Rubén Blades

Rubén Blades

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948) is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres. As songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental tempos and political inspired Nuyorican salsa to his music, creating thinking persons' (salsa) dance music. Blades has composed dozens of musical hits, the most famous of which is "Pedro Navaja," a song about a neighborhood thug who appears to die during a robbery (his song "Sorpresas" continues the story), inspired by "Mack the Knife." He also composed and sings what many Panamanians consider their second national anthem. The song is titled "Patria" (Fatherland). He is an icon in Panama and is much admired throughout Latin America, and managed to attract 18% of the vote in his failed attempt to win the Panamanian presidency in 1994. In September 2004, he was appointed minister of tourism by Panamanian president Martín Torrijos for a five-year term. He holds a law degree from the University of Panama and a master's in international law from Harvard University. He is married to singer Luba Mason. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rubén Blades, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Rubén Blades
  • Popularity: 6.908
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1948-07-16
  • Place of Birth: Panama City, Panama
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As: Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna
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Rubén Blades Movies

  • 1990
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    Predator 2

    Predator 2

    6.285 1990 HD

    A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next...

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  • 1994
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    Color of Night

    Color of Night

    5.738 1994 HD

    A color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group and becomes embroiled in an intense...

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  • 1997
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    The Devil's Own

    The Devil's Own

    6.175 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Chinese Box

    Chinese Box

    5.9 1997 HD

    The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of...

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  • 1989
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    Disorganized Crime

    Disorganized Crime

    5.3 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Critical Condition

    Critical Condition

    5.5 1987 HD

    Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by climbing insanity—but instead ends up in a...

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  • 1999
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    Cradle Will Rock

    Cradle Will Rock

    6.5 1999 HD

    A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

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  • 1990
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    The Two Jakes

    The Two Jakes

    5.97 1990 HD

    Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman...

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  • 2004
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    Secuestro Express

    Secuestro Express

    6.5 2004 HD

    Young couple Carla and Martin are abducted by three men and spend a terrifying night in Caracas as they wait for Carla's father to hand over the...

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  • 1988
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    The Milagro Beanfield War

    The Milagro Beanfield War

    6.5 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Fatal Beauty

    Fatal Beauty

    5.5 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Assassination Tango

    Assassination Tango

    5.1 2003 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Spoken Word

    Spoken Word

    6.2 2009 HD

    A San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to...

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  • 2021
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    Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York

    Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York

    8 2021 HD

    When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish...

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  • 1991
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    The Super

    The Super

    5.9 1991 HD

    Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge...

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  • 1990
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    The Heart of the Deal

    The Heart of the Deal

    1 1990 HD

    Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman.

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  • 2003
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    The Maldonado Miracle

    The Maldonado Miracle

    4.7 2003 HD

    A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.

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  • 2012
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    Safe House

    Safe House

    6.473 2012 HD

    A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative...

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  • 1991
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    The Josephine Baker Story

    The Josephine Baker Story

    6.3 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    The Lemon Sisters

    The Lemon Sisters

    4.571 1989 HD

    Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.

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  • 2013
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    The Counselor

    The Counselor

    5.266 2013 HD

    A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.

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  • 1991
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    One Man’s War

    One Man’s War

    6.8 1991 HD

    Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his...

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  • 2003
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    Spin

    Spin

    5.9 2003 HD

    "Spin" tells the story of a boy who loses his parents in a plane crash, is taken in by his uncle (Tucci), who then leaves him for ten years in the...

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  • 2011
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    Rubén Blades: Todos Vuelven Live, Vol. 2

    Rubén Blades: Todos Vuelven Live, Vol. 2

    5.2 2011 HD

    Celebrated actor, political activist, songwriter, and multiple Grammy Award winning performer Rubén Blades returned to the stage with the live...

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  • 2011
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    Rubén Blades: Todos Vuelven Live, Vol. 1

    Rubén Blades: Todos Vuelven Live, Vol. 1

    5.2 2011 HD

    Celebrated actor, political activist, songwriter, and multiple Grammy Award winning performer Rubén Blades returned to the stage with the live...

