Tomas Milian

Country: Italy
Total Credits at Criticker: 91 (Actor), 2 (Writer)
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Based on a true story, a group of enslaved Africans aboard the slaveship La Amistad overtake the ship and attempt to return to their homeland. When the ship is seized, the captives are brought to the United States where an enthralling courtroom battle ensues that captures the attention of the entire nation while confronting the very foundation of the American justice system. (DreamWorks)
Sparks fly and cultures collide in this romantic comedy about a casual night of passion that turns into the love of a lifetime. Matthew Perry stars as Alex Whitman, a New Yorker sent to Las Vegas to oversee a construction project. There he meets Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek), and some serious chemistry brings them together for one night. But Alex doesn't see Isabel again until three months later, when he learns she is pregnant. On a whim and prayer, he proposes. However, there's more to marriage than a Vegas chapel and an Elvis impersonator, as Alex and Isabel soon learn. (imdb)
Traffic evokes the high stakes and high risks of the drug trade, as seen through a series of interrelated stories, some of which are highly personal and some of which are filled with intrigue and danger. (USA Films)
In the Latino neighborhood of New York City's Washington Heights, two sons of immigrants one Dominican, one Irish wrestle with ambition and identity, only to discover that sometimes pursuing one's dreams comes at a heavy cost.
A drama set in the vast New York City subway yards. After serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of his friends, Leo Handler (Wahlberg) just wants to get his life back on track. So, Leo returns to the one place he thinks will be safe -- home. But in the yards, where his uncle (Caan) now pulls the strings, safe is not how they do business. (Miramax Films)
Two buddies and championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar... (imdb)
Andy Garcia stars and makes his directorial debut in a passionate and historical tribute to his native Cuba. (Magnolia Pictures)
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe... (imdb)
The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II. (imdb)
Four petty criminals, three men and a woman, wander through the trackless terrain of the Wild West Utah and are hounded by a sadistic bandit. (imdb)
Story of the world-renowned trumpet player. (imdb)
Several competing groups and mavericks (including the lead character Cuchillo) are hunting a gold treasure of $3,000,000. The gold was reserved for the Mexican revolution. (imdb)
Mexican outlaw Django is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. Django is not completely dead though... (imdb)
19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the clues that have been handed to him. (imdb)
The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about womens relationships... (imdb)
A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers killing each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery... (imdb)
Ambush (2001) - Short Film
The Driver is a shadowy BMW driver who serves as a chauffeur. On a dark night, he is carrying an elderly old Cuban. They are startled by a van full of armed terrorists, demanding a cache of diamonds stolen by the passenger. At first the Driver is willing to give it up, but when he learns that his cargo actually swallowed the diamonds, he decides to do the right thing. (imdb)
In a small Sicilian village strange events occur. A young boy is murdered. It gets more complicated and the local detectives are having trouble to solve the mystery...
Michael "Jay" Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years. He's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he once flew to Alaska for a hunting trip... (imdb)
Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict... (imdb)
Jonathan Corbett is a gunman so Brave to have eliminated all the bandits of Texas. For this he is proposed for the candidacy to the Senate of the United States. In exchange he has only to support the construction of one railway line. Only after he accepts does he comes to know that the Mexican Cuchillo has raped and killed a 12 year old girl. Corbett leaves on a long manhunt... (imdb)
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness. (imdb)
Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. Shortly after they arrive in Cuba, Roberta and her Cuban husband, the revolutionary Arturo, are arrested and tortured. Arturo is reported "shot while trying to escape," but Jack manages to get Roberta free again... (imdb)
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer. (imdb)
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. (imdb)
A determined sheriff pursues a robber and his girlfriend, and lets nothing stop in his way of catching them. (imdb)
The Spaghetti West (2005) - Direct-to-Video
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s. (imdb)
A young Italian noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father leading to an uproar in the community and the Roman Catholic church set in 16th Century Italy. (imdb)
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't making him all that much money, so he figures to hit the "big time" by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man. (imdb)
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families. (imdb)
A wealthy, decadent count convinces a disillusioned playboy that they shall murder one another's relatives, to get away with the perfect crime. The count murders the playboy's unpleasant wife. Now the playboy finds he cannot keep his end of the bargain, while the police finger him for the murder. (imdb)
This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New World' ('Il Nuovo Mondo') illustrates a post-apocalypse world the same as the pre-apocalyptic one but for an enigmatic change in attitude in most people, including the central character's girlfriend... (imdb)
An American veteran (Weller) of the Dominican Republic intervention (LBJ era) is running a hotel in Miami, and is trying to put the memories of the intervention behind him. He gets involved with a former Dominican Republic general's wife (McGillis). He then gets duped through a series of intricate plot twists into helping a group of people trying to rip the general off. (imdb)
Women love handsome Antonio because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when they are married. When the town learns about his trouble they start laughing at him... (imdb)
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name. (imdb)
A wild and bizarre take on the comedy spaghetti western where East meets the Wild West. (Amazon.com)
The Mexican guerrilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro. (imdb)
In the Second World War, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania. (imdb)
This story of youthful rebellion is taken from the ancient Greek classic "Antigone." The setting is modern times and Britt Eklund plays Antigone in a fictitious land where reality is suspended. Haimon (Tomas Milian) goes against the wishes of his father and the prime minister by wanting to become an animal. Tiresias (Pierre Clementi) plays a Christ-like figure.
