Lupe Ontiveros
Nascimento : 1942-09-17, El Paso, Texas, U.S.
Morte : 2012-07-26
História
Guadalupe 'Lupe' Ontiveros (1942—2012) was an American film and television actress. She acted in numerous films and television shows, most often playing a maid.
Rosario
Cry Now follows the electrifying sexy encounters between Vincent, a street poster artist, and Luzy, a tattoo designer. But Sofia, Vincent's obsessive ex-girlfriend, is not ready to let go.
The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.
Maria
An Iraqi immigrant hit man, GUIDO, gets mixed up in a deal gone bad and is forced to transport a corpse across the country, with several Albanian assassins and the FBI on his trail. When his elderly, Mexican-American landlady blackmails him into taking her with him, he is forced to confront his past and, ultimately, find hope in the future.
Mrs. Cortez
O caos canino deixa as vidas dos recém-casados Papi e Chloe de cabeça para baixo quando os fi lhotes provocam várias confusões. Mas quando seus donos humanos estão com problemas, os cães farão de tudo para ajudar porque tanto em bons quanto em maus momentos, a família sempre se mantém unida. Então Papi, Chloe e os filhotes embarcam numa aventura heroica, provando mais uma vez que pequenas criaturas podem ser grandes heróis.
Herself
A retrospective documentary of the cult classic movie The Goonies. Including interviews with the cast, exploration of the film's locations and unique stories you wont hear anywhere else.
Momma Cecilia
Lucia e Marcus resolvem se casar, mas não têm a menor ideia de que esta decisão irá causar a maior confusão entre suas famílias, que ameaçam transformar o casamento dos jovens universitários em um verdadeiro campo de batalhas.
Self
See what celebrated Latino actors, newsmakers and a musical legend have to say about being Latino in the U.S. in this sixth installment in the award-winning documentary series.
Nena
Orphaned as an infant, Juan Frances (Spencer John French) is a talented ranchera singer, but he faces a hurdle in his attempt to succeed as a Latin music performer: He's a chubby, red-headed 33-year-old who grew up in a Hispanic home but looks like an Ohio farm boy. As Juan struggles to make ends meet by working eight jobs, his girlfriend (Maria Esquivel) and lizard-smooth promoter (David Franco) plot an aggressive image change for Juan.
Producer
After the death of his fiancée's daughter while in his care, a deaf man shuts himself off from the world. Haunted by memories, it is only through new friendship that he can learn to forgive, love, and reconnect.
Claire
After the death of his fiancée's daughter while in his care, a deaf man shuts himself off from the world. Haunted by memories, it is only through new friendship that he can learn to forgive, love, and reconnect.
Grace
Nessa escuridão, um suspense desconcertante, uma mulher e sua família mudam-se para uma antiga casa.
Mami
The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002.
Rosa Moreno
Um agente tem 30 dias para descobrir um novo talento pop. Para não perder uma promoção, Cole tem que descobrir um talento pop e tem 30 dias para transformar a sonhadora e desengonçada Maggie Moreno em uma diva da música latina. Ela muda-se para a casa dele e juntos trabalham noite e dia para conseguirem realizar seus desejos. Mas o que eles acabam descobrindo, vai muito além do mundo da música. Uma história única, divertida e comovente de como um sonho toca fundo na vida das pessoas.
Angelica Amonte
The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The widow falls for the Brit, who pretends to be in the fishing business but is actually a professional gambler. The naive daughter gets into some trouble.
Carmen Garcia
Ana está dividida - deverá ela arriscar , sair de casa , ir para a universidade e conhecer o mundo? Ou deverá ela ficar em casa , casar e continuar a trabalhar na fábrica de vestuário da irmã?
Pode parecer uma decisão fácil, mas para Ana, uma moça que acaba de completar 18 anos, cada decisão que tomar este verão vai mudar toda a sua vida.
