Results for : Esai Morales

With the help of their high school's newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set their sights on a national robotics contest. With $800 and parts scavenged from old cars, they build a robot and compete against reigning champion MIT. Along the way, the students learn not only how to build a robot but something far more important: how to forge bonds that will last a lifetime.

Director: Sean McNamara

Genres: Drama

Actors: Alessandra Rosaldo, George Lopez, Carlos PenaVega, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marisa Tomei

A self-proclaimed dating expert tries to get his best friend, who lost his wife two years earlier, back into the dating scene, with disastrous results.

Director: Michelle Danner

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Jason Alexander, Rob Estes, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Alison Eastwood, Ron Perlman

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.

Director: Christopher Cain

Genres: Action , Adventure , Crime , Drama

Actors: Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright, J.J. Cohen

A drug dealer sells his soul to the devil to become the top drug dealer on the block.

Director: Ryan Combs

Genres: Action , Adventure , Thriller

Actors: Ving Rhames, Esai Morales, Simon Rex, Elizabeth Di Prinzio, Isaac Santiago

The story centers around veteran assassin Mark Shields as he tracks down, Pelon, the elusive head of the Salazar Crime Cartel. Through twists of fate, Shields ends up with a local woman, Olivia who is also fighting her own demons for the sake of her daughter. Set in the rich and atmospheric backdrop of Tijuana, Mexico, La Linea (The Line) is full of action and drama.

Director: James Cotten

Genres: Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller

Actors: Ray Liotta, Andy García, Esai Morales, Armand Assante, Valerie Cruz

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.

Director: Geoff Murphy

Genres: Science Fiction

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Banks

On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...

Director: Brian Cox

Genres: Crime , Drama

Actors: Alfred Molina, Esai Morales, Patrick McGaw, Angel Aviles, Rubén Blades

The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to the mounting energy crisis - found abandoned amongst ruins, a miraculous motor that could seemingly power the World. But, the motor is dead... there is no one left to decipher its secret... and, someone is watching. It’s a race against the clock to find the inventor and stop the destroyer before the motor of the World is stopped for good. A motor that would power the World. A World whose motor would be stopped. Who is John Galt?

Director: John Putch

Genres: Drama , Science Fiction , Mystery

Actors: Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe, Patrick Fabian, Bug Hall, Kim Rhodes

The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.

Director: Erick Crespo

Genres: Documentary

Actors: Kiki Melendez, María Conchita Alonso, Edward James Olmos, Lupe Ontiveros, Jacob Vargas

A week before her marriage, a woman injures a man in a car accident. As she helps nurse him back to health, she starts to doubt the course her life is taking. Her father, a powerful dictator, is not pleased with the change of plans.

Director: Matia Karrell

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Esai Morales, A Martinez, Charlotte Ayanna, Valeria Andrews, Kuno Becker

Based on the true headline-generating story of the five-year-old Cuban boy who is the sole survivor of a refugee boat that sunk in a storm on its way to the U.S.

Director: Christopher Leitch

Genres: TV Movie , Drama

Actors: Esai Morales, Alec Roberts, Laura Harring, Jon Huertas, James Quattrochi

An object is shot down over Seattle and the debris begins to effect the local weather ultimately threatening the whole world.

Director: Jason Bourque

Genres: Action , Science Fiction

Actors: Ona Grauer, Martin Cummins, Esai Morales, Jared Abrahamson, MacKenzie Porter

An astonishing breakthrough is taking shape on the planet Caprica. The rapidly evolving spheres of human and mechanical engineering have collided, along with the fates of two families. Joined by tragedy in an explosive instant of terror, two rival clans led by powerful patriarchs, Joseph Adama (Esai Morales, Jericho) and Daniel Graystone (Eric Stoltz, The Butterfly Effect) duel in an era of questionable ethics, corporate machinations and unbridled personal ambition as the final war for humanity looms. The latest phenomenon from the executive producers of Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore and David Eick), set in a time over 50 years earlier, Caprica is entirely its own world - provocative, thrilling and startling relevant to our own.

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Genres: Action , Drama , Science Fiction

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson, Alessandra Torresani

Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden, Daniel Calvin, has not forgiven him for an old crime.

Director: Paul Kampf

Genres: Thriller

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Ana Isabelle, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Jon Huertas

Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver transplant. In a desperate attempt to save his brother's life, Rupert decides to execute a heist at a downtown club on New Year's Eve that will give him the money he needs. Rupert assembles an eclectic crew of ex-cons, including his best friend and his ex-girlfriend. Rupert and his gang converge on the nightclub for a climax that spins out of control. New Year's Eve has never been so explosive!

Director: James Merendino

Genres: Crime , Action

Actors: James Russo, Jeremy Piven, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Robert LaSardo, Ashley Laurence

Jimmy Bishop runs a sober living facility and is forced to take in his wealthy alcoholic mother as a client.

