Jacob Vargas

Jacob Vargas

Jacob Vargas (born August 18, 1971) is a Mexican-American actor. He began his acting career when he was discovered breakdancing in a schoolyard at age 12. His introduction to acting came with a bit part as a breakdancer on the hit TV show Diff'rent Strokes (1978). His first movie role was in the TV movie The Children of Times Square (1986). He started to appear in more films including Last Resort (1986), Ernest Goes to Camp (1987), The Principal (1987), Little Nikita (1988), American Me (1992), and Gas Food Lodging (1992). In 1995, he won the very first ALMA Award (for Emerging Artist of the Year) for his work in both Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca (1993) and Gregory Nava's My Family (1995). He next starred in films including Crimson Tide (1995), Get Shorty (1995), Selena (1997), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), and the cult favorite Next Friday (2000) as Ice Cube's nemesis, Joker. His next role was Tijuana cop Manolo, 'Benicio del Toro"s partner in Steven Soderbergh's Academy Award- winning film Traffic (2000), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award and another ALMA Award. In 2001, he executive produced and starred in the independent film Road Dogz (2002). He wrote, directed and acted in EDNY (2003). He also co-produced and starred in the stage play "Latinologues", which ran on Broadway in 2005 and is available on DVD. He voiced for Pepito in Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). Next, he played Sammi the chef in John Moore's Flight of the Phoenix (2004), Marine sniper Juan Cortez in Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes' war drama Jarhead (2005), a straight-arrow DEA agent in the action drama The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2006), a politically charged busboy Miguel in Emilio Estevez's historical drama Bobby (2006), and a psychologically tortured drone pilot Rudy Ramirez in Alex Rivera's sci-fi political love story Sleep Dealer (2008). He had roles in The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007), Are We Done Yet? (2007), Death Race (2008), Cesar Chavez (2014, Heaven is For Real (2014), The Tell-Tale Heart (2016), Plan B, (2021), and Kimi (2022). His major TV roles are as Bob on Surfside Girls, Tony Medina on Mr. Iglesias, Horacio on Mosaic, Domingo Colon on Marvel's Luke Cage, Allesandro Montez on Sons of Anarchy and later on Mayans M.C., Guillermo on Moonlight, Ernesto Tiant on Greetings from Tucson, and Dr. Roberto Martinez on Max Steel. He had recurring roles on Colony, Blue, and Six Feet Under. He has also guest starred on a number of shows including National Treasure: Edge of History, The Mentalist, Burn Notice, Psych, Numb3rs, Medium, CSI: NY, Cold Case, The Pretender, JAG, ER, Full House, and Hunter. He has voiced for characters on animated series including Solar Opposites, Young Justice, and a recurring role on Tarantula.

  • Popularity : 10.817
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1971-08-18
  • Place of Birth : Michoacan, Mexico
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Jacob Vargas Movies

  • 1998
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    The Hi-Lo Country

    The Hi-Lo Country

    6.2 1998 HD

    An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War...

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  • 2000
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    Traffic

    Traffic

    7.064 2000 HD

    An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control...

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  • 2000
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    Next Friday

    Next Friday

    6.5 2000 HD

    A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a...

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  • 2008
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    Death Race

    Death Race

    6.3 2008 HD

    Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic...

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  • 2008
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    Sleep Dealer

    Sleep Dealer

    5.9 2008 HD

    Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three...

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  • 1995
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    Get Shorty

    Get Shorty

    6.5 1995 HD

    Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood...

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  • 2004
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    Flight of the Phoenix

    Flight of the Phoenix

    6 2004 HD

    When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the...

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  • 2005
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    The Wendell Baker Story

    The Wendell Baker Story

    5.1 2005 HD

    Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends...

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  • 1994
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    Mi Vida Loca

    Mi Vida Loca

    7.1 1994 HD

    Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by...

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  • 2007
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    The Hills Have Eyes 2

    The Hills Have Eyes 2

    5.548 2007 HD

    A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.

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  • 2006
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    National Lampoon's TV: The Movie

    National Lampoon's TV: The Movie

    4.3 2006 HD

    A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous...

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  • 1993
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    Airborne

    Airborne

    5.9 1993 HD

    Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for...

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  • 1991
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    Seeds of Tragedy

    Seeds of Tragedy

    6.7 1991 HD

    Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.

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  • 2008
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    Love Lies Bleeding

    Love Lies Bleeding

    6.3 2008 HD

    A struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money after a shootout in their apartment building.

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  • 2010
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    Devil

    Devil

    6.1 2010 HD

    A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.

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  • 1995
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    My Family

    My Family

    7.6 1995 HD

    Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los...

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  • 1992
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    Gas Food Lodging

    Gas Food Lodging

    6.3 1992 HD

    Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful...

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  • 1990
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    The Great Los Angeles Earthquake

    The Great Los Angeles Earthquake

    6.7 1990 HD

    After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long...

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  • 2002
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    Road Dogz

    Road Dogz

    6.6 2002 HD

    "Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and...

