Released Date:
1988-03-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Mexico
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(543 Reviews)
Director:
Luis MandokiMichael Love
Luis Mandoki (developer)
Martèn Salinas
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Released Date:
1990-10-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (5374 Reviews)
Director:
Luis MandokiGlenn Savan (novel)
Ted Tally (screenplay)
Alvin Sargent (screenplay)
Max Baron (James Spader) is a 27-year-old high flying advertising executive still recovering from the death of his wife. One night he is in a bar when he meets Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon) a 43-year-old waitress with a fixation on Marilyn Monroe. The couple gradually fall in love, though age and social differences mean that the path of true love is strewn with problems.
Released Date:
1993-03-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.1 (3023 Reviews)
Director:
Luis MandokiGarson Kanin (play)
Douglas McGrath (screenplay)
A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. Soon it becomes apparent to the reporter that she isn't so stupid after all, and things become more complicated as she begins questioning the papers her sugar daddy keeps getting her to sign, and the reporter begins falling in love with her.
Released Date:
1994-05-13
Languages:
English, Vietnamese
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
126 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (15911 Reviews)
Director:
Luis MandokiAn airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Released Date:
1999-02-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (27138 Reviews)
Director:
Luis MandokiNicholas Sparks (novel)
Gerald Di Pego (screenplay)
A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move on and find happiness.
Released Date:
2001-05-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (18985 Reviews)
Director:
Luis MandokiWhile pursuing a suspect one night, Chicago Police officer Sharon Pogue nearly becomes the victim of a fatal ambush. A mysterious stranger, Catch intervenes, disarms the assassin and saves Sharon's life. Is it a stroke of luck? A twist of fate? Or just a concerned citizen who happened to pass by at the right time and wasn't afraid to get involved? Maybe, But Sharon and Catch have met once before. As the two fall in love, they discover the truth about each other and are forced to deal with the secrets from their past.
Released Date:
2005-11-04
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Mexico, USA, Puerto Rico
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(5836 Reviews)
Director:
Luis MandokiLuis Mandoki (screenplay)
Oscar Orlando Torres (screenplay)
Oscar Orlando Torres (story)
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
Released Date:
2012-11-09
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Mexico
Runtime:
116 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (622 Reviews)
Director:
Luis MandokiDiana Cardozo (adaptation)
Rafael Ramèrez Heredia (novel)
In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doèa Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecèn Umèn, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.
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