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  • 1996
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    Scorpion Spring

    Scorpion Spring

    7.5 1996 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    Miracle on Interstate 880

    Miracle on Interstate 880

    4.7 1993 HD

    A man attempts to rescue people trapped on the I-880 bridge after the top half collapses during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

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  • 1983
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    The Last Fight

    The Last Fight

    4.4 1983 HD

    Singer-turned-boxer Andy 'Kid' Clave signs a contract with a shady promoter Joaquin Vargas. But Clave turns against Vargas when the promoter's thugs...

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  • 1991
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    Crazy From the Heart

    Crazy From the Heart

    3.8 1991 HD

    A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to...

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  • 2012
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    Outlaws - For Greater Glory

    Outlaws - For Greater Glory

    6.77 2012 HD

    A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

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  • 1985
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    Crossover Dreams

    Crossover Dreams

    5.7 1985 HD

    Salsa singer screws over everybody on his way to the top; when his latest record flops, his career starts doing downhill.

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  • 1985
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    The Making of Sun City

    The Making of Sun City

    1 1985 HD

    Documentary Chronicling the making of Artists United Against Apartheid “Sun City”

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  • 1985
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    The Return of Rubén Blades

    The Return of Rubén Blades

    1 1985 HD

    Robert Mugge's 1986 film provides a full-blooded portrait of the Latino singer, actor, bandleader, and composer. Blades' Panama homeland, his Harvard...

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  • 1990
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    Mo' Better Blues

    Mo' Better Blues

    6.457 1990 HD

    Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he...

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  • 2016
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    Hands of Stone

    Hands of Stone

    6.605 2016 HD

    The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

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  • 2024
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    Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple

    Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple

    7.4 2024 HD

    Stevie Van Zandt, known as New Jersey's most famous consigliere to Bruce Springsteen and Tony Soprano, takes center stage. Featuring a wealth of...

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  • 2011
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    ¡Sonó, Sonó… Tite Curet!

    ¡Sonó, Sonó… Tite Curet!

    8 2011 HD

    Homage to Puerto Rican composer Catalino Curet Alonso, or as his friends and fans call him, "Tite", representing how widely influential the composer...

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  • 1996
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    Al compás de un sentimiento: la música de Pedro Flores

    Al compás de un sentimiento: la música de Pedro Flores

    1 1996 HD

    The music of the Puerto Rican composer Pedro Flores which was televised on Dec. 8, 1996.

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  • 1995
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    Somos un solo pueblo

    Somos un solo pueblo

    1 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 2002
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    Encuentro

    Encuentro

    1 2002 HD

    The social vision of the lives of three Hispanic singer-songwriters who enjoy the favor of Puerto Rican public and Latin America is presented:...

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  • 2007
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    Lo mejor de nuestra música popular: 15 años de éxitos

    Lo mejor de nuestra música popular: 15 años de éxitos

    1 2007 HD

    The film includes highlights of the Banco Popular's music specials, whose production started in 1993.

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  • 2004
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    En mi país

    En mi país

    9 2004 HD

    The illusion and joy of Christmas arrives from the four cardinal points of Latin America. The film recreates a typical Christmas party with Puerto...

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  • 2008
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    La clave

    La clave

    1 2008 HD

    Musical documentary film about the similarities between two types of music genres known as Salsa and Reggaeton. The clave is the five-note two-bar...

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  • 2000
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    All the Pretty Horses

    All the Pretty Horses

    5.752 2000 HD

    The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells the ranch where he has spent his entire life....

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  • 2024
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    Stay Homas. The Band That Shouldn’t Exist

    Stay Homas. The Band That Shouldn’t Exist

    8 2024 HD

    In the most tragic moment of the pandemic, confined to a terrace in the centre of Barcelona and almost by chance, the musical phenomenon of the Stay...

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  • 2014
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    Yo soy la salsa

    Yo soy la salsa

    1 2014 HD

    More than a genre, salsa was a cultural movement that arose in a time of need for strengthening the Latino culture and spread across the world with...

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  • 1997
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    From Son to Salsa

    From Son to Salsa

    1 1997 HD

    A testimony about Afro-Cuban popular music from its origins to the present day.

