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Pubis angelical (1982)
Character: Pozzi
It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.
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El caso Matías (1985)
Character: N/A
In 1965, a man named Matías is taken to a psychiatric hospital, after being found at the streets, "in the company of homosexuals and in a state of intoxication by alcohol and drugs". His documentation says he's 41 years old and born in Poland. He says his mother was an aristocrat. His arrival will have a profound impact on the institution and, especially, on one of the doctors.
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Un guapo del 900 (1960)
Character: Ecuménico López
The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
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Las ratas (1963)
Character: N/A
Returning from Switzerland, a young investigator meets María, his father's new wife. They immediately feel an irresistible attraction, which he tries to overcome by mixing it up with another woman.
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El dueño del sol (1987)
Character: N/A
An authoritarian rancher about to die and his children live in a dingy mansion and fight each other over inheritance in a game of degradation.
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Faena (1961)
Character: Narrador
The images connect the workings of a slaughterhouse with a city that is also divided between executioners and dead people.
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Jandro (1965)
Character: Pedro
After marrying a rich heiress, a young man from humble origins is dedicated to looking for coal in the surroundings of Gijón.
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La pícara soñadora (1956)
Character: Freddy / Pedro Cáceres
A store clerk lives in the furniture section without anyone noticing.
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País cerrado, teatro abierto (1990)
Character: Self
The history of the Teatro Abierto, which was initiated on July 28, 1981 as a cultural reaction against the last Argentine civic-military dictatorship, and organized by a group of artists and workers from the theater world
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Piel de verano (1961)
Character: Martín
In this drama, a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness. The woman knows that the son has fallen in love with her granddaughter, but the granddaughter does not reciprocate his feelings. Convinced she should do something about that situation, grandmother talks her granddaughter into going on a trip to Paris with the young man -- intent on bringing the two together. But this simple plan, it turns out, has unforeseen consequences
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Los inocentes (1963)
Character: Bruno Sartori
A bank employee changes his life radically after the tragic death of his wife in a car accident along with a widower industrial.
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Cortázar (1994)
Character: Julio Cortazar (voice)
A portrait which explores the legacy and impact of novelist Julio Cortazar's art, perceptively examining it within the context of shifting tides of Argentine culture and politics. The author reads his own texts in this poetic documentary.
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Zafra (1959)
Character: N/A
A social drama centered on the miserable conditions experencied by cane cutters in Argentina's north.
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De eso no se habla (1993)
Character: Narrator
In an Argentine village in the 1930s, the willful Leonor discovers that her beloved daughter, Charlotte, has dwarfism. Attempting to let her have as normal a childhood as possible, Leonor never discusses Charlotte's lack of stature, nor lets anyone else in the village ever mention it. As Charlotte grows up into a smart and self-possessed young woman, local eccentric Ludovico, who collects miniatures, becomes smitten with her.
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Los siete locos (1973)
Character: Erdosain
After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.
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El candidato (1959)
Character: Horacio
An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.
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El hijo de la novia (2001)
Character: Himself
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos, a childhood friend, who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past.
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Cohen vs. Rosi (1998)
Character: Américo / Mirta
Two rival families of different origin join the force by the love of two young. The journalist Ariel Cohen falls in love for Carla Rosi, while investigating his father, Giancarlo, a wealthy shady business that is congressional candidate with presidential aspirations.
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Cartas de amor de una monja (1978)
Character: Don Agustín Rojas
Spain 1640, the reverend superior nun Mariana, attends the death of her younger sister, Isabel's husband, who is overcome with hopelessness and heartache. Isabel then kisses and caresses the cadaver's exposed body as if he were still alive. Mother Mariana
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Saverio, el cruel (1977)
Character: Saverio
Saverio is an insurance broker who arrives in a small town after receiving a letter from a potential client requesting insurance for "special affections." Upon arriving at the mansion, Saverio is captivated by the beauty of Susana, the granddaughter and heiress to a vast fortune—beautiful, refined, and cultured. What Saverio doesn't suspect is that he will become the victim of a macabre plot, in which he plays a crucial role. Susana, in collusion with her family and friends, will feign madness with the sole purpose of making Saverio fall at her feet.
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El agujero en la pared (1982)
Character: Bruno Sánchez
In this modern retelling of the Faust legend, a freelance photographer meets the enigmatic Mefi, who leads him, through a hole in the wall, to a room where a disembodied voice predicts stock prices.
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El amor nunca muere (1955)
Character: "Pablo Van Reisen"
Three-episode film linked to each other by means of a medallion, where love is the engine that drives people to act the way they did.
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El exilio de San Martín (2006)
Character: N/A
San Martín's exile is crossed by the melancholic idea of return. A return that will never materialize. Distance, absence, remoteness. Are these founding traits of the Argentine soul? The Father of the Country who finally leaves, for better and for worse, his distant children alone.
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El reñidero (1965)
Character: Orestes Morales
When a politician is murdered, the victim's daughter sets out to track down her father's killer. She soon suspects her father's friend and her own mother may have been involved in the murder plot, in this heavy-handed and tragic crime drama.
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Nazareno Cruz y el lobo (1975)
Character: The Powerful
The Mighty One offers Nazareno Cruz all the wealth in the world if he agrees to abandon his beloved; otherwise, the curse that supposedly weighs on him will be fulfilled.
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La maffia (1972)
Character: Luciano Pennoa
The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.
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Un idilio de estación (1978)
Character: N/A
A girl falls in love with the son of a rancher, who gives her certain illusions about their relationship.
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El pibe cabeza (1975)
Character: Roberto Gordillo, El Pibe Cabeza
The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", a real-life Argentine gangster in the '30s.
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La morocha (1958)
Character: Aníbal Soler
A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.
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Martín Fierro (1968)
Character: Martín Fierro
The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.
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Con gusto a rabia (1965)
Character: Diego Correa
A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.
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¿Qué es el otoño? (1977)
Character: Alejandro
An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.
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Malajunta (1996)
Character: N/A
Documentary about Argentina's last military dictatorship and the legacy of one of the most brutal waves of repression, death and horror in Latin American history. Numerous people—historians, musicians, journalists, children of the desaparecidos (the disappeared) and others—talk candidly about how difficult it has been to uncover information about the whereabouts of the 30,000 missing men and women who were kidnapped and presumed murdered by the military. The intensely personal stories about missing relatives and the scope of the military junta's repressive policies also explain why, even now, many people resist coming to terms with Argentina's bloody past.
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