Jacobo Morales
Also Known As: Jacobo Morales Ramírez
Biography: Jacobo Morales Ramírez (born November 12, 1934) is a Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, filmmaker, and auteur. He is considered by many to be the most influential filmmaker in Puerto Rico. Jacobo Morales' "Lo que le pasó a Santiago" (1989) reached an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990, being the only Academy Award recognition a Puerto Rican film has yet to reach.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Lajas, Puerto Rico
Birthday: November 12, 1934
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Up the Sandbox
Overview: Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Broche de Oro
Overview: Rafael, 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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Nicolás y los demás
Overview: Returning to Puerto Rico after living abroad for a long time, Paco, out of work, meets successful Nicolás, an old friend from his college years. Nicolás invites him to his house, where Paco meets a woman from his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-09-13
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Dios los cría...
Overview: 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 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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What Happened to Santiago
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-06-22
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Arocho y Clemente: los que murieron en la horca
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-03-04
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Bananas
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-28
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La criada malcriada
Overview: Azucena is a saucy maid whose personality causes many comical situations. These will increase when the family she works for hosts a recently widowed millionaire returning to Puerto Rico after many years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Dios los cría...
Overview: 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 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Linda Sara
Overview: Facing financial ruin, four siblings decide to sell the valuables within their mother's house, without telling her and by embellishing their history.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-01-12
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And God Created Them 2
Overview: Three stories ("Lo mismo de otra manera", "Félix", and "Te tengo una sorpresa") that delve deeply into issues such as human solidarity, infidelity, and social conflicts in contemporary Puerto Rico.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-05-05
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Angel
Overview: The film follows the actions of a corrupt police captain, the title-character Ángel Lugo. Lugo is 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.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-08-16
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Il Viaggio
Overview: Interconnects the life of four Puerto Rican actors and a Colombian director while they participate in a Theater Improvisation Festival. They will be forced to reflect on their future in art amid economic crisis, global warming, and technological dependency.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-07-21
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Cuentos de Abelardo
Overview: A selection of three short stories by Puerto Rican writer Abelardo Díaz Alfaro (“Don Procopio”, “Peyo Mercé enseña inglés”, and “Bagazo”), portraying typical characters of the Puerto Rican social and economic classes in the 1940's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-02
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I Am a Director
Overview: After spending 5 years in Hollywood, California, Carlos has go back to his home in Puerto Rico to make his first feature film.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-09
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El cuerpo del delito
Overview: The shocking and compelling true story of two women; one savagely raped, tortured and burned; the other, a detective that makes this case her mission. United by destiny and tragedy, they find strength in each other to find the criminals who committed such a brutal and violent crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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Andrea y Lorenzo
Overview: Andrea is a young journalist who feels her professional and personal life have come to a halt. But the return of Lorenzo, her former college flame she once dumped, now turned rock star, will give her a new perspective on life, love, and being true to herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-28
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Julia, toda en mí
Overview: A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-07-20
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Desandando la vida
Overview: The story of a man who after the death of his wife begins to show signs of Alzheimer's disease. The film illustrates how each family member reacts to this event and how this man feels that his life is going back to a road already traveled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-09-15
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Medio minuto
Overview: In the night of her fifty-four wedding anniversary, Rafaela finds out that Angel, her husband, has recently visit his ex-lover. This incident awakes old emotions, but at the same time brings a big surprise.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-01-02
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Angelito mío
Overview: Heaven is in chaos. God left for Earth to seek faith and hope in humanity. San Wichón stays in charge of the Celestial Senate and, in his campaign for the governorship, things get out of control. Disillusioned because Heaven is no longer a paradise, the girl angel María de las Estrellas (Mary of the Stars) descends to Earth to look for Heaven's top boss.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-11-11
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Abelardo Díaz Alfaro: Homenaje Póstumo
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-08-01
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Cuentos para despertar
Overview: Recreates aspects of the life of Abelardo Díaz Alfaro as a rural teacher in Puerto Rico during 1940's, integrating three of his stories "El josco", "Santa Cló va a la cuchilla", and "Don Fruto Torres".
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-02
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Entangling Shadows
Overview: Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-06-02
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The Effects of Magic
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Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-28
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Amores
Overview: Amores explores the world of acting from its most basic and solitary form: the monologue. If only an actor, a text, and someone who hears it are needed to make an acting exercise, then Amores offers fourteen splendid acts from renowned professionals in Puerto Rico. Amores is composed by different monologues that, in set, offer reflection on aspects of love. In this manner, the title becomes a statement: amor es... (love is...)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-12-28
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La recompensa
Overview: A young woman flees just before her wedding day and disappears to avoid facing the consequences of her actions.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-09-15
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El viaje de Tortuga
Overview: Tortuga is a young man who runs away from home seeking to escape reality. On the journey, he discovers that the solution to his problems is not leaving his community, but changing his views on his surroundings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-12-05
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Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual
Overview: A look at Puerto Rico and its cinema through films, documentaries, and commercials from the early twentieth century to the emerging cinema of today. Visual and narrative strategies portray fragments of Puerto Rico's general history and, in turn, answers the questions of who, when, and for whom have films been made in Puerto Rico and the resources that are available to do it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-28
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San Juan Story
Overview: A professional rum-taster must negotiate the paths of love, superstition, and magic to regain his lost powers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-30
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Todo el año es Navidad
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-11-26
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Broche de oro: Comienzos
Overview: Rafael, Pablo and Anselmo meet at an elders’ home. Their friendship grows based on their sense of humor and will to live. Life at the home can be sad. With their typical wit, they recruit other residents, particularly three ladies nicknamed the Greeks. Together they challenge the home's rules of behavior and register into a sports contest for a juicy prize. Because there are no rules for growing old, Broche de oro: Beginnings celebrates life and reminds us to live it to the fullest until the end.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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Al final del eclipse
Overview: Explores old age, death, economic hardship and homosexuality, its acceptance and tolerance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-02
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Jugando en serio
Overview: A group of filmmakers analyze the situation of their country's cinema while some children record them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-02
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DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
Overview: Photos are lived moments, memories of things that happened. I wasn't one to throw photos around or upload stories or anything like that. I said it was better to live in the moment. But when you reach this age, remembering is not so easy. I should have taken more photos, lived longer, loved more when I could. While one is alive, one should love as much as one can.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-01-03
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