Movies: Divedco

  • 1951
    Los peloteros

    Los peloteros (1951)

    Los peloteros

    61951HD

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

    Los peloteros
  • 1951
    El puente

    El puente (1951)

    El puente

    51951HD

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

    El puente
  • 1969
    Pueblito de Santiago

    Pueblito de Santiago (1969)

    Pueblito de Santiago

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    Adapted from Mexico's "The Forgotten Village". It deals with the fight that develops from the superstitious and ignorant interpretation of a problem and its real, scientific solution....

    Pueblito de Santiago
  • 1952
    A Voice on the Mountain

    A Voice on the Mountain (1952)

    A Voice on the Mountain

    5.41952HD

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

    A Voice on the Mountain
  • 1959
    Intolerance

    Intolerance (1959)

    Intolerance

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    A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor....

    Intolerance
  • 1963
    La noche de don Manuel

    La noche de don Manuel (1963)

    La noche de don Manuel

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    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....

    La noche de don Manuel
  • 1955
    Modesta

    Modesta (1955)

    Modesta

    51955HD

    Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husband...

    Modesta
  • 1958
    El secreto

    El secreto (1958)

    El secreto

    01958HD

    Illustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge....

    El secreto
  • 1961
    Splendor

    Splendor (1961)

    Splendor

    7.51961HD

    It tells the story of a slave rebellion on a sugar plantation in the days leading up to the official abolition of slavery on the island on March 22, 1873....

    Splendor
  • 1959
    Brainless John

    Brainless John (1959)

    Brainless John

    5.21959HD

    A man believes all the advertising he hears....

    Brainless John
  • 1966
    La plena

    La plena (1966)

    La plena

    01966HD

    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 a...

    La plena
  • 1961
    El gallo pelón

    El gallo pelón (1961)

    El gallo pelón

    01961HD

    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 comi...

    El gallo pelón
  • 1964
    La guardarraya

    La guardarraya (1964)

    La guardarraya

    01964HD

    The location of the dividing line between two farms causes friction between two families....

    La guardarraya
  • 1955
    The One with White Shanks

    The One with White Shanks (1955)

    The One with White Shanks

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    The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding their wives’ advice, individuals join forces in a cooperative so they can sell their crop of tobacco ...

    The One with White Shanks
  • 1957
    When Fathers Forget

    When Fathers Forget (1957)

    When Fathers Forget

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    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....

    When Fathers Forget
  • 1959
    El yugo

    El yugo (1959)

    El yugo

    61959HD

    The exploitation of fisherman in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and how the laborers reached their economic independence through operative alliances....

    El yugo
  • 1955
    Nenén of the Moorish Way

    Nenén of the Moorish Way (1955)

    Nenén of the Moorish Way

    5.51955HD

    A young boy becomes intrigued by one of the characters in his village's celebration of its patron saint....

    Nenén of the Moorish Way
  • 1959
    El cacique

    El cacique (1959)

    El cacique

    01959HD

    A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader....

    El cacique
  • 1961
    Milagro en la montaña

    Milagro en la montaña (1961)

    Milagro en la montaña

    01961HD

    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....

    Milagro en la montaña
  • 1953
    Roots of Happiness

    Roots of Happiness (1953)

    Roots of Happiness

    01953HD

    Dramatizes the case of a family in which the father respects and loves his wife and children, permitting each to develop as an individual, and contrasts this family with one where discord and hostility prevail....

    Roots of Happiness