Miriam Colon Filmography

Goal!

Actors: Leonardo Guerra, Tony Plana, Miriam Colon, Kuno Becker, Jorge Cervera, Jr.

Synopsis: One young man's dream takes him on a remarkable journey in this sports-themed drama. Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker) was born in Mexico, and came to California with his family when he was just a boy. One of the few things Santiago brought with him was a love for soccer, and while he holds down two Read More

Scarface

Actors: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, an exiled Cuban criminal who goes to work for Miami drug lord Robert Loggia. Montana rises to the top of Florida's crime chain, appropriating Loggia's cokehead mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer) in the process. Howard Hawks' "X Marks the Spot" motif in depicting the Read More

Julia, toda en mi...

Almost a Woman

Actors: Wanda De Jesus, Miriam Colon, Ana Maria Lagasca, Cliff De Young, Francesco Quinn

Synopsis: A girl poised on the brink of adolescence finds herself shouldering a whole new set of responsibilities in this made-for-TV drama based on the autobiographical book by Esmeralda Santiago. In 1961, Mami Santiago (Wanda De Jesus) decides to leave her life in a Puerto Rican farming community behind Read More

The Blue Diner

Actors: Lisa Vidal, Miriam Colon, Jose Yenque, William Marquez, Jack Mulcahy

Synopsis: A Latina eager to embrace America finds her tongue is a bit more eager to betray her culture than she is in this comedy-drama with elements of both romance and satire. Elena (Lisa Vidal) is an attractive Puerto Rican immigrant who is eager to make a career for herself in business. With that in Read More

All the Pretty Horses

Actors: Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Penélope Cruz, Rubén Blades, Bruce Dern, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: Director Billy Bob Thornton explores coming of age in this Western based on Cormac McCarthy's prize-winning novel of the same name. John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) and Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas) are young Texan men who seek a more fulfilling life as cowboys in the slowly fading Old West, circa Read More

Edipo Alcalde

Synopsis: One might consider this violent adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy as Sophocles with a South American twist. Set amidst the rebel wars (representing the Theban plagues) of contemporary Colombia, Mayor Edipo (Oedipus) must mediate a peace deal between conflicting guerrilla groups and the Read More

Lone Star

Actors: Miriam Colon, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Joe Morton, Ron Canada, Clifton James, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Reminiscent of a fine novel in depth and complexity, writer-director John Sayles' acclaimed drama uses the investigation of a 25-year-old murder as the framework for a detailed exploration of life in a Texas border town. The nominal center of the film is Sheriff Sam Deeds (the superb, subtle Chris Cooper Read More

Sabrina

Actors: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, John Wood, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: A remake of a 1954 Billy Wilder romance, this updated version of the play Sabrina Fair was directed by Sydney Pollack. Julia Ormond stars as Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a kindly chauffeur (John Wood) at the Long Island estate of the upper-crust Larrabee family. Sabrina has grown up Read More

NYPD Blue: You Bet Your Life

Synopsis: Dan Breen (Peter Boyle), Sipowicz's AA sponsor, is beaten up by his own son (Enrico Colantoni). Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Simone (Jimmy Smits) follow the slimmest of clues when the charred body of a pregnant prostitute is found. And Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) and Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) aren't Read More

The House of the Spirits

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: Bille August directed this film version of the Isabel Allende novel, featuring a cast that includes Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close. The story is a sweeping and brooding melodrama, spanning generations and filled with violence, revenge, and telekinesis. The tale begins in South America Read More

A Life of Sin

Synopsis: The life and death of Isabel LaNegra (Miriam Colon), a woman who rose from poverty to become a famed Caribbean madam, is the subject of a South American reporter's investigation. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Day of the Dead

Synopsis: James Coburn guest stars as Cyrus Ramsey, chief archaeologist of the National Museum of Mexico. Ramsey is among those under suspicion when a hotel owner suspected of dealing in stolen art is murdered. It seems that the dead man was found wearing the Mask of Montezuma, which had recently been Read More

City of Hope

Actors: Vincent Spano, Joe Morton, Tony Lo Bianco, Anthony John Denison, Barbara Williams

