Norma Aleandro
Biography: Norma Aleandro (born 2 May 1936) is an international award-winning Argentine actress, screenwriter, theatre director and author. She is considered one of the most celebrated and prolific Argentinean actresses of all time and is recognized as a cultural icon in Argentina. Aleandro starred in the Oscar-winning 1985 film The Official Story, a role that earned her the Cannes Award for best actress. She has performed in other successful films like The Truce (1974), Cousins (1989), Autumn Sun (1996), The Lighthouse (1998), Son of the Bride (2001) and Cama Adentro (2005). For her performance as Florencia Sánchez Morales in the 1987 film Gaby: A True Story, she received a Golden Globe nomination and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 02, 1936
Deathday: N/A
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Gente conmigo
1967-03-02
Gente conmigo
Overview: An Italian woman arrives in Buenos Aires and suffers all kinds of social and personal misadventures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-02
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Only Human
2004-07-09
Only Human
Overview: Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. Before her father returns from work, Leni reveals Rafi's origins. He accidentally drops a block of frozen soup out the flat window, probably killing a passerby. Leni initiates a cover-up and Rafi figures out the body is probably Leni's father. The body disappears and without telling the rest of the family what they know, Leni and Rafi organize a search for dad. Mom is sure he's having an affair. Leni's belly-dancing sister kisses Rafi. Her brother grabs a rifle to shoot the Arab. Can anything be put right?
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-09
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Gardel: el hombre y el mito
2005-01-02
Gardel: el hombre y el mito
Overview: Through important testimonies, the director Miguel Rodríguez Arias intends to reveal facts that intertwine the life of the singer with that of his people. His desires, his virtues, his defects and his defeats. It is the story of a captivating voice, the reflection of a soul that transcends borders and languages with its art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-01-02
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Cousins
1989-02-10
Cousins
Overview: Two couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-10
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A Matter of Principles
2009-09-24
A Matter of Principles
Overview: A man with seemingly unwavering ethics is challenged by his new boss, who believes everyone has a price and it willing to prove it. In this Capra-esque tale no one leaves unscathed when principles and pragmatism collide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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The Official Story
1985-04-03
The Official Story
Overview: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-04-03
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Anita
2009-08-27
Anita
Overview: Anita is the story of a young woman with Down syndrome who lives a happy, routine life in Buenos Aires, being meticulously cared for by her mother Dora. One tragic morning in 1994, everything changes when Anita is left alone, confused and helpless after the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association is bombed (the deadliest bombing in Argentina's history). As Anita wanders through the city, she learns not only to care for herself, but touches the lives of those around her, from an alcoholic to a family of Asian immigrants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-08-27
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The City of Your Final Destination
2009-03-21
The City of Your Final Destination
Overview: 28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-21
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Vital Signs
1990-04-13
Vital Signs
Overview: As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they must impress the Chief of Surgery while learning how to survive the life-and-death area of medicine and the complexity of their everyday lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-13
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Paco
2010-03-18
Paco
Overview: The story of Francisco, a young psychics teacher who starts consuming drugs, his mother, a well known congresswoman and Nina, the woman who will try to save him from a horrible future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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Son of the Bride
2001-08-16
Son of the Bride
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-08-16
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Cleopatra
2003-08-14
Cleopatra
Overview: A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-08-14
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Music on Hold
2009-03-19
Music on Hold
Overview: Ezequiel is a film music composer that can't find the inspiration he needs to compose a new score and Paula is a pregnant woman recently abandoned by her boyfriend whose mother has just came from Spain to meet her husband. Together they will try to solve their problems.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-03-19
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The Escape
2001-05-24
The Escape
Overview: In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-24
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Live-In Maid
2004-09-21
Live-In Maid
Overview: Buenos Aires is in a deep recession. As the money runs out, the relationship between an employer and her live-in maid changes dramatically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-09-21
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Desire
2002-10-10
Desire
Overview: In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-10
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Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven
2002-03-21
Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven
Overview: Teresa is a stewardess who lives a perfect life in the midst of his impeccable suits world clean and prepared foods. However the world scares land: men, motherhood, love ... Meanwhile, Julian, a young doctor, must travel to Ushuaia to throw the ashes of his dead wife in the place where they fell in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-03-21
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A Night with Sabrina Love
2000-06-08
A Night with Sabrina Love
Overview: When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with his favorite adult movie star, Sabrina Love. However, getting there will be half the trouble of meeting Sabrina.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-08
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Autumn Sun
1996-08-08
Autumn Sun
Overview: Clara Goldstein is a lovely, middle-aged Jewish woman who, because of an impending visit from her American brother, is forced to create a contrived relationship with a man of her own faith. She places an ad in a personals column and meets Raul, a well-spoken, handsome and charming man whom she soon discovers is a Gentile and does not fulfill her reason for placing the ad. Having no alternative, Clara proceeds to instruct Raul with an intensive course in Judaism. Their journey is both humorous and captivating, but not without pitfalls. These two mature people risk a last chance at a meaningful relationship in their lives.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-08-08
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La Suerte en tus Manos
2012-03-29
La Suerte en tus Manos
Overview: A professional poker player seeks out an old flame after his marriage fizzles.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-03-29
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Cien veces no debo
1990-05-03
Cien veces no debo
Overview: A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-05-03
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Gaby: A True Story
1987-10-30
Gaby: A True Story
Overview: The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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The Seven Madmen
1973-05-03
The Seven Madmen
