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Raymond Cruz has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Bound by Honor.
Recurring themes

Marked for Death
1990
Action · Crime

Sugar Hill
1994
Drama · Action

In Too Deep
1999
Drama · Action

Best of the Best 2
1993
Action · Thriller

Out for Justice
1991
Action · Crime

The Rookie
1990
Action · Crime

Assassination Games
2011
Action · Crime

Fire with Fire
2012
Action · Crime

Bound by Honor
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Hulu · Included

Blue Miracle
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Netflix · Included

The Substitute
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Prime Video · Included

The Closer
2005 · Series · Actor
Top 27%Netflix · Included

Major Crimes
2012 · Series · Actor
Top 56%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 72%Max · Included

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.
Dir. Taylor Hackford · With Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt

To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
Dir. Julio Quintana · With Jimmy Gonzales, Dennis Quaid, Anthony Gonzalez

When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.
Dir. Robert Mandel · With Tom Berenger, Raymond Cruz, Marc Anthony

A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Dir. Alex Kalymnios · With Taryn Manning, Raymond Cruz, Katie Sarife

Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
Dir. James Duff, Michael M. Robin · With Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Corey Reynolds

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
Dir. Phillip Noyce · With Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Joaquim de Almeida

A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback—an error that could be fatal.
Dir. Andrew Davis · With Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey

Major Crimes explores how the American justice system approaches the art of the deals as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction. Los Angeles Police Captain Sharon Raydor heads up a special squad within the LAPD that deals with high-profile or particularly sensitive crimes.
Dir. James Duff · With Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison

In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.
Dir. Michael Chaves · With Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velásquez

Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Dir. Jon Avnet · With Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing
To save his little brother from the hands of dangerous narcos of the Medellín cartel, Reda has a plan that is as simple as it is totally insane: put together a team and raid Colombia. But this adventure is going to get completely out of control when he decides to kidnap the son of the cartel leader to exchange him for his brother's life.
Dir. Franck Gastambide · With Franck Gastambide, Ramzy Bedia, Mike Tyson

After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same 'conspiracy cover up' that caused the death of his daughter.
Dir. April Mullen · With Aaron Eckhart, Katheryn Winnick, Heather Graham
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
Dir. Barbara Kopple · With Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, Shiri Appleby

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A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood.
Dir. Scott Spiegel · With Robert Patrick, Bo Hopkins, Duane Whitaker
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