This is a partial List of films set in Puerto Rico ; either the movie's plot includes that island, the movie has been filmed there, or both. Certain movies that are supposed to be set in Cuba are filmed in Puerto Rico because of the U.S. embargo and similarities between both islands. To learn more about the films of Puerto Rico, see Cinema of Puerto Rico.
Menudo is a Puerto Rican boy band formed by producer Edgardo Díaz. Referred to as the "Most Iconic Latino Pop Music Band", Menudo has been ranked as one of the biggest boy bands of all time by several publications, including Billboard, Us Weekly, Seventeen, and Teen Vogue, being the only Latin band on their lists.
Rene Farrait Nieves is a Puerto Rican singer, actor, and former member of the boy band Menudo.
Ricky Meléndez is a Puerto Rican singer, lawyer and actor, best known for his tenures as a member of boy band Menudo and of El Reencuentro.
Una aventura llamada Menudo is a 1982 film featuring teen boy band Menudo and Puerto Rican actress Gladys Rodríguez. The film's soundtrack received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album.
Francisco Xavier Serbiá Queipo is a financial commentator, syndicated columnist, and news anchor of CNN Dinero at CNN en Español. Serbiá is also a former member of the boy band Menudo.
Johnny Lozada Correa is a Puerto Rican singer, actor, host, and television personality.
Miguel Ángel Cancel Vázquez is a Puerto Rican singer, actor and retired police officer who began his career with the Puerto Rico-based boy band Menudo.
Carlos Javier Rivera Massó, better known as Charlie Massó, is a Puerto Rican singer and actor. Massó is a former member of Menudo, joining the band at the height of Menudo's worldwide fame. He replaced Rene Farrait and quickly became a fan favorite with his participation on the albums of Por Amor and Una Aventura Llamada Menudo, which was the name of both Menudo's second movie and of the soundtrack album for it. Charlie recorded 14 albums with Menudo, two were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in 1984 and 85.
Palmas del Mar is a beach resort community consisting of a country club, golf courses, tennis, a beach club, residences and a hotel. It is located in the municipality of Humacao, Puerto Rico, on the southeast corner of the island.
Conexión Caribe is a 1984 film starring members of Los Chicos, a Puerto Rican boy band of the 1980s, Tony, Migue, Chayanne, Rey and Alex.
René Marqués was a Puerto Rican short story writer and playwright.
Miguel Ángel Suárez was a Puerto Rican soap opera and movie actor.
Esther Sandoval was a Puerto Rican actress and a pioneer in Puerto Rico's television.
Gladys Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican actress, comedian, and television host. She is also a Christian pastor and a priest at an Episcopalian church in Oviedo, Florida, near Orlando, United States.
The history of the Cinema industry in Puerto Rico predates Hollywood, being conceived after the first industries emerged in some locations of the United States, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, France, Great Britain and Germany. During the US invasion of the island in 1898, American soldiers brought cameras to record what they saw. By 1912, Puerto Ricans would begin to produce their own films. After the early images recorded by the American soldiers in 1898, most of the films produced in the island were documentaries. It wasn't until 1912 that Rafael Colorado D'Assoy recorded the first non-documentary film titled Un drama en Puerto Rico. After that, Colorado and Antonio Capella Martínez created the Film Industrial Society of Puerto Rico in 1916, producing their first film titled Por la hembra y el gallo. Other film companies formed during the time were the Tropical Film Company (1917) and the Porto Rico Photoplays (1919). Puerto Rico was the second Latin American market to produce a sound film, filming Luis Pales Matos's script for Romance Tropical (1934). The film featured Jorge Rodríguez, Raquel and Ernestina Canino, Sixto Chevremont and Cándida de Lorenzo. In the late 1930s Rafael Cobián produced films starring Blanca de Castejón such as Mis dos amores and Los hijos mandan at Hollywood. In 1951, he would produce Mi doble with San Juan as its setting. Mapy and Fernando Cortés would also participate in the Hollywood industry, as well as throughout Latin America.
Menudo: La Pelicula is a 1982 Puerto Rican-Venezuelan film production featuring Puerto Rican boy band Menudo. The film was filmed entirely in Venezuela. It was directed by Alfredo Anzola. Marisela Buitrago also acts in the film.
This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in Latin music in the 1980s, namely in Ibero-America. This includes recordings, festivals, award ceremonies, births and deaths of Latin music artists, and the rise and fall of various subgenres in Latin music from 1980 to 1989.
La Pandilla en Apuros is a 1976 musical teen-comedy film featuring the well known teenage musical group from Spain, La Pandilla.
Secuestro en Acapulco-Canta Chamo is a 1983 Venezuelan-Mexican teen musical comedy film, starring the well known Venezuelan boy band, Los Chamos, as well as Mexican actor Cesar Bono, Mexican actress Lucila Mariscal, Mexican singer and actress Yuri, and Mexican actress Maria Antonieta de las Nieves. The movie was released internationally during 1983. It has a duration of 90 minutes.
Eduardo "Ed" Trucco is a Puerto Rican–American actor, producer and former sportscaster of Argentine descent. Trucco is best known as "Manning" in the American television series Law and Order, as agent "Patrick O'Hara" in "Al otro lado del muro" and as DEA agent "Ernie Palmero" in La Reina del Sur III. In his youth, he was known for his participation in two boy-band related movies in Puerto Rico.
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