Geno Silva

Amistad -- AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the free-man who led the revolt.

Tequila Sunrise -- Tequila Sunrise

Set in New Mexico during the years 1912-1915, a fictional black "Bonnie and Clyde"-type race through the Southwest in their ancient jalopies, shooting lawmen and sharing the riches with poor blacks, whites, and Indians alike. One avenging sheriff, determined to bring the pair in, pursues them relentlessly.

A tiny town in New Mexico is turned upside down when the face of Jesus Christ appears on a tortilla in the towns only restaurant. Word of this miracle spreads like wildfire and people come from all over to worship, gawk, and to take advantage of the frenzy. Ideas of expansion and franchising abound, with everyone wanting to claim the tortilla for themselves. Soon the tortilla is merchandising heaven, complete with mugs and memorabilia. George Lopez, Jose Zuniga, and Olivia Hussey co-star in this comedy where family is against family, friends are against friends, and life becomes Tortilla Hell.

A tiny town in New Mexico is turned upside down when the face of Jesus Christ appears on a tortilla in the towns only restaurant. Word of this miracle spreads like wildfire and people come from all over to worship, gawk, and to take advantage of the frenzy. Ideas of expansion and franchising abound, with everyone wanting to claim the tortilla for themselves. Soon the tortilla is merchandising heaven, complete with mugs and memorabilia. George Lopez, Jose Zuniga, and Olivia Hussey co-star in this comedy where family is against family, friends are against friends, and life becomes Tortilla Hell.

Vin Diesel ("Saving Private Ryan," "The Fast and the Furious") stars as a DEA agent hell-bent on vengeance after the head of a drug cartel murders his wife. With nothing left to lose, agent Sean Vetter, already notorious for his violent tactics, uses every means -- even an alliance with the former cartel boss he jailed -- as he edges dangerously close to the line between justice and lawlessness in his brutal quest for vengeance against a mysterious killer known only as El Diablo. Now, stalking the Tijuana nights accompanied by the glint off the barrel of his rifle, Vetter hunts -- A Man Apart. Also starring Larenz Tate ("Ray," "Crash") and Timothy Olyphant ("Live Free or Die Hard," TV's "Deadwood").

Part fascinating fact, part dazzling fiction, Zoot Suit is the blistering film adaptation of playwright Luis Valdez' critically acclaimed stage drama based on the "zoot suit riots" that rocked 1940s Los Angeles. When barrio leader Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez) and a group of his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence and sent to San Quentin, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield (Tyne Daly) and George Shearer (Charles Aidman) fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win Henry and his friends their freedom. Featuring Edward James Olmos (as the mythical "Pachuco") in the role that catapulted him to stardom, Zoot Suit is a scorchingly searing and seductively provocative work that skillfully blends action, drama, romance and music!

A tough DEA agent, battling a vicious Mexican drug cartel, dives deep into the underworld to find the gang-leader who ordered the killing of the agent's wife. A bone-crunching tale of revenge, with Timothy Olyphant.

This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad and captures the complex political maneuverings set in motion by the event. Filmed in New England and Puerto Rico, the 152-minute drama opens with a pre-credit sequence showing Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) and the other Africans in a violent takeover of the Amistad. Captured, they are imprisoned in New England where former slave Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman), viewing the rebels as "freedom fighters," approaches property lawyer Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), who attempts to prove the Africans were "stolen goods" because they were kidnapped. Running for re-election, President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) overturns the lower court's decision in favor of the Africans. Former President John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) is reluctant to become involved, but when the case moves on to the Supreme Court, Adams stirs emotions with a powerful defense. The storyline occasionally cuts away to Spain where the young Queen Isabella (Anna Paquin) plays with dolls; she later debated the Amistad case with seven U.S. presidents. The character portrayed by Morgan Freeman is a fictional composite of several historical figures. For authentic speech, the Africans speak the Mende language, subtitled during some scenes but not others.

AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the free-man who led the revolt.

AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the free-man who led the revolt.

AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the free-man who led the revolt.