Efraín López Neris

Acting

Efraín López Neris

Born

1937-04-01 (89)

Place of birth

Caguas, Puerto Rico

Known for

Acting

Credits

28 titles

Efraín López Neris (born April 1, 1937) Puerto Rican actor, producer and cinematographer that has had a long trajectory in Puerto Rico's national artistic scene. Born in Caguas in April 1, 1937, he had his start in Puerto Rican television in the 1960s by joining the cast of various comedy shows. Among his memorable television characters, "Don Florito" parodied great opera singers and operatic arias, a concept that predated that of Adam Sandler's Opera Man by at least fifteen years. His "Candido" had López portray an extremely naive married man who placed too much confidence in his wife and their mutual house painter friend ("mi amigo, el pintor"), whose profession led quite well to dozens o…

Known for

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El Condominio was a Puerto Rican television show produced by Sunshine Logrono for Televicentro Puerto Rico and Currently airs on reruns on Telemundo Puerto Rico.

El Condominio

2000

Up the Sandbox poster
5.9

Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.

Up the Sandbox

1972

Life of Sin poster
6.0

The film dramatizes the life of Isabel "la Negra" Luberza Oppenheimer. Pablo, a Caribbean peasant, and Isabel, a politician's mistress, open a brothel that becomes internationally famous. Though they gain wealth and power, the one thing that Isabel seeks continues to elude her.

Life of Sin

1979

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No synopsis available yet.

La leyenda

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Amor perdóname poster
5.7

Businessman Carlos meets Ana María in a Mexico City nightclub. He escorts her home, and makes a date for the next day. Ana María is actually a prostitute whose pimp, Arturo, thinks Carlos would be a good client, and urges her to be nice to him. They fall in love, and Carlos proposes marriage to her, indicating he must return to Puerto Rico soon.

Amor perdóname

1967

Romeo y Romeo poster
NR

Two teenagers in Puerto Rico and the discovery of love through fairy tales and skateboards. Confronted by their desires and repressions, these two teens confront religious and social repressions condemning the chances of accepting their homosexuality.

Romeo y Romeo

2015

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

Romeo y Romeo poster
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Two teenagers in Puerto Rico and the discovery of love through fairy tales and skateboards. Confronted by their desires and repressions, these two teens confront religious and social repressions condemning the chances of accepting their homosexuality.

Romeo y Romeo

2015

La llamarada poster
NR

Adaptation from Enrique A. Laguerre's novel "La llamarada". It depicts the struggles of Puerto Rican peons in the sugar cane fields during the 1930's.

La llamarada

2016

A Wedding in Castañer poster
10.0

Shortly before graduating from medical school, Mariana returns home to fulfill her father's promise to celebrate the greatest wedding ever in the history of Castañer. Complications arise when the bride's and the groom's families come together for the wedding preparations and festivities.

A Wedding in Castañer

2015

Yo soy un político poster
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Carlos is an ex-con looking for a job where he earns a lot of money without having to work hard. After discussing it with his cellmate, they conclude that the only work to fit the description is to be politician in Puerto Rico. Carlos decides to run for Governor, like every politician always seeking for the best for his country, and of course, looking for what's best for him.

Yo soy un político

2016

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It's never easy to let go, especially when your father's dying.

Es mejor escucharlo

2010

I Am a Director poster
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After spending 5 years in Hollywood, California, Carlos has go back to his home in Puerto Rico to make his first feature film.

I Am a Director

2013

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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.

El color de la guayaba

2010

2000s · 5 titles

Las dos caras de Jano poster
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It's December, but the people of San Juan aren’t feeling the Christmas spirit. A serial killer has snuffed the life out of some of the most renowned bachelors. A doctor, a dentist, a social columnist and a university professor are the most recent victims of the "The Angel of the Bachelors", a handsome young man who captivates closet homosexuals and stabs them to death following a sexual encounter with them.

Las dos caras de Jano

2008

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Life grows more chaotic as the family moves into a lavish new home, thanks to Armando's big promotion. Meanwhile, daughter Dolly is pregnant, and 2 members of the local police, the family's friends after years of responding to noisy arguments, are getting married.

¡Qué familia más normal! Vol. 2

2005

Miente poster
4.5

Henry is an introverted young artist who, seeking to escape the banality and violence of urban life, begins to blur the distinction between fantasy and reality.

Miente

2009

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Armando is a suave radio disc jockey trying to hide his sexy secretary from his jealous wife. He is caught between his stubborn mother and his opinionated mother-in-law. Stirring the already spicy pot is his son, who plans to marry the daughter of an unusual couple.

¡Qué familia más normal!

2004

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10.0

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.

Desamores

2004

1970s · 3 titles

1960s · 7 titles

Amor perdóname poster
5.7

Businessman Carlos meets Ana María in a Mexico City nightclub. He escorts her home, and makes a date for the next day. Ana María is actually a prostitute whose pimp, Arturo, thinks Carlos would be a good client, and urges her to be nice to him. They fall in love, and Carlos proposes marriage to her, indicating he must return to Puerto Rico soon.

Amor perdóname

1967

The Engagement Ring poster
NR

Pedro and Isabel disagree on the number of children they'll have when they get married. By contrasting the bustle of the city life with the more traditional agrarian life, the film provides an examination of several attitudes toward family planning.

The Engagement Ring

1965

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10.0

The story of the 65th Infantry Regiment of the US Army composed almost entirely of Puerto Ricans and who participated in the Korean War, suffering heavy casualties.

El escuadrón del pánico

1969

Cuando acaba la noche poster
6.0

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.

Cuando acaba la noche

1964

Juicio contra un ángel poster
5.8

A widower arrives in Puerto Rico with his son Angelito. The father dies and the boy goes to live with his grandfather who plays guitar in the streets. Angelito accompanies him singing and earns good money, but a political uncle accuses the grandfather of exploiting the boy and takes him to an orphanage.

Juicio contra un ángel

1964

Más allá del Capitolio poster
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A small town celebrates the triumph of their revolution. Under the euphoria of the moment, the town's founder is declared a traitor and the destruction of his statue is decided by the people. A journalist buys the statue before it is destroyed. Later, the townspeople discover that the statue isn't from who they thought it was and they decide to retrieve it. The journalist, however, doesn't want to give it back, giving rise to the dilemma.

Más allá del Capitolio

1962

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5.8

A story of teenage love set against the backdrop of the 60's, filmed on the picturesque tropical beaches of Puerto Rico. A classic Latino love story, asking the timeless question -- whether it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.

Los que nunca amaron

1967

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