Antonio Torres Martinó
Also Known As: Torres Martino, José Torres Martino, José Antonio Torres Martino, J. A. Torres Martino, J.A. Torres Martinó
Biography: Puerto Rican painter, artist, journalist, and writer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ponce, Puerto Rico
Adult: No
Birthday: Not available
Age: Not available
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 22, 2011
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Pedro Flores
Overview: Biographical documentary on the life and work of Pedro Flores, internationally renowned Puerto Rican musician.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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A Voice on the Mountain
Overview: Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Thunder Island
Overview: A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-24
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The One with White Shanks
Overview: The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding their wives’ advice, individuals join forces in a cooperative so they can sell their crop of tobacco leaves at fair market value.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Desde las nubes
Overview: The first documentary produced by the Division of Community Education (DivEdCo) featuring modern and experimental audio techniques with aerial shots of Puerto Rico showing its topography, educationally inserting the island within a world-wide historical context and highlighting its agricultural and social landscape.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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La plena
Overview: One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Brainless John
Overview: A man believes all the advertising he hears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-12-31
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¿Qué opina la mujer?
Overview: The role that women should play in the modern-day Puerto Rican family is discussed. The discussion is dramatized by a rural husband and wife involved in a domestic dispute.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-02
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El santero
Overview: Zoilo Cajigas y Sotomayor is a carver of wooden models of saints. Don Zoilo is one of Puerto Rico's best-known artisans and was 96 years old at the time of the filming. The film shows the elaborate process behind his craftsmanship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-12-31
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Brainless Juan
Overview: An adaptation of Luis A. Maisonet’s 1959 film "Juan sin seso", Israel Lugo’s "Brainless Juan" looks at how, half a century later, celebrity influences the individual. Using the original audio from the 1959 film, "Brainless Juan" shows images of everyday life in Santurce’s streets and back alleys, using subtle irony to deliver a strong message.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-04-07
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Maruja
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Harbor Lights
Overview: Professional gambler Dan Crown arrives in San Juan to visit his brother Alex, only to learn from the police that Alex has been found murdered. To Captain Acosta's questioning, Dan answers that he had no knowledge of his brother's affairs. Dan then finds Gina Rosario searching his hotel room, and together they begin to investigate Alex's death.
Genres: Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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Más allá del Capitolio
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Adombe: la presencia africana en Puerto Rico
Overview: Documentary film about the history and influence of Africans in Puerto Rican society. In addition to still photographs, film clips and interviews, the film utilizes dramatizations of scenes from the life of the poet Luis Palés Matos to illustrate the history and contributions of black Puerto Ricans through the centuries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-02
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Puerto Rico: arte e identidad
Overview: Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic arts of Puerto Rico, which represent a search for the Puerto Rican identity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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