Tony Plana — Actor (18)
Primal Fear (1996) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Primal Fear
7.8 (8 ratings) director: Gregory Hoblit actor: Richard Gere / Laura Linney
other title: Schegge di paura / A Raiz do Medo
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.
Pain & Gain (2013) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Pain & Gain
director: Michael Bay actor: Mark Wahlberg / Dwayne Johnson
other title: Pain & Gain - Muscoli e denaro / Dá & Leva
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
other title: End of Justice: Nessuno è innocente / Roman J. Israel, Esq
Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.
Born in East L.A. (1987) [Movie] TMDB
Born in East L.A.
director: Cheech Marin actor: Cheech Marin / Daniel Stern
other title: Nacido al este de Los Ángeles
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) [Movie] TMDB
An Officer and a Gentleman
director: Taylor Hackford actor: Richard Gere / Debra Winger
other title: Ufficiale e gentiluomo / Officer og gentleman
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
Half Past Dead (2002) [Movie] TMDB
Half Past Dead
director: Don Michael Paul actor: Steven Seagal / Morris Chestnut
other title: Infiltrato speciale / Duro de Matar
A man goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there, he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.
El Norte (1983) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
El Norte
director: Gregory Nava actor: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez / David Villalpando
Rosa y Enrique huyen de su remoto pueblo maya después de la muerte de sus padres a manos de las tropas del ejército, y salen para "el norte" (Estados Unidos) en busca de una vida mejor y más segura.
Lone Star (1996) [Movie] TMDB
Lone Star
director: John Sayles actor: Chris Cooper / Matthew McConaughey
other title: Stella solitaria / Um Corpo no Deserto
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Valley Girl (1983) [Movie] IMDb
Valley Girl
director: Martha Coolidge actor: Nicolas Cage / Deborah Foreman
other title: La ragazza di San Diego / La chica del valle
Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.
Salvador (1986) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Salvador
director: Oliver Stone actor: James Woods / Jim Belushi
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
One Eight Seven (1997) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
One Eight Seven
other title: Codice omicidio 187 / 187
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad. He then moves to California to be a sub for a predominantly Native Hispanic/Latin-American high school in Los Angeles. He is tormented by members of a Native Hispanic/Latino-American tag crew named K.O.S. (Kappin’ off Suckaz).
Zoot Suit (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Zoot Suit
director: Luis Valdez actor: Daniel Valdez / Edward James Olmos
other title: Chicanos Story
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.
Live Wire (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Live Wire
director: Christian Duguay actor: Pierce Brosnan / Ron Silver
other title: I dinamitardi / O Detonador em Alta Voltagem
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.
Wasp Network (2020) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Wasp Network
director: Olivier Assayas actor: Penélope Cruz / Edgar Ramírez
other title: Wasp Network: Rede de Espiões / Cuban Network
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
The Best of Times (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
The Best of Times
director: Roger Spottiswoode actor: Robin Williams / Kurt Russell
other title: Tempi migliori / Ud at spille med de vilde
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.