Puerto Rico Movies

A young woman flees just before her wedding day and disappears to avoid facing the consequences of her actions.

Experimental film about rhythm as corporal expression of a culture. Presents various choreographies and does not include the participation of men.

Tale about the fragility of power, the story of a David and a Goliath. Animated frame by frame with modeling clay on a light box's glass.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, hundreds of artists gathered to pay honor to the work of Puerto Rican artist Myrna Báez. La otra intención (The Other Intent...

Hand painted, scratched animated Super 8 film examining the contradictions of the psychopathology of colonization.

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,...

A girl encounters a doppelgänger and does everything she can to escape from it, in a Super 8 subtropic Experimental film shot with Kodak

A look at the current state of Puerto Rico and how coastal erosion has affected the Island.

Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically, socially, and humanistically during the first ha...

As experienced by 9 year old Angelita, the film portrays the hardship of migration endured by her family’s move from a small town in Puerto Rico to Ne...

The life and career of Puerto Rican tenor Antonio Paoli, also known as The King of Tenors and The Tenor of Kings.

This documentary presents the passion, the talents, the history, the struggles, and the local and international triumphs of the most renowned fashion...

Combines animation and documentary footage to illustrate the origins and impact of the musical genres Bomba and Plena in Puerto Rican culture.

Musings about what it means to travel, let the imagination fly, and to escape from reality. Combines documentary footage, animation on paper, and hand...

A family relationship drama about a strict father who wants to control his son, who in turn leaves his father's house and moves to the city.

What is "la escena" (the scene) and what is its importance, if any? Guillermo Gómez Álvarez tries to answer these questions with candid interviews fro...

Through dramatization and interviews with her colleagues, this film captures the life and work of famed Puerto Rican poet Mercedes Negrón Muñoz (also...

"A Friendly Newspaper" vindicated journalists in a very important sense. For the first time, from a place as influential as television, the business p...

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 coloni...