Pepe Soriano
Biography: Pepe Soriano (born José Carlos Soriano, on September 25, 1929) is a prominent Argentine actor, director, and playwright. Soriano was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Enrolling at the prestigious University of Buenos Aires Law School, he entered one of the university's numerous theatre groups and, leaving law school to devote himself to the theatre, he produced his first work, El chaleco encantado ("The Enchanted Sweater") in 1950, among four other works he completed and staged while in school. Soriano debuted professionally in a production of A Midsummernight's Dream at the renowned Colón Theatre, in 1953. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 25, 1929
Deathday: September 13, 2023
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Known For
Nocturna - Side B: Where the Elephants Go to Die
2021-08-25
Nocturna - Side B: Where the Elephants Go to Die
Overview: A woman recounts the last night on earth of a 100-year-old man who fights for the redemption of the misdeeds of his life.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-08-25
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Ángel, la diva y yo
2000-09-21
Ángel, la diva y yo
Overview: Buenos Aires at the end of the millennium a young filmmaker hopeless about their future decides to film his last act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-09-21
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Pubis angelical
1982-08-12
Pubis angelical
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-08-12
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The Last Train
2002-05-31
The Last Train
Overview: Three old man, a little boy training to protect an old patrimony, La "33", the last train.
Genres: Drama Action Western Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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Tangos Are for Two
1998-01-23
Tangos Are for Two
Overview: A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over. Written by
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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Murder in The Senate
1984-09-13
Murder in The Senate
Overview: Historical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-09-13
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El brindis
2007-01-16
El brindis
Overview: In Chile, Mexican photographer Emilia falls in love with a rabbi and gets the news that her father is terminally ill.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-01-16
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Cóndor Crux
2000-01-06
Cóndor Crux
Overview: The action takes place in the year 2068, in which the head of a corporation governed chaotically the Southern Cone of the Americas. Dr. Crux is an old rebel scientist and his son John Crux must become the hero expected to fight the evil and its minions.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-06
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Pecados
2012-09-14
Pecados
Overview: "Pecados" tells the love story between two young (Bepo and Lourdes) in a remote village in Argentina.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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Wait for Me in Heaven
1988-01-28
Wait for Me in Heaven
Overview: Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, Pepe's wife believes her husband has been abducted and killed, so she tries to reach her husband through spiritualism. After Pepe surprises her with a nocturnal visit, he tells her he will touch his ear to signal it is he and not Franco in public appearances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-28
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The Sea and the Weather
1989-06-15
The Sea and the Weather
Overview: Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-06-15
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El protegido
1956-11-22
El protegido
Overview: A film producer, his wife (an actress) and her lover (a young scriptwriter) are part of a love triangle that will lead to a crime. It is set during the decay of Argentinian cinema studios.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-11-22
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A Shadow You Soon Will Be
1994-05-05
A Shadow You Soon Will Be
Overview: This film follows the exploits of a middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early '80s following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a strange travelling millionaire, Barante, the hobo, and Coluccini, a bankrupt circus owner who involves "the engineer" in a rigged card game..
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-05-05
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Sleeping luck
2003-11-21
Sleeping luck
Overview: Amparo, a lawyer working as an advisor in an insurance company in Madrid is grieving over a traumatic event in her past. She will have to react, however, to the world surrounding her when a young man of her acquaintance dies mysteriously while working in a mine. Amparo will take over his case and discover in the process a world of corruption and illegal measures taken by the company that the young man worked for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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El tesoro
1988-10-28
El tesoro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-10-28
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Matar al Nani
1988-04-22
Matar al Nani
Overview: The story of El Nani, a juvenile delinquent from the years of the Transition, whose disappearance in a police station after an interrogation has not yet been clarified, putting the accent on the denunciation of police brutality and speculating on the outcome of the story. A story that mixes political denunciation and social chronicle of an era.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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Rebellion in Patagonia
1974-06-13
Rebellion in Patagonia
Overview: In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-06-13
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Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
1973-08-23
Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
Overview: When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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Grandma
1979-05-10
Grandma
Overview: The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-05-10
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Poor Butterfly
1986-06-02
Poor Butterfly
Overview: A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-06-02
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Scapegoat
1985-11-14
Scapegoat
Overview: While a youth group led by Daniel causes the explosion of a truck loaded with materials to build a nuclear power plant, Laura accidentally kills his mistress, Judge. Both cases will cross.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-14
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Funes, a Great Love
