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¿Cine en Puerto Rico? (1979)
Character: Self
Documentary that analyzes the situation of the film industry in Puerto Rico from its beginnings in 1912 to 1979. Filmmakers Jack Delano, Juan Viguié, Oscar Orzábal, Axel Anderson, Paquito Cordero, Efraín López Neris, Roberto Guastella, Roberto Gándara, Geronimo Mitchell and Tito Bonilla participate.
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Death in Granada (1996)
Character: Ortega
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
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Judíos en el espacio (2006)
Character: Mauricio
Sixteen years after she gave him a farewell kiss, Santiago is reunited with his cousin and childhood sweetheart Luciana, when she returns home to Buenos Aires from New York. When their curmudgeonly grandfather Mauricio has a near-death experience, Luciana decides to take family matters into her own hands and prepare the traditional Passover Seder.
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Riding 79 (2014)
Character: N/A
A coming of age story about a 16-year-old boy who finds himself searching for escape in the island of Puerto Rico after his mother leaves him and his sister with his grandparents in a surf town. His fascination with a hula hoop model leads him to steal his grandfather’s car to meet the object of his affection in person.
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El otro camino (1960)
Character: Gabriel
The story of a widow who owns a coffee hacienda, focusing on the dynamics between her son and the man who romances her.
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Desamores (2004)
Character: N/A
There has been a grave massacre within a highly successful insurance company in Puerto Rico. The owners, a married couple, have been slaughtered along with their employees. While the police are investigating, a private investigator, Isabelo, is hired. The investigation takes place in an underworld of frayed relationships and foul connections. It is a detective story that revolves around unforeseen secrets dealing in the occult and certain passions that only appear to spawn loathing.
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Más allá del Capitolio (1962)
Character: Periodista
A small town celebrates the triumph of their revolution. Under the euphoria of the moment, the town's founder is declared a traitor and the destruction of his statue is decided by the people. A journalist buys the statue before it is destroyed. Later, the townspeople discover that the statue isn't from who they thought it was and they decide to retrieve it. The journalist, however, doesn't want to give it back, giving rise to the dilemma.
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Quiéreme mucho (2005)
Character: Rómulo
Families gather to receive the New Year. But this meeting brings a series of confessions that will make for a very peculiar evening.
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Que será (1995)
Character: N/A
A man shares his apartment with his elderly mother. He puts a Doris Day record, "Que sera, sera", and his life walks by in a flash.
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Del cielo a la tierra (2007)
Character: Padre Lomba
The story of Father Miguel Ángel, who has to face the parishioners' opposition to accept Father Lomba's retirement from the parish. Miguel Ángel will have to prove his worth as a priest when he is cornered by the community's apathy because he is too young and does not have previous experience in that line of work.
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La guagua aérea (1993)
Character: Padre Gautier
A comedy narrating the adventures of ten Puerto Ricans looking for a better life. The film centers on an airplane trip to New York during 1960's. It relates in a comical, yet poignant manner, the array of reasons each of the passengers has for leaving Puerto Rico and the challenges they face as suggested by the interactions of the Anglo crew and the passengers.
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El detective Cojines (2011)
Character: N/A
The story of a college professor obsessed with private eye novels who, following an accident, becomes a private investigator patterned after the movies and novels of the 40’s. Among the cases he investigates, three will come to him that will reveal a full range of intrigue and bizarre secrets.
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La caja de problemas (2004)
Character: Psychologist
Frank Anderson is a successful consulter, wealthy, with no problems. He gets bored of his perfect life and decides that he need problems in his life. Then he gets his hands on a box and in less that 24 hours his life turns upside down. All hell breaks loose for Frank, as he tries to get rid of the box for his problems to end.
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Desvío al paraíso (1994)
Character: Clark
Quinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico, purporting to be the new caretaker the owner has been expecting. He gets right to work, making a good impression on everybody, except Gus, the reclusive teenage gas station attendant. Soon, sinister things come to pass
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Entremedio (2006)
Character: N/A
Noah, an investigative reporter, finds himself in love with Yin, a friend for many years. Noah arranges a dinner where he will finally declare this secret love to her, but Yin is called away on business. The following day Noah wakes up determined to speak with her. As he tries to connect with Yin, he discovers that she is nowhere to be found. As Noah attempts to unfold the mystery of her disappearance, the history of even her existence is questioned.
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The Face at the Window (1998)
Character: Uncle Pablo
Sylvia is writing her first novel. This will uncover dark secrets from her family's past; a past that now returns to haunt her. Disturbing, strange, frightening ghost story set in an exotic Spanish colonial city by the sea. A tale of mystery and terror that will keep you guessing from start to end.
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Organización criminal (1968)
Character: N/A
A summit meeting of rival gangs, one predominantly Italian and the other a mix of Polish, Irish, and Italian mobsters, fails to resolve their differences, and gang war breaks out.
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Celestino y el Vampiro (2003)
Character: Siegfried Von Krank
In Old San Juan a 40+ year old divorcée is not aware he befriends a vampire who bites women, not in their necks but in their derrières, leaving them with flattened behinds. A vampire hunter from Europe warns Celestino about his neighbor and tries to recruit his help in salvaging a much cherished national heritage. But there is a difficulty: this vampire will not die by a stake through his heart and to avoid destruction he wears tin underwear.
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Vanished (2006)
Character: Shopkeeper
During a visit to a tropical island, a man mysteriously disappears and his wife must lead her own investigation in order to find him.
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Luisa tenía razón (1968)
Character: Dr. Carrison
Explores concerns about uterine cancer and the value of the Pap Test in detecting this serious type of cancer.
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Luz (2010)
Character: Narciso
An old man takes care of his senile wife.
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Taínos: la última tribu (2005)
Character: Mr. Cordero (Sara's Grandfather)
Sara, a young archaeology student, organizes an expedition to La Mora Cave. Guided by Yabey, Sara and her four friends, discover a hidden Taíno tribe, believed to be extinguished 500 years ago.
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Undercurrent (1999)
Character: Carlos Rivera Sr
A nightclub manager with financial problems accepts an offer to seduce another man's wife for money, and soon finds himself entwined in a web of double-crossing con artists.
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Leyendas de Puerto Rico (1999)
Character: Padre Dominguez / Padre de Dina
A film narrative on Puerto Rican playwright and journalist don Cayetano Coll y Toste. Three of his most famous stories are reenacted: "El Santo Cristo de la Salud", "El Espíritu del Carretero", and "La Garita del Diablo".
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Los condenados (2012)
Character: Michael Puttnam
Determined to restore her dying father's reputation, Ana travels to the remote town of Rosales. Decades ago, he settled there and opened his first free clinic for cancer research. He launched an illustrious medical career - and fell in love. Ana plans to celebrate her father's scientific and humanitarian achievements by transforming the old family mansion into a world-class museum. She will preserve his legacy, and also breathe new life into the forgotten Rosales. But the townspeople-now destitute and helpless-do not greet her warmly. Neither does the house.
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Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Character: N/A
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
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The Reaping (2007)
Character: Blind Man
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
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Paging Emma (1999)
Character: Charlie
An operator at a mobile pager company has her life turned upside down by a seemingly senseless abduction. Currently considered to be a lost film (never released to the general public, after its theatrical premiere in Puerto Rico).
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El aquelarre (2011)
Character: N/A
A man is convinced his pregnant wife is a witch and that she is carrying an abomination in her womb.
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Paradise Lost (1999)
Character: N/A
A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths.
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Bananas (1971)
Character: Man Tortured
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
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An American Romance (1944)
Character: Immigrant (uncredited)
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
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Assassins (1995)
Character: Bank President
Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.
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Maruja (1959)
Character: Jean Pierre
In a small rural town, everybody lays eyes on Maruja, the most beautiful woman there. After the son of the mayor comes back from France, he also notices Maruja, setting forth events of love, jealousy, guilt, and anger.
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Thunder Island (1963)
Character: N/A
A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean.
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