Jorge PerugorríaFilmography

Born:: August 13, 1965 in Havana, Cuba
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: In 1994, Cuban actor Jorge Perugorria landed one of the most prestigious roles imaginable in his native country, with a lead in the penultimate work of celebrated director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Although the film -- a gentle and thoughtful comedy-drama entitled Strawberry and Chocolate (1994)...Read More

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Che, Part 1

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Javier Bardem, Julia Ormond, Santiago Cabrera, Franka Potente, Edgar Ramirez, Demián Bichir

Synopsis: Part 1 of Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara saga stars Benicio Del Toro as the legendary Argentine revolutionary. The film opens with Che as one of the important figures in the growing Cuban rebellion led by Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir). The movie charts how the two successfully built an underground Read More

1/9/09
Che

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Jorge Perugorría, Edgar Ramirez

Synopsis: Nearly 40 years after Che Guevara's execution in Bolivia, director Steven Soderbergh retraces the life of the iconic Cuban revolutionary in this nearly four-and-a-half-hour saga. Part 1 begins on November 26, 1956, as Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir) sails into Cuban waters with 80 rebels in tow. Read More

12/12/08
Horn of Plenty

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Annia Bu, Enrique Molina, Laura de la Uz, Vladimir Cruz

Synopsis: Cuban filmmaker Juan Carlos Tabío uses laughter to explore the socio-economic difficulties facing his homeland in this comedy concerning the chaos that unfolds when word spreads that the Castiñeiras family is set to receive a sizable inheritance. When Yamaguey resident Bernardito (Jorge Read More

2008
Oscar. Una pasion surrealista

2008
The Heart of the Earth

Actors: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Sienna Guillory, Philip Winchester, Bernard Hill, Joaquim de Almeida

4/13/07
Rosa de Francia

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Alex Gonzalez, Broselianda Hernandez, Ana Celia De Armas

2006
Ants in the Mouth

Actors: Eduard Fernández, Adriana Gil, Jorge Perugorría, José Luis Gómez

Synopsis: After languishing in a Barcelona prison for nearly a decade, a busted bank robber attempts to find the girl who made off with the cash in this suspenseful tale of revenge and betrayal starring Adriana Gil and Eduard Fernández. Ex-con Martin Losada is out of prison and on the hunt. When he and his Read More

2005
@Festivbercine.ron

Actors: Gabriel Retes, Lourdes Elizarraras, Daisy Granados, Jorge Perugorría, Salvatore Basile

2005
Barrio Cuba

Actors: Luisa Maria Jimenez, Jorge Perugorría, Isabel Santos, Mario Limonta, Adela Legra

Synopsis: Filmmaker Humberto Solas weaves together three stories of people struggling to find love and security on the margins of life in Havana in this poignant comedy-drama. Magalis (Luisa Maria Jimenez) is a nurse who has become the unwitting target of repeated romantic advances from Ignacio Mario Read More

2005
Caribe

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Cuca Escribano, Maya Zapata, Roberto McLean, Gabriel Retes

Synopsis: Esteban Ramirez's melodrama Caribe stars Jorge Perugorria as Vincente a man who has gotten himself into difficult positions in both his personal life and his financial life. He engages in an affair with his sister-in-law, while also fielding offers from large oil companies to buy his land. ~ Perry Read More

2004
Habana Abierta

Crew: Director

2003
Roble De Olor

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Lia Chapman, Ruben Brenas, Raul Martin, Raquel Rubi

2003
Rencor

Actors: Lolita, Jorge Perugorría, Elena Anaya, Mar Regueras, Geli Albaladejo

Synopsis: Spanish filmmaker Miguel Albaladejo writes and directs the drama Rencor, marking the film debut of Spanish pop star Lolita. The bold singer Chelo (Lolita) goes to a resort for the summer and ends up running into her ex-boyfriend Toni (Jorge Perugorria), a former criminal involved in a new Read More

2002
Honey For Oshun

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Isabel Santos, Mario Limonta, Saturnino Garcia

Synopsis: A Cuban exile searches for his long-lost mother, as well as his cultural heritage, in this drama. Roberto Delgado (Jorge Perugorria) is a college professor living in Miami who was born in Cuba; Roberto and his father fled Cuba shortly before the final stages of the revolution, and he grew up Read More

2001
Vajont

Actors: Michel Serrault, Daniel Auteuil, Laura Morante, Jorge Perugorría, Anita Caprioli

2001
Waiting List

Actors: Vladimir Cruz, Jorge Perugorría, Saturnino Garcia

Synopsis: In this allegorical comedy-drama, a disparate group of people wait at a rundown Cuban transit station for the next bus to arrive. The problem is, it never shows up. While a number of busses pass by the station, and others that are either full or at the end of the line stop by, it soon becomes Read More

2000
Estorvo

Actors: Jorge Perugorría

Synopsis: In this existential drama from Brazil, a nameless man from a wealthy family (Jorge Perugorria) drifts through life without a job or a clear idea of what to do with his life. His sister (Bianca Byington) feels that he's turned his back on everything his family stands for, but at the same time his Read More

