Manny Perez

Acting

Manny Perez

Born 1969-05-05 · Baitoa, Santiago, Dominican Republic

Manuel "Manny" Pérez Batista (born May 5, 1969) is a Dominican actor, who has appeared in the television series Third Watch and in the film Washington Heights. He is the cousin of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz.

Acting credits

Sound of Freedom poster
8.0

The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.

Sound of Freedom

2023

Pride and Glory poster
6.3

A saga centered on the Tierneys, a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.

Pride and Glory

2008

Brother poster
7.1

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

Brother

2000

Courage Under Fire poster
6.6

A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At first all seems in order. But then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses...

Courage Under Fire

1996

Party Monster poster
5.8

The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top... and there was no place to go but down.

Party Monster

2003

Reversion poster
6.2

Mario sees his brother David's kidnapping. When David returns 19 days later with no memory, Mario suspects the returnee isn't really his brother. His investigation challenges his grip on reality.

Reversion

2025

Bad Voodoo poster
3.4

Two escaped convicts break into a house and take a hostage, only to discover that the hideout houses something far more dangerous: a voodoo curse born from a grieving couple’s thirst for vengeance. As the night spirals into terror, they must battle an unseen power that feeds on guilt, blood, and lost souls.

Bad Voodoo

2026

Crooklyn poster
6.8

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.

Crooklyn

1994

Dinner Rush poster
7.0

One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food critic, Louis must fend off a hostile takeover from a pair of gangsters, to whom his sous-chef is in debt. Further, Louis has an argument with his son, the star chef, whose culinary creativity has brought success to the business.

Dinner Rush

2000

Killer App poster
3.7

A young hacker creates an "antisocial" networking app that matches enemies instead of friends. When her enemies start turning up dead, she must uncover who or what is behind it before it's too late

Killer App

2017

El Cantante poster
7.2

The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.

El Cantante

2006

Separation poster
5.6

A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.

Separation

2021

Illegal Tender poster
6.1

After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.

Illegal Tender

2007

Love Is Strange poster
6.3

After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.

Love Is Strange

2014

Nothing Like the Holidays poster
6.3

It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.

Nothing Like the Holidays

2008

Locked In poster
6.0

A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.

Locked In

2021

Bullet poster
6.2

A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.

Bullet

1996

Loki 7 poster
5.7

Álvaro and his friends try to scam a Dominican crime lord in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster.

Loki 7

2016

Colao poster
8.1

A coffee grower, still single at 40, decides to finally start his search for love by going to the capital city on the Dominican Republic.

Colao

2017

Night of the Sicario poster
5.8

Taylor is forced to hide the young daughter of a Colombian woman in witness protection who will be testifying against a powerful drug cartel in Federal Court, as ruthless sicarios aim to hunt them down.

Night of the Sicario

2021

The Ministers poster
4.4

A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.

The Ministers

2009

Tiger poster
9.0

A group of male adolescents are recruited by their parents into a bootcamp to be forged into hustlers, players, “tigueres”. This archetype is the highest idealization of the male character in Dominican and Caribbean culture. Alberto is the head coach of this camp who decides that Pablo’s time has come to join the group. But Pablo, his son, is a Tiguere in his own right, unbeknownst to Alberto, whose coming-of-age process clashes with his father’s authoritarian views. This leads Pablo on a journey of self-discovery.

Tiger

2024

Coyote Lake poster
6.0

Two dangerous and unwanted guests threaten a young woman and her overbearing mother at a small bed-and-breakfast near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Coyote Lake

2019

Where God Left His Shoes poster
6.8

When Frank, Angela, and their two children are evicted from their New York City apartment, they have no choice but to move into a homeless shelter. After a few difficult months, good news comes their way on Christmas Eve: a nearby housing project has an apartment available immediately-however, Frank needs a job on the books in order to qualify

Where God Left His Shoes

2007

Behind the camera

La Soga: Salvation poster
3.0

Years after his final job as a highly sought-after hitman, Luisito has settled down with his girlfriend Lia in a quiet seaside town. Unfortunately, they do not enjoy peace for long as Lia is kidnapped by someone who wants Luisito to use his skills one last time. With Lia's life hanging in the balance, Luisito takes on a crew of dangerous killers, including a particularly mysterious assassin who has long awaited the chance to even the score with her rival, La Soga.

La Soga: Salvation

2022

La Soga: Salvation poster
3.0

Years after his final job as a highly sought-after hitman, Luisito has settled down with his girlfriend Lia in a quiet seaside town. Unfortunately, they do not enjoy peace for long as Lia is kidnapped by someone who wants Luisito to use his skills one last time. With Lia's life hanging in the balance, Luisito takes on a crew of dangerous killers, including a particularly mysterious assassin who has long awaited the chance to even the score with her rival, La Soga.

La Soga: Salvation

2022

No artwork available
7.3

"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns a bodega in the Heights, is shot in a burglary attempt, Carlos is forced to put his dream on hold and run the store. In the process, he comes to understand that if he is to make it as a comic artist, he must engage with the community he comes from, take that experience back out into the world, and put it in his work.

Washington Heights

2002

No artwork available
7.3

"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns a bodega in the Heights, is shot in a burglary attempt, Carlos is forced to put his dream on hold and run the store. In the process, he comes to understand that if he is to make it as a comic artist, he must engage with the community he comes from, take that experience back out into the world, and put it in his work.

Washington Heights

2002

La Soga 3: Vengeance poster
NR

A hitman is driven by his relentless pursuit for revenge, but in the process learns that his love for family is much stronger. A love that leads to death and reignites a vicious cycle for revenge all over again.

La Soga 3: Vengeance

2023

La Soga 3: Vengeance poster
NR

A hitman is driven by his relentless pursuit for revenge, but in the process learns that his love for family is much stronger. A love that leads to death and reignites a vicious cycle for revenge all over again.

La Soga 3: Vengeance

2023

La Soga 3: Vengeance poster
NR

A hitman is driven by his relentless pursuit for revenge, but in the process learns that his love for family is much stronger. A love that leads to death and reignites a vicious cycle for revenge all over again.

La Soga 3: Vengeance

2023

La Soga poster
5.1

A cop works against his country's corrupt government in order to find justice on a case.

La Soga

2009

Forged poster
6.0

Released from prison after serving a sentence for murdering his wife, Chuco returns to Scranton, Penn., where he meets his son, who naturally wants revenge. The two proceed to wrestle with their emotions and the past, forging an unlikely bond.

Forged

2010

Ponchao poster
6.0

Alex Ramirez is destined to become the greatest baseball player ever - and he'll do anything to get make it. But the road to success proves troublesome and hilariously unpredictable.

Ponchao

2013

No artwork available
NR

A group of criminals must rethink their plan of leaving town following a successful bank heist when they are double-crossed by a member of their own crew.

Crooks