Miguel Ángel Álvarez
A romantic comedy full of a refreshing global perspective, SIDEWALLS is director Gustavo Taretto's clever and moving ode to the modern people and urban landscape of Buenos Aires. Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. Her head is a mess, just like the apartment where she takes refuge. Martin and Mariana are perfect for each other-- they live in the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?
A three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.
Abelardo Díaz Alfaro visits the places that inspired him to write his book "Terrazzo". His life and work is explored through interviews with friends and colleagues.
A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths.
A classic crime thriller shot on the streets of New York. Natás, a psychopath, is a New York City cop who is corrupt and deals in blackmail, extortion, and murder. A young couple who are framed by Natás escape his grasp and the game of 'cat and mouse' begins.
Alicia, the wife of the vengeful Gabino Barrera, is killed by an escaped convict. Stripped of the one woman he's ever loved, Gabino vows to make the killer pay and pursues him. As he gets closer to his prey, Gabino turns deadlier.
Based on a real-life death penalty case in Puerto Rico. The execution of Arocho and Clemente was one of the last ones to take place in the island.
Tony is a karate master on television and an expert in making any woman fall in love with him. Impunity seems to be his best ally, until the owner of the cafeteria next to a recently stolen bank, hints at an inspector to unmask Tony as the culprit.
A crazed doctor performs gruesome experiments in his search for a youth serum.
Man hiding from the police is trapped into posing as a butler at a rich family's country estate.
A mad scientist teams with an evil, disfigured woman to kidnap and operate on young women to make her look beautiful again.
Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make dolls in a workshop attached to their apartment in New York. However, John does not heal and he starts looking for the nurses to murder them.
Fully shot in Puerto Rico, Noches prohibidas tells the story of a beautiful woman desired by three men, but she is passionate about a captain in her life.
The film follows the exploits of a small gang of jewel thieves who employ a little person as their ultimate tool.
Ángel Maura, a seminarian with an innate talent, has an ideal voice for singing. Offers of work and money arise, but Ángel rejects them because he wants to continue his preparation as a priest. His cousin of the same name, however, decides to impersonate him in order to gain fame and fortune. A fan of the singer begins to go out with him, but soon discovers that she is in love with the wrong person.
The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants.
Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene meets Anita, a young aristocrat to whom Frank attempted to rob. And because she feels sympathy for him, the boy will have the opportunity to change his life and leave the country to make a deal with a rich heir, Fernando de Ponce, which proposes Rene to supplant him before his old aunt, who does not know him.
Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.
El show de las 12 is a Puerto Rican midday variety television series airing on WKAQ-TV, and later on the nationwide Telemundo network, and hosted by Eddie Miro for most of its run. It aired every week-day for 40 years until its cancellation on February 25, 2005.
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.
The spectacular beauty of María awakens the most hot and crazy passions among all the men of the island, including Jorge and Roberto. The two fishermen will vie for her love, by any means necessary.
The film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.
Charlie is a dope smuggler who lives on his own private desert island and rules over the natives with an iron fist. When the native stooges get out of line, Charlie literally cracks the whip on his insubordinate subordinates. When a sexpot named Glory comes to the island, he holds her prisoner and makes her go-go dance for him.
Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney.
