Movies starring Benjamin Bratt

Biography: The middle of five children, Bratt hails from a close-knit family. His mother, a Peruvian Indian from Lima, moved to the U.S. at age 14. He grew up in San Francisco.

Catwoman (2004)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Halle Berry | Benjamin Bratt | Sharon Stone | Lambert Wilson | Frances Conroy | Alex Borstein | Michael Massee | Byron Mann | Kim Smith | Christopher Heyerdahl | Peter Wingfield | Berend McKenzie | Chase Nelson-Murray | Manny Petruzzelli | Harley Reiner
Directors: Pitof
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Catwoman is the story of shy, sensitive artist Patience Philips (Halle Berry), a woman who can’t seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she’s dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt), a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.

Bound by Honor (aka “Blood in, blood out”) (1993)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Damian Chapa | Jesse Borrego | Benjamin Bratt | Enrique Castillo | Victor Rivers | Delroy Lindo | Tom Towles | Carlos Carrasco | Teddy Wilson | Raymond Cruz | Valente Rodriguez | Lanny Flaherty | Billy Bob Thornton | Geoffrey Rivas | Karmin Murcelo
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the “Vatos Locos”, and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a “home” for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his “carnal”, Miklo.

Miss Congeniality (2000)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandra Bullock | Michael Caine | Benjamin Bratt | Candice Bergen | William Shatner | Ernie Hudson | John DiResta | Heather Burns | Melissa De Sousa | Steve Monroe | Deirdre Quinn | Wendy Raquel Robinson | Asia De Marcos | Ken Thomas | Gabriel Folse
Directors: Donald Petrie
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When a serial killer indicates that his next target is the Miss United States beauty pageant, the F.B.I. decides that they must get an undercover agent as a participant in the contest. A search uncovers no suitable candidate other than a bumbling female agent (Sandra Bullock). Reluctantly, her captain (Ernie Hudson) agrees to let her join the team working the case. The team is led by a womanizing agent (Ben Bratt) who has an apparent reluctant attraction to Bullock’s character. She enters as Miss New Jersey, replacing a contestant who was discovered to have acted in a porno film. The pageant managers (Candice Bergen, William Shatner) are immediately aghast about the agent appearing in the pageant, but arrange a top handler (Michael Caine) to come give her a quick makeover, with the expected outstanding results. Unfortunately, she still is bumbling. When the killer is suddenly caught, everything seems to be over, except the female agent tries to convince her boss that something is still not right. She has discovered that the pageant managers are being dismissed after 21 years for younger people, and Bergen’s character may not be as solid as she seems on the surface.

Demolition Man (1993)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Wesley Snipes | Sandra Bullock | Nigel Hawthorne | Benjamin Bratt | Bob Gunton | Glenn Shadix | Denis Leary | Grand L. Bush | Pat Skipper | Steve Kahan | Paul Bollen | Mark Colson | Andre Gregory | John Enos III
Directors: Marco Brambilla
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Frozen in 1996, Phoenix, a convicted killer is “thawed” out for parole well into the 21st century. Revived into a crime free society, Phoenix resumes his murderous rampage, and no one can stop him. Spartan, the cop who captured Phoenix in 1996 has also been cryogenically frozen, this time for a crime he didn’t commit. In desperation they turn to Spartan to help recapture Phoenix.

The Great Raid (2005)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Benjamin Bratt | James Franco | Robert Mammone | Max Martini | James Carpinello | Mark Consuelos | Craig McLachlan | Freddie Joe Farnsworth | Laird Macintosh | Jeremy Callaghan | Scott McLean | Paolo Montalban | Clayne Crawford | Sam Worthington | Royston Innes
Directors: John Dahl
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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.

Clear and Present Danger (1994)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Willem Dafoe | Anne Archer | Joaquim de Almeida | Henry Czerny | Harris Yulin | Donald Moffat | Miguel Sandoval | Benjamin Bratt | Raymond Cruz | Dean Jones | Thora Birch | Ann Magnuson | Hope Lange | Tom Tammi
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Based upon the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President’s “life long” friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due to his political naivete. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some of the presidents men convince the President to conduct covert actions against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the “victim” of the missing money, is one of the cartel boss’s. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing to inform Escobeda about the CIA’s involvement in the covert operations against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the cartel, with Cortez as it’s sole boss. James Cutter, the President’s National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops still in Colombia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Colombia to rescue the covet ops troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the comm outage, with Clark’s men subsequently being captured by Cortez’s mercenaries.

Thumbsucker (2005)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Lou Taylor Pucci | Tilda Swinton | Vincent D'Onofrio | Keanu Reeves | Benjamin Bratt | Kelli Garner | Vince Vaughn | Chase Offerle | Dakota Goldhor | Walter Kirn | Kit Koenig | Sarah Lucht | Arvin V. Entena | Eric Normington | Allen Go
Directors: Mike Mills
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Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a teenager boy, who has an oral obsession with his thumb. His mother (Tilda Swinton) seems to be a normal housekeeper, but she has her own obsessions as well, like a crush on a TV-star (Benjamin Bratt). The only person who’s aware of Justin’s problem is his father (Vincent D’Onofrio), manager in a store, but none of his advices seem to be working for Justin. The kid is signed up in a debate workshop, but the thing isn’t going well, because he has his mind in a pretty classmate and, of course, in his thumb, affecting all the rest of his classes. So, Justin is a loner kid in the school, who prefers to lock himself in the bathroom and suck his thumb. Justin’s dentist (Keanu Reeves), a mystical-hippie person, will try to help to overcome his thumb problem, through the hypnosis. But the school’s psychologist will diagnose Justin with the Attention Deficit Disorder, and will prescribe him some drugs. Suddenly, Justin’s problem with his thumb will disappear, becoming an hyperactive genius, winning several debate contests and the admiration from his teacher (Vince Vaughn). Nevertheless, more serious problems will come for Justin with his mother, his father and with a drug addiction.

Piñero (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Benjamin Bratt | Giancarlo Esposito | Talisa Soto | Nelson Vasquez | Michael Irby | Michael Wright | Rita Moreno | Jaime Sánchez | Rome Neal | Mandy Patinkin | Oscar A. Colon | Miriam Cruz | Luis Caballero | Al D. Rodriguez | Sophia Domoulin
Directors: Leon Ichaso
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“Piñero” tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero’s prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.

The River Wild (1994)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Stephanie Sawyer | Joseph Mazzello | David Strathairn | Elizabeth Hoffman | Victor Galloway | Kevin Bacon | John C. Reilly | William Lucking | Diane Delano | Thomas F. Duffy | Benjamin Bratt | Paul Cantelon | Glenn Morshower
Directors: Curtis Hanson
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Gail (Meryl Streep) is a professional at water rafting. She twigs every day, and she is in a very good shape. She takes her family, one day, to a rafting trip down the river, but she has no idea that the planed trip is about to become a nightmare. Two escaping robbers with a handgun, meet the family in the way, and join them to the trip. Only later the Gail realize that their new friends are dangerous criminals, but it’s too late. The two men force them to stay together, and to keep cruising down the river. The family’s life are risked not only by the 2 men, but also by the river which becomes more stormy and wilder.

The Next Best Thing (2000)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Rupert Everett | Benjamin Bratt | Illeana Douglas | Michael Vartan | Josef Sommer | Malcolm Stumpf | Lynn Redgrave | Neil Patrick Harris | Mark Valley | Suzanne Krull | Stacy Edwards | John Carroll Lynch | Fran Bennett | Ricki Lopez
Directors: John Schlesinger
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A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.