 Bats 1999  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Louis Morneau
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton, Leon, Carlos Jacott, David McConnell, Marcia Dangerfield, Oscar Rowland
When genetically mutated bats are unleashed on a small Texas town, Sheriff Emmett Kinsey (Lou Diamond Phillips) joins forces with a bat expert, Sheila Casper (Dina Meyer), to annihilate the swarming predators.
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A Better Way to Die 2000  R, 96 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Scott Wiper
Cast: Andre Braugher, Scott Wiper, Lou Diamond Phillips, Natasha Henstridge, Matt Gallini, Wayne Duvall, Joe Pantoliano, Carmen Argenziano, Mirjana Jokovic, Jack Conley
A Chicago cop (Scott Wiper) is disillusioned with his work, so he quits and heads back to his hometown. On the way, he inadvertently gets mixed up with the FBI and the Chicago Mafia when he is mistaken for a missing agent that both groups are after. The chase is on in this weak film.
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 The Big Hit 1998  R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Kirk Wong
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks, Bokeem Woodbine, China Chow, Elliott Gould, Lainie Kazan, Antonio Sabato Jr., Sab Shimono, Lela Rochon, Joshua Peace, Robin Dunne, David Usher, Danny Smith
Three hit men–Melvin (Mark Wahlberg), Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Crunch (Bokeem Woodbine)–hatch a scheme to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Too late, they realize the daughter, Keiko (China Chow), is the goddaughter of their boss, and he is more than a little interested in obtaining Keiko's safe return.
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Brokedown Palace 1999 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Cast: Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Daniel Lapaine, Jacqueline Kim, Lou Diamond Phillips, Tom Amandes, Aimee Graham, John Doe
When teenage tourists–Alice Morano (Claire Danes) and Darlene Davis (Kate Beckinsale)–visiting Thailand are arrested for drug smuggling and sentenced to 33 years in prison, they call on an American expatriate lawyer, "Yankee Hank" (Bill Pullman), for help.
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 Courage Under Fire 1996  R, 155 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Mystery
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon, Seth Gilliam, Scott Glenn, Regina Taylor, Bronson Pinchot, Sean Astin, Zeljko Ivanek, Kathleen Widdoes, Tim Guinee, Tim Ransom, Mark Adair-Rios
After overcoming his own scandal involving a night tank battle during the 1991 Gulf War, Colonel Serling (Denzel Washington) is now called upon to investigate the bravery of deceased Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan) who has been nominated as the first woman to be awarded the Medal of Honor. His investigation results in inconsistencies concerning Walden's leadership of her downed helicopter crew. Ilario (Matt Damon) describes Walden as courageous, but Monfriez (Lou Diamond Phillips) remembers her actions as cowardly–leading Serling to question the wisdom of awarding Walden the Medal of Honor.
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Disorganized Crime 1989  R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim Kouf
Cast: Corbin Bernsen, Fred Gwynne, Hoyt Axton, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ed O'Neill, Ruben Blades, William Russ, Daniel Roebuck, John Oblinger, Dean Norris
After the leader of five criminals is arrested, the four remaining decide to rob a bank in rural Montana. Like the title suggests, the robbery is anything but orderly.
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El Cortez 2006 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Stephen Purvis
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Weitz, Glenn Plummer, Tracy Middendorf, James McDaniel, Peter Onorati, Shelley Malil, David Johann, Robin Adair, Kathleen LaGue, Joseph Griffin, Deborah Cresswell, Edoardo Ballerini, Pat Crawford Brown
Manny DeSilva (Lou Diamond Phillips) is an autistic ex-con who, after being released from five years in prison, tries to start a new life as a night clerk at the Reno hotel, El Cortez. Manny makes friends with wheelchair-bound gold prospector Popcorn (Bruce Weitz), and all goes well–until the detective (James McDaniel) who first arrested him arrives on the scene and tells Manny to keep an eye on the comings and goings of drug dealer Jack Clay (Glenn Plummer). When Clay's girlfriend Theda (Tracy Middendorf) gets involved, secrets rise to the fore, and the result is a deadly game of murder.
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 Hollywood Homicide 2003 PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Ron Shelton
Cast: Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovich, Keith David, Master P, Dwight Yoakam, Martin Landau, Lou Diamond Phillips, Gladys Knight
Not-so-bright, LAPD cops–Joe Gavilan and K.C. Calden (Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett)–moonlight as a realtor and yoga instructor/inspiring actor. They happen to be on the spot when a rap group is brutally slain, look for clues, go on with their other interests, and finally participate in an indescribable chase scene.
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 La Bamba 1987   PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Luis Valdez
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Pena, Danielle von Zerneck, Joe Pantoliano, Rick Dees, Marshall Crenshaw, Howard Huntsberry, Daniel Valdez
This is the story of rock "n" roll star Richie Valens who was killed in the airplane crash that also took the lives of Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
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Picking Up the Pieces 2000 R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfonso Arau
Cast: Woody Allen, David Schwimmer, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Cheech Marin, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Alfonso Arau, Danny De La Paz, Andy Dick, Sharon Stone
A butcher, Tex Cowley (Woody Allen), hacks up his unfaithful wife (Sharon Stone) and buries her body parts in the desert. But somehow he manages to lose one of her hands. Soon a blind woman trips over the hand, and her vision is restored. She credits the miracle to the hand. It isn't long before tourists, hoping to be healed, flock to town–along with Tex who would like to retrieve the hand before it becomes police evidence against him.