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  • 2002
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    Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    6.5 2002 HD

    A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

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  • 2013
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    Go for Sisters

    Go for Sisters

    6 2013 HD

    Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned...

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  • 1986
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    Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

    Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

    1 1986 HD

    A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.

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  • 2014
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    Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez

    6.237 2014 HD

    A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez...

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  • 2014
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    Heaven Is for Real

    Heaven Is for Real

    6.7 2014 HD

    The true story of the 4-year old son of a small-town pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. When he...

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  • 1986
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    Last Resort

    Last Resort

    3.4 1986 HD

    George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers...

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  • 2014
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    Journey of a Female Comic

    Journey of a Female Comic

    6.8 2014 HD

    The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.

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  • 1988
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    Little Nikita

    Little Nikita

    6 1988 HD

    Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying...

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  • 2005
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    Jarhead

    Jarhead

    6.7 2005 HD

    Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his...

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  • 2017
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    Beyond Skyline

    Beyond Skyline

    5.3 2017 HD

    Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an...

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  • 2010
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    The Odds

    The Odds

    1 2010 HD

    A couple of Las Vegas police officers live a life almost as wild as the crimes they investigate.

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  • 2022
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    Satanic Hispanics

    Satanic Hispanics

    5.7 2022 HD

    When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take...

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  • 2015
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    The 33

    The 33

    6.387 2015 HD

    Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

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  • 2007
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    The Death and Life of Bobby Z

    The Death and Life of Bobby Z

    6.1 2007 HD

    A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a...

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  • 2014
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    Water & Power

    Water & Power

    6.5 2014 HD

    Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the hard scrabble Eastside streets of Los Angeles rise like prince's through the city's political...

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  • 2016
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    The Tell-Tale Heart

    The Tell-Tale Heart

    5.1 2016 HD

    A haunting account of a tormented man, haunted by the heart of a man he murdered, who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a...

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  • 2016
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    Crossing Point

    Crossing Point

    5.2 2016 HD

    A young American couple in love, Michael and Olivia vacation in Baja, but things take a frightening turn when Olivia is kidnapped by drug dealer, who...

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  • 2002
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    Truth Be Told

    Truth Be Told

    7.5 2002 HD

    Rayne Johnson is a shrewd investment company assistant who turns a mob slaying into a golden opportunity for a new improved lifestyle, managing to...

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  • 1997
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    Selena

    Selena

    7.721 1997 HD

    In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young...

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  • 2019
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    The Public

    The Public

    6.5 2019 HD

    An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from...

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  • 1997
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    Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

    Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

    6.2 1997 HD

    Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their...

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  • 2016
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    Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

    Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

    6.9 2016 HD

    A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and...

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  • 2007
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    Are We Done Yet?

    Are We Done Yet?

    5.8 2007 HD

    Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by...

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  • 1987
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    Ernest Goes to Camp

    Ernest Goes to Camp

    5.194 1987 HD

    Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of...

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  • 2019
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    Peel

    Peel

    6.4 2019 HD

    After his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state of arrested development. Once his mother dies, he...

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  • 2004
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    Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother

    Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother

    1 2004 HD

    Meet Blanche Monroe aka The Evil Stepmother, an out-of-work daytime drama queen. When her stunning stepdaughter (Snow White) is discovered by a...

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  • 1992
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    American Me

    American Me

    7.39 1992 HD

    During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana...

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  • 2001
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    Dr. Dolittle 2

    Dr. Dolittle 2

    5.312 2001 HD

    A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a...

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  • 1987
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    The Principal

    The Principal

    6.485 1987 HD

    Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the...

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  • 2020
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    Princess of the Row

    Princess of the Row

    6.8 2020 HD

    The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally-ill veteran...

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  • 1997
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    Santa Fe

    Santa Fe

    3 1997 HD

    A cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after eight months.

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  • 1995
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    Crimson Tide

    Crimson Tide

    7.2 1995 HD

    After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs...

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  • 2014
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    Red Sky

    Red Sky

    4.5 2014 HD

    Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love...

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  • 2006
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    Bobby

    Bobby

    6.411 2006 HD

    In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's...

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  • 2022
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    Kimi

    Kimi

    6.2 2022 HD

    A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking...

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  • 2021
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    Billy D and the Hall of Feathered Serpents featuring Money Shot by Puscifer

    Billy D and the Hall of Feathered Serpents featuring Money Shot by Puscifer

    1 2021 HD

    Puscifer (Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round) perform every song from the 2015 album Money Shot.

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  • 2021
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    Plan B

    Plan B

    6.203 2021 HD

    After a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill...

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  • 2003
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    EDNY

    EDNY

    1 2003 HD

    A supercharged, brilliant prosecutor leads a team of U.S. attorneys in the Eastern District of New York.

