puerto rico
actuaciones favoritas en largometrajes puertorriqueños, sin orden específico:
René Monclova (Lo que le pasó a Santiago),
Esther Sandoval (Dios los cría...),
Jacobo Morales (Broche de oro),
Mariam Pabón (Casi casi),
Marisé Alvarez Hernández (Extra Terrestres),
Amneris Morales (Bala perdida),
Amneris Morales (La granja),
Yulie Padilla (La granja),
Luis Gonzaga (Maldeamores),
Miguel Ángel Suárez (Barrios: El baila’o de Julia y Berto),
Aris Mejías (Barrios: El rumbón de Fepe),
Nancy Millán (La espera desespera),
Cordelia González (Antes que cante el gallo),
Michelle Deliz [as herself] (12 horas),
Idalia Pérez Garay (La guagua aérea),
Carlos Romero Barceló (Nuyorican Basquet)
‘Los peloteros’ también = ‘Las manos del hombre’ (DIVEDCO)
‘15 Faros de Puerto Rico’ también = ‘Mona: Tesoro del Caribe’
(list created in October, 2018 (letterboxd) - published May 29, 2019 - capped at 33 films)
René Monclova (Lo que le pasó a Santiago),
Esther Sandoval (Dios los cría...),
Jacobo Morales (Broche de oro),
Mariam Pabón (Casi casi),
Marisé Alvarez Hernández (Extra Terrestres),
Amneris Morales (Bala perdida),
Amneris Morales (La granja),
Yulie Padilla (La granja),
Luis Gonzaga (Maldeamores),
Miguel Ángel Suárez (Barrios: El baila’o de Julia y Berto),
Aris Mejías (Barrios: El rumbón de Fepe),
Nancy Millán (La espera desespera),
Cordelia González (Antes que cante el gallo),
Michelle Deliz [as herself] (12 horas),
Idalia Pérez Garay (La guagua aérea),
Carlos Romero Barceló (Nuyorican Basquet)
‘Los peloteros’ también = ‘Las manos del hombre’ (DIVEDCO)
‘15 Faros de Puerto Rico’ también = ‘Mona: Tesoro del Caribe’
(list created in October, 2018 (letterboxd) - published May 29, 2019 - capped at 33 films)
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- DirectorAna Maria GarciaDocumentary on the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 50s and 60s.
- DirectorJacobo MoralesStarsDaniel LugoJacobo MoralesSilvia MontanariAfter many years of absence in San Juan, Paco, a young businessman out of work, meets successful Nicolás, an old friend from a fraternity. Nicolás invites him to his house, where Paco meets a woman from his past, now Nicolás' wife.
- DirectorJacobo MoralesStarsTommy MuñizGladys RodríguezJohanna RosalySantiago, a retired accountant, casually meets Angelina during one of his daily walks in Old San Juan. They soon become friends, even though she refuses to give out any personal information.
- DirectorJack DelanoStarsRamón RiveroMiriam ColonJosé Manuel MatosA group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league.
- DirectorRaúl Marchand SánchezStarsJacobo MoralesAdrian GarciaDiego de la TexeraRafael, Elmo, and Pablo run away from the strict Catholic retirement home where they live with Carlos, Rafael's grandson, to embark on an adventure and prove life does not stop because of age.
- DirectorJacobo MoralesStarsNorma CandalCarlos CesteroPedro Juan FigueroaConsists of five stories: "Dios los cría...", dealing with brothers' rivalry for an inheritance; "Negocio redondo", about a lawyer selling a property to the Catholic church with guilty feelings; "Entre 12 y 1", where a couple and a close friend get trapped in an elevator; "La gran noche", a night in the life of an old prostitute; and "La otra", where a man alternates between two women.
- DirectorCarlitos Ruiz RuizStarsCristian ColónAndrea RuizAura FragosoA young boy meets a new friend thanks to a bouncing ball.
- DirectorSonia FritzA journey to Puerto Rico's past and present, the significance and beauty around the lighthouses.
- DirectorTito Román RiveraStarsPaul EstradeJean JeanFelix OjedaA documentary about Puerto Rican iconic revolutionary, Ramon Emeterio Betances, that takes us to a journey to France, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico. He lived in and influenced important revolutionaries in all those countries. Even though he is well known in all of these countries, he is unknown in his own country of Puerto Rico.
