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Esai Morales has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
Last Bullet
2025
Action · Crime
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Netflix · Included
War Machine
2026 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Netflix · Included
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Prime Video · Included
La Bamba
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Netflix · Included
Paid in Full
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Paramount+ · Included
Bad Boys
1983 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Prime Video · Included
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.
Dir. Patrick Hughes · With Alan Ritchson, Dennis Quaid, Stephan James
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.
Dir. Luis Valdez · With Lou Diamond Phillips, Danielle von Zerneck, Elizabeth Peña
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
Dir. Charles Stone III · With Wood Harris, Cam'ron, Mekhi Phifer
With the help of their high school's newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set their sights on a national robotics contest. With $800 and parts scavenged from old cars, they build a robot and compete against reigning champion MIT. Along the way, the students learn not only how to build a robot but something far more important: how to forge bonds that will last a lifetime.
Dir. Sean McNamara · With George López, Jamie Lee Curtis, Carlos PenaVega
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
Dir. Director X. · With Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Michael Kenneth Williams
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
Dir. Rick Rosenthal · With Sean Penn, Reni Santoni, Jim Moody
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 to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
Dir. Christopher Cain · With Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
Dir. Kevin Reynolds · With Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales, Sandrine Holt
Three top U.S. government and military officials scramble to prevent World War 3 from happening amidst the chaos of a geopolitical crisis.
Dir. Kim Benabib, Roberto Benabib · With Jack Black, Tim Robbins, Pablo Schreiber
Set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families - the Graystones and the Adamas - as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the peaceful 12 Colonies, living in a society close to our own. Entangled in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe-to-toe, blending action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics.
Dir. Remi Aubuchon, Ronald D. Moore · With Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her defiance of the Taliban escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merrimette and his team will need all the courage and firepower they can muster to fight their way across the war-torn country and shepherd the woman to safety.
Dir. Don Michael Paul · With Josh Kelly, Danielle Savre, Cole Hauser
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Dir. Geoff Murphy · With Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo
A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.
Dir. Richard Linklater · With Greg Kinnear, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Dano
Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled niece, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell
The maiden crew of the Daedalus spacecraft must push itself to the brink of human capability in order to successfully establish the first sustainable colony on Mars. Set both in the future and in the present day, this series blends scripted elements set in the future with documentary vérité interviews with today’s best and brightest minds in modern science and innovation, illuminating how research and development is creating the space technology that will enable our first attempt at a mission to Mars.
Dir. Ron Howard, Brian Grazer · With Jihae, Alberto Ammann, Clémentine Poidatz
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman, two misguided youths, join the reserves to make some easy money for their entrepreneurial dreams. Unfortunately, no sooner than they finish basic training they find themselves at war as part of the water purification team.
Dir. Daniel Petrie Jr. · With Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, Lori Petty
Railroad owner Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden search desperately for the inventor of a revolutionary motor as the U.S. government continues to spread its control over the national economy.
Dir. John Putch · With Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe, Esai Morales
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