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Renegades 1989 R, 105 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jack Sholder
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jami Gertz, Robert Knepper, Bill Smitrovich, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, Clark Johnson, Peter MacNeill, Joseph Griffin, John Di Benedetto
Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips do an admirable job of trying to save this movie about a Lakota Indian (Phillips) and a Philadelphia cop (Sutherland) who learn to work together when they are assigned a case that involves tracking down vicious killers. Filled with adventure and violence.
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A Show of Force 1990 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bruno Barreto
Cast: Amy Irving, Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Duvall, Kevin Spacey, Erik Estrada, Joseph Campanella, Priscilla Pointer, Hattie Winston, Juan Fernandez, Lupe Ontiveros
Kate Melendez (Amy Irving) is a TV reporter in Puerto Rico who begins to suspect FBI involvement in the killing of two terrorists seeking shelter in her country.
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Sioux City 1994 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
aka: Ultimate Revenge
Director: Lou Diamond Phillips
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Ralph Waite, Salli Richardson, Melinda Dillon, Lise Cutter, Bill Allen, Tantoo Cardinal, Gary Farmer, Apesanahkwat, John Dye, Michael Corbett, Adam Roarke
As an infant, Dr. Jesse Rainfeather Goldman (Lou Diamond Phillips) was given up for adoption. One of the few memories he has of his birth mother involve beatings by an unidentified man. When he goes back to Nebraska to find his mother, he learns that she had died in a fire just a few days before. After discussing the fire with police, his opinion that she was murdered is not popular, and he is beaten later by police officers. His next step is to study his tribe's customs, which leads to performing a ritual in which he contacts his mother's soul hoping for answers to the puzzle.
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Stand and Deliver 1987 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ramon Menendez
Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Andy Garcia, Ingrid Oliu, Karla Montana, Vanessa Marquez, Mark Eliot, Carmen Argenziano, Estelle Harris
Based on a true story, this film is about an unusual high-school teacher, Escalante (Edward James Olmos), who goes into an inner-city school to motivate the students into achieving more than anyone believes they are capable. Olmos was nominated for an Oscar.
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Supernova 2000 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Walter Hill, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Sholder
Cast: James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney, Wilson Cruz, Knox White, Eddy Rice Jr., Kerrigan Mahan, Vanessa Marshall, Kevin Sizemore
Set in the 22nd century, this space saga chronicles the mission of a medical rescue ship, Nightingale 229. The crew–Captain and Pilot (Robert Forster), co-pilot (James Spader), medical officer (Angela Bassett), medical technician (Lou Diamond Phillips), paramedic (Robin Tunney), and computer technician (Wilson Cruz)–finds itself in peril after rescuing Troy Larson (Peter Facinelli) who appears to be a psychotic killer. Good special effects.
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The Triangle 2005  TV, 270 min.
Genre: Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Cast: Sam Neill, Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Davison, Michael E. Rodgers, Lisa Brenner, John Sloan, Charles Martin Smith, Barrie Ingham, Marius Weyers, Shannon Esrechowitz, Adrienne Pierce
In this made-for-TV miniseries, strange things are happening in the Bermuda Triangle, and billionaire shipping magnate Eric Benirall (Sam Neill) is losing ships and crews. His solution is to hire specialists–journalist Howard Thomas (Eric Stoltz), engineer Emily Patterson (Catherine Bell), psychic Stan Lathem (Bruce Davison), meteorologist Bruce Geller (Michael E. Rodgers), and the sole survivor of one of the shipwrecks Meeno Paloma (Lou Diamond Phillips). Off they go to solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, but the more they investigate, the more nightmarish the answers become.
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 Young Guns 1988 R, 102 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Thriller
Director: Christopher Cain
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Palance, Lou Diamond Phillips, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Terry O'Quinn, Brian Keith, Sharon Thomas, Geoffrey Blake, Alice Carter, Patrick Wayne
William H. Bonney/"Billy the Kid" (Emilio Estevez) works as a hired gun "regulator" at John Tunstan's (Terence Stamp) ranch. Along with Billy, Tunstan employs and teaches reading to five other young guns (Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, and Casey Siemaszko). After Tunstan is killed by the henchmen of corrupt land baron Lawrence Murphy (Jack Palance), the "regulators" set off to avenge the murder and begin gunning down those guilty. Their actions lead to the Cavalry and bounty hunters hunting them down–all of which ultimately ends in a shootout.
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 Young Guns II 1990 R, 104 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Geoff Murphy
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen, Alan Ruck, R.D. Call, James Coburn, Balthazar Getty, Jack Kehoe, Robert Knepper, Viggo Mortensen, Tom Kurlander, Leon Rippy, Tracey Walter
Young teen idols make up much of the cast of this oft-told tale of Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez). This time, the gang is heading toward Mexico after springing two of them. Hot on the trail is Pat Garrett (William Petersen) and his deputies. Lots of shooting. Good photography and musical score add to the movie.
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| 1. Bats (1999)
2. A Better Way to Die (2000)
3. The Big Hit (1998)
4. Brokedown Palace (1999)
5. Courage Under Fire (1996)
6. Disorganized Crime (1989)
7. El Cortez (2006)
8. Hollywood Homicide (2003)
9. La Bamba (1987)
10. Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
11. Renegades (1989)
12. A Show of Force (1990)
13. Sioux City (1994)
aka: Ultimate Revenge
14. Stand and Deliver (1987)
15. Supernova (2000)
16. The Triangle (2005)
17. Young Guns (1988)
18. Young Guns II (1990)
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