5 Movies Starring Elpidia Carrillo

Predator

Predator

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-06-12

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (268595 Reviews)

Director:

John McTiernan

Fullplot:

A team of special force ops, led by a tough but fair soldier, Major "Dutch" Schaefer, are ordered in to assist CIA man, George Dillon, on a rescue mission for potential survivors of a Helicopter downed over remote South American jungle. Not long after they land, Dutch and his team discover that they have been sent in under false pretenses. This deception turns out to be the least of their worries though, when they find themselves being methodically hunted by something not of this world.

The Brave

The Brave

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-07-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

123 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (7284 Reviews)

Director:

Johnny Depp

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Gregory McDonald (novel)

Paul McCudden (screenplay)

Johnny Depp (screenplay)

D.P. Depp (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An unemployed alcoholic Native American Indian lives on a trailer park with his wife and two children. Convinced that he has nothing to offer this world, he agrees to be tortured to death by a gang of rednecks in return for $50,000.

La otra conquista

La otra conquista

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-04-21

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Mexico

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1019 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaHistory

Fullplot:

It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernèn Cortès' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan [what is now called Mexico City]. The sacred grounds are covered with the countless bodies of priests and nobility slaughtered by the Spanish Armies under Cortès' command. The lone Aztec survivor of the massacre is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin [Damièn Delgado]. Topiltzin, who is the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies. As if awakening from a dream, the young man rises from among the dead to find his mother murdered, the Spanish in power and the dawn of a new era in his native land. A New World with new leaders, language, customs... and God. Representing the New Order is the Spanish Friar Diego [Josè Carlos Rodrèguez]. His mission is to convert the "savage" natives into civilised Christians; to replace their human sacrifices and feathered deities with public Christenings and fealty to the Blessed Virgin Mary. With Topiltzin, Friar Diego faces his most difficult spiritual and personal challenge, for when Topiltzin is captured by Spanish troops and presented to Cortès [Ièaki Aierra], the Spanish Conqueror places Topiltzin's conversion under Friar Diego's care. Old world confronts the New as Topiltzin struggles to preserve his own beliefs, whilst Friar Diego attempts to impose his own. Moreover, all the while, the question remains: Who is converting whom?

Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-10-25

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (4328 Reviews)

Director:

Ken Loach

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Paul Laverty (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

Nine Lives

Nine Lives

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-09-02

Languages:

English, Spanish, American Sign Language

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (5670 Reviews)

Director:

Rodrigo Garcèa

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

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