- DirectorAri Maniel CruzStarsLivan AlbeloRicardo AlvarezNicole BetancourtDr. Eduardo Suárez struggles with the deteriorating health of his wife Aurora after she is diagnosed with Alzheimers.
- DirectorMariem Pérez RieraStarsChucho AvellanetAlejandro CroattoHermes CroattoAfter emigrating to Argentina from Italy's World War Two, the life of Tony Croatto as an immigrant-led him to become one of the most important folk musicians in Puerto Rico leaving a historic musical legacy to the island.
- DirectorVerónica Ortiz-CalderónStarsVerónica Ortiz-CalderónCatherine Mercado MuñizCarmen Yulín CruzA young woman in the hurricane-ravaged island of Puerto Rico struggles to go about her daily life, as the world around her bickers over the way things should've been.
- DirectorMaite Rivera CarbonellHow fair is it for the government to control its citizens? Four Puerto Ricans confront their past when they open their "files", the records obtained of the illegal surveillance and persecution that the Puerto Rican government held against citizens and organizations that disagreed with the establishment. Through their daily life, they will tell us their stories, experiences and intimate feelings of the persecution they suffered. Taking their past as an example, we will confront the present.
- DirectorAlfredo E. RivasStarsRafi MatosA Puerto-Rican Vietnam veteran returns to the site where he was injured in combat 36 years prior.
- DirectorAlex Santiago PerezStarsDaniel LugoCristina SolerJaime BelloWhen a solitary, eccentric artist and professor learns he's going blind, he must come to terms with this terrifying fact and sort things out with his daughter, who became estranged from him years ago.
- DirectorJacobo MoralesStarsBraulio CastilloJacobo MoralesYamaris LatorreÁngel Lugo is a corrupt police captain responsible for the wrongful imprisonment of Mariano Farías and the murder of his pregnant wife. After 15 years in a federal prison, Farías is still determined to prove his innocence.
- StarsModesto LacenKisha Tikina BurgosMiguel Ángel SuárezThree stories that narrate the normality of life in all three types of urban post-industrialization developments in Puerto Rico, the parcelas, caseríos, and residenciales.
- DirectorRicardo Méndez MattaStarsSteven BauerIsidro BobadillaElpidia Carrillo"Ladrones & Mentirosos" is the heartrending story of three Puerto Rican families struggling to stay together in a society overcome by corruption and drugs. Using a parallel structure, the film focuses on the three generations that comprise each family: teenagers, their parents and their grandparents.
- DirectorAngel Manuel SotoStarsAlexandra Lopez GalanJazmín CaratiniYulie PadillaA promising young boxer, a barren midwife and a fat kid with a bike: three intersecting stories about the pursuit of happiness and it's unanticipated consequences during the economic collapse of the island of Puerto Rico.
- DirectorMarcos ZurinagaStarsDaniel LugoCordelia GonzálezMiguel Ángel SuárezIn 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it's about to be turned into a U.S. Military base. The guests drink, seduce, and gossip, but some also plot against each other.
- DirectorCarla CavinaStarsSunshine LogroñoMarisé ÁlvarezElba EscobarA family, 100,000 chickens with a death sentence, a secret that will unveil all family secrets, and a star 2,500 million light years away that will make them understand that we all are metaphorically ExtraTerrestrials.
- DirectorAri Maniel CruzStarsCordelia GonzálezMiranda PurcellKisha Tikina BurgosTeenager Carmín's dream of moving to the city with her mother Doris vanishes when she moves to the US with her new husband. Now she grows and lives in Barranquitas, a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico, with her grandmother, a tough and conservative woman. The arrival of her father Rubén after long years in prison eases her profound sadness. The relationship with him, however, brings its own ambiguousness and complexities. Now she must learn to live between abandonment and carefulness; amidst absence, desire and love.
- DirectorChristian SuauThe history of Puerto Rico's largest and oldest prison as seen by one of the inmates who lived in it for 47 years. Known as el jibaro this man recounts the nightmares he went through as he lived and saw the horrors first hand. From the civil war that ensued in the 1970's which resulted in hundreds of murders inside the prison and the birth of 2 of puertorico's most notorious prison gangs the ñetas and the 27's. Talks about inmates being chopped in pieces and flushed down the sewers, being locked up in the dungeon and even voodoo and paranormal activity in the prison that was his home for 47 years.