1993-04-01
Funes, a Great Love
Overview: A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-04-01
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Stolen Moments
1998-07-02
Stolen Moments
Overview: 1947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters Letty's dreams, her loneliness that only Miguel, a very young pianist, may share with her. Tomas, her husband, loves Letty and eagerly defends her against all the village, while she keeps playing her part of a 'femme fatale' with a romantic past and a very adventurous file. But on a windy day, a handsome and strange foreigner appears, coming from the sea, a man just as those Bette Davis used to fall in love with. For Letty, reality begins to look like the most incredible dreams of her. But this will call the police inspector's attention. With that mysterious spy, Letty will be involved in a story that will end as those stories she was so fond of when she was going to the movie theater of her little willage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-07-02
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Cohen vs. Rosi
1998-05-28
Cohen vs. Rosi
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-05-28
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Los días de Julián Bisbal
1966-01-01
Los días de Julián Bisbal
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Cargo de conciencia
2005-08-18
Cargo de conciencia
Overview: A story about corruption and drug trafficking with the complicity of judges and politicians. An investigation led by a journalist and a cop who try to uncover the truth behind the supposed suicide of a national senator.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-08-18
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Heroína
1972-06-29
Heroína
Overview: A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-29
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Tute Cabrero
1968-05-22
Tute Cabrero
Overview: Three colleagues must decide which one of them will be fired when the company they work for starts a downsizing process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-05-22
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No toquen a la nena
1976-08-05
No toquen a la nena
Overview: A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-05
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La Invitación
1982-09-30
La Invitación
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Sentimental (réquiem para un amigo)
1981-04-02
Sentimental (réquiem para un amigo)
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-04-02
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Hotel alojamiento
1966-03-31
Hotel alojamiento
Overview: Different stories that take place in a hotel for a temporary shelter for couples.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-31
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Psexoanálisis
1968-06-19
Psexoanálisis
Overview: A profiteer pretends to be a psychoanalyst to conquer women with sexual trauma.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-06-19
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El ayudante
1971-03-25
El ayudante
Overview: A bond develops between a truck driver and his newly-assigned helper, a young man who happens to be deaf.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-03-25
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Juan Lamaglia y Sra.
1970-04-28
Juan Lamaglia y Sra.
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-04-28
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Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres
1967-06-29
Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres
Overview: Three stories told in a Turkish bathhouse: two braggarts are mocked by a starlet; two Boca Juniors fans and love-hate for two River Plate fan girls; a man, father of 8 daughters, seeks the boy despite his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-06-29
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Los enemigos
1983-08-18
Los enemigos
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Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-08-18
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The Dumbfounded King
1991-11-01
The Dumbfounded King
Overview: Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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Te amo
1986-05-02
Te amo
Overview: A single pregnant teenager goes to live with her uncle, a mediocre entertainer in a seedy cabaret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-05-02
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Otra esperanza
1996-02-10
Otra esperanza
Overview: A man who witnesses the casual disappearances of coworkers from a factory starts making investigations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-02-10
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La maestra normal
1996-11-21
La maestra normal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-11-21
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Babilonia, la noticia secreta
2010-09-01
Babilonia, la noticia secreta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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A través de tus ojos
2006-09-07
A través de tus ojos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-09-07
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Jewish Gauchos
1975-05-22
Jewish Gauchos
Overview: The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-05-22
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My First Wedding
2011-09-01
My First Wedding
Overview: On her wedding day, Adrian, nervous, make a small mistake that aims to hide Leonora, his girlfriend, to avoid problems. But far from avoiding them, complicates the matter and the party runs the risk of end badly, like the future marriage of the couple.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-09-01
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Common Ground
2002-10-04
Common Ground
Overview: In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-04
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Nocturna - The Great Old Man's Night
2020-10-09
Nocturna - The Great Old Man's Night
Overview: Ulysses is a hundred-year-old man, he lives alone and is on the verge of death. The last night of his life, he will experience something that will force him to rethink his past, his present and his sight about his reality. Tortured by remorse of guilt, confused by his senile dementia, he must make a last effort to reach his death in freedom or to become a soul in sorrow in eternal return.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-10-09
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Goodbye Boys
1955-11-29
Goodbye Boys
Overview: Boyhood friends grow up, form a tango orchestra, one of them writes a brilliant song commemorating their friendship before he dies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-29
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