Esai Morales — Actor (22)
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Atomic Train (1999) IMDb TMDB
Atomic Train
director: Dick Lowry / David Jackson actor: Rob Lowe / Kristin Davis …
other title: Atomic Train - Zugfahrt ins Jenseits
A train carrying a Russian atomic weapon is on a runaway course with disaster - and time's running out! Only John Seger, a renegade investigator for the NTSB, can stop the speeding locomotive.
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The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
director: Stuart Gordon actor: Edward James Olmos / Joe Mantegna …
other title: Ein Anzug für jede Gelegenheit / El fantástico traje blanco …
Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a suit - it makes wishes of the one wearing it come true.
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The Burning Season (1994) IMDb TMDB
The Burning Season
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Raúl Juliá / Carmen Argenziano …
other title: Flammen des Widerstandes / La Forêt de tous les Dangers …
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder
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American Fusion (2005) WikiData IMDb TMDB
American Fusion
director: Frank Lin actor: Sylvia Chang / Esai Morales …
Yvonne is a divorced middle-aged Chinese immigrant who thinks her life is over, and she is doomed to spend the rest of her days as a slave to her large and eccentric family. Suddenly, romance enters her life and Yvonne gets a long deferred chance for true love. However, she falls for the last person a Chinese family would ever accept, Jose, a Mexican-American dentist. It doesnt matter what race or culture youre from, deep down inside we are the same. And from this lesson Yvonne and her family begin to love each other for who they are and to accept Jose into the family.
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Rapa Nui (1994) IMDb TMDB
Rapa Nui
director: Kevin Reynolds actor: Jason Scott Lee / Esai Morales …
other title: Rapa Nui - Rebellion im Paradies
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
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SuperFly (2018) IMDb TMDB
SuperFly
director: Director X. actor: Trevor Jackson / Jason Mitchell …
other title: Superfly / Com Estilo
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
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In the Army Now (1994) IMDb TMDB
In the Army Now
director: Daniel Petrie Jr. actor: Pauly Shore / Andy Dick …
other title: Operazione Desert Storm / Um Maluco no Exército …
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman, two misguided youths, join the reserves to make some easy money for their entrepreneurial dreams. Unfortunately, no sooner than they finish basic training they find themselves at war as part of the water purification team.
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Senior Moment (2021) IMDb TMDB
Senior Moment
director: Giorgio Serafini actor: William Shatner / Jean Smart …
After drag racing his vintage convertible around Palm Springs, a retired NASA test pilot loses his license. Forced to take public transportation, he meets Caroline and learns to navigate love and life again.
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Paid in Full (2002) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Paid in Full
director: Charles Stone III actor: Wood Harris / Cam'ron …
other title: Vingança Total / Die Straßen Harlems …
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
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The Principal (1987) WikiData IMDb
The Principal
director: Christopher Cain actor: Jim Belushi / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: The Principal - Una classe violenta / Årgang '88 …
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
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Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bloodhounds of Broadway
director: Howard Brookner actor: Matt Dillon / Jennifer Grey …
other title: Bluthunde am Broadway / Il était une fois Broadway …
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Regret", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.
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Naked Tango (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Naked Tango
director: Leonard Schrader actor: Vincent D'Onofrio / Mathilda May …
other title: Tango nudo / Nackter Tango …
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
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La Bamba (1987)
La Bamba
director: Luis Valdez actor: Lou Diamond Phillips / Danielle von Zerneck …
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.
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Freejack (1992)
Freejack
director: Geoff Murphy actor: Emilio Estevez / Mick Jagger …
other title: Freejack - In fuga nel futuro / Corrida Contra o Futuro …
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
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Master Gardener (2023) IMDb TMDB
Master Gardener
director: Paul Schrader actor: Joel Edgerton / Sigourney Weaver …
other title: Il maestro giardiniere / El maestro jardinero
Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled niece, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.
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Side Quest (2025) TMDB
Side Quest
director: Josh Gordon / Maurice Marable … actor: Derek Waters / Anna Konle …
other title: Mythic Quest: Más allá del juego
Go deeper into the Mythic Quest universe in these four standalone stories. Follow the lives of players, comic book shop owners, touring orchestra musicians, and members of the art department as they search for community, success, and love.
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Mars (2016) TMDB
Mars
director: Brian Grazer / Ron Howard actor: Jihae / Alberto Ammann …
other title: Marte
The maiden crew of the Daedalus spacecraft must push itself to the brink of human capability in order to successfully establish the first sustainable colony on Mars. Set both in the future and in the present day, this series blends scripted elements set in the future with documentary vérité interviews with today’s best and brightest minds in modern science and innovation, illuminating how research and development is creating the space technology that will enable our first attempt at a mission to Mars.
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The Brink (2015) TMDB
The Brink
director: Roberto Benabib / Kim Benabib actor: Jack Black / Tim Robbins …
Three top U.S. government and military officials scramble to prevent World War 3 from happening amidst the chaos of a geopolitical crisis.