2000
Great Day in Havana

Synopsis: American filmmakers Laurie Ann Schag and Casey Stoll journeyed to Cuba to investigate the nuts and bolts of day-to-day life for artists and musicians in Cuba, and Great Day in Havana is the result, offering a look at the literal state of the arts in Cuba's capital city. Sculptor Pedro "Pulido" Read More

2000
Tierra Del Fuego

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Ornella Muti, Claudio Santamaria, Nancho Novo, Nelson Villagra

Synopsis: Recalling Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littin directs this sweeping epic about the true-life tale of Romanian engineer Julius Popper and his half-crazed pursuit of gold. Set in 1850, the handsome Romanian rides into a rough and tumble frontier town Read More

2000
Volaverunt

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Mollà, Jorge Perugorría, Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis: Based on a historical novel by Antonio Larreta, Volaverunt imagines a number of romantic misadventures that enlivened the court of King Carlos IV, a Spanish ruler of the early 19th century. As the story opens, the beautiful Duchess of Alba (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) is sharing a coach passing through Read More

1999
Cuando vuelvas a mi lado

Actors: Mercedes Sampietro, Jorge Perugorría, Julieta Serrano, Marta Belaustegui, Adriana Ozores

Synopsis: Spanish director Gracia Querejeta directed this complex psychological study about two generations of a single family. The film unfolds with a double narrative. The first details the turbulent marriage of the brittle Adela (Marta Belaustegui) and her macho, Cuban-born husband Joao (Jorge Perugorria Read More

1999
Historias Clandestinas En La Habana

Actors: Susú Pecoraro, Jorge Perugorría, Ulises Dumont, Luis Alberto Garcia, Veronica Lynn

Synopsis: In this Cuban-Argentine film, Argentine 40-year-old Laura (Susu Pecoraro), visiting Cuba for the first time on business, is divorcing her husband back in Buenos Aires. She's soon involved with smooth-talking cab driver Frank (Jorge Perugorria). Garment manufacturer Francisco (Ulises Dumont) Read More

1998
Doña Bárbara

Actors: Esther Goris, Jorge Perugorría

1998
Life According to Muriel

Actors: Soledad Villamil, Ines Estevez, Florencia Camiletti, Federico Olivera, Jorge Perugorría

Synopsis: This Argentine family drama follows the misadventures of nine-year-old Muriel (Florencia Camiletti) and her mother Laura (Soledad Villamil). Problems with men send Laura on the run, so she and Muriel head south, losing transportation, money and belongings when their car rolls into a lake. They Read More

1997
Amor Vertical

Actors: Silvia Aguila, Jorge Perugorría, Manuel Porto, Aramis Delgado

Synopsis: In this Cuban-French sex comedy, architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner Read More

1997
Things I Left In Havana

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Violeta Rodriguez, Kiti Manver, Broselianda Hernandez, Isabel Santos

Synopsis: Veteran director Manuel Gutierrez Aragon provided a portrait of Cubans in Spain with this Spanish film, a winner of the Silver Spike at the 1997 Valladolid Film Festival. Three sisters -- aspiring actress Nena (Violeta Rodriguez), timid Ludmila (Broselianda Hernandez), and motherly Rosa (Isabel Santos Read More

1997
Bambola

Synopsis: Fast-paced, funny and bursting with erotic joie-de-vivre, this outing from the always irreverent Catalan filmmaker Bigas Luna follows the lusty adventures of the bouncy Bambola and her peroxide-blond, gay brother Flavio. Their fun begins shortly after the death of their Mamma Greta, the owner of Read More

1996
Edipo Alcalde

Synopsis: One might consider this violent adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy as Sophocles with a South American twist. Set amidst the rebel wars (representing the Theban plagues) of contemporary Colombia, Mayor Edipo (Oedipus) must mediate a peace deal between conflicting guerrilla groups and the Read More

1996
Oedipus Mayor

1996
Guantanamera

Actors: Pedro Fernandez, Carlos Cruz, Jorge Perugorría, Conchita Brando, Raul Eguren

Synopsis: In this satiric road movie from Cuba, Yoyita (Conchita Brando), a well-known singer living in Havana, travels with her niece Georgina (Mirta Ibarra), a college professor, to the village of her birth, where Yoyita is reunited with Candido (Raul Eguren), whom she loved as a young woman. When Yoyita Read More

1995
Dile a Laura que la quiero

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Ana Alvarez, Nancho Novo

Synopsis: An errant husband will do practically anything to win back his spouse in this screwball comedy from Spain. Jorge (Jorge Perugorria) is married to Laura (Ana Alvarez), and while they love each other, they have sharply divergent personalities and sometimes find themselves at odds with one another. Read More

1995
La Sal de la Vida

1995
Strawberry and Chocolate

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra, Francisco Gattorno, Jorge Angelino

Synopsis: A man finds that friendship and understanding can span many boundaries -- age, politics, and gender preference among them -- in this comedy-drama from Cuba. David (Vladimir Cruz) is a student and ardent Communist whose personal life is in something of a slump; his girlfriend recently left him to Read More

1994