Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Born: August 25, 1941
Died: January 16, 2011
in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Movies for Miguel Ángel Álvarez...

Sidewalls
Title: Sidewalls
Character: Hombre atropellado
Released: February 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?
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Maldeamores
Title: Maldeamores
Character: Pellín (segment "En Casa de los Viejitos")
Released: June 6, 2007
Type: Movie
A three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.
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Abelardo Díaz Alfaro: Homenaje Póstumo
Title: Abelardo Díaz Alfaro: Homenaje Póstumo
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Abelardo Díaz Alfaro visits the places that inspired him to write his book "Terrazzo". His life and work is explored through interviews with friends and colleagues.
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Paradise Lost
Title: Paradise Lost
Released: July 20, 1999
Type: Movie
A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths.
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San Juan Story
Title: San Juan Story
Released: April 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A professional rum-taster must negotiate the paths of love, superstition, and magic to regain his lost powers.
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Natás is Satan
Title: Natás is Satan
Character: Natás
Released: January 2, 1977
Type: Movie
A classic crime thriller shot on the streets of New York. Natás, a psychopath, is a New York City cop who is corrupt and deals in blackmail, extortion, and murder. A young couple who are framed by Natás escape his grasp and the game of 'cat and mouse' begins.
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The Revenge of Gabino Barrera
Title: The Revenge of Gabino Barrera
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Alicia, the wife of the vengeful Gabino Barrera, is killed by an escaped convict. Stripped of the one woman he's ever loved, Gabino vows to make the killer pay and pursues him. As he gets closer to his prey, Gabino turns deadlier.
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El pocho
Title: El pocho
Released: November 4, 1970
Type: Movie
José Guadalupe García was born in the United States, but seems very Mexican. Winning his American girlfriend creates many comic situations, but he also faces discrimination and racism.
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Rubí
Title: Rubí
Character: Sr. Rodríguez
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Rubi steals the fiancé from her millionaire friend Maribel, leaves her city and gets married in New York.
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Un amante anda suelto
Title: Un amante anda suelto
Released: September 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Tony is a karate master on television and an expert in making any woman fall in love with him. Impunity seems to be his best ally, until the owner of the cafeteria next to a recently stolen bank, hints at an inspector to unmask Tony as the culprit.
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Arocho y Clemente: los que murieron en la horca
Title: Arocho y Clemente: los que murieron en la horca
Released: March 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Based on a real-life death penalty case in Puerto Rico. The execution of Arocho and Clemente was one of the last ones to take place in the island.
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Lebrón y Correa Cotto
Title: Lebrón y Correa Cotto
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Madame Death
Title: Madame Death
Character: Tony Winter
Released: December 28, 1969
Type: Movie
A mad scientist teams with an evil, disfigured woman to kidnap and operate on young women to make her look beautiful again.
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El criado malcriado
Title: El criado malcriado
Character: Detective Martínez
Released: November 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Man hiding from the police is trapped into posing as a butler at a rich family's country estate.
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Valentín Armienta, el vengador
Title: Valentín Armienta, el vengador
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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Pact with the Devil
Title: Pact with the Devil
Released: February 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A crazed doctor performs gruesome experiments in his search for a youth serum.
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La venganza de Correa Cotto
Title: La venganza de Correa Cotto
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Final days of the Puerto Rican criminal Antonio Correa Cotto.
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Me casé con un cura
Title: Me casé con un cura
Released: November 13, 1968
Type: Movie
Ángel Maura, a seminarian with an innate talent, has an ideal voice for singing. Offers of work and money arise, but Ángel rejects them because he wants to continue his preparation as a priest. His cousin of the same name, however, decides to impersonate him in order to gain fame and fortune. A fan of the singer begins to go out with him, but soon discovers that she is in love with the wrong person.
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Las pecadoras
Title: Las pecadoras
Released: July 25, 1968
Type: Movie
Jewel-thief and his girlfriend try to go straight.
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A Long Journey Toward Death
Title: A Long Journey Toward Death
Character: Juan
Released: July 3, 1968
Type: Movie
Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make dolls in a workshop attached to their apartment in New York. However, John does not heal and he starts looking for the nurses to murder them.
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Agente 00 Sexy
Title: Agente 00 Sexy
Character: El Nazi
Released: July 2, 1968
Type: Movie
The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants.
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El satánico
Title: El satánico
Character: Roberto
Released: June 7, 1968
Type: Movie
The film follows the exploits of a small gang of jewel thieves who employ a little person as their ultimate tool.
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Forbidden Nights
Title: Forbidden Nights
Released: April 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Fully shot in Puerto Rico, Noches prohibidas tells the story of a beautiful woman desired by three men, but she is passionate about a captain in her life.
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La piel desnuda
Title: La piel desnuda
Released: July 30, 1966
Type: Movie
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Joselito vagabundo
Title: Joselito vagabundo
Character: Johnny the 'men'
Released: May 19, 1966
Type: Movie
Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene meets Anita, a young aristocrat to whom Frank attempted to rob. And because she feels sympathy for him, the boy will have the opportunity to change his life and leave the country to make a deal with a rich heir, Fernando de Ponce, which proposes Rene to supplant him before his old aunt, who does not know him.
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Los tres pecados
Title: Los tres pecados
Released: April 21, 1966
Type: Movie
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Luna de miel en Puerto Rico
Title: Luna de miel en Puerto Rico
Character: Johnny "El Men"
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.
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El señor doctor
Title: El señor doctor
Character: Dr. Miguel Villanueva
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: Movie
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
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Title: El show de las 12
Released: January 11, 1965
Type: TV
El show de las 12 is a Puerto Rican midday variety television series airing on WKAQ-TV, and later on the nationwide Telemundo network, and hosted by Eddie Miro for most of its run. It aired every week-day for 40 years until its cancellation on February 25, 2005.
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Mr. Dólar
Title: Mr. Dólar
Character: Arturo
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A Puerto Rican goes to New York to seek his fortune.
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Cuando acaba la noche
Title: Cuando acaba la noche
Character: Luis
Released: February 3, 1964
Type: Movie
In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.
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El alcalde de Machuchal
Title: El alcalde de Machuchal
Character: Johnny el men
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Triburcio Pérez, a jíbaro, runs for mayor of Machuchal.
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Bello amanecer
Title: Bello amanecer
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
The spectacular beauty of María awakens the most hot and crazy passions among all the men of the island, including Jorge and Roberto. The two fishermen will vie for her love, by any means necessary.
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Los expatriados
Title: Los expatriados
Character: Arturo
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
The film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.
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Fiend of Dope Island
Title: Fiend of Dope Island
Character: Captain Fred
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Charlie is a dope smuggler who lives on his own private desert island and rules over the natives with an iron fist. When the native stooges get out of line, Charlie literally cracks the whip on his insubordinate subordinates. When a sexpot named Glory comes to the island, he holds her prisoner and makes her go-go dance for him.
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Counterplot
Title: Counterplot
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney.