Carolina Rivera (Writer)

Jane the Virgin

A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana la virgen."

Release Date2014-10-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count13

Vote Count883

Daughter from Another Mother

After realizing their babies were exchanged at birth, two women develop a plan to adjust to their new lives: creating a single —and peculiar— family.

Release Date2021-01-20

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count27

Vote Count1250

Charm School

Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.

Release Date2007-03-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Vote Count146

Yerbamala

Jesús Andrade, a young thug, has decided to rob a stagecoach. At the time of the robbery he realizes that this is one of many stagecoaches of Governor Francisco Carreño and without giving enough importance he continues to theft, then suddenly he falls in love.

Release Date2014-08-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Trading Lives

Huérfanas tells the story of three millionaire young women that, after their parents’death, are stripped off their material possessions and are forced to take a tortuous road in which they will discover that their best legacy is their battling spirit and theirambition for truth. Treason, intrigues and despisal were unknown to their daily lives, but now, with the help of Santina they will have to deal with such issues in order to survive in theirnew reality.

Release Date2011-08-29

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Against the Ropes

They say being a woman is all a business and maybe it's true. We are complicated, complex and we look at life differently, exactly what Carolina Rivera captures in 'On the ropes', the new Netflix series that 'unmasks' life's struggles and puts the subject of motherhood on the agenda.

Release Date2023-01-25

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count34

Love Hurts

Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.

Release Date2002-11-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count351

The War Next-door

When two antagonistic families end up living next door in a posh neighborhood, the matriarchs ensue a full-scale war of unintended consequences.

Release Date2021-07-07

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count268

Actors, Inc.

Thomas is a young actor, the adopted son of Don Antonio, director and founder of the theatrical company to witch he belongs and where he presents his plays. When Don Antonio dies, Thomas is in the need to reestablish his artistic abilities and of the company to save the theater of falling in the hands of the very ambitious Mauro, nephew of Don Antonio who wants to tare it down in order to build a gymnasium. He sets up a web site where he offeres his services as an actor to anyone who needs them outside of the stage. Under those circumstances, Thomas knows Rebeca, mother of Lucia, who hires him to have Lucia fall in love in order to be able to collect an inherence.

Release Date2013-11-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3

Sex, Love, and Other Perversions

Composed of eight stories with comic overtones, all share the central theme of "love" and the extremes to which people will go to achieve it: unrequited love, deception and lust. They all offer a different take on the most difficult of human emotions: love.

Release Date2006-03-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

Hammer

Martillo, tells the story of Pablo’s sexual awakening, a student at a boys' school where Sister Edwin teaches discipline with an iron hand. At home, Pablo lives in a different world. His father is a plastic surgeon and shamelessly exposes him to his sexual world and that of his lover. His mother is dead and Albina, his nanny, takes care of him like a son. At thirteen, Pablo is confused. When he discovers Sister Edwin's secret, he will leave his innocence behind.

Release Date2005-01-01

DepartmentArt

JobArt Direction

Todo el poder

When a Mexican film director becomes fed up with the crime and corruption in his homeland, he decides to single-handedly take on a powerful band of criminals.

Release Date2000-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count33

A second Chance

Julia and Moises fell in love and got married when they were young, idealistic, and passionate; now in their 30s, their marriage has cooled and their lives have sunken into the mediocrity they had sought to avoid. This realization inspires a quest to regain the lost dreams of their youth, which is complicated when a handsome student begins to pursue Julia. She begins an affair with the fiery young activist that may just put the excitement back into her marriage. This is a funny and insightful exploration of the intricacies of relationships, love, and idealism, and Jesus Ochoa as Moises turns in a stellar performance.

Release Date2001-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count27

Recipes to Stay Together

"Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.

Release Date1996-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count13

Never Too Young to Dream

A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.

Release Date2001-07-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count31

Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'

As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.

Release Date2013-05-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count30

Enemigos íntimos

Tells the stories of eight characters suffering from different ailments: a doctor who does not acknowledge his homosexuality, a woman who refuses to accept that she is growing old, a mute nurse, a failed writer, an autistic child, a young pregnant woman and an adolescent in a coma, who are linked together by the fact that one of them, Guillermo is diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his kidney.

Release Date2009-08-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6

Los Fabulosos 7

In this story, a musical group whose music sets the mood for Events, finds itself at a very crucial moment in its carreer. All of the members face the dilemma of fighting for their dreams or quitting forever.

Release Date2013-11-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

Manlio Argueta: poetas y volcanes

Through the voice of writer and survivor Manlio Argueta, El Salvador's turbulent historical era is revealed, a period when many artists and writers suffered imprisonment, persecution and exile.

Release Date2011-04-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector