Jacob Vargas
22 titles
Filmography
22 results

Mr. Iglesias
Stand-up comic Gabriel Iglesias stars in this series as a good-natured high school history teacher who tries to help gifted misfits.
Sleep Dealer
(2008)SLEEP DEALER is a Sundance award-winning sci-fi thriller packed with stunning visuals, strong social and political themes, and is being hailed by audiences and critics alike as "impressive, eye-opening…a timely message, deftly delivered… like Blade Runner and other big-brained sci-fi flicks, it’s about ideas..." (Wired) Memo Cruz (Luis Fernando Peña) is a young man in near-future Mexico. When his family is victim of a misguided drone attack he finds himself with no option but to head north, towards the U.S./Mexico border. But migrant workers cannot cross this new world border – it's been sealed off. Instead, Memo ends up in a strange digital factory in Mexico where he connects his body to a robot in America. Memo's search for a better future leads him to love, loss, and a confrontation with a mysterious figure from his past.

Road Dogz
(2002)Three close friends from an L.A. barrio find their trust tested by street code as one of their own returns from prison with just one strike left.

The Wendell Baker Story
(2005)A good-hearted ex-con working in a retirement hotel helps elderly residents fight a predatory scam, while they help him win back his ex-girlfriend.

The Hills Have Eyes 2
(2007)A unit of soldiers is attacked by a tribe of cannibalistic mutants.

Cesar Chavez
(2014)Michael Peña portrays the civil-rights activist and labor leader who fought for social justice in this impassioned biopic. Co-starring America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson, Jacob Vargas, Yancey Arias, Wes Bentley, John Ortiz, and John Malkovich.
Surfside Girls
Quick wits lead to daring discoveries for beachside besties Sam and Jade as they sleuth out supernatural mysteries in their sleepy hometown of Surfside. Based on the best-selling young adult graphic novels.

Crossing Point
(2016)An American tourist vacationing in Baja teams with a Tijuana cop to save his kidnapped fiancée from a ruthless Mexican drug cartel.

The Tell-Tale Heart
(2016)A haunting account of a tormented man who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Tell-Tale Heart".

My Family
(1995)Three-generational epic saga of the Sanchez family as told by the eldest son.

Devil
(2010)When a lift breaks down a group of people are stranded in this supernatural horror movie. Frightened by their claustrophobic surroundings, tempers become frayed, and just when it looks as if things can't get any worse, they discover that one of them is the devil - but which one is it?

Heaven Is for Real
(2014)Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name, Heaven is for Real brings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. The film stars Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reill...

Princess of the Row
(2020)Determined to return to the only family she knows, a foster kid braves Los Angeles' skid row in hopes of helping her mentally ill veteran dad.

The Journey of a Female Comic
(2014)La cómica e introspectiva crónica de los altibajos de una actriz y comediante latina en su lucha por alcanzar el éxito en Hollywood.

Traffic
(2000)A U.S. drug czar learns his teenage daughter is an addict in this Oscar-winning saga that interlaces three disturbing snapshots of America's drug war.

The Public
(2019)The Public is about downtown Cincinnati librarians Stuart Goodson (Emilio Estevez) and Myra (Jena Malone) who see their regular winter day shaken up when homeless patrons decide to take shelter in their library for the night. What starts as a peaceful sit-in quickly escalates into a face-off with the police and the media.

Next Friday
(2000)Fleeing a neighborhood bully, a man leaves South Central Los Angeles to live with his lottery-winner uncle. But trouble finds him even in the suburbs.

Peel
(2019)For thirty years, Peel Munter has lived an innocent, care free-life alone with his mother. But when his mother suddenly dies, Peel braves the outside world to go in search of his long lost brother.

National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
(2006)A celebration of the ever-increasing depravity of television in our society, it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials.

Selena
(1997)Selena rises from a musical Texas family to stardom, finding love and fame before her life is tragically cut short during a career breakthrough.