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08.3 Nica’s Tales

by alex_new_age • Created 14 years ago • Modified 8 years ago
Stories writing, directing or performing by Nicaraguans or which plot line are set in Nicaragua.
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  • Noah Beery, Monte Blue, Dorothy Burgess, Natalie Moorhead, and Richard Tucker in The Stoker (1932)

    1. The Stoker

    19321h 10mNot Rated
    5.3 (76)
    A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
    DirectorChester M. FranklinStarsMonte BlueDorothy BurgessNoah Beery
  • Embryo (1976)

    2. Embryo

    19761h 44mPG
    5.1 (1.9K)
    A scientist (Rock Hudson) doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. All is not well though as the child begins to exhibit some horrific tendencies.
    DirectorRalph NelsonStarsRock HudsonBarbara CarreraDiane Ladd
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

    3. The Island of Dr. Moreau

    19771h 39mPG
    5.9 (7.7K)
    A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
    DirectorDon TaylorStarsBurt LancasterMichael YorkNigel Davenport
  • Barbara Carrera and Michael Crawford in Condorman (1981)

    4. Condorman

    19811h 30mPG46Metascore
    5.7 (5.7K)
    Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.
    DirectorCharles JarrottStarsMichael CrawfordOliver ReedBarbara Carrera
  • Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in Miami Vice (1984)

    5. Miami Vice

    1984–1989111 epsTV-14TV Series
    7.6 (32K)
    Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida.
    CreatorAnthony YerkovichStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra Santiago
  • Sexto sentido (2001)

    6. Sexto sentido

    2001–20056 epsTV Series
    7.2 (7)
    Anything can happen to Nicaragua's youth. Here's a tiny preview of their realities, their dreams and experiences. Everything was built from real Nicaraguan young men and women.
    StarsSalvador EspinozaTania NavarroHamington Sanchez
  • Mario Cimarro, Andrés García, and Lorena Rojas in El Cuerpo del Deseo (2005)

    7. El Cuerpo del Deseo

    2005– 142 epsTV Series
    6.7 (970)
    A man comes back from death only to discover dark secrets about his widow.
    StarsWayne LeGetteJimena ArayaMario Cimarro
  • Decisiones (2005)

    8. Decisiones

    2005–2008424 epsTV-14TV Series
    6.2 (114)
    The hour-long series features impassioned people thrust into amorous adventures and pushed to their breaking points.
    StarsMariangelica CuervoDidier Van den HoveRicardo Chavez
  • A Chance to Love (2007)

    9. A Chance to Love

    2007– 167 epsTV-14TV Series
    7.5 (108)
    A dramatic story will be revealed to the viewers - Natalia and Adrian, whose love will be revived by the ashes of two failed marriages. On the one hand, Natalia desperately tries to get out of touch with her current husband, Rohelio, who insults her humiliates.
    StarsLorena RojasMauricio IslasCatherine Siachoque
  • Murder on the Border (2005)

    10. Murder on the Border

    20051h 37mNot Rated
    6.0 (74)
    The story follows Phoenix attorney, Eduardo, who is trying to move his family up from Mexico. Trouble arises, however, when Eduardo's father is denied a visa and decides to make the border crossing illegally. Further trouble comes when Eduardo realizes his father's only hope may be a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of killing a young boy.
    DirectorJuan FraustoStarsSalvador PinedaFrancisco GattornoAlpha Acosta
  • Land of the Dead (2005)

    11. Land of the Dead

    20051h 33mR71Metascore
    6.2 (104K)
    The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
    DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsJohn LeguizamoAsia ArgentoSimon Baker
  • The Lost Platoon (1990)

    12. The Lost Platoon

    19901h 26mR
    4.1 (293)
    An American reporter covering a civil war in Nicaragua discovers that four soldiers that he used to know during World War II are there and they are actual vampires fighting their own personal war against an evil Nicaraguan general and his own personal army of vampires terrorizing the country.
    DirectorDavid A. PriorStarsWilliam Frederick KnightDavid ParryStephen Quadros
  • Under Fire (1983)

    13. Under Fire

    19832h 8mR72Metascore
    7.0 (9.3K)
    Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
    DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsNick NolteEd HarrisGene Hackman
  • Jeremy Renner in Kill the Messenger (2014)

    14. Kill the Messenger

    20141h 52mR60Metascore
    6.9 (50K)
    Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
    DirectorMichael CuestaStarsJeremy RennerRobert PatrickJena Sims
  • Carla's Song (1996)

    15. Carla's Song

    19962h 7mTV-MA
    6.8 (3.6K)
    1987, love in time of war. Bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly-sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what has happened to them and help her face her past.
    DirectorKen LoachStarsRobert CarlyleOyanka CabezasScott Glenn
  • Contracorriente la serie (2011)

    16. Contracorriente la serie

    2011– 18 epsTV Series
    StarsTamara SalasIvonne GarcíaAmarilis Soza
  • 17. Loma Verde

    2010– 3 epsTV Series
    A rural community called Loma Verde will be shock while their residents worked through domestic struggles and family life, facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors.
    StarsJuan Carlos GutierrezFatima LazoSanta Ines Rivas
  • Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in La vida nocturna (1930)

    18. La vida nocturna

    193038mShort
    6.7 (192)
    Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
    DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyLinda Loredo
    Brisa Nocturna
  • Norman Flores and Walder Casco López in Volar en línea recta (2013)

    19. Volar en línea recta

    201322mShort
    Two childhood friends from a small village in the north of Nicaragua briefly reunite one day in the city. One, a University student, and the other, a dropout, have a slight misunderstanding regarding a motorcycle, which leads to some petty drama in their similarly uneventful day-to-day lives.
    DirectorDouglas CushnieStarsWalder Casco LópezNorman Flores
  • El Engaño (2012)

    20. El Engaño

    201239mShort
    DirectorFlorence Jaugey
  • Palabras mágicas (2012)

    21. Palabras mágicas

    20121h 22m
    7.0 (28)
    DirectorMercedes Moncada Rodríguez
  • 22. Generation

    200413mShort
    8.3 (12)
    DirectorDavid DownesStarsBenjamin B. SmithJake D. Smith
    Generación Pirata
  • Cinema Alcázar (1998)

    23. Cinema Alcázar

    199810mShort
    6.8 (26)
    When Rosa came to this place the earthquake had just happened and the building was one enormous ruin. People say it was a cinema, but Rosa, who has lived here for many years, has never seen a film in her life. So many things happen in "Cinema Alcazar" that it's all Rosa can do to keep up.
    DirectorFlorence JaugeyStarPilar Aguirre
  • Fire from the Mountain (1987)

    24. Fire from the Mountain

    19871h
    6.1 (13)
    DirectorDeborah ShafferStarOmar Cabezas
  • Len Cariou in One Man (1977)

    25. One Man

    19771h 27mPG
    6.7 (86)
    A crusading TV reporter finds his life ripped apart as he investigates a story about a company's deadly criminal negligence.
    DirectorRobin SpryStarsLen CariouJayne EastwoodCarol Lazare
    El Hombre de una sola nota

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