Teófilo Torres

Teófilo Torres

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Teófilo Torres

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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
A being's emptiness is represented in this short by a marriage that cannot escape the vicious circle they are locked in, product of the irrationality of a society predestined to survive by the grace of money and not their emotional, cultural or identity attributes.
Chiringa
Pedro Albizu Campos
The story of three children who try to fly a kite, but lose it in a cemetery. There, they encounter Pedro Albizu Campos, who helps them in their quest, while analyzing the situation as a metaphor for the existing political division in the country.
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.
And God Created Them 2
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.
Barrios
Pichón
Presents three barrio stories: "La familia del Camello" about a public residential basketball coach and his dilemmas, "El baila'o de Julia y Berto" about two neighbors trying to rediscover love in their maturity, and "El rumbón de Fepe" about a man who has to choose between his barrio and the woman he loves.
Devolviéndome
Without resorting to dialogue nor introspection, the film portrays the emotional destruction of a man as a result of alcoholism.
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
Raised in New York, Marilyn Morales returns to Puerto Rico to claim an inheritance. Her obsession with Marilyn Monroe, dressing and acting like her, creates a clash of acceptance with the residents of the neighborhood. The new surroundings and clash will lead her in search for her identity.
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
The story develops with the character of the grandmother, who visits one of her daughters to celebrate Christmas Eve. It is precisely in that place where she sits on the couch and starts recounting stories to her granddaughters.
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
Film interpretation of the story of the writer Luis Rafael Sánchez bearing the same name. A man and his wife have lost various children. When he learns his wife is pregnant again, he decides to murder her, fearing they would lose another child.
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
Based on Miguel Meléndez Muñoz's novel.
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