior Power
Overview: The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and North Hollywood Federal Savings and Loan team up to teach senior citizens some useful tips on avoiding purse snatcher, burglars, and armed robbers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Harry and Tonto
Overview: Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-12
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When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
Overview: A drug dealer's car breaks down in a small U.S. town. In turn, the town's people become victim to his unique brand of physical and mental torture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-09
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