Tomas AranaFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Though a multihyphenate ad extremis who racked up a litany of influential accomplishments in the theater, modern art, and film worlds, distinguished Tomas Arana is perhaps best known for his contributions to cinema as a character actor, where he initially specialized in portrayals of period...Read More

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Defiance

Actors: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Alan Corduner

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, director Edward Zwick's epic World War II drama Defiance tells the tale of three Jewish Eastern European brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell) who narrowly escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis, subsequently vowing to avenge the deaths of their Read More

12/31/08
Bats: Human Harvest

Actors: David Chokachi, Michael Jace, Pollyanna McIntosh, Marty Papazian, Melissa DeSousa

Synopsis: This horror film focuses on a rogue weapons research scientist who, after losing his project to a shut-down by the American military, sets up camp in the Belzan forest of Chechnya. A team of hardcore Deltas are making their way through the wilderness to find the doctor's lab before the Russians Read More

2008
Rabbit Troubles

Actors: Tomas Arana, Azzurra Antonacci, Dean Slavchev

2007
This Girl's Life

Actors: James Woods, Juliette Marquis, Kip Pardue, Tomas Arana, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: A slice-of-life view of modern morality filtered through the eyes of a young and down-to-earth porn star, writer/director Ash's character-driven drama offers a unique perspective of the adult film industry. Moon (Juliette Marquis) is one of the most popular adult film stars around, and she finds Read More

10/1/04
The Bourne Supremacy

Actors: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann, Joan Allen

Synopsis: The second chapter in the "Bourne Trilogy," based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling espionage novels, reaches the screen in this sequel to the 2002 thriller The Bourne Identity. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar Read More

7/23/04
Frankenfish

Actors: Tomas Arana, Muse Watson, China Chow, Tory Kittles

Synopsis: The Louisiana Bayou can be a dangerous place, but it's not just the gators that you need to watch out for anymore! When a series of horribly mutilated bodies are discovered along the river bank, authorities soon discover that a school of gigantic genetically engineered snakehead fish have found a Read More

2004
Hillside Strangler

Synopsis: Following in the footsteps of Ed Gein, Speck, Dahmer and Gacy, travel back to Los Angeles, California, between 1977 and 1979, and reexperience the stomach-turning crimes of one of modern history's most notorious serial killers: Kenneth Bianchi, better known as The Hillside Strangler. This gripping Read More

2004
Private Property

Actors: Mirjana Jokovic, David Thornton, Tomas Arana, Richard Parent

Synopsis: A woman living alone on an island must fight for her life in the directorial debut of filmmaker Elizabeth Dimon. Although reluctant to do so, island recluse Tess (Mirjana Jokovic) offers her home to Sam (David Thornton) and Nigel (Tomas Arana), a pair of tuxedo-suited (and blood-soaked) strangers Read More

2003
Outpatient

Actors: Tomas Arana, Catherine Kellner, Claudia Mason, Henry Dardenne, Justin Kirk

2002
Derailed

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Laura Elena Harring, Tomas Arana, Susan Gibney

Synopsis: Director Bob Misiorowski helmed this straight-to-video actioner starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Van Damme plays Jacques Kristoff, a special government agent assigned to protect Dr. Galina Konstantin, a scientist played by Laura Elena Harring (Mulholland Drive). When a group of terrorists hijack Read More

2002
Chimera

Actors: Iaia Forte, Tommaso Ragno, Tomas Arana, Christina Donadio

Synopsis: The true natures of love, commitment, and reality are called into question in this offbeat drama. One night in bed, Tomas (Tomas Arana), a magician, begins telling a story to his wife Desire (Marit Nissen) about Emma (Iaia Forte) and Sal (Tommaso Ragno), a married couple whose love life has gone Read More

2001
ER: Fear of Commitment

Synopsis: Abby's (Maura Tierney) bipolar mother, Maggie (Sally Field), testifies in court as to her competency, with surprising results. Back at the ER, Weaver (Laura Innes) is shocked to learn that her latest patient, a homeless derelict (Bette Ford), is actually "Princess Taffeta," Weaver's favorite Read More

2001
Gladiator

Actors: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Richard Harris, Tomas Arana, Spencer Treat Clark, David Hemmings

Synopsis: A man robbed of his name and his dignity strives to win them back, and gain the freedom of his people, in this epic historical drama from director Ridley Scott. In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus (Russell Crowe) is one Read More