Consuelo
Dividido em dois episódios, intitulados "Ficção" e "Não-ficção". O primeiro conta a história de um casal de namorados adolescentes que tem como professor de redação um vencedor do prêmio Pulitzer. O namoro termina pelo fato de o rapaz (Leo Fitzpatrick), que sofre de paralisia cerebral, pensar que a garota (Selma Blair) se sente atraída pelo professor. Desesperada pelo fim do namoro, ela sai para espairecer e acaba encontrando o professor em um bar. O segundo é sobre Scooby (Mark Webber), um garoto de família rica que não sabe o que fazer da vida. Um documentarista (Paul Giamatti) vai à sua escola para realizar um filme e decide usá-lo como seu personagem central.
Connie
Based on the First Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary, The Agony in the Garden, The Eggplant Lady is a heartwarming story about a family’s decision to move to a bigger house in a better neighborhood and how the teen, Jamie, and the grandmother, Rosa, come together to face a situation neither can control. Rosa teaches Jamie the valuable lesson of Christ’s suffering in the garden of Gethsemani. The Eggplant Lady, featuring a recipe with a secret ingredient, tears and laughter, faith and family, will inspire and touch viewers of all ages.
Welcome to Luminarias-where hot spicy dish gets served up with a Latin twist by four successful friends from East LA...with very discriminating taste in men! When separated divorce attorney Andrea finds herself guilty of falling for her white and Jewish opposing council, her three single friends choose sides in the ongoing and often hilarious debate over race and sex. As they discover just how much negative stereotypes color their relationships with men-and even with each other-it becomes clear that the search for Mr. Right is not exactly black and white! Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Beverly Franco
A 27-year-old amateur playwright with the maturity level of an adolescent reconnects with a childhood friend, and then proceeds to follow him back to Los Angeles and stalk him.
Abuela
Assassinatos em série aterrorizam um bairro de Los Angeles, e o responsável é o fantasma de um pintor morto há dois séculos conhecido como Candyman (Tony Todd). Todos os moradores acreditam no retorno do maléfico espírito com exceção de Caroline McKeever (Donna D'Errico), que descobrirá ter um segredo em comum com o homem que utiliza um gancho no lugar das mãos.
Nora Manning
Em Nova Iorque, um escritor grosseiro e sarcástico (Jack Nicholson) tem como alvos principais um artista gay (Greg Kinnear), seu vizinho, e uma garçonete (Helen Hunt) que o atende diariamente e se desdobra para cuidar do filho, que tem asma crônica. O destino vai fazer com que eles fiquem muito mais próximos do que poderiam imaginar.
Maria
Raphael (Johnny Depp) é um indígena americano que sofre com o alcoolismo, desemprego e pobreza. Ele tem muitas dificuldades para sustentar sua esposa Rita (Elpidia Carillo) e seus filhos Frankie (Cody Lightning) e Marta (Nicole Mancera). Ele conhece um homem chamado McCarthy (Marlon Brando), que faz uma proposta mortal para o índio: aceitar apanhar até a morte durante a gravação de um vídeo em troca de R$ 50 mil dólares para a sua família.
Yolanda Saldívar
Selena Quintanilla nasce em um família de origem mexicana no Texas. Seu pai percebe o talento da filha e começam a fazer pequenas apresentações juntos. Ela alcança o sucesso e se apaixona pelo guitarrista Chris Perez, o que deixa o pai irado. Para conquistar um público maior, Selena começa a gravar um álbum em inglês que, tragicamente, nunca finaliza.
Doña Rosa
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty about the harsh realities of bigotry and the power of family in America of the 1950s. The coming-of-age Chicano drama is based on Tomas Rivera's semiautobiographical 1971 novella.
Ducna
Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty hunter with a quick temper and a trigger finger to match. If you're an outlaw with a price on your head, Leach is the last man you'll want to meet. Travis Tritt, in an impressive acting debut, stars as Benjamin Tabor, a man out for blood after a gang of murderous bank robbers flee with his beautiful young bride. Together, Tabor and Leach take to the Trail with guns blazing in search of the same outlaws. And they're not going to stop until they find them - dead or alive.
