Yul Vazquez films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 27 films and 3 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Captain Phillips, Traffic and The Outsider.

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Starring Yul Vazquez

Captain Phillips
2013 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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American Gangster
2007 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East...
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Hotel Cocaine
2024 · TV
7.6/10 · TMDB
The story of Roman Compte, a Cuban exile and general manager of The Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of late '70s and early '80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine.
The Outsider
2020 · TV
7.4/10 · TMDB
When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a new palace for Caesar within three...
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Fresh
1994 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister...
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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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The Lost Bus
2025 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.
Che: Part One
2008 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator...
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Books of Blood
2020 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
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Kill the Messenger
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of...
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Che: Part Two
2009 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American...
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Last Flag Flying
2017 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry "Doc" Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing burial at Arlington...
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Bad Boys II
2003 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Out-of-control, trash-talking buddy cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force reunite, and bullets fly, cars crash and laughs explode as they pursue a whacked-out drug lord from the streets of Miami to the...
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War of the Worlds
2005 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
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The A-Team
2010 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn't commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco...
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Nick of Time
1995 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An unimpressive, every-day man is forced into a situation where he is told to kill a politician to save his kidnapped daughter.
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White House Plumbers
2023 · TV
6.2/10 · TMDB
The true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect.
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Runaway Bride
1999 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does...
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Blood Ties
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
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Rob the Mob
2014 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
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Gringo
2018 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.
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The Cobbler
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see...
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True Memoirs of an International Assassin
2016 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.
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Runner Runner
2013 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
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The Phenom
2016 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Major-league rookie pitcher Hopper Gibson has lost his focus. After choking on the mound, he’s sent down to the minors and prescribed sessions with an unorthodox sports therapist, who pushes him to uncover the origins of his anxiety.
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The Super
2018 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A man becomes the superintendent of a large New York City apartment building where people mysteriously go missing.
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Tin Soldier
2025 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
An ex-special forces operative seeks revenge against a cult leader who has corrupted his former comrades, the Shinjas. This leader, known as The Bokushi, promises veterans a purpose and protection, but is revealed to be a destructive...
The Ex
2006 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly...
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Anamorph
2007 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
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