A top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves. (imdb)
L.A.P.D. Captain Parker (Bud Spencer)finally is going on Holiday with all his family. At the last moment he has to cancel the program to re-capture a pilferer named Tony Roma (Tomas Milian), bad copy of a Latin lover. He use to seduce older women and then steals their jewelry. Parker is close to sort the case out when Roma is witness of a Mafia murder. Parker Holiday flies away. (imdb)
Death Sentence is the literal English translation of Setenza di Morte, the original Italian title of this spaghetti western. Robin Clarke stars as a vengeful frontiersman whose brother has been killed. In the tradition of the Budd Boetticher classic Seven Men From Now, Clarke methodically hunts down the four men responsible. Hollywood's Richard Conte is second-billed as one of the culprits. Tomas Milian steals the show as an albino gunman prone to epileptic fits. (spaghetti-western.net)
Escaped outlaw Gomez returns to his home town pursued by bounty killer Chilson. The towns people protect Gomez, unaware, at first, that he is now a changed and dangerous man.
Having spent the past year and a half hiding out in Corsica, hunchbacked robber Vincenzo Marazzo (Tomas Milian) - "Humpo" to his friends - returns home, goes to see his younger twin Sergio (also Tomas Milian) - Pigsty to his friends - and orchestrate a bank robbery. Unfortunately "Humpo's" fellow robbers are fearful that he is too easily recognized (because of his hump dummy!) shoots his brother instead of him! The hunchback brother plans his revenge... (revengehorror.com)
A young gangster nicknamed "Chinaman," and his two thugs scheme to rip off crime boss Frank Di Maggio, who runs a criminal empire in Rome. They plan to take control of all of his syndicate operations. As a vicious war breaks out between the two feuding gangsters, police inspector Leonardo Tanzi comes on the scene, guns a'blazing. Driven by the recent killing of this uncle, it seems nothing can stop him in his quest for bloody revenge. (Amazon.com)
Ravelli is a cop consumed with the desire to get revenge on the crook who shot his wife to death during a robbery. The crook is Marseilles, who is trying to assemble funds for his own retirement. As the revenge scenario moves toward the inevitable confrontation, Emergency Squad retains interest because it paints both leads in a complex fashion. Ravelli's obsessive quest makes him as scary as he is sympathetic and the icy Marseilles reveals some surprisingly vulnerable sides to his character. (allmovie.com)
Inspector Sarti teams up with criminal Monnezza/Garbage can and three other scumbags to find a young sick girl who was kidnapped by Brescianelli and his gang. Then we get a whole lot of shout outs, car chases, bitchslappings and the usual foul language, before everything comes together in the finale. (thedevilshoney.blogspot.com)
An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II. (imdb)
This Italian western comedy has no shooting deaths, but a lot of fistfights. Provvidenza is a bounty hunter. He makes his living solely by catching his dim but powerful friend, the Hurricane Kid (Gregg Palmer) and turning him in for the reward money. A fully armed horseless carriage is one of the inventive elements of this film. One of the film's sillier highlights is an amazingly loud and long belch by the Kid. (allmovie.com)
The story involves some burglars who unintentionally steal some top secret documents from a villainous American businessman played by Robert Webber. When the burglars try to blackmail Webber, he retaliates with more force than they had reckoned with as he hires a contract killer to get rid of them. Special cop Nico Giraldi (Milian) is on the case however and he follows Webber back to the states. (fortunecity.com)
This time "undercover" inspector Nico Giraldi (Milian) is investigating an insurance fraud with the help of an English detective (David Hermmings) employed by "Loyd's of London" - the "most prestigious insurance company in the world". The investigation leads the unlikely team into the Gay underworld of Rome, which gave the filmmakers the opportunity to incorporate some low-brow "gay-bashing" as the ridiculously macho Giraldi visits a Gay club. (fortunecity.com)