Prisão, drogas e guerra de gangues tocam três jovens (Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt) no leste de Los Angeles de 1970 a 1990.
Gregor's Maid
Durante a Guerra do Vietnã, o soldado Luc Deveraux descobre que seu superior, Andrew Scott, se tornou descontroladamente violento, e os dois lutam até a morte. Seus corpos são resgatados e colocados num programa secreto em que são reanimados e treinados para se tornar máquinas assassinas. Inicialmente, Devereaux e Scott não têm memória de suas vidas passadas, mas lampejos do passado começam a retornar, reavivando o intenso conflito.
Parranda
Originally produced for PBS's Great Performances Series, La Pastorela is a musical retelling of the shepherds' journey to Bethlehem to see the Christ Child. We see the tale through the eyes of a modern young girl, the oldest child in a large rural Tex-Mex family. During a surrealistic dream, which brings to mind "The Wizard of Oz," the young chicana makes a fantastical journey with the shepherds and along the way; witnesses the triumph of God's Angels over Satan's diablo's. Full of drama, comedy, fantasy and wonderful music; this is a rare film the whole family can enjoy together.
Camilla
Arqueólogo liberta espírito maligno ao violar monumento sagrado no México. O espírito mau se esconde numa linda boneca, que vai parar nas mãos de uma menina. Violentas mortes começam a ocorrer. Quem passa pela frente da boneca enfeitiçada está ameaçado.
Pepita
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
Rosa
Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned completely upside-down when Sue dies suddenly and unexpectedly while giving birth to their daughter. Now in the aftermath, Scott not only has to deal with the loss of his wife, he also has the daunting task of raising his daughter all alone.
Remedios Acosta
A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two of them find peace they were missing.
Sophie
A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest, who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
Rudy's mother
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
Cruz
A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist's office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can't remember anything, and the detective wants the doctor to help jar her memory. Soon, however, the doctor and the detective discover that the parents' murder and the pedophiles "suicide" may be linked to a shadowy group of wealthy and influential pedophiles, and that the child isn't the only one whose life is in danger.
Rosalita
Após encontrar um mapa do tesouro no sótão de sua casa, Mickey, Brand, Bocão (Mouth), Dado (Data) e Gordo (Chunk) partem em busca do tesouro de Willy Caolho. Juntam-se a eles nessa aventura Andy e Stef mas, além das armadilhas deixadas por Willy Caolho por entre as cavernas e trilhas subterrâneas, os garotos terão de enfrentar também uma família de bandidos italianos, os Fratelli. Para salvá-los resta somente o valente e destemido Sloth.
Market Voice #1
Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.
Nacha
Dois irmãos, Enrique e Rosa Xuncax, escapam com vida do massacre de sua tribo na Guatemala e decidem fugir para os Estados Unidos. Seu destino é Los Angeles, onde vão tentar viver como cidadãos normais. Mas eles terão de lidar com a dura condição de estrangeiros ilegais.
Madam in Whorehouse
Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) é um policial que vai morar na fronteira dos EUA com o México, porque sua mulher tem uma amiga por lá. Querendo satisfazer todos os gostos da esposa, Charlie acaba se endividando, o que faz com que ele entre em um perigoso esquema, para faturar um dinheiro a mais e, assim, poder continuar a fazer suas vontades.
Dolores
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.
Old Lady
Cheech Marin e Tommy Chong formam uma dupla e embarcam numa viagem em busca de aventura por Los Angeles. Eles aprontam em casas de massagem, ameaçam milionários, encontram alienígenas, e vão parar na polícia.
Maid
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Maid
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
Maria
Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for his father, a successful carpet manufacturer. Bobby's dreams of a cushy junior exec position are quashed when he's told to report to the shipping department, where he's trained as a delivery driver. Learning the business from the ground up embitters Bobby, as well as his coworkers, some of whom, he discovers, are stealing from the company.
Helen
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
Whore #2
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little about romance or acting. But when his wife leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous lengths to win the role of a lifetime and win back the love of his life.