Raúl Dávila
1931 - 2006
La guagua aérea
Luis Molina Casanova
José Luis (Chavito) Marrero, Teófilo Torres
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 Puerto Rico and the challenges they face as suggested by the interactions of the Anglo crew and the passengers.
La guagua aérea
Los Díaz de Doris
Abdiel Colberg
Braulio Castillo Jr., Cordelia González
Doris is a hardworking and honest woman, divorced and mother of two teenagers whom she adores but doesn’t understand. After a bad relationship with her husband, she no longer trusts men. She lives only for her children, but they’re living their own lives. One day, Doris learns that things can get better.
Los Díaz de Doris
La gran fiesta
Marcos Zurinaga
Daniel Lugo, Cordelia González
In 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it's about to be turned into a US military base. The guests drink, seduce and gossip, but some also plot against each other.
La gran fiesta
The Believers
John Schlesinger
Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
The Believers
Heroína
Jerónimo Mitchell Meléndez
Kitty de Hoyos, José de San Antón
Chico, a young Puerto Rican living in Spanish Harlem, becomes a heroin addict after a rivalry between him and his father for his mother's affection. Following a 6-month jail term, he is now cured of his drug habit and working in his father's business. Chico meets Nick, his former dealer, for a casual drink, but his father assumes he has resumed drug use.
Heroína
Florida Straits
Mike Hodges
Raúl Juliá, Fred Ward
A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat captain and his crew go covertly to Cuba to find a cache of gold buried during the invasion. But can they trust each other?
Florida Straits
Fuego en el alma
Abdiel Colberg
Braulio Castillo Jr., Idalia Pérez Garay
Reflecting the closeness of Puerto Ricans in New York with those on the island, three stories among couples are combined to cast emotions of passion, jealousy, doubt and infidelity. The couples are burned by sudden and unexpected feelings and are pushed to make the decision that will change their lives forever influenced by the events of September 11th.
Fuego en el alma
La noche de don Manuel
Amílcar Tirado
José de San Antón, Braulio Castillo
A generational conflict is reflected in the old-fashioned ideas of the landowner, who imposes himself as a dominant figure in the political activity of the rural communities of Puerto Rico.
Don Manuel's Night
Private Sessions
Michael Pressman
Mike Farrell, Maureen Stapleton
A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently there is nothing wrong with him psychologically. And a woman who despite being in a healthy relationship goes around picking up guys and having sex with them. She decides to seek help and what the doctor learns is that the problem goes back to her childhood and her family.
Private Sessions
