Ray Figueroa

Writing

Ray Figueroa

Known for

Writing

Credits

31 titles

Ray Figueroa is a Puerto Rican filmmaker. He has worked as a writer, director, and producer of numerous films both in Puerto Rico and abroad.

Known for

Behind the camera

Exorcismo Documentado poster
7.3

While a sixteen year old girl is possessed by an evil spirit, her mother tries to find help, but everything goes wrong with horrible consequences.

Exorcismo Documentado

2012

El Antillano poster
NR

A documentary about the iconic Puerto Rican revolutionary Ramón Emeterio Betances and his effect and validity in Puerto Rican 21st century.

El Antillano

2014

Fight Back poster
NR

It’s not the hit… it’s how you rise.

Fight Back

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Once Upon a Time in the Caribbean poster
7.0

Juan Encarnación is a reserved jibaro with a violent past. When Pura, the woman he loves, disappears, Encarnación sets out on a path of revenge armed with his machete and his daughter, Patria, in his arms.

Once Upon a Time in the Caribbean

2023

Once Upon a Time in the Caribbean poster
7.0

Juan Encarnación is a reserved jibaro with a violent past. When Pura, the woman he loves, disappears, Encarnación sets out on a path of revenge armed with his machete and his daughter, Patria, in his arms.

Once Upon a Time in the Caribbean

2023

La patria de los abuelos poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

La patria de los abuelos

2019

La patria de los abuelos poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

La patria de los abuelos

2019

Desagravio poster
6.0

A widow must confess her infidelities in her husband's wake to appease his angry ghost and the scared townsfolk. Based on the short story by the Puerto Rican writer Emilio S. Belaval.

Desagravio

2017

Desagravio poster
6.0

A widow must confess her infidelities in her husband's wake to appease his angry ghost and the scared townsfolk. Based on the short story by the Puerto Rican writer Emilio S. Belaval.

Desagravio

2017

Filiberto poster
7.0

The deeds of a professional musician who abandons his trumpet and family to live the clandestine life of an armed revolutionary for Puerto Rican independence.

Filiberto

2017

Pueblo Chico poster
NR

Film from Ray Figueroa

Pueblo Chico

2017

Pueblo Chico poster
NR

Film from Ray Figueroa

Pueblo Chico

2017

Fe poster
7.1

An evangelical priest is forced to question the true reason why God has placed him on earth. With this in mind, the priest is invited to give a religious service in the state prison of Guatemala City, where he meets Beto, a young fisherman accused of killing a thirteen-year-old girl. The priest sees in Beto a chance to redeem himself and once Beto is released from prison, the priest decides to help him. The priest gives Beto job and shelter in the church, causing his family and congregation to turn against him. Convinced of Beto's innocence and affirmed only in his faith, the priest decides to help him at all costs. Until one day, an unexpected crime occurs in the surroundings of the church.

Fe

2011

No artwork available
NR

A cybernetic relationship faces their first face-to-face encounter.

Si no está roto

2016

No artwork available
NR

A cybernetic relationship faces their first face-to-face encounter.

Si no está roto

2016

Mas De Un Siglo poster
NR

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

Mas De Un Siglo

2018

The House Across the Street poster
6.4

The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of age. When days later found the girl's body, horribly maimed in the back of the house of one of the most famous residents of the village, all Alsina Alvaro suspect as the perpetrator.

The House Across the Street

2004

Abrazo poster
NR

Luz, a young pregnant Central American migrant, accidentally finds shelter in the house of Norma, a North American conservative woman.

Abrazo

2023

Las Cruces, poblado próximo poster
NR

Set during the civil war in 1980's Guatemala. A group of six men and a woman must find a way to work together to protect the village of Las Cruces from an impending military attack. The indigenous population of the area, inevitably is torn between their need to help and thoughts of fleeing, for self preservation.

Las Cruces, poblado próximo

2006

No artwork available
NR

A story about three adolescents as they address the universal challenges of growing up in a time where drugs, sexual promiscuity, delinquency, and suicide seem to run rampant.

Antes de las once

2008

No artwork available
NR

Portrays the night in which Jessica Pacheco Calvente died as consequence of a stray bullet during the end of year festivities.

12:16

2013

No artwork available
NR

Portrays the night in which Jessica Pacheco Calvente died as consequence of a stray bullet during the end of year festivities.

12:16

2013

The Sword and the Hairpin poster
NR

A young samurai must choose between the life of the sword or quiet, family life.

The Sword and the Hairpin

2014

Tiempos De Aguinaldo poster
NR

This year, Popular dedicates its musical production to the Christmas holiday season that is celebrated in Puerto Rico for a period of almost two months. The production takes the audience through the various celebrations that take place during that time, from the trullas, Noche Buena, Misa de Gallo, despedida de año, to the Candelaria. All these celebrations have taken root in the Island’s popular culture, which allows Puerto Ricans to celebrate everything that period represents with a lot of music.

Tiempos De Aguinaldo

2019

Toque de Queda poster
7.0

In Guatemala, violence is contagious. The neighbors of Villas de La Esperanza, in fear of an eventual invasion of those infected by violence, arm themselves and patrol nights, risking their lives for the safety of their families. But battling violence with violence only spreads the contagion, and the neighbors will realise that the greatest danger is not what lurks outside their secure gated community. The real danger lies within. In Guatemala violence is contagious, and we are all infected.

Toque de Queda

2011

Toque de Queda poster
7.0

In Guatemala, violence is contagious. The neighbors of Villas de La Esperanza, in fear of an eventual invasion of those infected by violence, arm themselves and patrol nights, risking their lives for the safety of their families. But battling violence with violence only spreads the contagion, and the neighbors will realise that the greatest danger is not what lurks outside their secure gated community. The real danger lies within. In Guatemala violence is contagious, and we are all infected.

Toque de Queda

2011

V.I.P.: Very Important Prisoners poster
3.3

Follows Juan Ramos, an accountant accused of corruption and murder, as he navigates the brutal politics and survival struggles within the dangerous jail, battling powerful inmates to prove his innocence.

V.I.P.: Very Important Prisoners

2007

Irresistible poster
NR

A fairy gives a young man three wishes. He has already used two, but does not remember in what. Only one wish is left. What will he choose?

Irresistible

2016

Irresistible poster
NR

A fairy gives a young man three wishes. He has already used two, but does not remember in what. Only one wish is left. What will he choose?

Irresistible

2016

La Bodega poster
6.0

A young woman is brutally assaulted by gang members in the middle of Guatemala City. As usual, the authorities have no suspects or leads, leaving the girl to become one more victim in a society where thousands of women are assaulted every year. Jacobo, the victim's brother, along with Antonio, his best friend, decide in their frustration to extract some their kind of revenge.

La Bodega

2010

La Bodega poster
6.0

A young woman is brutally assaulted by gang members in the middle of Guatemala City. As usual, the authorities have no suspects or leads, leaving the girl to become one more victim in a society where thousands of women are assaulted every year. Jacobo, the victim's brother, along with Antonio, his best friend, decide in their frustration to extract some their kind of revenge.

La Bodega

2010