Yul Vazquez
Also Known As: Yul Vázquez, Yul Vasquez, 이얼 바즈퀫즈
Biography: Yul Vázquez was born in Cuba. He is an actor and he is married to Linda Larkin. He has appeared as “Bob” in the Seinfeld episodes “The Soup Nazi”, “The Sponge” and “The Puerto Rican Day”. YUL VÁZQUEZ has appeared in over thirty films including “The A-Team” (2010) with Liam Neeson, John Sayles' Amigo, Steven Soderbergh’s two-part epic “Che” (2008), “The Take” (2008), “American Gangster” (2007- SAG Award nomination, Outstanding Cast), “Music Within” (2007), "War of the Worlds" (2005), “Bad Boys 2” (2003), "Traffic" (2000- Winner, SAG Award, Outstanding Cast), and "Runaway Bride" (1999). An original member of LAByrinth Theater Company, Vazquez has appeared in countless LAB productions, including Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”, directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Other theater includes Terrence McNally’s “The Stendhal Syndrome” at Primary Stages With Isabella Rossellini, and Eduardo Machado’s “The Floating Island Plays” at Mark Taper Forum. Upcoming feature films include “Fugly!” with John Leguizamo, “Salvation Boulevard” with Pierce Brosnan and "The Missing Person", which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Vazquez will be returning to the stage in the Broadway premiere of "Motherf**ker With The Hat" which also boasts the talents of Bobby Cannavale, Annabella Sciorra and comic Chris Rock (previews March 22, 2011). Yul Vázquez currently serves as co-Artistic Director of LAByrinth Theater Company with Stephen Adly Guirgis & Mimi O'Donnell in New York City. In 2010 Yul Vazquez founded mechanizedmules. A film production company with Ed Vassallo, Rick Rodgers and Robert Leaver. Their first short film F--K premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in spring of 2010. They are currently in production for their first feature film which is shot in Sugar Hill section of New York City - surrounding the last active graveyard in Manhattan. Trinity Cemetery between 152nd and 155th street on the west side of Manhattan.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La Havana, Cuba
Birthday: March 18, 1965
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Gender: Male
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War of the Worlds
Overview: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-13
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Runaway Bride
Overview: Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded "the runaway bride" by jaded New York journalist Ike Graham. But, after his facts are called into question, Ike races to Maggie's hometown to save his reputation and report on her upcoming fourth trip down the aisle – during which he's convinced she'll run again. Though he's there on a muckraking mission, Ike can't help but fall for this breathtaking heartbreaker.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-30
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American Gangster
Overview: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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Night Owl
Overview: A vampire in the East Village picks up women, and while having sex with them kills them and drinks their blood. Meanwhile, a young Puerto Rican guy begins searching the Village for his sister, who is one of the vampire's victims.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-30
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Che: Part One
Overview: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Bad Boys II
Overview: Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-18
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The A-Team
Overview: A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, Smith and his men, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck, break out and go rogue, using their special talents to clear their names and find the perpetrator. Hot on their trail is Capt. Charissa Sosa, who was once involved with a member of Smith's team and has sworn to capture them, no matter what it takes.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-09
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Fresh
Overview: Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-15
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Anamorph
Overview: A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
Overview: Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are together for the first time in this heartwarming, magical musical story about courage and friendship. After 15 years, the two reunite and remember when their village was destroyed by a giant. Soon, they find out that they have neat powers they can use for good.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-08
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Lies in Plain Sight
Overview: “Lies in Plain Sight” tells the story of Eva and her blind cousin Sofia (Martha Higareda), who were inseparable as children, with Eva the loyal companion who helped Sofia through her tough adolescent years. When Eva suddenly commits suicide, Sofia rushes home to her father, Hector (Benito Martinez), and Eva’s parents, Marisol (Rosie Perez) and Rafael (Yul Vásquez), to find answers. But the more she delves into Eva’s life, questioning her past boyfriends Ethan (Chad Michael Murray) and Christian (Christoph Sanders), the more Sofia realizes that their childhood was actually filled with dark, disturbing secrets.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-03
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The Box
Overview: A disgraced former LAPD detective leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The plan goes awry and homicide detectives seeking answers interrogate the only survivors; a thief and a victim.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Amigo
Overview: Rafael is a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla fighters. But Rafael's brother is the head of the local guerillas, and considers anyone who cooperates with the Americans to be a traitor. Rafael quickly finds himself forced to make the impossible, potentially deadly decisions faced by ordinary civilians in an occupied country.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-19
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The Last Big Thing
Overview: From a bland tract house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Simon Geist (with occasional help from his platonic girlfriend Darla) wages war against all of modern American popular culture. Geist starts up a magazine called "The Next Big Thing", which he uses to confront and insult upcoming actors, comics, models and rock bands. As Geist's mysterious Underground Agenda escalates, will he become the "last big thing", or be co-opted by the very forces he is railing against? Written by Van Film Fest
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-23
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The Smack
Overview: Rowan Petty, a down-on-his-luck con man who gets an opportunity to make a real score. He teams up with Jade, a woman looking to escape her life just like him, and the pair make their way to L.A., where they get caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a multimillion-dollar score.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
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The Price of Love
Overview: 16 year old Bret lives with his indifferent father and a stepmother who abhors him. After yet another fight he leaves home. He meets two guys and a girl who are drifting around. He feels attracted to Roxanne and they decide to continue together to LA. Unfortunately Roxanne gets busted by the police, so Bret is on his own again. In LA he meets some nice guys who offer him lodging. However they are involved with (male) prostitution...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-28
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Captain Phillips
Overview: The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-10
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Runner Runner
Overview: When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-24
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The Infiltrator
Overview: A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-13
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Rob the Mob
Overview: The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-21
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Glass Chin
Overview: After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-19
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Fugly!
