Rubén Blades — Actor (20)
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Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage (2019)
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Ben DeJesus actor: Orson Bean / Rubén Blades …
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the creative hotbed of 1960s New York City, to prominence on Broadway and in Hollywood. Filled with passion, determination and joy, Juliá’s brilliant and daring career was tragically cut short by his untimely death at age 54.
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Disorganized Crime (1989)
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Jim Kouf actor: Hoyt Axton / Corbin Bernsen …
other title: Crimine disorganizzato / Im Tresor ist die Hölle los …
Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are! By the time the gang hits the bank vault, it's a safe bet there's going to be organized insanity and disorganized crime!
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The Return of Rubén Blades (1985)
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Robert Mugge actor: Rubén Blades
Robert Mugge's 1986 film provides a full-blooded portrait of the Latino singer, actor, bandleader, and composer. Blades' Panama homeland, his Harvard Master's degree, and a New York performance with his band Seis de Solar all serve as stops on this biographical journey.
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The Josephine Baker Story (1991)
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Brian Gibson actor: Lynn Whitfield / Rubén Blades …
other title: Die Josephine Baker Story
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
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Assassination Tango (2003)
Assassination Tango
Robert Duvall actor: Robert Duvall / Rubén Blades …
other title: Killing Moves / 杀手探戈 …
John J. is a seasoned hit man sent on a job to Argentina. When the General he's sent to kill delays his return to the country, John passes the time with Manuela, a beautiful dancer who becomes his teacher and guide into Argentina's sensual world of the tango.
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Ruben Blades Is Not My Name (2018)
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Abner Benaim actor: Sting / Rubén Blades …
other title: Yo no me llamo Rubén Blades
The story of one of Latin America's most beloved singer-songwriters in a journey across his 50-year career. In an intimate way, the film gives us a chance to get to know the artist, his music, and the stories behind them.
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Fatal Beauty (1987)
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Tom Holland actor: Whoopi Goldberg / Sam Elliott …
other title: Beleza Fatal / Beauté fatale …
Detective Rita Rizzoli is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks. But she'll be required to use all of her get-ups and more when a major cocaine ring is suspected of turning out a potent new strain of the drug, called "Fatal Beauty." With the help of her partner and a former bodyguard for a local cartel, Rita will do whatever it takes to find out who's dealing Fatal Beauty and stop them.
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The Two Jakes (1990)
The Two Jakes
Jack Nicholson actor: Jack Nicholson / Harvey Keitel …
other title: Il grande inganno / O Caso da Mulher Infiel …
Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.
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Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Mo' Better Blues
Spike Lee actor: Denzel Washington / Spike Lee …
other title: Cuanto más, mejor
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
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The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
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Robert Redford actor: Rubén Blades / Richard Bradford …
other title: Milagro / Milagro - Der Krieg im Bohnenfeld …
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.
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The Devil's Own (1997)
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Alan J. Pakula actor: Harrison Ford / Brad Pitt …
other title: L'ombra del diavolo / En Fjende iblandt Os …
Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
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Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
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Dave Erickson / Robert Kirkman actor: Lennie James / Kim Dickens …
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.