Amílcar Tirado Movies

Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.

The story of a couple who wish to marry, but have no money to build a house. A neighbor recommends that they go by the community asking for cooperation, getting everyone to contribute.

A small town celebrates the triumph of their revolution. Under the euphoria of the moment, the town's founder is declared a traitor and the destruction of his statue is decided by the people. A journalist buys the statue before it is destroyed. Later, the townspeople discover that the statue isn't...

In the community of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, the main character, played by the esteemed comedian José Miguel Agrelot, buys a washing machine for his wife. However, the town has no electrical power. The movie’s depiction of the jíbaro as naive and comical created a rift among the DivEdCo...

This 1980 documentary presents an account of the life of Luis Muñoz Marín and an account of what happened during his death and burial.

Professional gambler Dan Crown arrives in San Juan to visit his brother Alex, only to learn from the police that Alex has been found murdered. To Captain Acosta's questioning, Dan answers that he had no knowledge of his brother's affairs. Dan then finds Gina Rosario searching his hotel room, and...

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

One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined...

A visual study of the colonial, military and religious architecture of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league.

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.

The film recreates the miracle of the birth of Jesus in a Puerto Rican field. It begins with the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Three Kings.

A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in Puerto Rico.

A generational conflict is reflected in the old-fashioned ideas of the landowner, who imposes himself as a dominant figure in the political activity of the rural communities of Puerto Rico.

This short film celebrates the social legislation of wage reform for cane laborers.

A family relationship drama about a strict father who wants to control his son, who in turn leaves his father's house and moves to the city.

Follows the life of a loving couple that is childless. Juana consults help from many sources so she can conceive, but to no avail. However, her husband Manolo has an illegitimate son by a prostitute. He hopes to raise him as their mutual son, but the boy's arrival marks a profound change in the...

Tells the story about a boy with a mental handicap. It was conceived as teaching tools to inform parents about the issues that they faced when confronted with the health and well-being of their children and of their right to social services.

Meant to inform rural communities about the legacy of the Taínos, the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borikén, as they called the island.

It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.