Director: Rick Rosenthal

Genres: Comedy , TV Movie

Actors: Erich Anderson, Curt Cornelius, Blythe Danner, Catherine Dent, Paige Hurd

Le vaisseau spatial Daedalus a prévu d'atterrir sur Mars au mois de novembre de l'an 2033, comprenant l'équipage de six astronautes qui va effectuer sa première tentative afin d'établir une colonie permanente sur la Planète Rouge.

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Genres: Documentary , Sci-Fi & Fantasy , Action & Adventure

Actors: Nicholas Wittman, Kata Sarbó, Alberto Ammann, Jihae, Clémentine Poidatz

When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.

Director: Leonard Schrader

Genres: Romance , Drama

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May, Fernando Rey, Tony Payne, Henry Holmes

When a reporter travels to Juarez to cover the ongoing story of the mass murder of local working women, she uncovers the amazing story of "The Virgin Of Juarez," a survivor of an attack who has developed stigmata, a sign of holiness, and whose followers will do whatever she asks.

Director: Kevin James Dobson

Genres: Drama , Thriller

Actors: Minnie Driver, Angus Macfadyen, Ana Claudia Talancón, Esai Morales, Guillermo Díaz

Story about a runner whose bulimia and anorexia threatens both her dream of competing in the Olympics and her marriage to Denver's mayor.

Director: Jan Egleson

Genres: Family , Drama

Actors: Crystal Bernard, Esai Morales, Casey Sander, Tom Atkins, Amy Reece

When your father is a pornographer, what can you do to shock him? If you're Katrina Bartalotti, you announce that you're going to lose your virginity -- live on the Internet, for the whole world to see.

Director: Jean-Pierre Marois

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Mena Suvari, Sally Kellerman, Ira Israel, Octavia Spencer

Picking up after the events of Never Back Down 2, former MMA champion Case Walker is on the comeback trail to become champion once again.

Director: Michael Jai White

Genres: Drama , Action

Actors: Michael Jai White, Josh Barnett, Gillian White, Nathan Jones, Damian Mavis

American-born Jayne Valseca, her husband Eduardo, the son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, and their two children live an idyllic life on their 1,000 acre ranch outside of a peaceful Mexico town. But in the summer of 2007, their peaceful life is turned into a real-life nightmare when Eduardo is ambushed and kidnapped by strangers. With kidnapping becoming a pervasive and lucrative business in Mexico, Jayne is at the mercy of the kidnappers when they demand millions for the husband's safe release. She's pushed to the limit to do everything she possibly can to raise the money necessary to bring Eduardo back alive. As Eduardo is starved and tortured, he looses hope of ever seeing his family again but despite the dire and bleak times, Jayne refuses to give up and decides to turn the tables on the kidnappers and makes demands of her own. The film is based on a true story from the book, We Have Your Husband: One Woman's Terrifying Story of a Kidnapping in Mexico.

Director: Eric Bross

Genres: Crime , Drama , Thriller

Actors: Teri Polo, Esai Morales, Nicholas Gonzalez, Olivia d'Abo, William R. Moses

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.

Director: Director X.

Genres: Action , Crime

Actors: Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Michael Kenneth Williams, Lex Scott Davis, Jennifer Morrison

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 great niece, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.

Director: Paul Schrader

Genres: Drama , Thriller , Crime

Actors: Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell, Esai Morales, Eduardo Losan

A park ranger and his lover have heated encounters with a dangerous man in Death Valley.

Director: Mark Griffiths

Genres: Thriller , Action

Actors: Esai Morales, Patricia Healy, Stephen Meadows, Louise Baker, Sorrells Pickard

Coach Banks (Robert Townsend) is used to calling all the shots for his championship high school basketball team and in his own love life. But that’s about to change when he meets, Talisa McCoy (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), the mother of a star player, new to Jackson high. She’s a beautiful, strong-willed single mom, with her own ideas on a winning team…and the perfect man. Now, this coach will have to learn a few new plays if he’s going to stay in the game.

Director: Robert Townsend

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Esai Morales, Jennifer Lewis, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Robert Townsend

Miranda Wells is an attorney with a sideline in immigration fraud and murder. Miranda's assistant, Carla, is unaware of her criminal activities. Rick Benes, a journalist setting out to expose Miranda, poses as David Lopez, an illegal immigrant, and takes a job in the office. Carla stubbles on incriminating files and Rick Benes pursuit of the story is threatened when he becomes infatuated with Miranda. Carla is attacked and her husband murdered, Miranda is the chief suspect. As the investigation progresses and Carla disappears from hospital, it is clear that Miranda will stop at nothing including murdering again to stay out.

Director: Robert Markowitz

Genres: TV Movie , Comedy , Drama

Actors: Michael Arata, Robb Conner, Marcus Lyle Brown, Anne Ewen, Keith Flippen

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.

