Rafael E. Portas

Movies

El charro inmortal
Director
Film clips spanning the career of recently deceased actor-singer Jorge Negrete, with a small amount of documentary footage and some exclusive-to-here tributes.
The Proud and the Beautiful
Co-Director
The first to die in an epidemic of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. His wife Nellie, detached and indifferent, feels little grief and realizes that her coldness is her own doom. Over the next two days, she is attracted to George, a local drunk who does odd jobs for brothels and dances grotesquely for tourists in exchange for drinks. George has his own dark secret, a tragedy he caused that leaves him with a death wish. In assisting the local doctor to cope with the epidemic, these two emotional cripples enable each other to rediscover reasons to live and to love.
With all my heart
Director
Priest founds an orphanage, faces conflicts with townsfolk.
Noche de perdición
Writer
Shortly before a nightclub artist leaves Mexico for an international tour, she's witness to a murder. Shortly after she leaves, she's named as a suspect in the crime, and her husband, assuming she's guilty, turns his back on her. The-e-en...
Late Afternoon
Writer
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
Late Afternoon
Director
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
Sol y sombra
Director
A drama film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
Esa mujer es la mía
Director
Two pen-pals decide to get married, but the groom cooks up a scheme to test his fiancee's moral fibr before they tie the knt.
Los últimos días de Pompeyo
Director
A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
Un domingo en la tarde
Director
Adios Nicanor
Director
Romantic triangles, jealousy and duels on horseback at a hacienda.