Overview: Fame proves elusive for comic Jesse Sanchez, who reflects on life from the bottom of a bathtub in this film based on John Leguizamo's one-man show. The story that unfolds has it all: love, loss, mistakes, adventure and redemption.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-05
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Little Fockers
Overview: It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-21
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The Cobbler
Overview: Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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Kill the Messenger
Overview: A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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Anesthesia
Overview: Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-08
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The Lost Bus
Overview: Bus driver Kevin McKay and school teacher Mary Ludwig navigate a bus full of children through a deadly wildfire as the town of Paradise is caught in the destruction and chaos.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Phenom
Overview: A rookie pitcher undergoes psychotherapy to overcome the yips.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-24
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1 Mile To You
Overview: After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-07
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The F Word
Overview: A frustrated radio DJ takes to the streets of Manhattan during the Republican National Convention after the FCC has slapped his station with $1 million in indecency fines, and popular radio personality Joe Pace (Josh Hamilton) isn't going down without a fight. As the streets fill with restless republicans, angry protestors, and other colorful characters, Joe arms himself with a wireless microphone and a portable transmitter in order to get the opinions of the average person on the street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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People Not Places
Overview: An elderly widow living in Atlantic City meets an erratic homeless man who sleeps in cars. Their shared loneliness causes them to bond, as they find the courage to face his regrettable past and her shortened future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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True Memoirs of an International Assassin
Overview: After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-11
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The Missing Person
Overview: John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-16
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Crown Heights
Overview: When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-25
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Man of the Century
Overview: Fantasy-comedy about a young man who lives as if it is 1928 or so, and his encounters with modern-day women and modern-day criminals.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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The Super
Overview: A man becomes the superintendent of a large New York City apartment building where people mysteriously go missing.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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Last Flag Flying
Overview: Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard, reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing the burial, the trio take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire - along the way, reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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O.G.
Overview: Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Father/Son
Overview: When Oliver brings his girlfriend on a hunting trip to introduce her to his father, he soon realizes his father might be up to something.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-24
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Nick of Time
Overview: An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Bitter Harvest
Overview: A young black British woman goes to the Dominican Republic as an aid worker. When she goes missing, her parents make an emotional journey to piece together her story.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-22
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Blood Ties
Overview: Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-22
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Gringo
Overview: An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-08
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F--k
Overview: Some people will do anything to find the location.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-07
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The Take
Overview: After he's shot during a heist in East L.A., an armored truck driver wrestles with rehabilitation and tracking down the man who committed the crime.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Books of Blood
Overview: A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-07
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Rob the Mob
Overview: The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-21
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The Ex
Overview: When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly hostile office rivalry with Chip, Sofia's paraplegic former lover.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Traffic
Overview: An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Drowning Mona
Overview: The recently deceased Mona Dearly was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor and a violent malcontent. So when her car and corpse are discovered in the Hudson River, police Chief Wyatt Rash immediately suspects murder rather than an accident. But, since the whole community of Verplanck, N.Y., shares a deep hatred for this unceasingly spiteful woman, Rash finds his murder investigation overwhelmed with potential suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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Jake's Women
Overview: Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with. He is constantly talking to: his deceased wife Julie, his daughter Molly, his sister Karen, and his psychiatrist Edith. All he does is have imaginary conversations with real people that are at the moment out of his life. Maggie cannot stand his mind wandering off all the time and decides to separate for six months and at the end of six months they will decide whether or not to remain together. Jake has a few girl friends, but spends the six months, while waiting for Maggie, only talking to these imaginary people, and a few times to real people.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-02
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Che: Part Two
Overview: After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-12
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Somebody to Love
Overview: Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-27
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Things That Hang From Trees
Overview: St. Augustine, Florida, 1969. An eight-year-old boy's wish to see the fireworks from atop the city's lighthouse is complicated by his odd neighbors, abusive peers, and hopeless parents. The young boy's seemingly simple goal develops into a struggle in which his life, both internal and corporeal, hangs in the balance
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-11
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