Eva Mendes
Also Known As: Eva de la Caridad Méndez, اوا مندس
Biography: Eva de la Caridad Méndez (/ˈmɛndɛz/, Spanish:[ˈeβa ðe la kaɾiˈðað ˈmendes]; born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American retired actress. Her acting career began in the late 1990s with a series of roles in films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut(2000). Mendes's performance in Training Day (2001) marked a turning point in her career and led to parts in the commercially successful films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Hitch (2005). She starred in Ghost Rider (2007) and The Spirit (2008), both film adaptations of comics, and ventured into more dramatic territory with We Own the Night(2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans(2009), Last Night (2010), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). Her other films include Out of Time (2003), The Women (2008), The Other Guys (2010), and Girl in Progress (2012). Mendes has appeared in several music videos for artists such as Will Smith and has also been an ambassador for brands including Calvin Klein, Cartier, Reebok, Pantene shampoo, and Peek & Cloppenburg. She has designed for New York & Company and is the creative director of CIRCA Beauty, a makeup line sold at Walgreens. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eva Mendes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, USA
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Ghost Rider
Overview: In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a go-getting reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery 'Ghost Rider'.
Genres: Thriller Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-15
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Training Day
Overview: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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2 Fast 2 Furious
Overview: It's a major double-cross when former police officer Brian O'Conner teams up with his ex-con buddy Roman Pearce to transport a shipment of "dirty" money for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone. But the guys are actually working with undercover agent Monica Fuentes to bring Verone down.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-05
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Overview: A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-11
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Out of Time
Overview: Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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Stuck on You
Overview: In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to stay out of the spotlight. When a fading Hollywood actress, Cher, decides to get her show "Honey and the Beaze" cancelled, she hires Walt -- and his brotherly appendage -- as her costars. But their addition surprisingly achieves the opposite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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We Own the Night
Overview: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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Knocked Up
Overview: A slacker and a career-driven woman accidentally conceive a child after a one-night stand. As they try to make the relationship work, they must navigate the challenges of parenthood and their differences in lifestyle and maturity.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-01
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Last Night
Overview: Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague and Joanna encounters the other great love of her life, each is thrust into an evening of temptation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Overview: Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Hitch
Overview: Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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The Spirit
Overview: A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus, who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face, has other plans; he is going to wipe out the entire city.
Genres: Crime Thriller Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Live!
Overview: A mockumentary following an ambitious TV network executive trying to produce a controversial reality show where contestants play Russian Roulette.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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Urban Legends: Final Cut
Overview: The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-22
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The Wendell Baker Story
Overview: Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-03
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A Night at the Roxbury
Overview: Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful until a chance run-in with Richard Grieco gets them inside the swank Roxbury club. Mistaken for high rollers, they meet their dream women, Vivica and Cambi, and resolve to open a club of their own.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
Overview: Six college students take a wrong turn and find themselves lost in a strangely deserted rural town... only to discover that this deceptively quiet place hides a murderous cult of children.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-21
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Cleaner
Overview: Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may have unknowingly erased crucial evidence, entangling himself in a dirty criminal cover-up.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-11
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The Other Guys
Overview: Unlike their heroic counterparts on the force, desk-bound NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz garner no headlines as they work day to day. When a seemingly minor case turns out to be a big deal, the two cops get the opportunity to finally prove to their comrades that they have the right stuff.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-06
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The Women
Overview: The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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Guilty Hearts
Overview: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter future.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-30
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Girl in Progress
Overview: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-11
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My Brother the Pig
Overview: When a spell turns an 8-year-old boy into a swine, his sister and best friend race to find the cure.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Overview: At 89 years old, Stan Lee's name appears on more than one BILLION comics in 75 countries in 25 languages. Arguably the most recognized name in comics, Stan Lee has co-created over 500 legendary pop culture characters including Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Thor and The Hulk. Stan continues to create new material and entertain fans of all ages with fantastic stories and characters in all areas of entertainment. With Great Power: the Stan Lee Story, explores the vivid life and imagination of Stan Lee, from the early days of his Depression-era upbringing through the Marvel Age of Comics and beyond! The film uncovers original transcripts, illustrations, photographs and stories of Lee's fascinating journey from his early years at Timely Comics and World War Two, the comic book industry's censorship battle of the 1950's led by Dr. Fredric Wertham, the dawn of Marvel Comics and the legendary characters Stan co-created, to his current company POW! Entertainment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-24
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The Place Beyond the Pines
Overview: A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-20
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Holy Motors
Overview: We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-02
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Overview: PBS series documentary based on a book of the same name that argues the oppression of women worldwide is the "paramount moral challenge" of our time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-03
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Clear History
Overview: Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-02
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Lost River
Overview: Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery if their family is to survive.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-08
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The Making of We Own the Night
Overview: The cast and crew talk about We Own the Night. Written and directed by James Gray.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Radioman
Overview: The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-07
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The Disciples
Overview: Four highly trained martial artists are dispatched to protect a high-profile baseball player from hired kidnappers.
Genres: TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Mr. X
Overview: The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of world cinema. Mr.X dives into the poetic and visionary world of an artist who was already a cult figure from his very first film. Punctuated by interviews and unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias "Mr.X".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-20
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George Lopez: It's Not Me, It's You
Overview: Comedy superstar George Lopez performs live in front of a packed house at the Nokia Theatre in L.A. in this stand-up special.
Genres: Comedy Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-24
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Fast Five
Overview: Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-20
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All About the Benjamins
Overview: Bounty hunter Bucum Jackson teams with the small-time con artist, Reggie Wright, that he is pursuing, in an attempt to locate a missing stash of diamonds and a lottery ticket worth millions of dollars. Bucum and Reggie find themselves in a race to the finish as they embark on an unlikely partnership that should -- when all is said and done -- prove beneficial to them both.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-08
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The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Overview: Behind the scenes documentary for Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Features interviews and on-set footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-06
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Exit Wounds
Overview: Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives secretly operating a drug ring, Boyd joins forces with an unlikely ally -- gangster Latrell Walker -- to bring down the rotten cops.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-16
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Trust the Man
Overview: Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine. As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Overview: A making-of documentary of Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Present during the shoot, Salomé catches exacting and inspiring moments of the production and adds interviews with its main participants (the actors Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, and Kylie Minogue, and the cinematographer, Caroline Champetier).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-21
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I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Overview: Christian Weisenborn and Werner Herzog know each other for more than 40 years. His first film on Werner Herzog "I am my films" (1976-78) covered Herzog's beginning as a filmmaker, the new film is a sequel titled "I am my films, part 2 - 30 years later" in which Weisenborn talks about Werner Herzog as a documentarian of the past 30 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-06-28
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