Manfred Ruffini, member of the "Tiberina Family", a criminal association, runs amok and the district attorney arrests the owner of the barge on which the crime it has been made. But the marshal Nico Giraldi, called "Monnezza", is not convinced and, although deprived of authority he gives his all to arrive at the truth. (fortunecity.com)
The cops vs. the mafia with Tomas Milian as supercop Nico Giraldi. (deanmarshall.co.uk)
In Milan, during a football match, the thief Franco Bertarelli, called "breeze", he manages to steal the house keys to Mr. Tassinelli, and, entering the same, is grabbing the values occur when a man and a woman, forcing him to hide under the bed. Dall'incomoda position fails to note that the man flaunting a conspicuous scar on foot, but when the man is gone, the thief is in front of the corpse of Elena Tassinelli. (yahoo.com)
The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnapped by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out. (imdb)
Milian works in an undercover operation to try to identify a gang which is robbing trucks on the highway : therefore he is has to be away from home for several weeks, he is not even allowed to phone home . Then he falls in love with Viola Valentino and decides to break his love history with his wife (imdb comments)
While keeping an eye on his small time crook brother in law, Inspector Nico Giraldi gets involved in a murder case set in the world of Formula One racing. Giraldi is suspended for trying to cover up for his brother in law and becomes afraid his wife and son may be targeted next. Therefore he calls in the help of his childhood friend and chief informant, Venticello. (imdb)
Inspector Nico Giraldi is a cop that is instructed to go undercover in a gay club to try and find out who murdered successful transgender singer Nadia. He was chosen because his boss believes he is 'attractive to men'. The inspector soon gets to work; setting up home with a friend in town and then picking up a drag queen at the bar... (imdb comments)
The film starts by depicting the mysterious murders of various Government officials. The film then shows the central copper as he delves into the mystery, starting with finding a prostitute who is believed to be involved in the murder of an innocent man. However, the further he searches, the more it becomes apparent that the murders are all linked to a conspiracy that goes deeper than he first thought... (imdb comments)
A daring gang of bandits pull off a series of risky heists in Milan, murdering several innocent bystanders in the film's exciting opening getaway scene. Lizzani then moves the story backwards in time, painting a portrait of Milan as a seething hotbed of vice. Gian Maria Volonte gives an increasingly flamboyant performance as the gang's egomaniacal leader, whose Nazi-like belief in his own superiority proves to be the flaw which foils his plans... (allmovie.com)
Espidito, survives the massacre of his entire village. A hermit helps him believing he is a Jesus like figure. As "Redeemer" Espidito goes out to help the poor turning to guns and his own rebel band. The discovery of oil twists everything. (imdb)
Silly '50s style juvenile delinquent flick with a '70s Eurotrashy touch. Three teenaged punks kidnap a rich girl and force her to accompany them as they terrorize the streets of Milan. Fun car chases in dumpy Euro-subcompacts and a surprise ending add to the fun. (imdb comments)
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter. (imdb)
The idle lives of the rich or famous or both are depicted from an aloof and uninvolved perspective. Claudia Cardinale appears in one of her early screen roles as Fedora, a member of the elite and privileged in a provincial Italian town. The seedy underside of illicit affairs, quick flings, betrayals and deceptions, and other, similar pasttimes of the "in" circle slowly become apparent when a young outsider tries to gain acceptance into the exclusive group. (allmovie.com)
Mlle de Maupin, an Hungarian young woman, escapes from her country under the guise of a monk. A strict army officer forces Theodore the 'monk', to enlist in the King's army, for the times are of war, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. (imdb)
Two young unenployed men, Scintillone and Ruggeretto, pick up a couple of prostitutes. They hope their company will help them sell some rifles they have stolen. On their way they meet Bella Bella, who also aids them in selling the goods...
Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor. (imdb)
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story (1990) - TV Mini-Series
Fact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena who, while stationed in Guadalajara, uncovered a massive marijuana operation in Northern Mexico that led to his death and a remarkable investigation of corruption within the Mexican government. (imdb)
Even more oddball and cartoonish sequel to Petroni's original. More Looney Tunes style comic theatrics starring Tomas Milian as the Chaplinesque Providenza. This one has less spaghetti trappings than its predecessor. The jokes, sight gags and pratfalls are non-stop and I can't even tell you what it's all about. It's still more polished than any of Carnimeo's out-of-control "comedies". There appears to have been a bigger budget this time out as well. (fistful-of-leone.com)
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies... (imdb)
Julie Ballenger has spent the last five years in a psychiatric clinic. Leaving the clinic, apparently cured, she is engaged by a wealthy industrialist, Mostri, to work as a governess to his young nephew, Thomas. (FilmAffinity)
Franco Colombo (Renato Pozzetto) has always been passionate about flowers, lives in Varese doing gardening, maintained by Uncle Fortunato, owner of a firm of canned meat; the death of his uncle, becomes the new president and is responsible Advocate Company in order to avoid bankruptcy, to go to Rome to deliver 100 million into the hands of Mr corrupt ministry, an important order for supplies abroad...
Leon de Paris is a modest dog-barber in Paris. In search of more satisfaction. Thanks to the economic helps of Fanny (his terrible mother in law), he succeeds to set up in Roma a very stylish "Coiffeur pour homme". But due to this, his life with Fanny isn't funny, and more, Leon has to dissimulate homosexuality for job reasons. He decides to stop this nightmare engaging "Er Cuculo" (the cuckoo) a B-gangster to simulate a robbery
Tomas Milian lives with his domineering mother and dreams of opening his own gas station, but can't get a permit because he doesn't know the right people in the Italian bureaucracy. Then out of the blue, a beautiful American blonde woman comes along claiming to represent a large oil company and tells him that she will help him become manager of his own gas station. It turns out that Milian--whose birth was the result of a brief tryst between an middle Eastern emir and an Italian hotel maid...
Amusing story of an Argentine football player, now forgotten, who lives in a small town. In the end everything is solved by an unforgettable match. (ftvdb.bfi)
Boxer Teddy Wilcox (Robert Blake) leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die. Despite Nick's efforts to sabotage the fight, Wilcox wins. Enraged, Wilcox orders Nick to keep away from him. Later that night, Nick is murdered. Of course, Wilcox is the primary suspect. Wilcox then tries to clear his name and find Nick's killer. (imdb)
The Burning Season (1994) - TV Movie
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder. (imdb)
Gino, a thief, takes in a small boy who has been abandoned by his parents, and gives him everything he can, all stolen from the best shops. The boy is asked to write an essay at school about his father, and he tells the truth about Gino, which leads to the thief's arrest. (bfi)
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime. (imdb)
Alien spirits from outer space land on earth and take over the bodies of the recently deceased--but their purpose isn't what it would appear to be. (imdb)
A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a caper in Austria. (imdb)
Milian is living in a home that's in the heart of Roman Governmental Power (making him all the more vulnerable). The servants are all homosexuals. (Invisionfree.com)
Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble. (imdb)
The story of Rosalie Bonnano, the daughter of a powerful New York Mafia boss who married the son of her father's rival, another powerful New York Mafia boss.
Laura, a beautiful young middle class woman, marries Franco just to see what it is like to tie in the knot. She is not happy with him and tries to find happiness in the arms of a couple of men, among whom a respected teacher. But her quest is a failure and , in the end, she finds herself helpless and desperate. (imdb)
An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a wealthy businessman. (imdb)