5/5/00
Wildflowers

Actors: Clea Duvall, Daryl Hannah, Tomas Arana, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Eric Roberts appears in this coming-of-age drama about a young lass coming to terms with her parents' radical past. Raised without a mom, Cally (Clea DuVall just happens to stumble across Sabine (Daryl Hannah), a hippy-dippy artist with a passion for gauzy fabrics, driftwood sculptures, and potent Read More

2000
Bella Mafia - Parts I & II

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Dennis Farina, Nastassja Kinski, Jennifer Tilly, Illeana Douglas

Synopsis: Lynda La Plante (Prime Suspect) scripted this TV miniseries about the family life surrounding a Mafia don. Sicilian magnate Don Luciano (Dennis Farina) and his wife Graziella (Vanessa Redgrave) live comfortably at Villa Rosa in Palermo, Italy. Their son Michael (Michael Hayden) has an affair with Read More

1997
Passaggio Per il Paradiso

Synopsis: This romantic Italian drama tells the offbeat love story of a somewhat senile but still feisty elderly American lady who escapes from the nursing home where her children put her and a world-weary private investigator who finds her on the road. The American, Martha, has lived in Tuscany for most of Read More

1996
Tombstone

Actors: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Robert John Burke, Dana Delany

Synopsis: A high-energy action adventure based on legend rather than historical fact finds Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that Read More

1993
Body Puzzle

Actors: Joanna Pacula

Synopsis: This muddled thriller reminiscent of Mil Gritos Tiene la Noche stars Joanna Pacula as a widow in peril. Pacula's bisexual husband Abe had a lover named Tim Bell, who apparently lost his mind when Abe died in a motorcycle accident. Being that Abe was an organ donor, Tim begins murdering the Read More

1993
Are They Still Shooting?

Actors: Anthony Alessandro, Isabelle Townsend, Tomas Arana

Synopsis: Boja (Anthony Alessandro) copes with his worries about his brother, who is fighting the Serbian army in Croatia while Boja enjoys the relative peace and comfort of New York city by writing long letter to him which are never answered. His brother's girlfriend (Isabelle Townsend) has also escaped to Read More

1993
The Bodyguard

Actors: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Lawrence Kasdan originally wrote his script for The Bodyguard in the late 1960s as a vehicle for Steve McQueen; by the time it reached the screen, Kasdan's star was another movie hearthrob, Kevin Costner. When imperious musical superstar Whitney Houston begins receiving death threats, she is Read More

11/25/92
Out of Control

1991
La Setta

Synopsis: This stylishly photographed horror movie centers upon a beautiful, good-hearted schoolteacher whose life becomes a living hell after she is chosen to bear the son of Satan. Her horrible ordeal begins when an ancient enigmatic traveller places an ancient, supposedly extinct, insect up her nose. It Read More

1991
The Hunt for Red October

Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill

Synopsis: The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders Read More

3/2/90
Panama Sugar

Actors: Scott Plank, Oliver Reed, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Meme Perlini, Duilio del Prete

Synopsis: In a small remote Caribbean island, where life appears to be one vast party, "the general" (Oliver Reed), a sinister American, hooks up with a corrupt local (Vittorio Amandola) who wants to transform the island into a big-deal tourist's gambling joint. Fortunately for the happy-go-lucky islanders Read More

1990
The Church

Actors: Asia Argento

Synopsis: Originally intended as the third chapter in producer Dario Argento's Demons trilogy, La Chiesa stands alone as an effective horror film centering on a haunted cathedral with a violent past. The church's history begins in Medieval Italy, when the Knights Templar massacred an entire village of Read More

3/10/89
Domino

Actors: Brigitte Nielsen, Tomas Arana, Daniela Alzone, Pascal Druant

Synopsis: In this Italian film, a mysterious caller piques the interest of an attractive woman (Brigitte Nielsen), and the two form an unusual relationship. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

11/2/88
The Last Temptation of Christ

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie, Verna Bloom, Andre Gregory

Synopsis: Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity and the inexorability of His ultimate fate. The much-maligned sex scene with Mary Read More

8/12/88
Intimo

Actors: Eva Grimaldi, Leonardo Treviglio, Gabriele Gori, Tomas Arana, Marisa Parra

Synopsis: Tea (Eva Grimaldi) is a model for a lingerie company, and although she has a regular job as a waitress, and a regular (and quite decent) boyfriend, she is constantly being besieged by Karl, who tries to put the moves on her wherever she works. Eventually, his persistent "you're missing the best" Read More

2/11/88