Movies: Puerto rico

Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and political upheaval. As the bed transforms into a stage, the film reveals the collective history of the Chinese in the United ...

Ricky, a 30-year-old police officer, rents a hotel suite beyond his means because he is celebrating a role he will play in a big Hollywood movie. He decides to spend money on alcohol and food while spending the entire night recording Instagram Live v...

A young man is forced to eat constantly because of a strange condition that causes deformations on his body....

Two couples see their lives transformed after the tragedy of losing a child. Both families face the loss in their own way, allowing feelings of guilt, deny, and jealousy to surface, until family disintegration is almost inevitable....

In the world of briscas, three kings and a queen gather to play cards and discuss the important issues of society... if their eccentric personalities allow it....

Facing financial ruin, four siblings decide to sell the valuables within their mother's house, without telling her and by embellishing their history....

Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound sadness. T...

When an unstable and grief-stricken young man murders the alleged killer of his best friend, he must try to conceal what he’s done from the loose-lipped guests attending his friend's vigil....

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico....

Santiago, 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....

Two stories intersect, with violence as a common axis. An inside look into the world of youth boxing, full of championship illusions, combined with jealousy and envy....

Film consisting 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 frien...

The inspiring account on international bodyboarding star Luz 'Loly' Grande - a young woman on a personal mission to make bodyboarding a means to improve the lives of disadvantaged children in Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru....

Carmen accompanies a group of women who must travel from the island of Vieques to San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, in order to perform breast biopsies. The long journey is by water and road. Amid many fears and vicissitudes, Carmen confirms once aga...

Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney....

Documentary on the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1950s and '60s....

Three shipwreck survivors reach the shores of a deserted island used to carry out military experiments. The issue of military occupation and its consequences on the civilian population is presented in this microcosm, composed by the three characters....

Valentina Moreno, a single mother who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy Manhattan family, takes decisive action when something from her past threatens to ruin her personal and professional relationships....

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)....

The only survivor of an illegal boat trip bound for Puerto Rico struggles to survive in a deserted isle. As time passes, the castaway comes to believe the island is testing him by granting him what he needs if he chooses to stay....