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Los amores de Laurita (1986)
Character: N/A
Laurita, a 40-year-old woman, accepts taboos of all kinds. In the search for an identity, she goes from one man to another, from the present to the past, from fantasy to reality. However, there is a tension that grows and grows, until it culminates in a surprise. Her memory goes back to review her loves and the different stages of her life: adolescence, her transgressing role and her fight against her own prejudices.
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Color escondido (1988)
Character: Gracia 3
Dreams and reality mix-up in the life of a middle class woman in his 20s who is depressed and distressed.
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La casa de Tourneur (2001)
Character: N/A
Miguel Dante, a famous archaeologist and writer of books on magic and the occult, returns to Argentina after many years. The purpose of his trip is to settle old scores with his rival, Professor Tourneur, and an old love.
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Favio, la estética de la ternura (2015)
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Going through Leonardo Favio's film career means reuniting with images and sounds that built a sensibility that keeps expanding generation after generation. This documentary follows the path of a unique filmmaker by means of a scheme of voices, including that of Favio himself, with the lucidity and brutal honesty so typical of him.
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Acrobacias del Corazón (2000)
Character: Lola
A film director is preparing her latest film. As filming progresses, the love story she shared with her ex-husband and the musician in the film resurfaces.
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Iluminados por el fuego (2005)
Character: Marta
A war veteran, haunted by the horrors of war and the experiences he shared with fellow soldiers drafted to the battlefront as an 18-year-old conscript, is forced to confront the memories of his past after a former comrade attempts suicide. 20 years after the war, he finally attempts to reconnect with his past to begin to heal his old wounds.
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Dr. Lazarus (1992)
Character: Virginia Vagón
Pilot episode of a never-produced horror short series: In 1870, a group of Argentine landowners founded the Logia del Eterno Retorno, sponsoring the research of Poison, a British veterinarian seeking immortality. However, a yellow fever epidemic interrupted his plans. Before dying, Poison managed to inject his formula into his son, who became Lazarus. This child, condemned to immortality, returned to Argentina in 1995, carrying the fever in his body, forcing him to undergo constant transplants. Now, he seeks the heirs of the lodge to recreate his ancestors' formula.
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Gatica el Mono (1993)
Character: Nora
The story of José María Gatica, better known as Gatica el Mono, Argentina's main boxing star during the 1940s and 50s. The film follows his ascent, his relation with peronism and their downfall.
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Cohen vs. Rosi (1998)
Character: Sofía Rosi
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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El mar de Lucas (2000)
Character: Manuela
The night Juan Denevi celebrates his 50th birthday in his small restaurant, a beautiful woman walks in with a baby in tow and places him in his arms.
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Lengua materna (2010)
Character: N/A
Ruth has been with Nora for fourteen years. Everybody knows about their relationship except for her mother Estela, who has never suspected it. Ruth, who is almost forty, feels the need to confess her homosexuality to her mother, who at first is shocked and collapses on the floor. She then feels the desire to understand her daughter, who has hidden an important part of her life from her for many years. So elderly Estela begins to discover the L-World: she reads books and magazines, she tries to meet her daughter's ex girlfriends and she goes to lesbian nightclubs and meeting-places, creating misunderstandings and comic situations. What does Ruth think about this? At first, she is annoyed by her mother's intrusion into her life, but she will soon understand Estela's reasons and she will rely on her to get over her crisis with Nora. This sharp, amusing comedy deals with the difficult parent-child relationship, which is portrayed through irony and without hypocrisy.
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Mala época (1998)
Character: Carmen (segment "Compañeros")
Four independent short stories but they have in common that they happen in Buenos Aires during legislative elections. A candidate for deputy, Carlos Celestini floods the city with his image and can be seen in each of the stories.
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Sur (1988)
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After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.
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