The best Sam Vlahos’s movies

Sam Vlahos

Sam Vlahos

10/08/1935- 03/09/2011
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American History X

American History X
8.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/07/1998
  • Character: Dr. Aguilar
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

The Rapture

The Rapture
6.3/10
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God — only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.

Permanent Record

Permanent Record
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/04/1988
David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves everyone, especially his best friend and band-mate, Chris, with a lot of questions.

Poodle Springs

Poodle Springs
6/10
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.

Held Up

Held Up
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/10/1999
  • Character: Jose
While they're on vacation in the Southwest, Rae finds out her man Michael spent their house money on a classic car, so she dumps him, hitching a ride to Vegas for a flight home. A kid promptly steals Michael's car, leaving him at the Zip & Sip, a convenience store. Three bumbling robbers promptly stage a hold up. Two take off with the cash stranding the third, with a mysterious crate, just as the cops arrive. The robber takes the store hostage. As incompetent cops bring in a SWAT team and try a by-the-book rescue, Michael has to keep the robber calm, find out what's in the crate, aid the negotiations, and get back to Rae. The Stockholm Syndrome asserts its effect.

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

Police Story: The Freeway Killings
6.3/10
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.

Powwow Highway

Powwow Highway
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/02/1989
  • Character: Chief Joseph
Buddy Red Bow is struggling, in the face of persecution, by greedy developers and political in-fighting, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent. Philbert, a simple-minded friend of Buddy's, ardently pursues Native American/First Nation wisdom and lore wherever he can find it--even on Bonanza--in order to earn his warrior name. He's even got his war pony, Protector: a beat-up old wreck of a car. Buddy's sister has been arrested in Santa Fe, and together Buddy and Philbert set off on a road trip to look after her kids and go bail her out. However, Bonnie's arrest has something strange about it as her friend Rabbit points out. As the miles roll by, Philbert's faith challenges Buddy's hard-edged view of the world (and occasional bout of reckless violence), and together they face the realities and dreams of being Cheyenne in the modern-day US as they fight to free Bonnie and her children and elude the Feds.

Grand Avenue

Grand Avenue
7.1/10
  • Release: 30/06/1996
  • Character: Henry
When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her boyfriend's sister for not being one of their own, aside from Mollie's son. Mollie is forced to pack up her belongings and her children and move to northern California, right into a gang infested neighborhood.

Christmas in the Clouds

Christmas in the Clouds
6.4/10
A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation. Shot on location at The Sundance Resort in Utah, this is the first contemporary romantic comedy to feature an almost entirely American Indian cast. The film was featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

The Zeros

The Zeros
6.7/10
  • Release: 10/03/2001
  • Character: Durango
A slightly futuristic dark comedy about a young man who finds out he is dying, and goes in search of his first love.

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache
7.1/10
James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of Apache chief Geronimo out of the fort stockade and offers them in trade. Dillon is aided by an Army scout, Chalk Brighton (Kiley). Written by John Sacksteder

Kiss Me a Killer

Kiss Me a Killer
4.3/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 05/04/1991
  • Character: Father Dominguez
An ex-convict (Robert Beltran) and his lover (Julie Carmen) plot to kill her husband (Guy Boyd), owner of a nightclub in east Los Angeles.

...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/05/1995
  • Character: Don Cleto
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty about the harsh realities of bigotry and the power of family in America of the 1950s. The coming-of-age Chicano drama is based on Tomas Rivera's semiautobiographical 1971 novella.

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