Teófilo Torres

Teófilo Torres

Perfil

Teófilo Torres

Películas

Tinta y Café
Man in suit
Raul’s job as a lighthouse keeper takes an unexpected turn as he witnesses a man jumping from a cliff. It leads him to deal with the dilemma of death, while being constantly tormented by the suicidal thoughts of the previous lighthouse keeper.
15 años y un día
Raúl Martínez
To confront the harsh reality of being accused for sexually molesting his own daughter, a man seeks escape in his mind.
El color de la guayaba
Bautista is a taxicab driver that has been rented by a woman named Ada. Ada wants him to drive her to the other side of the island with the condition that he doesn't take any other passengers and that he drives her to get some guavas. During the trip, Bautista, a driver for more than 44 years, becomes a storyteller. He tells Ada different stories that he has heard all related to the exotic guava fruit. These stories begin to take life while Bautista tells them, giving us a whimsical touch of magical realism with a Caribbean twist, and showing how fragile the circumstances these characters live are.
Palés y la rumba de esquina
A musical tribute to Puerto Rican poet, Luis Palés Matos. His poems are set to Caribbean and Latin American rhythms, including drums, guitars, and melodies.
La mancha
Sacarías
Fisherman Sacarías finds himself at sea, immersed in memories of his old friend Chago.
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.
El cimarrón
El cimarrón is a love story about a young African couple, Marcos and Carolina, that takes place in the slavery era at the turn of the nineteen-century in a Caribbean island. After several futile escape plans, Marcos finally escaped. Now free, he returns to liberate his beloved Carolina.
Ruído
Franchi is a teenager who suffers from a rare hearing condition. After her parents' separation, she stays with her mother Soqui, who soon after gets involved with Johnny. Franchi finds herself victim of the continuous and unwanted advances on Johnny's part, while Soqui is blissfully unaware of what is happening in her own home. The young girl does not know who to ask for help. Caught up in a war she is not planning to lose, Franchi will be forced to fend for herself the only way she knows how.
El sueño del regreso
Baldorioty (Baldo)
A handful of immigrants make a bittersweet pilgrimage back to the land of their birth in this comedy drama. Ten people who have little in common beyond the fact they were all originally from Puerto Rico and now live in New York, discover they've won a contest giving them each a free, all-expenses paid vacation -- in Puerto Rico. While some are eager to visit the place they once called home, others are nervous about what they will find and wary about confronting the people and things they left behind.
Dejavú
El vacío del ser es representado en este corto por el hastío de un matrimonio que no puede salir del círculo vicioso en que vive encerrado producto de la irracionalidad de una sociedad predestinada a sobrevivir por obra y gracia del dinero y no de sus atributos afectivos, culturales y de identidad.
Chiringa
Pedro Albizu Campos
Relata la historia de tres niños, quienes intentan volar una chiringa, pero la pierden en un cementerio. Allí se tropiezan con Pedro Albizu Campos, quien los ayuda en su afán a la vez que analiza la situación como una metáfora de la división política existente en el país.
Desamores
Jacobo Castrillo
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.
Doña Ana
José
An epic portrayal of the reincarnation of three souls, two brothers and a sister, through the most volatile periods of Puerto Rico's dramatic history. Their mother, Doña Ana, who lost them in a freak storm in the 1850's, is forced to bear witness to their trials and joys over the course of 3 generations.
Dios los cría 2
Jacobo Morales ahonda en temas como la solidaridad humana, la infidelidad y los conflictos sociales en Dios los cría 2, película compuesta por tres historias: "Lo mismo de otra manera", "Félix" y "Te tengo una sorpresa".
Barrios
Pichón
Presenta tres historias de barrio con tramas independientes: "La familia del Camello" sobre un entrenador de baloncesto de residencial público y sus dilemas, "El baila'o de Julia y Berto" sobre dos vecinos que tratan de redescubrir el amor en su madurez y "El rumbón de Fepe" sobre un hombre que tiene que escoger entre su barrio y la mujer que ama.
Devolviéndome
Sin recurrir al diálogo ni a la introspección, la película retrata la destrucción emocional de un hombre a consecuencia del alcoholismo.
Ocho Puertas
Ocho Puertas is a popular Puerto Rican club where many of the future musical talents of Puerto Rico were first showcased, and given a chance to succeed.
La gringa
José
Las vivencias de una mujer criada en el barrio puertorriqueño de Nueva York que llega a Puerto Rico a recibir una casa en herencia que está enclavada en Barceloneta y escuda en su "latin English" la realidad de su falta de identificación cultural. Estas causas la llevan a crear un choque de aceptación con los vecinos de su barrio.
Julia, toda en mí
A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.
El cuento inolvidable de la abuela
La historia transcurre con el personaje de la abuela, quien se reúne en casa de una de sus hijas para celebrar la Nochebuena. Es precisamente en ese lugar donde ella se sienta en el sillón a narrarles los cuentos a sus nietas.
Helen Can Wait
12 horas
Antonio
A night in the life of a cab driver in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Los Díaz de Doris
Deambulante
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.
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.
Leyendas de Puerto Rico
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".
Cuentos para despertar
Alcides "el bobo"
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".
La guagua aérea
Mateo
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 recién nacida sangre
Pepe Dolores
Interpretación cinematográfica del cuento del escritor Luis Rafael Sánchez que lleva el mismo título. El cuento narra la historia de un hombre arrestado por el asesinato de su esposa debido a que tuvo tres embarazos y sus hijos nacieron muertos.
Cauce sin río
Based on Enrique A. Laguerre's novel.
La Charca
Based on Manuel Zeno Gandía's novel about peasant life in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico.
Yuyo
El Bobo
Basado en la novela escrita por Miguel Meléndez Muñoz, Yuyo es la historia de una joven campesina enamorada, y la lucha de su padre viudo por mantener el concepto de honor de familia en las condiciones de pobreza tan comunes a principios del siglo 20 en Puerto Rico.
Glitz
Cop
Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offender he testified against.
Anacrusa
Producer
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