List of the best Jacob Vargas movies: Mi Vida Loca(1993), Sleep Dealer(2008), Princess of the Row(2019), Road Dogz(2000), Peel(2019), Heaven Is for Real(2014), Crossing Point(2016), The Tell-Tale Heart(2016), The Virgin of Juarez(2006), Beyond Skyline(2017), My Family/Mi Familia(1995), Jarhead(2005) ... ...
Drama
USA|UK
1993
95 Minutes
Ernesto
Angel Aviles Seidy Lopez Jacob Vargas Marlo Marron Nelida Lopez Jesse Borrego Magali Alvarado Julian Reyes Bertila Damas Arthur Esquer Christina Solis
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
Mexico
2008
89 Minutes
Judy
Luis Fernando Peña Leonor Varela Jacob Vargas Metztli Adamina José Concepción Macías Tenoch Huerta Guillermo Ríos Carlos Valencia
hacker journalist client foreman prostitute frightening dark bleak tijuana, mexico village factory technology corporate greed labor exploitation poverty water shortage quest underdog escape
The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.
Drama
USA
2019
85 Minutes
Donald
Martin Sheen Edi Gathegi Jacob Vargas Ana Ortiz Blake Michael Jenny Gago Tabitha Brown Tayler Buck Sarah-Jayne Bedford Anthony Jensen
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 father who lives on the streets of LA's skid row.
Drama
2000
94 Minutes
Executive Producer
Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez Greg Serano Jacob Vargas Lobo Sebastian Priscilla Garita Danny De La Paz Emilio Rivera Rudy Ramos Jenny Gago Yelba Osorio Ruben Moreno
Drama
UK
2019
102 Minutes
Chuck
Emile Hirsch Jack Kesy Shiloh Fernandez Jacob Vargas Garrett Clayton Amy Brenneman Yaya DaCosta Angelina Joo
young man overbearing parent unstable woman drifter brother roommate amusing emotional family home life haunted by the past search growing up transformation 2010s
A coming-of-age story about a young man whose child-like innocence has a healing quality on all the damaged characters he meets on his journey to rebuild his broken family.
Drama
USA
2014
100 Minutes
Michael
Greg Kinnear Kelly Reilly Margo Martindale Jacob Vargas Connor Corum Thomas Haden Church Lane Styles Thanya Romero Danso Gordon Rob Moran Nancy Sorel
businessman pastor firefighter wife son angel charming fascinating uplifting small town church firehouse house hospital heaven financial troubles family faith church heaven
A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Mexico
2016
92 Minutes
Jesus
Shawn Lock Paulina Gaitán Tom Sizemore Jacob Vargas María Gabriela de Faría Rudy Youngblood Luke Goss Burton Perez
man woman drug dealer cop tense chilling dark disturbing suspenseful mexican-american border kidnapping drug smuggling blackmail fall pursuit 2010s
A young American couple in love, Michael (Shawn Lock) and Olivia (María Gabriela de Faría) vacation in Baja, but things take a frightening turn when Olivia is kidnapped by a drug dealer, ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2016
81 Minutes
Adams
Patrick John Flueger Rose McGowan Peter Bogdanovich Jacob Vargas Damon Whitaker Tony Senzamici Robin Hardy Mark Krutov
A haunting account of a tormented man who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Tell-Tale Heart".
Drama
USA
2006
90 Minutes
Detective Lauro
Minnie Driver Ana Claudia Talancón Esai Morales Angus Macfadyen Jacob Vargas Joanna Cassidy Guillermo Díaz Ana Mercedes
While on assignment, Los Angeles based reporter Karina Danes meets Mariela, a rare survivor of one of the vicious attacks taking place in the border town of Cuidad Juarez.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA|Canada|Indonesia|UK|China|Singapore
2017
106 Minutes
Garcia
Frank Grillo Bojana Novakovic Jonny Weston Callan Mulvey Antonio Fargas Jacob Vargas Iko Uwais Yayan Ruhian
detective prisoner son alien thrilling suspenseful airy gory prison alien planet spaceship street kidnapping alien attack danger father/son relationship adventure rise fall rescue
A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship.
