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Luis Contreras
Actor 1950 - 2004

Luis Contreras

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Tall, lean, and wiry, 6-foot-4 Euro-Indigenous Latino American character actor. The son of Euro-Indigenous Latino American character actor, Roberto Contreras. Luis Contreras was born on September 18, 1950. Lean and wiry, often sporting a mass of curly hair and drooping... Read full bio →

Filmography

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22 titles
Criminal

Criminal

Gregory Jacobs 2004 1h 27m 6.0

Two con artists try to swindle a currency collector by selling him a counterfeit copy of an extremely rare currency bill.

Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing

Walter Hill 1996 1h 41m 6.2

A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

Dragstrip Girl

Dragstrip Girl

Mary Lambert 1994 1h 23m

Johnny is a bad guy who is trying to go straight and becomes smitten with Laura, a wealthy good girl who is rebelling against her parents by pretending to go steady with him, all set among the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles.

Geronimo: An American Legend

Geronimo: An American Legend

Walter Hill 1993 1h 55m 6.0

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless.

Bound by Honor

Bound by Honor

Taylor Hackford 1993 3h 10m 8.1

Blood In Blood Out (also known as Bound by Honor) is a 1993 crime drama film directed by Taylor Hackford. It follows the intertwining lives of the three Chicano relatives, Miklo (Damian Chapa), Cruz (Jesse Borrego) and Paco (Benjamin Bratt) from 1972 through to the mid 1980s.

Suburban Commando

Suburban Commando

Burt Kennedy 1991 1h 28m 5.3

Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like.

Dollman

Dollman

Albert Pyun 1991 1h 22m 5.0

A hard-boiled intergalactic policeman lands on Earth, where he is thirteen inches tall.

After Midnight

After Midnight

Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat 1989 1h 30m 5.0

A college professor teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear" brings his students (including a psychic) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house.

Sunset

Sunset

Blake Edwards 1988 1h 47m

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Red Heat

Red Heat

Walter Hill 1988 1h 44m 6.2

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago. Jim Belushi plays his temporary partner on the Chicago police. When the drug dealer escapes, the two police must overcome their differences in order to recapture him.

Walker

Walker

Alex Cox 1987 1h 35m 6.5

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat

Extreme Prejudice

Extreme Prejudice

Walter Hill 1987 1h 45m 7.0

A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries.

Straight to Hell

Straight to Hell

Alex Cox 1986 1h 26m 6.0

A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.

Running Scared

Running Scared

Peter Hyams 1986 1h 47m 6.0

Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal star in the motion picture that asks the question, How come the bad guys always drive the good cars? The answer has them Running Scared in this lightning-paced comic thriller.

Big Trouble

Big Trouble

John Cassavetes 1986 1h 33m 5.0

Insurance agent plots with client to kill her crazy husband.

Walking the Edge

Walking the Edge

Norbert Meisel 1985 1h 34m 6.0

A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Tim Burton 1985 1h 31m 6.6

The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.

Repo Man

Repo Man

Alex Cox 1984 1h 32m 6.4

Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result.

48 Hrs.

48 Hrs.

Walter Hill 1982 1h 36m 6.8

48 HRS. A film about a white cop who takes a black criminal out of jail to help him find a killer. They end up making a very comical pair.

The Long Riders

The Long Riders

Walter Hill 1980 1h 40m 7.6

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.

1941

1941

Steven Spielberg 1979 1h 58m 6.3

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg 1977 2h 17m 8.2

Close Encounters of the Third kind is a science fiction film from Steven Spielberg about a peaceful contact between aliens and mankind.

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