Acting
Martha Velez
Born August 25, 1945 · New York City, New York, USA (age 81)
Martha Velez is an American singer and actress of Puerto Rican descent. She released a string of albums during the 1960s and 1970s, collaborating with artists like Eric Clapton and Bob Marley. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Velez appeared in several American TV shows and films.
Known For
One Eight Seven · 1997One Eight Seven
★ 6.71997
MovieDramaThriller
When a Brooklyn high school student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, Garfield feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but the same student stabs Trevor soon after. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as his old one—including three Indigenous Latino American males and one European-American male claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.
Father Hood · 1993Father Hood
★ 5.81993
MovieActionComedy
Deadbeat dad kidnaps his kids from the bus to an abusive foster home and they go on a run. The cops are after them, they bicker constantly and his idea of a way out is grim, yet this dangerous ride might just turn them into a family.
Safe · 1995Safe
★ 6.91995
MovieDrama
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
Star Maps · 1997Star Maps
★ 5.51997
MovieComedyDrama
Carlos wants to be an actor. But his father, Pepe, wants him to work in the family business, that is, male prostitution. Carlos decides that he will be one of his father's boys until he can get his foot in the door in Hollywood.
Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs · 1986Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs
★ 5.01986
MovieDramaDocumentary
A made-for-TV propaganda short created during the height of 'the war on drugs' to expose drug usage amongst teenagers. Only two men who are aware of such a dire situation, Burt Reynolds and Judd Nelson, can lay their insight on the epidemic that's preying upon the youth of America.
Side Out · 1990Side Out
★ 5.31990
MovieComedyDrama
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
Live! From Death Row · 1992Live! From Death Row
★ 6.71992
MovieThrillerTV Movie
Convicted killer Laurence Dvorak grants an exclusive last interview to TV newswoman Alana Powers shortly before his scheduled execution. Urbane and unrepentant, he seems almost mild at first. But Dvorak's real intention is revealed when he takes Powers, her crew and two guards hostage, and demands that the television network broadcast an execution - live.
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp · 1986Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
★ 6.01986
MovieRomanceFantasy
Based on the story "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp", directed by Tim Burton and starring Robert Carradine.
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