Drama, History
USA
1995
128 Minutes
Young Jose
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.
War, Drama
USA|UK|Germany
2005
123 Minutes
Juan Cortez
Jake Gyllenhaal Peter Sarsgaard Jamie Foxx Chris Cooper Lucas Black Brian Geraghty Jacob Vargas Laz Alonso Evan Jones Iván Fenyö Dennis Haysbert
marine sniper friend enemy spotter reporter dark tense boot camp desert tent saudi arabia gulf war survival friendship infidelity breakup breakdown quest discovery
A psychological study of a soldier's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.
Adventure, Drama, Action
USA
2004
112 Minutes
Sammi
Dennis Quaid Giovanni Ribisi Tyrese Gibson Miranda Otto Hugh Laurie Tony Curran Jacob Vargas Scott Michael Campbell Kevork Malikyan Sticky Fingaz Jared Padalecki
captain pilot navigator oil worker drifter smuggler intense thrilling mongolia gobi desert airplane plane crash survival teamwork engineering aviation race against time quest underdog escape
Survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2010
80 Minutes
Ramirez
Chris Messina Logan Marshall-Green Geoffrey Arend Bojana Novakovic Jenny O'Hara Bokeem Woodbine Matt Craven Jacob Vargas Josh Peace Caroline Dhavernas Joe Cobden
fiancé ex-convict devil detective salesman mechanic chilling dark frightening thrilling suspenseful philadelphia elevator office building skyscraper street city death murder religion
A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them.
Horror
USA
2007
89 Minutes
Crank
Michael McMillian Jessica Stroup Daniella Alonso Lee Thompson Young Ben Crowley Eric Edelstein Reshad Strik Jacob Vargas Michael Bailey Smith David Reynolds Derek Mears
national guardsman mutant cannibal scientist sergeant gory brutal disturbing frightful new mexico desert research station mountain shed cave mass murder mutation survival cannibalism violence
A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany|UK
2008
105 Minutes
Gunner
Jason Statham Tyrese Gibson Ian McShane Joan Allen Natalie Martinez Max Ryan Jason Clarke Frederick Koehler Jacob Vargas Justin Mader Robert LaSardo
race car driver criminal warden convict prisoner innocent man tense dark thrilling prison battlefield track island car prison life freedom framed for murder competition race battle
Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.
Comedy
USA
1997
91 Minutes
Mira Sorvino Lisa Kudrow Janeane Garofalo Alan Cumming Julia Campbell Mia Cottet Kristin Bauer Elaine Hendrix Vince Ventresca Camryn Manheim Justin Theroux
friend classmate rival love interest bully former classmate airy hilarious touching los angeles tucson, ariz. car dealership high school high school reunion life lessons coming of age deception career transformation
Two dim-witted, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to impress their classmates.
Drama
Chile|Colombia|Spain|USA
2015
125 Minutes
Antonio Banderas Rodrigo Santoro Juliette Binoche Gabriel Byrne Lou Diamond Phillips Mario Casas Juan Pablo Raba Tenoch Huerta Adriana Barraza Kate del Castillo Cote de Pablo
miner mine owner rescue worker family member friend reporter bleak brooding intense chile mine office hospital house car mining disaster rescue survival stress
Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.
Crime, Drama
USA|Mexico|Germany
2000
147 Minutes
Michael Douglas Don Cheadle Benicio Del Toro Luis Guzman Dennis Quaid Catherine Zeta-Jones Steven Bauer Benjamin Bratt James Brolin Erika Christensen Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez
drug czar cop housewife drug dealer daughter lawyer thrilling gritty courtroom household mexico united states drug trafficking drug addiction corruption investigation quest pursuit 2000s
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.
Drama, History
2006
119 Minutes
Anthony Hopkins Harry Belafonte William H. Macy Sharon Stone Christian Slater Freddy Rodriguez Laurence Fishburne Demi Moore Emilio Estevez Martin Sheen Helen Hunt
hotel manager hairdresser singer husband wife emotional moving hotel los angeles robert f. kennedy political activism assassination political campaign race relations vietnam war discovery fall 1960s
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.