Jacobo Morales
Birthday: 1934-11-12
Place of Birth: Lajas, Puerto Rico
Biography: Jacobo Morales Ramírez (born November 12, 1934) is a Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, filmmaker, and auteur. He is considered by many to be the most influential filmmaker in Puerto Rico. Jacobo Morales' "Lo que le pasó a Santiago" (1989) reached an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990, being the only Academy Award recognition a Puerto Rican film has yet to reach.
Movies
Up the Sandbox
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother sl...
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Broche de oro
Rafael, Elmo, and Pablo run away from the strict Catholic retirement home where they live with Carlo...
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Lo que le pasó a Santiago
Santiago, a retired accountant, casually meets Angelina during one of his daily walks in Old San Jua...
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Dios los cría...
Film consisting of five stories: "Dios los cría...", dealing with brothers' rivalry for an inheritan...
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Nicolás y los demás
Returning to Puerto Rico after living abroad for a long time, Paco, out of work, meets successful Ni...
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Arocho y Clemente: los que murieron en la horca
Based on a real-life death penalty case in Puerto Rico. The execution of Arocho and Clemente was one...
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Bananas
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American...
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La criada malcriada
Azucena is a saucy maid whose personality causes many comical situations. These will increase when t...
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Dios los cría...
Film consisting of five stories: "Dios los cría...", dealing with brothers' rivalry for an inheritan...
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Linda Sara
Facing financial ruin, four siblings decide to sell the valuables within their mother's house, witho...
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And God Created Them 2
Three stories ("Lo mismo de otra manera", "Félix", and "Te tengo una sorpresa") that delve deeply in...
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Angel
The film follows the actions of a corrupt police captain, the title-character Ángel Lugo. Lugo is re...
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Cuentos de Abelardo
A selection of three short stories by Puerto Rican writer Abelardo Díaz Alfaro (“Don Procopio”, “Pe...
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Il Viaggio
Interconnects the life of four Puerto Rican actors and a Colombian director while they participate i...
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I Am a Director
After spending 5 years in Hollywood, California, Carlos has go back to his home in Puerto Rico to ma...
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El cuerpo del delito
The shocking and compelling true story of two women; one savagely raped, tortured and burned; the ot...
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Andrea y Lorenzo
Andrea is a young journalist who feels her professional and personal life have come to a halt. But t...
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Julia, toda en mí
A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos....
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Desandando la vida
The story of a man who after the death of his wife begins to show signs of Alzheimer's disease. The ...
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Medio minuto
In the night of her fifty-four wedding anniversary, Rafaela finds out that Angel, her husband, has r...
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Angelito mío
Heaven is in chaos. God left for Earth to seek faith and hope in humanity. San Wichón stays in char...
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Abelardo Díaz Alfaro: Homenaje Póstumo
Abelardo Díaz Alfaro visits the places that inspired him to write his book "Terrazzo". His life and ...
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Cuentos para despertar
Recreates aspects of the life of Abelardo Díaz Alfaro as a rural teacher in Puerto Rico during 1940...
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Entangling Shadows
Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the...
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The Effects of Magic
A magician, aided by his talking magic bunny, joins forces with his previously estranged magician fa...
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Amores
Amores explores the world of acting from its most basic and solitary form: the monologue. If only an...
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La recompensa
A young woman flees just before her wedding day and disappears to avoid facing the consequences of h...
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El viaje de Tortuga
Tortuga is a young man who runs away from home seeking to escape reality. On the journey, he discove...
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Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual
A look at Puerto Rico and its cinema through films, documentaries, and commercials from the early tw...
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San Juan Story
A professional rum-taster must negotiate the paths of love, superstition, and magic to regain his lo...
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Broche de oro: Comienzos
Rafael, Pablo and Anselmo meet at an elders’ home. Their friendship grows based on their sense of hu...
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Al final del eclipse
Explores old age, death, economic hardship and homosexuality, its acceptance and tolerance....
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Jugando en serio
A group of filmmakers analyze the situation of their country's cinema while some children record the...
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No me quiero ir de aquí: Una más
Watch Bad Bunny live from San Juan, Puerto Rico and celebrate the music, culture, and community that...
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Manos a la obra: The Story of Operation Bootstrap
This documentary analyzes the origins of the Puerto Rican economic development plan of the 1960’s, b...
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