Jacobo Morales

Broche de oro: Comienzos (2017)

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. Tog ...

Andrea y Lorenzo (2016)

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 herse ...

Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual (2014)

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 th ...

I Am a Director (2013)

After spending 5 years in Hollywood, California, Carlos has go back to his home in Puerto Rico to make his first feature film. ...

Broche de oro (2012)

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. ...

Medio minuto (2012)

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. ...

El viaje de Tortuga (2010)

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. ...

Il Viaggio (2010)

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 ...

Todo el año es Navidad (2009)

La recompensa (2008)

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

El cuerpo del delito (2005)

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 ...

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 ...

And God Created Them 2 (2004)

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. ...

Desandando la vida (2003)

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. ...

Julia, toda en mí (2002)

A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos. ...

Abelardo Díaz Alfaro: Homenaje Póstumo (1999)

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. ...

Angelito mío (1998)

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 ...

The Effects of Magic (1998)

A magician, aided by his talking magic bunny, joins forces with his previously estranged magician father, and together they fight the forces of evil to protect the art of magic. ...

Entangling Shadows (1998)

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 inici ...

Cuentos para despertar (1998)

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". ...

Jugando en serio (1998)

A group of filmmakers analyze the situation of their country's cinema while some children record them. ...

Linda Sara (1995)

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

San Juan Story (1990)

A professional rum-taster must negotiate the paths of love, superstition, and magic to regain his lost powers. ...

Cuentos de Abelardo (1990)

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. ...

What Happened to Santiago (1989)

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. ...

Nicolás y los demás (1986)

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. ...

Manos a la obra: The Story of Operation Bootstrap (1983)

This documentary analyzes the origins of the Puerto Rican economic development plan of the 1960's, better known as Manos a la Obra (or Operation Bootstrap). The film examines this economic plan within the framework of Puerto Rican society, with special emp ...

Dios los cría... (1979)

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 ...

Up the Sandbox (1972)

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 ...

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. ...

Arocho y Clemente: los que murieron en la horca (1970)

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. ...

La criada malcriada (1965)

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. ...

Al final del eclipse (2017)

Don Leoncio, a conservative old man, demands that his only son, Dionisio, marry and start a family if he wants to inherit his fortune. But Dionisio is gay and has a partner, Tony. Hiding his homosexuality is straining his relationship with Tony, but admitt ...

Todo el año es Navidad (2009)

Pa' eso estamos (2005)

A group of comedians tell everyday stories of a barriada. ...

And God Created Them 2 (2004)

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. ...

Entangling Shadows (1998)

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 inici ...

Jugando en serio (1998)

A group of filmmakers analyze the situation of their country's cinema while some children record them. ...

Linda Sara (1995)

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

What Happened to Santiago (1989)

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. ...

Nicolás y los demás (1986)

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. ...

Dios los cría... (1979)

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 ...

La criada malcriada (1965)

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. ...