Disorganized Crime (1989)
as Ray Forgy

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Director: Jim Kouf
Cast: Corbin Bernsen, Ruben Blades, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ed O'Neill, Fred Gwynne

A gang of proffesional criminals have everything it takes to rob a bank except their boss, a car and a plan. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are. By the time the gang hits the bank vault, it a safe bet there's going to be organized insanity and disorganized crime!

Renegades (1989)
as Hank Storm

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Director: Jim Kouf
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jami Gertz

A undercover cop and Lakota Indian are bonded together in a quest for revenge. Buster McHenry is a undercover Philidelphia cop, who gets out of his depth, and suddenly finds himself an unwilling participant in a brutal diamonds robbery,during the course of which two cops and a jeweller are killed.
Hank Storm, is a Lakota Indian who gets caught up in the carnage when the fleeing robbers kill his brother and steal a ancient lance that is his tribes sacred totem.
Hank is forced to team up with the badly wounded Buster, who has now been branded a rogue by both cops and crooks. Together they hit the warpath to seek revenge and retrive the ancient lance.


Young Guns (1988)
as Jose Chavez Y Chavez

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Director:Christopher Cain
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp

A group of drifter-outcasts are befriended and employed as ranch regulators by a emigrant Englishman. It's New Mexico 1878 and kindly merchant - rancher John Tunstall is gunned down by killers employed by L.G Murphy, a mobster businessman who is backed by the Sante Fe ring, a county controlling 'community interest mafia'.
Under the control of the level headed Dick Brewer, the blood lust of the regulators is kept under control, but Dick's command is constantly questioned by the wild William H Bonney a.ka Billy The Kid. When Brewer is killed, Billy The Kid becomes leader and justice becomes vendetta vengeance.
After the Ring bribe the state governors office, and get the regulators deputisations revoked, they become wanted men the target of the largest manhunt in frontier history.


Stand And Deliver (1988)
as Angel

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Director: Ramon Menendez
Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips

Angel is a troubled teenager at Garfield High School where most of the pupils seem to be caught up in violence or drugs. When a new teacher Jamie Escalante comes to the school he is determined to change all that and straighten his class of delinquents out to pass their calculus exam and prove to the authorities that you can succeed no matter what your background is. After a long hard struggle, Escalante eventually succeeds in his entire class passing, but is met with suspicion from the authorities who accuse the entire class of cheating and therefore make their grades invalid. The class has a choice accept the verdict and have the matter dropped or sit the test again to prove their innocence.

La Bamba (1987)
As Ritchie Valens

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Director: Luis Valdez
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Elizabeth Pena, Rosana De Soto, Danielle von Zerneck,
Joe Pantoliano

Rock and Roll star Ritchie Valens was a Mexican boy from a poor family, who at the age of 17 in 1958 just after eight months of stardom was tragically killed in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.
La Bamba tells the true story of Ritchie's rise to stardom and the problems he encounters, with his jealous brother Bob who finds it hard to come to terms with his brothers sudden success, and his girlfriends prejudice parents who don't think that a poor Mexican is good enough for their rich white daughter.


The Three Kings (1987) TV Movie
as Tag/King Casper

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Director: Mel Damski
Cast:Lou Diamond Phillips, Jack Warden, Stan Shaw, Tiana Alexandra, Jane Kaczmarek

The story begins two days before Christmas when three men escape from a psychiatric ward during a pageant where they are playing The Three Kings. Believing that they are reincarnations of Melchior, Casper, and Balthasar, they decide to search for the Christ child on three camels lent to the production.

Dakota (1987)
as John Dakota

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Director: Fred Holmes
Associate Producer: Lou Diamond Phillips
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dee Dee Norton

John Dakota who after getting into trouble with the law once too often faces a choice of going to prison or going to work on a ranch to pay off his debt to society.
Deciding that he would rather work on the ranch than face prison, he joins the Lechner family at the Diamond Thoroughbred Horse Ranch.
Having had no real experience with horses, John feels out of his depth and decides that he would be far better at renovating a 1911 Olds mobile to be entered in a prestigious cross country race. However his past soon comes back to haunt him and Dakota must choose between running from the past or facing up to his responsibilities with the family he has come to love and respect.


Harley (1986)
as Harley

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Director: Fred Holmes
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Eli Cummin, Jan DeWitt, Kim Valentine

Harley is a streetwise kid who is always in trouble with the law. After yet another run in with the police, a caseworker takes pity on him and thinks that rather than Harley being given a prison sentence, it would be better for him to be on probation for the summer working on a Texas ranch with the Norton family. Jim Norton, the head of the family is an ex biker who has left the gang life behind for a wife and family and understands Harley.
At first Harely is reluctant to stay with the family but he soon learns to respect and trust the Nortons who introduce him to better way of life, away from the gangs and violence he has previously encountered.

Trespasses(1986)
as Kid

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Director: Adam Rourke and Loren Bivens
Co-Writer: Lou Diamond Phillips
Cast: Robert Kuhn, Mary Pilot, Adam Rourke, Lou Diamond Phillips

A lowlife drifter, nicknamed Kid arrives in town with his drifter friend and shatters the quiet community of Lazarus, Texas. After a bungled attempt to kidnap a local girl outside a late night store, their plan is interrupted by the appearance of a woman called Sharon who informs the store manager of their suspicious going on. Knowing that they have no chance, they leave vowing to get revenge on Sharon for spoiling their plans.
True to their word, the next day they wait their chance and attack Sharon outside of her home brutally raping her. They are disturbed by a local man Franklin and his son Johnny who try to intervene with fatal consequences which ends with the Kid killing Johnny. The two drifters are forced to flee, and go on the run.


Interface(1984)
as Punk 1

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Director: Andy Anderson
Cast: John Davies, Laura Lane, Matthew Sacks, Lou Diamond Phillips

Beneath the serene campus of State University, within the cavernous underground tunnels, a game of peril is being played. The object to eliminate the criminal elements of society. It was meant to be an exercise in Computer Science, but somehow the fantasy became reality, the objective became an obsession.


Time Bomb(1984) TV Movie
as a Terrorist (uncredited)

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Director: Paul Krasny
Cast: Morgan Fairchild, Billy Dee Williams, Merlin Oslen, Lou Diamond Phillips

Wesley Tanner, Jake Callahan and Daniel O'Bannon are three government agents who are chosen to transport the deadliest cargo known to man - a consignment of nuclear weapon grade plutonium, which in the wrong hands, could destroy the whole world. The vehicle they use to transport this time bomb is the STT, a custom built truck equipped with the highest state electronic gadgets and tyres that are able to withstand fifty calibre machine gun fire.
However, when the leader of an international terrorist organization the deadly Renee DeSalles decides that she wants the time bomb for her own illicit purposes, she will let nothing stand in her way until she gets what she wants.

Angel Alley (1983)
as Mario

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Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Rob Stone.

Short christian youth film, that won first prize in the Family Entertainment category at the USA Film Festival in 1984.
What does it mean to be a winner? Nick needed to find that out. It was the summer after his graduation. He was eighteen and faced with a difficult decision. Things were tough at home, Sonny was offering money and a shot at the big time, but Nick had other dreams.
For Frank and Darryl it was a chance for a scoop. For Max a chance to make a comeback! For Mario a chance to settle a grudge.
Nick was praying for guidance. Would there be handwriting on the wall or a voice from heaven? Nick knew the Lord had a plan for his life but he didn't know how to find it.