Synopsis: A city pulses with racial problems, political corruption, and small-time crime in this ambitious microcosm of urban life, written and directed by John Sayles. Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), a lost soul usually high on drink and drugs, has spent his life in one New Jersey city, getting free rides Read More

The Lightning Incident

Actors: Nancy McKeon, Polly Bergen, Elpidia Carrillo, Miriam Colon

Synopsis: In this campy thriller, a pregnant sculptor is tormented with terrible nightmares just before the birth of her son. She doesn't recognize the dreams as psychic premonitions until after the members of a vengeful voodoo cult steal her newborn son. The distraught mom soon learns that she is also Read More

Law & Order: The Secret Sharers

Synopsis: When young Nicky Guzman (Enrique Monez) is accused of killing a drug dealer, public sympathy is very much on his side. This makes it difficult for the D.A.'s office to mount a successful case against Guzman. But things really get beyond the control of assistant D.A.'s Stone (Michael Moriarty) and Read More

Deadline: Madrid

Best Kept Secrets

Actors: Frederic Forrest

Synopsis: Patty Duke Astin plays the wife of police officer Frederic Forrest, who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance Read More

Back Roads

Actors: Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith, Miriam Colon, Michael Vincente Gazzo

Synopsis: For his follow-up to 1979's Academy Award-winning Norma Rae, director Martin Ritt re-teams with that film's star, Sally Field, for this gritty romantic road comedy. Reportedly Ritt's homage to Frank Capra's films of the 1930s, Back Roads stars Field as Amy Post, a no-nonsense prostitute in the Read More

Starstruck

Actors: Trini Alvarado, Lee Curreri, Joanna Merlin, Ross O'Donovan, Miriam Colon

Synopsis: A young Trini Alvarado stars in this Emmy-winning ABC Afterschool Special as Alicia Mann, an aspiring folksinger. To realize her dream, teenaged Alicia takes a summer job at a coffee shop where she is allowed to perform without pay. Alicia's mother, Inez (Joanna Merlin), is appalled by this Read More

Sanford and Son: Julio and Sister and Nephew

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Miriam Colon, Graham Brown

Synopsis: Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) barely lets a day go by without spewing forth bigotry aimed at his Puerto Rican neighbor Julio (Gregory Sierra). All this changes when Julio's nephew -- who through a series of bizarre circumstances is now a house guest of the Sanfords -- becomes a victim of discrimination Read More

Dr. Max

Actors: Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Dr. Max is cut from the same cloth as The Last Angry Man. Lee J. Cobb stars as a taciturn elderly doctor who chooses to work in a dingy Baltimore neighborhood and minister to those far less fortunate than themselves. His refusal to succumb to the creature comforts of a more Read More

The Possession of Joel Delaney

Actors: Jose Fernandez, Aukie Herger, Paulita Iglesias, Marita Lindholm, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Hordern, Perry King, Lisa Kohane, Edmundo Rivera Alvarez, Robert Burr

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, Norah Benson (Shirley MacLaine) is a wealthy woman living in Manhattan who keeps a close and protective eye on her brother Joel (Perry King), who has a flat in a rough section of the East Village. Joel is a frequent guest at Norah's home and loves her two children Read More

The Desperate Mission

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban is well cast as legendary Mexican bandit Joaquin Murietta in Desperate Mission. As in most previous filmed adaptations of the life of this controversial character, Murietta is depicted as a South of the Border Robin Hood, more sinned against than sinning. The storyline is Read More

Bonanza: To Stop a War

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Steve Forrest, Miriam Colon

Synopsis: An epidemic of rustling has fueled the flames of a possible range war between the cattlemen and the nesters. Ex-sheriff Dan Logan (Steve Forrest) is hired to stop the war before it starts, while rancher Slater (Warren Kemmerling), convinced that the nesters are responsible for the trouble, offers Read More

The Fugitive: The Savage Street

Synopsis: Posing as "Tony Maxwell", Richard Kimble (David Janssen) hides out in the Barrio of an unnamed city. Taking a job at the cigar-manufacturing business run by Jose Anza (Gilbert Roland), Kimble befriends Jose's grandson Jimmy (Tom Nardini), a troubled youth torn between the demands of his father and Read More