Director: Charles Stone III

Genres: Action , Crime , Drama

Actors: Wood Harris, Cam'ron, Mekhi Phifer, Kevin Carroll, Chi McBride

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.

Director: Frank Lin

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Esai Morales, Collin Chou, Lang Yun, Hira Ambrosino

Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman didn't really know what they were in for when they enlisted in the U.S. Army; they just wanted to get a job and make some money. But these new recruits are so hapless, they run the risk of getting kicked out before their military careers even begin. Soon, though, they're sent to the Middle East to fight for their country -- which they manage to do in their own wacky ways.

Director: Daniel Petrie Jr.

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, Lori Petty, David Alan Grier, Esai Morales

A tough street kid from the L.A. barrios is discovered during an examination to have stomach tumors. During his hospitalization, he must learn to cope with not only his medical condition, but with people such as other patients, social workers and hospital personnel who come from a totally different world than he does--and they have to learn to cope with him.

Director: Gary Kent

Genres: Drama

Actors: Esai Morales, Charles Bail, John Phillip Law

A diverse community, an ambitious newly-appointed principal and a handful of committed teachers come together to save a once popular suburban school in danger of closing.

Director: Gary Wheeler

Genres: Family , TV Movie

Actors: Loretta Devine, Esai Morales, julianne cabrera, Salli Richardson-Whitfield

A mining businessman gets involved in crimes and murderers as he flees from another businessman who plans to dump nuclear waste illegally in abandoned coal mines in southern Chile

Director: James Becket

Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller

Actors: Esai Morales, Valentina Vargas, Malcolm McDowell, Christian Svensson, Michael Ironside

Recently paroled after serving a long stretch for his wife's murder, Joey One-Way aligns himself with a producer who has optioned the play he wrote in prison. As he sets about adapting his work for the big screen, Joey falls for his new pal's ex-con wife, and enters into a doomed affair.

Director: Gareth Maxwell Roberts

Genres: Drama , Thriller

Actors: Gil Bellows, Lisa Ray, Esai Morales, Moneca Delain, Stephen Lord

An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.

Director: Rashaad Ernesto Green

Genres: Drama

Actors: Esai Morales, Harmony Santana, Judy Reyes, Robin de Jesús, Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are together for the first time in this heartwarming, magical musical story about courage and friendship. After 15 years, the two reunite and remember when their village was destroyed by a giant. Soon, they find out that they have neat powers they can use for good.

Director: Glenn Chaika

Genres: Animation , Family

Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Elijah Wood, Peter Gallagher, Alexandra Boyd, Michael Chiklis

In this uplifitng documentary, stars and musicians from across the industry speak to the power and importance of music in society. Here we examine how close we came to not having many of the incredible artists who we cherish today had it not been for arts programs. Music has the power to inspire and change world, and that starts with our supporting young talent.

Director: Michael J. Kirk

Genres: Documentary

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Rosario Dawson, Neve Campbell, Esai Morales, Constance Zimmer

Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.

Director: Mika Kaurismäki

Genres: Adventure , Drama

Actors: Kari Väänänen, Robert Davi, Rae Dawn Chong, Minna Sovio, Aili Sovio

A young white handyman, hired by a wealthy Mexican-American family to upkeep their ranch, finds himself caught between disgruntled locals and the family’s outrageously decadent daughters and discovers that something quite unusual is happening at the ranch.

Director: Magdalena Zyzak

Genres: Comedy , Drama , Family , Western

Actors: Jackson Rathbone, Esai Morales, Alex Meneses, Moisés Arias, Xander Berkeley

Presents a bit of the history of the migration of our people, people who came out opening new horizons and looking for new destinations. During that absence, it has been music that has defined us and served to remove barriers and grow closer.

Director: Marcos Zurinaga

Genres: Music

Actors: Andy Montañez, Celia Cruz, Chucho Avellanet, Daniel Lugo, Ednita Nazario

Ivy League Freshman, Aaron Milton (17) gets a different kind of education when he falls for Linda (34) a vivacious former wild-child who has returned to college to straighten out her life. The curriculum gets more challenging when Aaron meets Linda's sarcastic 14 year-old daughter, Beth - who quickly develops a crush on him. The math doesn't work in either direction but the dysfunctional triangle becomes a learning experience for all involved.

Director: Jeffrey Fine

Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Actors: Kyle Gallner, Laura Allen, Britt Robertson, Esai Morales, John Judd

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.

Director: Stuart Gordon

Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Family

Actors: Edward James Olmos, Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Clifton Collins Jr.

A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

Director: Richard Linklater

Genres: Drama , Comedy

Actors: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama, Ana Claudia Talancón, Greg Kinnear, Juan Carlos Serrán

A baseball player finds unexpected happiness with a woman who works in his favorite restaurant.

Director: Ernie Barbarash

Genres: Family , TV Movie

Actors: Lindsey Morgan, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Hector Bucio, Patrick Fabian, Sherilyn Fenn