Jacob Vargas films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 20 films on Boxlist

Known for Traffic, Crimson Tide and Get Shorty.

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Starring Jacob Vargas

Traffic
2000 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing...
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Crimson Tide
1995 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
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Get Shorty
1995 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the...
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Plan B
2021 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
After a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.
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Kimi
2022 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.
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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but...
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Selena
1997 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and...
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Sleep Dealer
2008 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
2016 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan: break every rule in the school hand book and...
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The 33
2015 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
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Bobby
2006 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Devil
2010 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
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Heaven Is for Real
2014 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The true story of the 4-year old son of a small-town pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. When he awakes, he recounts his experiences on the other side.
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Death Race
2008 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport...
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The Principal
1987 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try...
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Flight of the Phoenix
2004 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm forces them to crash their C-119 Flying Boxcar in an uncharted...
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Dr. Dolittle 2
2001 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't...
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Next Friday
2000 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.
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The Hills Have Eyes 2
2007 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.
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Are We Done Yet?
2007 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.
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