The Appaloosa

Actors: Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, John Saxon, Emilio Fernández, Alex Montoya

Synopsis: The Appaloosa is one of the more tolerable Marlon Brando westerns, if only because Brando seems to be aspiring to merely entertain rather than offer us a litany of Life Lessons. The title character is a beautiful horse, stolen from buffalo hunter Brando early in the proceedings. The thief is Anjanette Comer Read More

The Meanest Men in the West

Synopsis: Meanest Men in the West is basically a pair of episodes of The Virginian, chopped up by Universal Pictures' editing department and mashed together (with help from some voice doubles) into what could almost pass for a coherent plot. Judge Henry Garth (Lee J. Cobb), owner of Shiloh ranch, becomes Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Turtles, Ties, and Toreadors

Actors: Miriam Colon, Alan Dexter, Tiny Brauer

Synopsis: Figuring that Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) could use some extra help around the house, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) hires a Spanish maid named Maria, sight unseen. The trouble begins when Maria (Miriam Colon) shows up at the Petrie house with her broken arm in a sling -- and to make matters dicier, she can't Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Caravan

Synopsis: Dolores Faith is cast as Skiri, a Nepalese princess who has become an outcast in her own country. The princess' entourage engages the services of Paladin (Richard Boone) to escort Skiri through the desert to a colony populated by her loyal supporters. Alas, there are several assassins en route Read More

Thunder Island

Actors: Gene Nelson, Fay Spain, Brian Kelly, Miriam Colon, Art Bedard

Synopsis: In this drama, a hit man is hired by a group of South American nationalists to kill their exiled ruler in his new Caribbean home. To get there, he hijacks a boat and its two frightened occupants. He keeps the boat-owner's wife as his hostage. When he gets to the island, the assassin misses his Read More

Harbor Lights

Synopsis: In this mystery a Yankee gambler travels to Puerto Rico to see his brother. He soon discovers that his brother has been murdered for his involvement with a stolen diamond. The surviving brother begins to investigate the death, but is hindered by police detectives. The hero eventually finds the Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Strange Miracle

Synopsis: After being injured in a train wreck, salesman Pedro Siqueras (David Opatoshu) is told by a doctor that he will never walk again. But after spending time in a wheelchair, Siqueras discovers that he has regained the use of his legs. However, he does not reveal this recovery, having already Read More

One-Eyed Jacks

Actors: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Western bandit Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). Escaping from prison, Rio learns that Longworth has become a wealthy and influential lawman. Rio thirsts for revenge, but bides his time, waiting for the right moment to strike. In the meantime, Rio Read More

The Outsider

Actors: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Bruce Bennett, Gregory Walcott, Vivian Nathan

Synopsis: This is an uneven melodrama on the tragic life of Pima Indian Ira Hayes, one of the men who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. The story picks up with Hayes (Tony Curtis) leaving his reservation in Arizona to join the Marines, enter boot camp, and start to adapt to the life of a Marine. Hayes Read More

Battle at Bloody Beach

Actors: Audie Murphy, Gary Crosby, Dolores Michaels, Alejandro Rey, Marjorie Stapp

Synopsis: Real-life WW II hero Audie Murphy stars in this war drama that follows the exploits of a civilian who works closely with Filipino resistance fighters against the Japanese invaders. The man has come to the islands to find his new wife after they are separated during their honeymoon in Manila. She Read More

One Step Beyond: The Hand

Synopsis: Robert Loggia is cast as New Orleans pianist Tom Brandt, who in an alcoholic rage kills his girlfriend with a broken bottle. After the police arrest a drunken derelict for the crime, Tom figures he's in the clear. But before long he is haunted by a perverse form of "stigmata", causing his hands to Read More

Crowded Paradise

Actors: Hume Cronyn, Nancy Kelly, Frank Silvera, Mario Alcalde

Synopsis: All but forgotten today, Crowded Paradise was one of the first in-depth studies of racial tensions in postwar New York City. Mario Alcade plays Juan Figueroa, a Puerto Rican youth who come to Manhattan for the purpose of marrying his sweetheart Felicia Diaz (Enid Rudd). Despite running up against Read More