Biography: Rubén Blades |

Ruben Blades is a man of diverse talents. A driving force in popularizing salsa music internationally and a politician for the people of his native Panama, he is also a noted actor of stage and screen. Blades is the son of a... more
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Tags: Period Film Drama Coming-of-Age 
Length: 106min
James Redford, the son of actor and filmmaker Robert Redford, made his directorial debut with this independent coming-of-age drama set in the 1950s. After his parents are killed in the wreck of a light plane, young Eddie Haley (Max Madore) is left in...

Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Supernatural Thriller Political Drama 
Length: 107min
Accomplished British screenwriter Christopher Hampton directs the political drama Imagining Argentina, based on the novel by Lawrence Thornton. Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film...

Cast: Rubén Blades   
Tags: Crime Drama Drama 
Length: 90min
The current wave of kidnappings in Latin America inspired this tense suspense drama. Martin (Jean Paul Leroux) and Carla (Mía Maestro) are a wealthy young couple who, after a night of club hopping, head back to their car to go home. However, three...

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Cast: Johnny Depp Willem Dafoe   
Tags: Adventure Action Action Thriller 
Length: 101min
Director Robert Rodriguez returns to the characters of his breakthrough hits El Mariachi and Desperado in this grand scale south-of-the-border action-adventure saga. Sands (Johnny Depp) is a rogue CIA agent who is working in cahoots with Mexican...

Cast: Peter Fonda Mare Winningham   
Tags: Comedy Drama Ensemble Film 
Length: 99min
Actress Salma Hayek makes her directorial debut with this heartwarming drama based on the novel by Theodore Taylor. José (Eddy Martin) is a young boy from Mexico who sneaks into the United States in search of his father, a migrant worker. On the run...

Cast: Sam Shepard Henry Thomas Bruce Dern Matt Damon   
Tags: Adventure Drama Coming-of-Age Drama Modern Western 
Length: 117min
Director Billy Bob Thornton explores coming of age in this Western based on Cormac McCarthy's prize-winning novel of the same name. John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) and Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas) are young Texan men who seek a more fulfilling life as...

Cast: Robert Duvall   
Tags: Crime Drama Crime Thriller Thriller 
Length: 114min
Leading man Robert Duvall writes and directs his third feature, the omantic thriller Assassination Tango. John J. (Duvall) is an aging hit man who has settled down into family life in New York with teacher Maggie (Kathy Baker). After he is offered a...

Cast: Brad Pitt Harrison Ford   
Tags: Thriller Police Detective Film Political Thriller 
Length: 111min
A policeman plays Good Samaritan to a visitor from Ireland, only to discover that he has a potentially deadly secret. Belfast-born Frankie McGuire (Brad Pitt) saw his father gunned down by enemy soldiers at the age of eight, and when he grew up he...

Cast: Jeremy Irons Gong Li   
Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Urban Drama Drama 
Length: 105min
Hong Kong emigrant Wayne Wang directed and co-wrote (with Paul Theroux, Jean-Claude Carriere and Larry Gross) this story set in "the Pearl of the Orient" as the British government prepared to hand over the city to China in 1997. John (Jeremy Irons) is...

Cast: John Cusack Tim Robbins   
Tags: Drama Political Drama Period Film 
Length: 133min
The sometimes rocky relationship between art and politics in America in the 1930s -- as well as the gulf between the wealthy and the struggling -- sets the stage for Tim Robbins' ambitious comedy-drama Cradle Will Rock. Pulling together a variety of...


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