Axel Anderson

Riding 79 (2014)

A coming of age story about a 16-year-old boy who finds himself searching for escape in the island of Puerto Rico after his mother leaves him and his sister with his grandparents in a surf town. His fascination with a hula hoop model leads him to steal his ...

The Condemned (2012)

Determined to restore her dying father's reputation, Ana travels to the remote town of Rosales. Decades ago, he settled there and opened his first free clinic for cancer research. He launched an illustrious medical career - and fell in love. Ana plans to c ...

El aquelarre (2011)

A man is convinced his pregnant wife is a witch and that she is carrying an abomination in her womb. ...

El detective Cojines (2011)

The story of a college professor obsessed with private eye novels who, following an accident, becomes a private investigator patterned after the movies and novels of the 40's. Among the cases he investigates, three will come to him that will reveal a full ...

The Reaping (2007)

Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove tha ...

Del cielo a la tierra (2007)

The story of Father Miguel Ángel, who has to face the parishioners' opposition to accept Father Lomba's retirement from the parish. Miguel Ángel will have to prove his worth as a priest when he is cornered by the community's apathy because he is too youn ...

A Place Within (2006)

Noah, an investigative reporter, finds himself in love with Yin, a friend for many years. Noah arranges a dinner where he will finally declare this secret love to her, but Yin is called away on business. The following day Noah wakes up determined to speak ...

Jews in Space (2006)

Sixteen years after she gave him a farewell kiss, Santiago is reunited with his cousin and childhood sweetheart Luciana, when she returns home to Buenos Aires from New York. When their curmudgeonly grandfather Mauricio has a near-death experience, Luciana ...

Vanished (2006)

During a visit to a tropical island, a man mysteriously disappears and his wife must lead her own investigation in order to find him. ...

Quiéreme mucho (2005)

Families gather to receive the New Year. But this meeting brings a series of confessions that will make for a very peculiar evening. ...

Taínos: la última tribu (2005)

Sara, a young archaeology student, organizes an expedition to La Mora Cave. Guided by Yabey, Sara and her four friends, discover a hidden Taíno tribe, believed to be extinguished 500 years ago. ...

Amores (2004)

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 Pue ...

Desamores (2004)

There has been a grave massacre within a highly successful insurance company in Puerto Rico. The owners, a married couple, have been slaughtered along with their employees. While the police are investigating, a private investigator, Isabelo, is hired. The ...

La caja de problemas (2004)

Frank Anderson is a successful consulter, wealthy, with no problems. He gets bored of his perfect life and decides that he need problems in his life. Then he gets his hands on a box and in less that 24 hours his life turns upside down. All hell breaks loos ...

Celestino y el Vampiro (2003)

In Old San Juan a 40+ year old divorcée is not aware he befriends a vampire who bites women, not in their necks but in their derrières, leaving them with flattened behinds. A vampire hunter from Europe warns Celestino about his neighbor and tries to recr ...

Entre los dioses del desprecio (2001)

An expert on disarming alarms leaves prison to do a job. ...

Paging Emma (1999)

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). ...

Paradise Lost (1999)

A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths. ...

Leyendas de Puerto Rico (1999)

A film narrative on Puerto Rican playwright and journalist don Cayetano Coll y Toste. Three of his most famous stories are reenacted: "El Santo Cristo de la Salud", "El Espíritu del Carretero", and "La Garita del Diablo". ...

Undercurrent (1999)

A nightclub manager with financial problems accepts an offer to seduce another man's wife for money, and soon finds himself entwined in a web of double-crossing con artists. ...

The Face at the Window (1998)

Sylvia is writing her first novel. This will uncover dark secrets from her family's past; a past that now returns to haunt her. Disturbing, strange, frightening ghost story set in an exotic Spanish colonial city by the sea. A tale of mystery and terror tha ...

Death in Granada (1996)

A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's. ...

Que será (1995)

A man shares his apartment with his elderly mother. He puts a Doris Day record, "Que sera, sera", and his life walks by in a flash. ...

Assassins (1995)

Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to c ...

Shortcut to Paradise (1994)

Quinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico, purporting to be the new caretaker the owner has been expecting. He gets right to work, making a good impression on everybody, except Gus, the reclusive teenag ...

A Flight of Hope (1993)

A comedy narrating the adventures of ten Puerto Ricans looking for a better life. The film centers on an airplane trip to New York during 1960's. It relates in a comical, yet poignant manner, the array of reasons each of the passengers has for leaving Puer ...

The Bell (1990)

An aristocratic woman faces a terrible family curse and pays for the sins of her race. ...

¿Cine en Puerto Rico? (1979)

Documentary that analyzes the situation of the film industry in Puerto Rico from its beginnings in 1912 to 1979. Filmmakers Jack Delano, Juan Viguié, Oscar Orzábal, Axel Anderson, Paquito Cordero, Efraín López Neris, Roberto Guastella, Roberto Gándara ...

Mi aventura en Puerto Rico (1977)

Mom and Pop Aguilar and their two boys tour the island. ...

Bananas (1971)

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. ...

Luisa tenía razón (1968)

Explores concerns about uterine cancer and the value of the Pap Test in detecting this serious type of cancer. ...

Organización criminal (1968)

A summit meeting of rival gangs, one predominantly Italian and the other a mix of Polish, Irish, and Italian mobsters, fails to resolve their differences, and gang war breaks out. ...

Battle of the Bulge (1965)

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. ...

Aquella joven de blanco (1964)

Thunder Island (1963)

A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean. ...

Más allá del Capitolio (1962)

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 ...

The Other Road (1960)

The story of a widow who owns a coffee hacienda, focusing on the dynamics between her son and the man who romances her. ...

Maruja (1959)

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. ...

An American Romance (1944)

A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family. ...

Bananas (1971)

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. ...

Thunder Island (1963)

A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean. ...

Harbor Lights (1963)

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 Gi ...

The Other Road (1960)

The story of a widow who owns a coffee hacienda, focusing on the dynamics between her son and the man who romances her. ...