René Monclova

René Monclova

Birth : 1959-08-23, Puerto Rico

History

René Monclova (born August 23 1959) is a Puerto Rican actor. Monclova has been popular both with theater and television audiences. Mainly a comedian, Monclova has also played serious characters, a fact that might escape the minds of many Puerto Ricans, since he has become better known for his role as "Lolo Bond", a womanizing handyman, in El Condominio, a television show produced by Sunshine Logroño

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René Monclova
René Monclova

Movies

Picando alante
Elegido
In hopes of solving a financial crisis at home, Marysol, youngest sibling and agronomy student, decides to dabble in the medical cannabis growing industry. When she faces its high costs and government regulations, she must convince her parents of starting a clandestine operation at home while they can meet the legal requirements. The dysfunctional family then embarks on an adventure that promises to bring them closer as a family. But things get complicated when, due to lack of experience, they end up in business with the wrong people. Under the eye of the authorities and without realizing, this family will face their worst enemy: themselves.
Sacred Family
César
Two rival families, (one conservative, another liberal), meet in the office of a "new age" psychiatrist and his multiple personality assistant, in order to resolve a "little problem" with their children. They are missing. The only lead they have is a note which only the psychiatrist can decipher. The doctor, his assistant and both families embark in a search of adventure, that will not only discover the children's whereabouts, but also the prejudice, the fears and the hypocrisy with which we liv as adults.
Bienvenido Don Goyito
Don Goyito
Satirical comedy about a jíbaro that moves from the country to the city and resists to change his rural customs. The film depicts family and emotional conflicts that Puerto Rico suffered due to Americanization.
Angélica
Carlos
Angélica has spent her whole life escaping from her mixed racial identity, but a family crisis forces her to return to Puerto Rico and rethink her life.
Pepo Pa'l Senado
Pepo González
Politics is the Puerto Rican national sport, and in this sport anything is possible. Fate brings Pepo González, an ordinary, unemployed citizen, before an unscrupulous former political adviser. Her plan: to select a total stranger, without qualities or political lineage, and take the Capitol during one of the most important elections in the history of Puerto Rico. Will she be able to get Pepo a seat in the Senate?
Rosaura
Leopoldo Fernández (mayor)
Based on the life of actress Rosaura Andreu.
Cows Wearing Glasses
Marcelino is an eccentric, introverted painter and art professor who, approaching his sunset years, learns he has a disease that could render him blind at any moment. As he begins to put his emotional affairs in order, including his strained relationship with his daughter, he must face the inevitable.
Hugo, Paco, Luis y tres chicas de rosa
Hugo, a dispirited English Literature professor, sets out on a one-way trip in search of a lighthouse. Halfway there he meets Paco, an 18 year-old smart ass, hitching a ride West. The road takes the unlikely pair to a greasy spoon in the middle of nowhere, where three peculiar waitresses persuade them to stay the night and, unknowingly, change their lives.
Los condenados
Cipriano
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 celebrate her father's scientific and humanitarian achievements by transforming the old family mansion into a world-class museum. She will preserve his legacy, and also breathe new life into the forgotten Rosales. But the townspeople-now destitute and helpless-do not greet her warmly. Neither does the house.
El detective Cojines
Complemento Martínez
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 range of intrigue and bizarre secrets.
El otro
Employee
Eddie encounters his ex, after she disappeared from his life for months without explanation.
The Escape
Oscar Orama
The Orama Family, coffee growers for generations in the central mountain region of Puerto Rico, cherish their traditions and their famous gourmet coffee. The entire household is abuzz preparing for the wedding of Isabel, the youngest daughter. The bride, however, is getting cold feet and plans to run away on the eve of her wedding.
Jugando al esconder
The story of a mother and her four children and their struggle to survive the abuse of her love partner.
Kabo & Platón
Kabo & Platón takes place in urban, present day Puerto Rico. It tells the story of two adolescent boys who want to have their first reggaeton music demo produced, hoping fame and fortune will come their way and put an end to their life of economic struggle.
Las dos caras de Jano
It's December, but the people of San Juan aren’t feeling the Christmas spirit. A serial killer has snuffed the life out of some of the most renowned bachelors. A doctor, a dentist, a social columnist and a university professor are the most recent victims of the "The Angel of the Bachelors", a handsome young man who captivates closet homosexuals and stabs them to death following a sexual encounter with them.
Angel
The film follows the actions of a corrupt police captain, the title-character Ángel Lugo. Lugo is responsible for the wrongful imprisonment of Mariano Farías and the murder of his pregnant wife. After 15 years in a federal prison, Farías is still determined to prove his innocence.
A Place Within
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 with her. As he tries to connect with Yin, he discovers that she is nowhere to be found. As Noah attempts to unfold the mystery of her disappearance, the history of even her existence is questioned.
Ladrones y mentirosos
The film is set in the island of Puerto Rico. Because of its central location in the Caribbean, the island has become one of the main ports of drug entry from South America into the United States. The film follows the lives of three families in different levels of society affected by drug trafficking and crime in the island.
Amores
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 Puerto Rico. Amores is composed by different monologues that, in set, offer reflection on aspects of love. In this manner, the title becomes a statement: amor es... (love is...)
Una historia común
The daily life of a couple in a coastal town in Puerto Rico changes upon the arrival of an old friend whom they believed had perished in Vietnam. At the same time, a writer moves into the town and upsets everyone’s routine.
Desamores
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 investigation takes place in an underworld of frayed relationships and foul connections. It is a detective story that revolves around unforeseen secrets dealing in the occult and certain passions that only appear to spawn loathing.
Celestino y el Vampiro
Best friend
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 recruit his help in salvaging a much cherished national heritage. But there is a difficulty: this vampire will not die by a stake through his heart and to avoid destruction he wears tin underwear.
Abierto 24 horas
Isaac Bermúdez
A taxi driver, who becomes the anonymous confidant of his passengers, witnesses the various stories they tell him. A famous actress, a child rescued from the underworld witness to the murder of her parents, and a woman victim of domestic violence are the characters that lead us to reflect on some of the realities that we live in our society.
¿Quién le tiene miedo al Cuco?
El beso que me diste
A TV reporter from Puerto Rico loses her son after her ex-husband Armando kidnaps him and takes him to the States. Angela must team up with a lawyer to find and rescue the child.
Punto final: de como Tito Mangual aprendió a bregar
A film aimed at depicting not only the daily goings-on in a so called "punto", but the internal conflicts among those who are often propelled into the drug world.
Entangling Shadows
Self
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 inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.
Jugando en serio
A group of filmmakers analyze the situation of their country's cinema while some children record them.
Cuentos para despertar
El Jincho Muerto
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".
Palés: reseña de una vida útil
Dramatization of the life of Puerto Rican poet Luis Palés Matos.
Adombe: la presencia africana en Puerto Rico
Documentary film about the history and influence of Africans in Puerto Rican society. In addition to still photographs, film clips and interviews, the film utilizes dramatizations of scenes from the life of the poet Luis Palés Matos to illustrate the history and contributions of black Puerto Ricans through the centuries.
Havana
Sim #1
An American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran, the wife of a revolutionary, Arturo. Shortly after their arrival, Arturo is taken away by the secret police, and Roberta is captured and tortured. Jack frees her, but she continues to support the revolution.
A flor de piel
A public relations rep is hired by a women's commission to produce a documentary commemorating the commission's 10th anniversary.
What Happened to Santiago
Eddie
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.