Acting

Ricardo Álvarez

Born 1975-11-28

Acting credits

Princess Protection Program poster
6.6

When her nation is invaded, a young princess is taken into the Princess Protection Program. She is relocated to Louisiana, where she stays with a covert agent and his tomboyish daughter, and must learn how to behave like an ordinary teenager.

Princess Protection Program

2009

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster
6.4

In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter, Javier, who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. As she secretly learns to dance with Javier, she learns the meanings of love, sensuality and independence.

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

2004

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

No artwork available
NR

Modern version of A Christmas Carol.

Santa Clós es Boricua

2004

Los lunes a las 9 poster
NR

Hybrid documentary about one of the most successful shows in Puerto Rican television history: ‘No te duermas’

Los lunes a las 9

2022

Paging Emma poster
7.5

An operator at a mobile pager company has her life turned upside down by a seemingly senseless abduction. Currently considered to be a lost film (never released to the general public, after its theatrical premiere in Puerto Rico).

Paging Emma

1999

No artwork available
NR

Juan Santos and his wife were kidnapped by mistake, but for their surprise, they are not the only Santos there. Another couple with the same last name was also kidnapped. The Santos will try to work together to escape their not so smart kidnappers.

Los Santos

2013

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

Lo Innombrable: the Unnamable poster
8.5

A father has to confront his own fears in order to understand the uncanny suffering of his only child.

Lo Innombrable: the Unnamable

2016

Mi abuelo se quiere casar poster
NR

Roberto goes for a drive and, amid thoughts about his problems, he has an accident with a public bus. That's where he sees the love of his life.

Mi abuelo se quiere casar

2017

No artwork available
NR

Raul’s job as a lighthouse keeper takes an unexpected turn as he witnesses a man jumping from a cliff. It leads him to deal with the dilemma of death, while being constantly tormented by the suicidal thoughts of the previous lighthouse keeper.

Tinta y café

2013

Valga la redundancia poster
NR

Angela, who lives with her mother Antonia, an Alzheimer's patient, will lose a job opportunity if she does not submit a proposal on time. Angela must deal with the pressure of work and develop the patience to handle Antonia, but above all, she must learn to accept her mother's condition.

Valga la redundancia

2023

Extra Terrestres poster
1.0

The Díaz are an influential family who control much of the poultry industry in the island. Arcadio is the family patriarch, an authoritative and conservative man who rules over his family's destiny as he does over the chickens on his farm. Teresa, his eldest, left home during her college years to become an astrophysicist against her father's wishes. Now, after a 7-year absence, she returns home for a few weeks in order to reveal a secret long kept from her family and to invite them to her wedding with Daniela. But, once back, her intentions turn to dust when she finds herself trapped in the family's old habit of lying. No one in the family is as they seem, nor are they willing to unveil their true selves. Within this world of half-truths, Teresa encounters Andrés, her nephew, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who shares her passion for the stars.

Extra Terrestres

2017

Mas De Un Siglo poster
NR

125 years of music in Puerto Rico from 1893 to 2018.

Mas De Un Siglo

2018

Back to the Beginning poster
NR

After completing a 6 year conviction, Erick Montalvo gets rehabilitated into society and decides to start a family with his wife Michelle. Among many situations and economic problems, their lives become unbearable. Their child, born prematurely and with several conditions, requires a surgery costing more than $120,000. Out of desperation, Erick loses control and decides to do one last job that takes him “back to the beginning”.

Back to the Beginning

2015

Los Díaz de Doris poster
7.0

Doris is a hardworking and honest woman, divorced and mother of two teenagers whom she adores but doesn’t understand. After a bad relationship with her husband, she no longer trusts men. She lives only for her children, but they’re living their own lives. One day, Doris learns that things can get better.

Los Díaz de Doris

2000

Aventura verde poster
NR

Five children enter a forest full of giant trees, strange animals, and magical characters.

Aventura verde

2010

Las dos caras de Jano poster
NR

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

La espera desespera poster
7.0

Jorge has no money or insurance when his wife needs heart surgery, so he decides to rob a bank.

La espera desespera

2012

No artwork available
NR

The underground world of the early-2000s rave clubbing scene in Puerto Rico.

Kamaleón

2003