Axel Anderson

Acting

Axel Anderson

Born 1929-12-11 · Berlin, Germany

German-born Puerto Rican actor.

Acting credits

Assassins poster
6.5

Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.

Assassins

1995

The Reaping poster
5.8

Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.

The Reaping

2007

No artwork available
NR

Families gather to receive the New Year. But this meeting brings a series of confessions that will make for a very peculiar evening.

Quiéreme mucho

2005

No artwork available
5.0

A summit meeting of rival gangs, one predominantly Italian and the other a mix of Polish, Irish, and Italian mobsters, fails to resolve their differences, and gang war breaks out.

Organización criminal

1968

Battle of the Bulge poster
6.9

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

Battle of the Bulge

1965

No artwork available
NR

Explores concerns about uterine cancer and the value of the Pap Test in detecting this serious type of cancer.

Luisa tenía razón

1968

Bananas poster
6.7

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

Bananas

1971

Taínos: la última tribu poster
3.0

Sara, a young archaeology student, organizes an expedition to La Mora Cave. Guided by Yabey, Sara and her four friends, discover a hidden Taíno tribe, believed to be extinguished 500 years ago.

Taínos: la última tribu

2005

The Other Road poster
8.0

The story of a widow who owns a coffee hacienda, focusing on the dynamics between her son and the man who romances her.

The Other Road

1960

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

Death in Granada poster
5.6

A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.

Death in Granada

1996

Undercurrent poster
4.2

A nightclub manager with financial problems accepts an offer to seduce another man's wife for money, and soon finds himself entwined in a web of double-crossing con artists.

Undercurrent

1999

An American Romance poster
6.1

A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.

An American Romance

1944

No artwork available
8.0

Sylvia is writing her first novel. This will uncover dark secrets from her family's past; a past that now returns to haunt her. Disturbing, strange, frightening ghost story set in an exotic Spanish colonial city by the sea. A tale of mystery and terror that will keep you guessing from start to end.

The Face at the Window

1998

Paradise Lost poster
3.9

A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths.

Paradise Lost

1999

No artwork available
NR

Documentary that analyzes the situation of the film industry in Puerto Rico from its beginnings in 1912 to 1979. Filmmakers Jack Delano, Juan Viguié, Oscar Orzábal, Axel Anderson, Paquito Cordero, Efraín López Neris, Roberto Guastella, Roberto Gándara, Geronimo Mitchell and Tito Bonilla participate.

¿Cine en Puerto Rico?

1979

Thunder Island poster
5.4

A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean.

Thunder Island

1963

Las divertidas aventuras del aburrido Carlos poster
NR

Improvisational cinema from Eduardo Rosado

Las divertidas aventuras del aburrido Carlos

2011

Vanished poster
1.5

During a visit to a tropical island, a man mysteriously disappears and his wife must lead her own investigation in order to find him.

Vanished

2006

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

No artwork available
NR

An old man takes care of his senile wife.

Luz

2010

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

Shortcut to Paradise poster
5.5

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

Shortcut to Paradise

1994

Behind the camera