Gladys Rodríguez

Gladys Rodríguez

Born: June 4, 1943
in Santurce, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican actress, comedian, and television host.

Movies for Gladys Rodríguez...

Cows Wearing Glasses
Title: Cows Wearing Glasses
Released: September 11, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Stranded in Paradise
Title: Stranded in Paradise
Character: Stella Demur
Released: August 9, 2014
Type: Movie
When a driven HR exec loses her high-powered job, she travels to Puerto Rico in an attempt to save her career at a business conference. But as the trip quickly becomes a disaster and a hurricane shuts down the whole island, she meets a handsome world traveler who gives her a new perspective on finding passion in life and love.
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The Caller
Title: The Caller
Character: Concetta Guidi
Released: August 26, 2011
Type: Movie
Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying way...
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The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: Genoveva Orama
Released: February 14, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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La recompensa
Title: La recompensa
Character: Lydia
Released: September 15, 2008
Type: Movie
A young woman flees just before her wedding day and disappears to avoid facing the consequences of her actions.
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Marta y Cristóbal
Title: Marta y Cristóbal
Character: Marta's mother
Released: January 2, 2008
Type: Movie
A widowed man meets a younger woman at a bus stop.
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Title: Dueña y Señora
Released: May 1, 2006
Type: TV
Dueña y Señora is a Puerto Rican telenovela based on La Dueña. It is produced by Telemundo Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico Vibra Inc., which intends to market it to the United States' Spanish-speaking residents as well.
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El sueño del regreso
Title: El sueño del regreso
Character: Carlotta
Released: December 22, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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¡Qué buena vida!
Title: ¡Qué buena vida!
Released: June 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Portrays two wealthy families who encourage the acquisition of money through the easy way and the effects of their illicit actions. In their eagerness to maintain their social level, one of the families neglects their daughter, thinking that money is everything. The other maintains making money as north because they come from a poor social stratum.
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Zompi
Title: Zompi
Character: Alex's grandmother
Released: April 30, 2005
Type: Movie
Alex, a 10 year old child, faces the trauma of his parents' divorce, a new home, neighborhood, and school. Alex dreams of being a famous ballplayer like his father, but the instability of his new life makes him an insecure child and unable to recognize his talent. The arrival of Zompi, a virtual intelligent animal, transforms and helps him overcome all his fears.
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Amores
Title: Amores
Released: December 28, 2004
Type: Movie
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...)
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Barrio Obrero
Title: Barrio Obrero
Character: Beatriz
Released: October 27, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of two adolescents whose love is threatened by the violence they live in their school.
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Sudor amargo
Title: Sudor amargo
Released: August 20, 2002
Type: Movie
An inspiring, realistic portrayal of a group of female workers struggling to keep their jobs at a doomed Puerto Rican cannery. The volatile atmosphere worsens when their boss is found murdered one morning. As the investigation goes on and each of the women is questioned, the strain puts their friendship to the ultimate test.
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Amores como todos los demás
Title: Amores como todos los demás
Released: January 2, 1999
Type: Movie
Deals with themes such as bulimia and anorexia, suicide in adolescents, male prostitution, alcoholism, single parents raising children, among others.
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El poder del Shakti
Title: El poder del Shakti
Character: Shakti Goddess
Released: June 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Joseph Lando, the Hercolobus man himself, fights all sorts of mystical mayhem in this over-the-top yet delightful Puerto Rican classic.
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Milagro en Yauco
Title: Milagro en Yauco
Released: January 2, 1996
Type: Movie
A young boy has a vision on Christmas Eve that changes him and his entire village.
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Shortcut to Paradise
Title: Shortcut to Paradise
Character: Lona
Released: August 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Quinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico, purporting to be the new caretaker the owner has been expecting. He gets right to work, making a good impression on everybody, except Gus, the reclusive teenage gas station attendant. Soon, sinister things come to pass
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La guagua aérea
Title: La guagua aérea
Character: Dominga
Released: March 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Cuentos de Abelardo
Title: Cuentos de Abelardo
Character: Clemencia
Released: January 2, 1990
Type: Movie
A selection of three short stories by Puerto Rican writer Abelardo Díaz Alfaro (“Don Procopio”, “Peyo Mercé enseña inglés”, and “Bagazo”), portraying typical characters of the Puerto Rican social and economic classes in the 1940's.
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Lo que le pasó a Santiago
Title: Lo que le pasó a Santiago
Character: Angelina
Released: June 22, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Una aventura llamada Menudo
Title: Una aventura llamada Menudo
Character: Senora Mia
Released: November 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Xavier, Miguel, Johnny, Ricky, and Charlie (the members of Menudo) decide to take a hot air ballon to a concert and end up crashing in the woods. The boys have their own adventures (jumping in the mud, skateboarding, stealing motorbikes, playing practical jokes on each other, throwing sea sponges, and meeting beautiful girls) while the record company tries to get them back so that they can perform in concert.
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Dios los cría...
Title: Dios los cría...
Character: Marie (segment "La Otra")
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Film consisting of five stories: "Dios los cría...", dealing with brothers' rivalry for an inheritance; "Negocio redondo", about a lawyer selling a property to the Catholic church with guilty feelings; "Entre 12 y 1", where a couple and a close friend get trapped in an elevator; "La gran noche", a night in the life of an old prostitute; and "La otra", where a man alternates between two women.
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Dios los cría...
Title: Dios los cría...
Character: Annette (segment "Entre Doce Y Una")
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Film consisting of five stories: "Dios los cría...", dealing with brothers' rivalry for an inheritance; "Negocio redondo", about a lawyer selling a property to the Catholic church with guilty feelings; "Entre 12 y 1", where a couple and a close friend get trapped in an elevator; "La gran noche", a night in the life of an old prostitute; and "La otra", where a man alternates between two women.
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The Devil's Woman
Title: The Devil's Woman
Released: June 13, 1974
Type: Movie
A man who lives in a house in a little town in Guatemala that has a reputation of being a sinful place, falls in love with a young girl.
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A Long Journey Toward Death
Title: A Long Journey Toward Death
Character: Gladys
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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El satánico
Title: El satánico
Character: Alicia Ponce
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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Mr. Dólar
Title: Mr. Dólar
Character: Carmen
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A Puerto Rican goes to New York to seek his fortune.
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Los expatriados
Title: Los expatriados
Character: Carmen
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.