Lupe Ontiveros

All Movies of Lupe Ontiveros

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  7.9
  Bound by Honor
  Based 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 "...
  Character: Carmen

   1993

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  7.3
  As Good As It Gets
  In New York, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is the most dysfunctional of men, an acid-tongued romance novelist who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. As part of Melvin's unwavering daily routine, he consumes an artery-hard...
  Character: Nora

   1997

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  7.1
  The Goonies
  The Goonies are a crazy bunch of misfit kids whose only hope of saving their neighbourhood from greedy developers who want to use the area to build a new golf course, is to find the lost treasure of a 17th Century pirate. With onl...
  Character: Rosalita

   1985

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  6.7
  Selena
  A celebration of the life of Tejano princess Selena Quintanilla Perez, the rising star who was gunned down by the president of her own fan club in 1995. Amid the racial tensions and economic hardships of 1980s South Texas, the dau...
   1997

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  6.6
  My Family
  Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930's. They establish their fa...
   1995

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  5.8
  Rob (TV Series)
  TV Series (2012). 1 Season. 8 Episodes. "Rob" is a comedy starring Rob Schneider as a lifelong bachelor who just married into a tight-knit Mexican-American family. Rob is a successful landscape architect who, after a whi...
  Character:  Abuelita 8 episodes, 2012

   2012

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  5.7
  Veronica's Closet (TV Series)
  TV Series (1997-2000). 3 Seasons. 66 Episodes. The show starred Kirstie Alley as Veronica Chase, the head of her own lingerie company (the show's title is a play on Victoria's Secret). As the country’s leading romance expert...
  Character:  Louisa 4 episodes, 1997

   1997

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  5.7
  The World's Greatest Lover
  A neurotic baker travels to Hollywood to attend a talent search for an actor to rival the great Valentino. Although not an actor, through blind luck he succeeds - to a certain degree!
  Character: Whore #2

   1977

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  5.5
  Passionada
  Passionada is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband, a fisherman, died at sea. The widow's naive teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man who's new i...
  Character: Angelica Amonte

   2002

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  5.2
  Picking Up the Pieces
  Finding out that his wife has been cheating on him, a butcher named Tex murders his wife in a fit of fury. To get rid of the body, he decides to cut it into pieces and bury it in the desert, but loses one of her hands on the way. ...
  Character: Constancia

   2000

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  5.1
  Universal Soldier
  Luc and Scott were killed in Vietnam, but the army has a secret project for reanimating dead people as near-perfect soldiers.
   1992

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  4.7
  Candyman: Day of the Dead
  The ghostly serial killer returns once again from beyond the grave this time to haunt a Los Angeles art gallery owner named Caroline McKeever, a distant relative of the Candyman, in order for him to claim her soul so she will be n...
  Character: Abuela

   1999

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  4.5
  Lies in Plain Sight (TV)
  The story of Eva and her blind cousin Sofia (Martha Higareda), who were inseparable as children, with Eva the loyal companion who helped Sofia through her tough adolescent years. When Eva suddenly commits suicide, Sofia rushes hom...
   2010

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  4.1
  Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
  Character: Mrs. Cortez

   2011

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  4.0
  30 Days Until I'm Famous (TV)
  A young latina (Camille Guaty) working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star by a producer (Sean Patrick Flanery).
  Character: Rosa Moreno

   2004

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  3.0
  Dark Mirror
  A photographer named Deborah Martin (Lisa Vidal) moves her family into a strange old house, where she discovers an alternate reality reflected in the glass... A dark reality that is closing in on her.
   2007

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  Tortilla Heaven
  Isidor’s Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico, maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One ...
  Character: Adelfa

   2007

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  Real Women Have Curves
  Winner of the Dramatic Audience Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, this HBO Films comedy/drama tells the story of 18-year-old Ana (America Ferrera), a first-generation Mexican-American from East Los Angeles, who struggles t...
   2002

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  Chuck & Buck
  Buck is a man-child who has lived his existence in a life of Romper Room, kindergarten collages, and lollipops. When his mother dies suddenly, Buck remembers his old childhood friend Chuck, with whom he feels a need to reconnect a...
   2000

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  A Show of Force
  A television reporter risks her career and her life pursuing a shady trail of clues left in the wake of the shooting of two young men at on a mountaintop near a broadcast tower in 1978 Puerto Rico. Were they terrorists or victims ...
   1990

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  Those She Left Behind (TV)
  Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned completely upside-down when Sue dies suddenly and unexpectedly while giving birth ...
   1989

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  Born in East L.A.
  Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. Deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant, he has no way of proving that he is in fact an American citizen, and is forced to rely on his...
   1987

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  Little Treasure
  Desperate for a better life, a failed dancer turned stripper teams up with a hunky aimless bartender to find her late father's buried treasure.
  Character: Market Voice #1

   1985