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  • 2002
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    Road Dogz

    Road Dogz

    6.6 2002 HD

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  • 2003
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    EDNY

    EDNY

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2003
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    EDNY

    EDNY

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2006
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    National Lampoon's TV: The Movie

    National Lampoon's TV: The Movie

    4.3 2006 HD

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  • 2001
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    Six Feet Under

    Six Feet Under

    8.1 2001 HD

    When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least...

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  • 2005
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    Numb3rs

    Numb3rs

    7.046 2005 HD

    Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his...

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  • 1996
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    The Pretender

    The Pretender

    7.4 1996 HD

    Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When...

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  • 2003
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    Cold Case

    Cold Case

    7.757 2003 HD

    The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly...

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  • 2004
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    CSI: NY

    CSI: NY

    7.4 2004 HD

    Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".

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  • 1996
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    Clueless

    Clueless

    6 1996 HD

    CLUELESS is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name. The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996 as a...

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  • 2007
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    Burn Notice

    Burn Notice

    7.5 2007 HD

    A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.

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  • 1987
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    Full House

    Full House

    7.553 1987 HD

    After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.

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  • 2003
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    Kingpin

    Kingpin

    6.3 2003 HD

    Kingpin is an American crime drama television series which debuted on the NBC network in the U.S. and CTV in Canada on February 2, 2003 and lasted 6...

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  • 2007
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    Moonlight

    Moonlight

    7.3 2007 HD

    Mick St. John is a captivating, charming and immortal private investigator from Los Angeles, who defies the traditional blood-sucking norms of his...

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  • 1984
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    Hunter

    Hunter

    7.2 1984 HD

    Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt....

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  • 1994
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    ER

    ER

    7.814 1994 HD

    ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened...

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  • 2005
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    Medium

    Medium

    7.5 2005 HD

    Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to...

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  • 2000
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    Max Steel

    Max Steel

    8.163 2000 HD

    A teenage boy with accidental body enhancements fights the enemies of peace as a super-powered secret agent.

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  • 2002
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    Greetings From Tucson

    Greetings From Tucson

    1 2002 HD

    In this autobiographical family comedy, based on the life of series creator Peter Murrieta, life is seen through the eyes of 15-year-old David Tiant...

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  • 1996
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    Malibu Shores

    Malibu Shores

    7.333 1996 HD

    Malibu Shores is an American primetime teen drama/soap opera that aired on Saturday Night at 8:00PM EST from to June 1996 for ten episodes on NBC....

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  • 2015
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    Complications

    Complications

    6.5 2015 HD

    John Ellis, a disillusioned suburban ER doctor, who finds his existence transformed when he intervenes in a drive-by shooting, saving a young boy's...

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  • 2008
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    The Mentalist

    The Mentalist

    8.4 2008 HD

    Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes...

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  • 2010
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    Young Justice

    Young Justice

    8.393 2010 HD

    Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.

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  • 2008
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    Sons of Anarchy

    Sons of Anarchy

    8.4 2008 HD

    The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) is an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States as well as overseas. The show focused on the original...

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  • 2017
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    Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

    Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

    7.1 2017 HD

    A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.

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  • 2016
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    Marvel's Luke Cage

    Marvel's Luke Cage

    6.9 2016 HD

    Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.

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  • 2012
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    Blue

    Blue

    7.2 2012 HD

    Blue is a mother with a secret life. She'll do anything to keep it from her son. But her past has other plans.

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  • 1995
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    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

    6.6 1995 HD

    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.

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  • 2001
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    The Proud Family

    The Proud Family

    7.8 2001 HD

    Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of...

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  • 2016
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    Colony

    Colony

    6.829 2016 HD

    In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which...

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  • 2018
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    Mayans M.C.

    Mayans M.C.

    8.055 2018 HD

    Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the...

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  • 1995
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    JAG

    JAG

    7.3 1995 HD

    Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of...

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  • 2014
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    Hand of God

    Hand of God

    6.7 2014 HD

    A morally corrupt judge suffers a breakdown and believes that God is speaking directly to him, compelling him onto a path of vigilante justice.

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  • 2022
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    Surfside Girls

    Surfside Girls

    6.1 2022 HD

    Quick wits lead to daring discoveries for beachside besties Sam and Jade as they sleuth out supernatural mysteries in their sleepy hometown of...

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  • 2022
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    National Treasure: Edge of History

    National Treasure: Edge of History

    6.9 2022 HD

    While searching for history's greatest treasure, Jess Valenzuela unburies her family's secret past.

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  • 2018
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    Mosaic

    Mosaic

    6.7 2018 HD

    Explore the psychological underpinnings of love and murder in a small mountain resort town while following popular children’s book author and...

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  • 2020
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    GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event

    GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event

    6.9 2020 HD

    Worlds collide in this special event featuring familiar faces, surprise cameos and stories of spirited competition from four different comedy series.

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  • 2019
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    Mr. Iglesias

    Mr. Iglesias

    7.521 2019 HD

    Hilarious high school teacher Gabriel Iglesias tries to make a difference in the lives of some smart but underperforming students at his alma mater.

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  • 2006
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    Psych

    Psych

    7.872 2006 HD

    Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad)....

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