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  • 2003
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    Imagining Argentina

    Imagining Argentina

    5.604 2003 HD

    Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and...

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  • 1989
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    Dead Man Out

    Dead Man Out

    7.2 1989 HD

    A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior...

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  • 2018
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    Ruben Blades Is Not My Name

    Ruben Blades Is Not My Name

    6.4 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 1998
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    Willie Colón & Rubén Blades - Live In Venezuela

    Willie Colón & Rubén Blades - Live In Venezuela

    1 1998 HD

    Concert in Venezuela at the July 1998 under the AMNISTIA festival. Here Ruben forgets a part of the lyrics and the musicians, although they still...

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  • 2011
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    The Next Season

    The Next Season

    1 2011 HD

    Emotionally battered by the paternal relationship with her husband, Eva is a young immigrant photographer, a misfit who strives to find the perfect...

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  • 1998
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    A Roll of the Dice: The Capeman on Broadway

    A Roll of the Dice: The Capeman on Broadway

    1 1998 HD

    A made for TV documentary about the creation of Paul Simon and Derek Walcott's controversial and ultimately flop of a musical, "The Capeman"....

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  • 2018
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    John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons

    John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons

    7.457 2018 HD

    In this one-man Broadway show, John Leguizamo finds humor and heartbreak as he traces 3,000 years of Latin history in an effort to help his bullied...

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  • 2019
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    Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

    Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

    1 2019 HD

    Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from...

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  • 1988
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    Homeboy

    Homeboy

    4.977 1988 HD

    Johnny Walker is a cowboy and a boxer. He is very shy and a bit of a fool. He is in love with Ruby, but he cannot tell her. He is also a bit old to...

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  • 2005
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    The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'

    The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'

    6 2005 HD

    The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of Predator 2 is a 2005 documentary that details the production of the 1990 film Predator 2. Created for the...

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  • 2003
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    Once Upon a Time in Mexico

    Once Upon a Time in Mexico

    6.296 2003 HD

    A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the...

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  • 1994
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    A Million to Juan

    A Million to Juan

    5.4 1994 HD

    Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls...

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  • 2021
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    Red Pill

    Red Pill

    6 2021 HD

    Set over Halloween weekend 2020, this political thriller follows six friends as they head into "red" country to canvas white women to vote. They are...

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  • 1991
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    Rabbit Ears - Joseph and His Brothers

    Rabbit Ears - Joseph and His Brothers

    1 1991 HD

    This is the touching story of Joseph, who is sold into slavery by his brothers yet later forgives their betrayal by saving them from famine. The...

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  • 1988
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    The Story of Fausta

    The Story of Fausta

    6 1988 HD

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  • 1983
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    Ligia Elena

    Ligia Elena

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1984
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    Por los Caminos Verdes

    Por los Caminos Verdes

    1 1984 HD

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  • 2002
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    Empire

    Empire

    6 2002 HD

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  • 1990
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    Q & A

    Q & A

    5.8 1990 HD

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  • 1988
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    Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair

    Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair

    6 1988 HD

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  • 1983
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    When the Mountains Tremble

    When the Mountains Tremble

    9.5 1983 HD

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  • 1984
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    Peter Knife

    Peter Knife

    7.5 1984 HD

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  • 1993
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    The X-Files

    The X-Files

    8.377 1993 HD

    The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena....

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  • 2000
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    Gideon's Crossing

    Gideon's Crossing

    6 2000 HD

    Ben Gideon, a doctor of great skill and with a great bedside manner, heads the experimental oncology ward at a fictional teaching hospital in New...

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  • 2015
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    Fear the Walking Dead

    Fear the Walking Dead

    7.664 2015 HD

    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,...

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  • 2011
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    Músicos de Latinoamérica

    Músicos de Latinoamérica

    1 2011 HD

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  • 1997
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    Arthouse

    Arthouse

    1 1997 HD

    Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.

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  • 2000
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    Latin Grammy Awards

    Latin Grammy Awards

    7 2000 HD

    A Latin Grammy Award is an award by The Latin Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the Latin music industry. The Latin Grammy...

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  • 2002
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    Las Lunas del Auditorio

    Las Lunas del Auditorio

    6 2002 HD

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