Eugenio Monclova

Acting

Eugenio Monclova

Born 1957-12-05 · Puerto Rico

Eugenio Monclova is a Puerto Rican stage, film and television actor and director. He holds a BA in Acting from the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, and an MFA in Directing and Acting from the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

Acting credits

Che: Part One poster
6.8

Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.

Che: Part One

2008

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NR

Based on Enrique A. Laguerre's novel.

Cauce sin río

1991

Revolución en el infierno poster
10.0

Illustrates the events of the Ponce Massacre through the life of one of the victims, Ulpiano Perea.

Revolución en el infierno

2004

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

La leyenda

The Vessel poster
5.3

Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.

The Vessel

2016

Imprisoned poster
4.6

Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden, Daniel Calvin, has not forgiven him for an old crime.

Imprisoned

2019

Celestino y el Vampiro poster
8.0

In Old San Juan a 40+ year old divorcée is not aware he befriends a vampire who bites women, not in their necks but in their derrières, leaving them with flattened behinds. A vampire hunter from Europe warns Celestino about his neighbor and tries to recruit his help in salvaging a much cherished national heritage. But there is a difficulty: this vampire will not die by a stake through his heart and to avoid destruction he wears tin underwear.

Celestino y el Vampiro

2003

El detective Cojines poster
6.7

The story of a college professor obsessed with private eye novels who, following an accident, becomes a private investigator patterned after the movies and novels of the 40’s. Among the cases he investigates, three will come to him that will reveal a full range of intrigue and bizarre secrets.

El detective Cojines

2011

A Flight of Hope poster
6.7

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.

A Flight of Hope

1993

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NR

Based on Manuel Zeno Gandía's novel about peasant life in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico.

La Charca

1990

El aquelarre poster
10.0

A man is convinced his pregnant wife is a witch and that she is carrying an abomination in her womb.

El aquelarre

2011

El cimarrón poster
4.7

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.

El cimarrón

2006

Cows Wearing Glasses poster
4.5

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.

Cows Wearing Glasses

2014

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9.0

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".

Cuentos para despertar

1998

El Bachatero del Diablo poster
NR

New horror comedy from Eduardo Transfor Ortiz

El Bachatero del Diablo

2024

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sabo

2004

No artwork available
8.0

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".

Leyendas de Puerto Rico

1999