Joe Mari Avellana

Joe Mari Avellana

Movies for Joe Mari Avellana...

The Search for Weng Weng
Title: The Search for Weng Weng
Released: November 29, 2013
Type: Movie
The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond superstar Weng Weng.
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Colorum
Title: Colorum
Character: Tomas Verdolagas
Released: July 18, 2009
Type: Movie
After spending thirty years in prison, Pedro (Lou Veloso), aging and obviously clueless as to what has become of the world outside the penitentiary, is finally freed.
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The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
Title: The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
Character: General Santiago
Released: June 27, 2006
Type: Movie
The Strike Force team is back in this action-packed sequel to "The Hunt For Eagle One"! Terrorists have stolen a Ground Control Encoder...
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The Hunt for Eagle One
Title: The Hunt for Eagle One
Character: Gen. Romero Panlilio
Released: January 17, 2006
Type: Movie
A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.
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Bloodfist 2050
Title: Bloodfist 2050
Character: MC (als Jose Mari Avellana)
Released: August 4, 2005
Type: Movie
Alex Danko descends into the ultra-violent underworld of extreme martial-arts to find his brother's killer with the help of hardened Detective Ramirez and his brother's alluring ex-lover in this post-apocalyptic allegory of greed and revenge set in in 2050 Los Angeles.
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Filipinas
Title: Filipinas
Character: Resty
Released: December 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Florencia, the matriarch of the Filipinas family, is in poor health, and Yolanda, the eldest of the Filipinas children, finds herself in the unenviable position of keeping her bickering family from disintegration. As the tension rises, Yolanda seeks refuge in a local church. She is critically injured trying to break up a nasty fight between brothers Emman and Samuel, forcing her family to make a life-changing decision.
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Harold Robbins' Body Parts
Title: Harold Robbins' Body Parts
Character: Warden
Released: February 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release from prison as a gesture of good will from the city's new Mainland government, he doesn't bother to look her up. But she finds him in Southern California to warn him that J.J. wants him dead. Whack J.J. first, she tells Ty, so he heads for Manila where J.J. runs a lucrative business under the cover of exporting tropical fish. But what is that business and who's pulling the strings? With the help of Inez, a young Filipina prostitute, Ty gets to the heart of the matter even after Inez no longer has the stomach to pursue the guilty ones.
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Tanging Yaman
Title: Tanging Yaman
Character: Fr. Lito
Released: November 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Three siblings Danny, Art and Grace are now well settled with their respective families, in widely contrasting lifestyles. The one common thing that binds them loosely together is the love that their mother Dolores "Loleng" Rosales holds for all of them and her grandchildren, albeit expressed in varying ways and degrees, but always equally nurturing and self-giving. Much as they are held together by her, they are in turn separated by physical distance and the sad legacy left behind by their deceased, erstwhile strong-willed, patriarchal father.
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Deathfight
Title: Deathfight
Character: Papa Fung
Released: March 9, 1994
Type: Movie
When family fortune, beautiful mistresses and control of an international smuggling operation are at stake, family rivalry turns to rage as two brothers meet in one final battle...a deathfight.
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Akin Ang Pangarap Mo
Title: Akin Ang Pangarap Mo
Released: May 20, 1992
Type: Movie
Leo is engaged to Anita out of convenience since her father and her parents are long time friends. It was never an issue until Leo meets Gigi during his stay in the family farm. Leo loves Anita but he cannot get enough of Gigi's seduction. He later finds himself craving for more. Little does he know that Gigi's tempting invitations are more than that Gigi has other selfish plans and she is adamant to get him not afraid to cause havoc over Leo and Anita's solid relationship.
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I Will Wait for You in Heaven
Title: I Will Wait for You in Heaven
Character: Don Joaquin
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Carmina begins to doubt her future with poor Gabriel when another suitor dazzles her with expensive gifts. Overhearing Carmina's sentiments, Gabriel is heartbroken and goes away to return a wealthy man to prove his worthiness to Carmina.
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Field of Fire
Title: Field of Fire
Character: Capt. Phat
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Sergeant Thomas Duncan takes his men behind enemy lines to recover a secret government fighter copter and its pilot, a secret weapon all his own. But once stationed in the dense jungle brush of Vietnam, their radio goes out all hope of contacting their home base is out, and it is up to Duncan and his men to get to the hook up point by the agreed time. A traitor in the home camp is sending messages to the enemy side; Duncan must hurry!
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Bloodfist II
Title: Bloodfist II
Character: Su
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Jake Ray gives up his title after killing a man in the ring. When Jake goes to Manila to help an old friend, trouble awaits him! After fending off multiple attacks, Jake is finally captured and chained to a half a dozen martial arts champions. Taken to an island fortress, they are forced to battle chemically-stimulated killers in fights to the death. To win - and to live - it will take every ounce of strength and skill in their martial arts arsenal
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Silk 2
Title: Silk 2
Character: Kashi Hashimura
Released: August 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up an entire building.
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Demonstone
Title: Demonstone
Character: Han Chin
Released: February 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Two U.S. Marine investigators looking into a series of grisly murders in Manila discover that the crimes are tied to an amulet with a 400-year-old curse on it that has unleashed supernatural forces.
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Bloodfist
Title: Bloodfist
Character: Kwong
Released: September 22, 1989
Type: Movie
To avenge the brutal murder of his brother, Jake Ray journeys to the Philippines, where his search for truth finds him battling both in and out of the ring. But the weapons are always the same: bare fists, bare feet. And the rules never change: last man standing wins.
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Circle of Fear
Title: Circle of Fear
Character: Miyamoto
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Tom Price, an ex-LA mob enforcer, travels to the Philippines to investigate the mysterious death of his brother Charlie. Tom's investigation turns to catastrophe, and he must employ all the tricks of the trade to stay alive.
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Killer Instinct
Title: Killer Instinct
Character: Tran Van Minh
Released: May 1, 1988
Type: Movie
For America, the Vietnam War is over. Johnny doesn't see it that way. This Special Forces soldier battles vicious Vietcong, a sadistic Russian advisor and his own peacenik girlfriend as he embarks on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
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Saigon Commandos
Title: Saigon Commandos
Character: Col. Tranh (as J.M. Avellana)
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A series of drug-related murders haunt Saigon. Ex-Green Beret Mark Stryker and his MP's must find the culprits. With the help of Jean Lassiter, a nosey reporter covering the crime beat, Stryker uncovers the involvement of corrupt politicians in the heroin trade and in the killings. But before he can pin them down, Stryker is framed for the murder of his commanding officer and now he must clear his name, free Lassiter from her captors, and stop his men from carrying out their own kind of vengeance before it is too late.
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Demon of Paradise
Title: Demon of Paradise
Character: Blue
Released: April 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Hunters become the hunted when illegal dynamite disturbs the ageold slumber of a carnivorous lizardman. Resort owner Angela, joins forces with Sheriff Keefer to save tourists from the beast's path of death.
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Silk
Title: Silk
Character: Yashi
Released: December 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.
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Wheels of Fire
Title: Wheels of Fire
Character: Scourge
Released: April 11, 1985
Type: Movie
The Future is now. There are no rules and no place to hide from the deadly Highway Warriors who ravage the roads in machines of destruction.
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Caged Fury
Title: Caged Fury
Character: Van Duc
Released: October 28, 1983
Type: Movie
At a hidden prison camp deep in the jungles of South East Asia, some devious Vietnamese commies are kidnapping beautiful women and brainwashing them into becoming subliminally-activated suicide bombers to further their evil aims abroad. Help isn't going to be coming anytime soon, so the all-female inmates must engineer their own escape any which way they can...
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The Last Reunion
Title: The Last Reunion
Character: Liang
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape and murder the man's wife. The couple's son, Kimon, witnesses these ghastly events and vows revenge. Thirty-three years later the platoon get back together in Manila for a reunion. The adult Kimon also shows up to pick off the platoon members who are responsible for butchering his parents.
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Death Force
Title: Death Force
Released: September 1, 1978
Type: Movie
James Iglehart is Doug Russell, an American who steals a shipment of gold in the Philippines with two Vietnam War buddies, who cut his throat and throw him overboard. Russell washes ashore an island inhabited by two Japanese soldiers stranded there since World War II. They nurse him back to health and he is taught martial arts and the art of the samurai. Back in the States, his treacherous pals, Marelli and Maghee, use their loot and viciousness to muscle their way into Los Angels mafia turf.
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Hell Hole
Title: Hell Hole
Character: Henchman
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Attractive women must escape from a jungle prison.
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TNT Jackson
Title: TNT Jackson
Character: Ming (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1974
Type: Movie
A woman encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother.