Irene Cara

Acting

Irene Cara

Born 1959-03-18 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Irene Cara Escalera (March 18, 1959 - November 25, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter and actress. Cara sang and co-wrote the song Flashdance... What a Feeling from the film Flashdance. She won an Oscar for Best Original Song as a co writer. Cara rose to fame as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 film Fame, and the hit song "Fame" spawned from the movie.

Acting credits

Fame poster
6.4

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Fame

1980

City Heat poster
5.5

Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.

City Heat

1984

Happily Ever After poster
5.8

In the aftermath of her more famous adventure, Snow White must team up with the dwarves' seven female cousins to battle the late Evil Queen's warlock brother and rescue the captured Prince.

Happily Ever After

1989

D.C. Cab poster
5.2

The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause.

D.C. Cab

1983

Killing 'em Softly poster
9.0

The girlfriend of a man murdered for a debt falls in love with the killer.

Killing 'em Softly

1982

Sparkle poster
7.3

Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.

Sparkle

1976

Busted Up poster
6.5

Prolific actor-stuntman Conrad Palmisano directed this average action-thriller about the owner of an inner-city gym. Earl (Paul Coufos) happens to also be a skilled fighter, and when he is pressured by real-estate developers to close the gym, he fights in order to save it.

Busted Up

1986

Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief poster
NR

Over one hundred of Hollywood's glittering stars came together to record a musical tribute to the survivors of earthquake ravaged Armenia. Directed by world renowned Peter Bogdanovich, and beautifully photographed by Academy Award winning cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, this very special one hour show narrated by Robert Stack is not to be missed! Bogdanovich brings together footage and interviews from the recording session, footage of Armenia before and after the earthquake, information on Armenian history and culture, and a piece on the Armenian Genocide.

Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief

1989

Certain Fury poster
5.1

Teenage prostitute Scarlet and minor offender Tracy end up on the run together in the wake of a courtroom shoot-out.

Certain Fury

1985

Disco Explosion - Flash Back poster
7.5

Faixas: 01. That´s The Way I Like It 02. Rock Your Baby 03. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing 04. Mr. Big Stuff 05. Le Freak 06. Ain´t No Stopping Now 07. Rock The Boat 08. Best Of My Love 09. We Are Family 10. Boogie Shoes 11. It´s Raining Men 12. Disco Inferno 13. I Will Survive 14. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel 15. 25 Miles 16. December, 1963 "Oh, What a Night" 17. If Can´t Have You 18. More Than a Woman 19. Fhashdance...What a Feeling 20. Get Down Tonight

Disco Explosion - Flash Back

2007

Sister, Sister poster
7.5

Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.

Sister, Sister

1982

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers poster
7.0

This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

1983

Style Wars poster
7.5

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Style Wars

1984

Caged in Paradiso poster
5.0

A prisoner's wife joins him on an island where a killer satellite and shark-infested waters keep inmates in check.

Caged in Paradiso

1989

Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion - Vol. 1 poster
8.2

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Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion - Vol. 1

2006

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NR

Justin Lee Collins attempts to track down the cast of Fame, both the film and the TV series.

Bring Back... Fame

2008

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6.7

A short film about the making of the movie "Fame" (1980).

On Location with: FAME

1980

Aaron Loves Angela poster
5.4

Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love with each other. The only thing standing in the way of their love is their families. Aaron is black, while Angela is Puerto Rican, and neither family wants one of their own to associate with the others. As the pair rebel against the prejudices of their families, they soon find the conflict spreading out to their friends and neighbors, until the hatred threatens to spiral out of control.

Aaron Loves Angela

1975

Apple Pie poster
5.2

Gangster Jacques Blinbaum spins the tale of how he began his life of crime, beginning when he faked his own kidnapping in order to scam his father out of the ransom money. From there, Blinbaum moonlights as a costumed crusader, wandering the rooftops of Manhattan.

Apple Pie

1976