
Acting
Christine Avila
Acting credits
8.2Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
Bound by Honor
1993
6.7Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.
Liar Liar
1997
6.8Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
Innerspace
1987
7.2Raymond Avila is an ex-gang member trying to build a future. His kid brother Chuco is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Despite their differences, their family bond is strong. But that bond is violently tested when rivals challenge Chuco's gang and ignite a neighborhood war.
Boulevard Nights
1979
5.2Zu, a free spirit estranged from her family, suddenly finds herself the sole guardian of her half-sister, Music, a teenager on the autism spectrum whose whole world order has been beautifully crafted by her late grandmother. The film soon challenges whether it is Zu or Music who has a better view of the world, and that love, trust, and being able to be there for each other is everything.
Music
2021
6.7A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four balancing raising a family and maintaining a career in the 70s, and a student making a difficult decision with the help of one woman that will change the course of both their lives in the 90s.
If These Walls Could Talk
1996
4.6As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they must impress the Chief of Surgery while learning how to survive the life-and-death area of medicine and the complexity of their everyday lives.
Vital Signs
1990
4.9A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.
Alligator 2: The Mutation
1991
5.0A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
Shallow Ground
2005
6.1Fact-based story of Mike Mills, a teen with muscular dystrophy, who is placed in a state nursing home by his destitute single mother. There he must contend with being the only young person in the clinic and with an abusive head nurse.
When You Remember Me
1990
6.8A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Strange Voices
1987
5.2A young man begins to suspect that his mother may have murdered his father.
Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story
1995
8.7The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.
The Gun
1974
8.0A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
Love Lives On
1985
6.0American television film about the life of Emily Butterfield, a baby girl who was born prematurely and died 53 days after her birth.
Born Too Soon
1993
NRA good looking, but shy man with a tragically small penis takes a fringe herbal remedy that makes him grow and grow and grow.
Jason's Big Problem
2011
A young girl receives the gift of her Cherokee heritage from her great-grandmother while spending the summer on the reservation.
Ann of the Wolf Clan
1977
8.0Two girlfriends pick up a traumatized woman near the scene of an accident. But something isn't right about their passenger and soon the good Samaritans are trapped in a nightmare ride they'll never forget.
The Kindness of Strangers
2023
6.7A Marvel employee's workday is spent attempting to grant a terminally ill child's wish to see an unreleased Captain America film, leading to dark comedy and commentary on corporate control over art.
Is Now a Good Time?
2024