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Luis Guzmán
Luis Guzmán (born August 28, 1956) is a Puerto Rican actor. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, his squat build, wolfish features, and brooding countenance have garnered him roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen, but his later career has seen him move into more...
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
The Taking of Pelham 123 is a 2009 thriller film, directed by Tony Scott, and starring Denzel Washington, and John Travolta. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Morton Freedgood (writing under the pseudonym John Godey), and is a...
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Anger Management
Anger Management is a 2003 comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson, directed by Peter Segal and written by David S Dorfman. It was produced by Revolution Studios in association with Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions...
Carlito's Way
Carlito's Way is a 1993 crime film based on the novel After Hours by Judge Edwin Torres. The film adaptation was scripted by David Koepp and directed by Brian De Palma. It stars Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo,...
Double Whammy
Double Whammy is a 2001 comedy/drama film. Although intended to be released in theaters, it was ultimately distributed direct-to-video.
Ray Pluto has horrid memories of watching his wife and child die in a traffic accident. He's also a cop who's the...
Dreamer
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story is a 2005 film starring Dakota Fanning and Kurt Russell, inspired by the true story of an injured Thoroughbred racehorse named Mariah's Storm. It marked the directing and screenwriting debut of John Gatins.
The...
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 black comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is based on the first three novels, The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window, in Lemony Snicket's book series. The film stars...
Magnolia
Magnolia is a 1999 American drama film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and starring John C. Reilly, Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, and Jeremy Blackman. It interweaves nine separate yet connected...
Q&A
Q & A is a 1990 crime film co-written and directed by Sidney Lumet, based on a novel by Edwin Torres. It stars Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton and Armand Assante.
Aloysius "Al" Reilly is a young assistant district attorney, still wet behind the ears. He...
Snake Eyes
Snake Eyes is a crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, one featuring his trademark use of long tracking shots and split screens. Released in 1998, the film was written by David Koepp and De Palma, and rated R when released to theaters on...
The Limey
The Limey (1999) is an American revenge neo-noir crime film, directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Lem Dobbs. The film features Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Peter Fonda, among others.
Terence Stamp stars as Wilson, an...
Welcome to Collinwood
Welcome to Collinwood (The Pride of the East Side) is a 2002 film about five small-time criminals, from the Collinwood area of Cleveland, who try to organise one last big job. The story is a remake of the 1958 Italian movie I soliti ignoti, by Mario...
Confidence
Confidence is a 2003 film starring Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, directed by James Foley, and written by Doug Jung
A group of grifters rip off their latest mark and celebrate, while the de facto leader of the group, Jake Vig (Edward...
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a 2002 comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy as the owner of a lunar nightclub investigating who was behind the arson that destroyed his club.
In the decade of 2080, on a lunar colony called...
The Bone Collector
The Bone Collector is a 1999 drama-mystery-thriller film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.
The movie was based on a crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver, concerning the quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme. It was the first book of the...
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power is a 2005 direct-to-video prequel to Brian DePalma's 1993 film Carlito's Way, both of which were based on the novel Carlito's Way by Judge Edwin Torres. The film was written and directed by Michael Bregman, who produced...
Innocent Blood
Innocent Blood is a 1992 horror-crime film directed by John Landis. The film stars Anne Parillaud as a vampire who finds herself against a blood-sucking legion of mobsters after biting a notorious crime boss played by Robert Loggia.
The film is set...
Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation is a 2006 American/British drama film directed by Richard Linklater. The screenplay by Linklater and Eric Schlosser; the film is loosely based on Schlosser's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the...
Nothing Like the Holidays
Nothing Like the Holidays is a 2008 family drama film with comedic elements directed by Alfredo De Villa, written by Rick Najera, Ted Perkins, and Alison Swan, and featuring an ensemble cast. The film was released on December 12, 2008.
Three Puerto...
Maldeamores
Maldeamores (in English, Lovesickness) is a 2007 Puerto Rican film starring Luis Guzmán, written by Carlos Ruíz Ruíz and Jorge Gonzales, and directed by Ruíz and his wife Mariem Pérez Riera.
The film consists of three separate stories dealing with...
The Substitute
The Substitute is a 1996 action-crime-thriller film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Tom Berenger, Marc Anthony, Ernie Hudson, William Forsythe, Raymond Cruz, and Luis Guzmán.
The plot revolves around Shale (Berenger), a mercenary who goes...
Cat and Dog
Cat and Dog is a computer-animated feature film that is going to be released by Columbia Pictures in 2009.
Fighting
Fighting is a 2009 action film directed by Dito Montiel, written by Robert Munic and Dito Montiel, and starring Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Luis Guzmán, Brian J. White, Flaco Navaja and Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Cung Le. It was released...
Still Waiting...
Still Waiting... (2009) is an American independent film starring John Michael Higgins, and Luis Guzman, and the sequel to Waiting.... Some of the cast of the original film appear in the sequel. Adam Carolla appears in an informational DVD within the...
Out of Sight
Out of Sight is a 1998 Academy Award-nominated movie directed by Steven Soderbergh and based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It was the first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and star George Clooney. The film was...
Waiting...
Waiting... (2005) is an American independent film starring Ryan Reynolds, Justin Long and Anna Faris. It was written and directed by Rob McKittrick. McKittrick wrote the screenplay while working as a waiter. Friend and producer Dean Shull, who met...
The H-Man Cometh
The H-Man Cometh is an upcoming comedy film written and directed by David O. Russell and starring Elizabeth Banks and Vince Vaughn. This film is scheduled be released in 2010.
Variety
Variety is a 1984 film directed by Bette Gordon.
War
War is a 2007 action/thriller film, directed by Phillip G. Atwell who makes his film debut, with fight choreography by Corey Yuen. The film was released in North America on August 24, 2007, and was rated R by the MPAA for "sequences of strong bloody...
*batteries not included
*batteries not included is a 1987 family-science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins about small extraterrestrial living machines that save an apartment block under threat from property development.
The story was originally intended to be...
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Punch-Drunk Love
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) is an American surrealist, romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson. Anderson regulars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Luis Guzmán appear.
Sandler won positive...
