List of the best Elpidia Carrillo movies: Relentless(2017), Bread and Roses(2000), Nine Lives(2005), Predator(1987), Tortilla Heaven(2007), Beyond the Limit(1983), My Family/Mi Familia(1995), The Border(1982), The Lightning Incident(1991), Seven Pounds(2008), Mother and Child(2009), Solaris(2002) ... ...
Drama
2017
91 Minutes
Milagro
Elpidia Carrillo Courtenay Taylor Lauren Shaw Sydney Sweeney Peter Holden David Castro Martín Chávez Peter Pasco Mark Parra Lance Tracy Daniel D. Houy
american woman mother abductee daughter trafficker engaging gripping cool central america united states kidnapping human trafficking parent/child relationship discovery rescue love 21st century
An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in El Salvador, the murder capital of the world. The trail takes her through Central America and Mexico via "The Train of Death."
Drama
UK|France|Germany|Spain|Italy|Switzerland
2000
110 Minutes
Rosa
Pilar Padilla Adrien Brody Elpidia Carrillo Jack McGee George Lopez Alonso Chavez Monica Rivas Frank Davila
illegal alien janitor union organizer sister wife manager passionate intense engaging los angeles office building dance hall immigration sister relationship labor union family struggle justice forbidden love underdog
Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.
Drama
USA|Mexico
2005
112 Minutes
Sandra
Kathy Baker Amy Brenneman Elpidia Carrillo Glenn Close Stephen Dillane Dakota Fanning William Fichtner LisaGay Hamilton Holly Hunter Jason Isaacs Joe Mantegna
divorcée sick person prisoner old flame teen girl woman tender moving intricate melodramatic jail hospital family home supermarket graveyard mother/daughter relationship family dysfunction estrangement reunion illness
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
USA|Mexico
1987
107 Minutes
Anna
Arnold Schwarzenegger Carl Weathers Jesse Ventura Elpidia Carrillo Bill Duke Sonny Landham Richard Chaves R. G. Armstrong Shane Black Kevin Peter Hall
soldier of fortune cia agent hostage guerrilla fighter alien frightening tense outlandish guatemala jungle helicopter dangerous assignment survival murder violence monsters deception adventure rescue escape
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Comedy
USA
2007
97 Minutes
Hermenegilda
Jose Zuniga Miguel Sandoval Olivia Hussey Elpidia Carrillo Alexis Cruz Jade Herrera Marcelo Tubert Irene Bedard Lupe Ontiveros
restaurant owner businessman priest cook quirky offbeat amusing new mexico small town restaurant religion restaurant business miracles food small-town life rise fall 2000s
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in the world, but has few customers and makes little money in a small town. During Mass one Sunday he is blessed with a miracle: the face of Jesus appears on one of his tortillas.
Drama
1983
103 Minutes
Clara
Michael Caine Richard Gere Bob Hoskins Elpidia Carrillo Joaquim de Almeida A Martinez Stephanie Cotsirilos Domingo Ambriz Eric Valdez Nicolas Jasso Geoffrey Palmer
doctor revolutionary ambassador drunk mistress friend tense dark argentina paraguay kidnapping revolution government repression ransom espionage blackmail rescue quest 1980s
An exiled Paraguayan doctor (Richard Gere) aids rebels and beds the wife of a boozing British honorary consul (Michael Caine).
Drama, History
USA
1995
128 Minutes
Isabel Magaña
Jimmy Smits Esai Morales Eduardo López Rojas Jenny Gago Elpidia Carrillo Lupe Ontiveros Jacob Vargas Jennifer Lopez Maria Canals-Barrera Leon Singer Michael DeLorenzo
father refugee mother police officer immigrant moving dense los angeles family immigration america race relations growing up underdog love 20th century
A man makes his way from Mexico to L.A. in the 1920s, gets married and raises a big family there. The movie follows the children until they, too, get married and have children in the 1960s.
Drama
USA
1982
107 Minutes
Maria
Jack Nicholson Harvey Keitel Valerie Perrine Warren Oates Elpidia Carrillo Shannon Wilcox Manuel Viescas Jeff Morris Mike Gomez Dirk Blocker Lonny Chapman
border patrol officer wife partner illegal alien baby corrupt cop dark disturbing border texas family home office countryside corruption smuggling drug trafficking theft ambition morality transformation
A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1991
100 Minutes
Dolores
Nancy McKeon Polly Bergen Miriam Colon Tantoo Cardinal Tim Ryan Elpidia Carrillo
Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.
Drama
USA
2008
124 Minutes
Connie
Will Smith Rosario Dawson Michael Ealy Barry Pepper Woody Harrelson Elpidia Carrillo Bill Smitrovich Robinne Lee Tim Kelleher Joseph A. Nuñez Gina Hecht
engineer irs officer hockey coach love interest blind man brother touching sad uplifting car motel beach hospital nursing home good deeds guilt romance secrets relationships illness
A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Drama
USA|Spain
2009
126 Minutes
Sofia
Naomi Watts Annette Bening Kerry Washington Jimmy Smits Samuel L. Jackson S. Epatha Merkerson Cherry Jones Elpidia Carrillo Shareeka Epps David Morse Eileen Ryan
mother daughter physical therapist lawyer husband emotional powerful profound law office hospital restaurant household orphanage adoption parenthood marriage pregnancy family regret discovery
A drama centered around three women: A fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-five years ago, and a woman looking to adopt a child of her own.
Sci-Fi, Romance, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2002
99 Minutes
George Clooney Natascha McElhone Jeremy Davies Viola Davis Ulrich Tukur John Cho Morgan Rusler Shane Skelton Donna Kimball Michael Ensign Elpidia Carrillo
astronaut doctor wife son psychiatrist dreamy emotional space station ghosts loss space travel psychic phenomena love discovery mystery future
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
2000
106 Minutes
Glenn Close Cameron Diaz Calista Flockhart Kathy Baker Amy Brenneman Valeria Golino Holly Hunter Matt Craven Gregory Hines Miguel Sandoval Noah Fleiss
doctor mother bank manager boyfriend single mother tarot card reader emotional touching house california doctor's office family home bank relationships life lessons romance illness depression hard times love
Five California women struggle with personal problems as their own paths unwind in ways unexpected.
Adventure, Drama
USA|Mexico
1983
128 Minutes
Nick Nolte Joanna Cassidy Gene Hackman Ed Harris Alma Martinez Holly Palance Ella Laboriel Samuel Zarzosa Jonathan Zarzosa Raul Picasso Oswaldo Doria
photojournalist journalist love interest rebel soldier president gritty intense suspenseful nicaragua revolution death corruption media love triangle civil war love transformation 1970s
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.