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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Güemes, la tierra en armas
1971-04-07
Güemes, la tierra en armas
Overview: The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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Familia para armar
2011-03-17
Familia para armar
Overview: Familia para armar tells the story of the emotive encounter between a father and his teenage daughter after a long and traumatic separation. Ernesto is an obfuscated and distant father and Julia a hardheaded daughter wanting to be loved and to rebuild the relationship with her father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-03-17
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Tobi
1978-12-19
Tobi
Overview: A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-12-19
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Foolish Heart
1998-06-02
Foolish Heart
Overview: Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite the knowledge that she spent two years at a clinic because she was "crazy." Juan sees Ana when he can and trains as a door-to-door salesman, but when the German photographer on the soul project gives him a viewfinder, it changes his life, putting him on the path to his later success as a Hollywood director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-06-02
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Norma Aleandro, el vuelo de la mariposa
2022-06-09
Norma Aleandro, el vuelo de la mariposa
Overview: Based on short stories and poems written by the actress, this documentary compiles fragments of the artist's life, configuring a story about the path traveled and an extensive career in film, theater and television.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-06-09
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Las verdes praderas
1979-03-26
Las verdes praderas
Overview: José is a happily married executive, with children, a flat in Madrid and a house in the suburbs. It's Friday and the weekend seems to follow the usual pattern: football match with mates, travel to the mountains and family visit. Nevertheless, José feels no motivated by his routine, he no longer distinguishes leisure from their obligations, all of which result in an unexpected final decision by his attentive wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-26
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One Man’s War
1991-04-20
One Man’s War
Overview: Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-20
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El último piso
1962-06-05
El último piso
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-05
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The Tombs
1991-08-08
The Tombs
Overview: "El Pollo," a 13-year-old child in reform school, witnesses and experiences the brutalization of the guards and the other inmates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-08-08
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Carlos Monzón, el segundo juicio
1996-01-11
Carlos Monzón, el segundo juicio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-11
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Benavidez’s Case
2016-04-08
Benavidez’s Case
Overview: Benavidez is a frustrated art teacher, argues with his wife and seeks refuge in his psychiatrist's house. He becomes a victim of the house system, and at the end of the road he will change his life and his destiny forever.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-08
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Angelita, la doctora
2016-04-28
Angelita, la doctora
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-28
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El espejo de los otros
2015-09-03
El espejo de los otros
Overview: The Cenacle, a unique restaurant offers single-table work. In a ruined temple every night there is a last supper. Diners sitting at the table, define something important in their lives. Four stories plus the secret that bond the owners. Superb music.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-03
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Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Nap
2010-02-04
Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Nap
Overview: After the accidental death of his mother, Andres has to move in with his grandmother, Olga, and his estranged father Raul. Andres, who doesn't like to take a nap, wanders curiously through the neighborhood, where an illegal detention center is hidden, something everyone knows, but no one dare mention. Courage and fears will be tested with lasting consequences for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-02-04
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Asleep in the Sun
2012-03-15
Asleep in the Sun
Overview: Lucio Bordenave carries on the Grey lifestyle of an unemployed worker, dedicated to the trade of watchmaking, until in a somewhat mysterious way, his wife is admitted to a Frenopatic Institute. From this point on, the story enters a territory without parameters where reality is confused with the imaginary, sleep with wakefulness, and insanity with lucidity.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-03-15
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Operación Masacre
1973-09-26
Operación Masacre
Overview: In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-09-26
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The Slowness
1969-01-01
The Slowness
Overview: A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicated emotional and economically. These circumstances thwart his rebelliousness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Facundo, la sombra del tigre
1995-03-31
Facundo, la sombra del tigre
Overview: The film focuses on the journey of General Juan Facundo Quiroga, with a very compromised health, to the north in order to resolve the conflict between the provinces of Salta and Tucuman.
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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The Lighthouse
1998-04-16
The Lighthouse
Overview: Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker, but they are actually very close. Memé flirts but has no luck with boys because of her injury... On their own now, Memé works as a waitress where she gets to know Andy. Returning to Montevideo, they meet Dolores, a friend of their late mother. Memé's affair with a man complicates her relationship with her sister. Then Andy invites the pair to his seaside retreat, a lighthouse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-04-16
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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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Las sorpresas
1975-09-04
Las sorpresas
Overview: "The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there is a love triangle in which the deceived husband is blind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-04
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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 muerte en las calles
1952-08-30
La muerte en las calles
Overview: During the English invasions, a merchant forces his daughter to marry a soldier.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-08-30
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Ay, Juancito
2004-06-10
Ay, Juancito
Overview: A film about the life of Juan Ramón Duarte, Evita's only brother. His ascent, his excesses, and his demise, in the times of Juan Domingo Perón.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-06-10
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Los herederos
1970-06-18
Los herederos
Overview: A once prominent family fight each other over the inheritance of a run down mansion. Motivated by individual greed, they turn on one another until they unite to subdue a stranger prone to violence. Outwardly the family retains respectability and their name is not sullied, but irreparable harm is done to the unit and mutual trust is shattered in the wake of the events that transpire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-06-18
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Forbidden
1997-05-02
Forbidden
Overview: Portrait of the persecution of various intellectuals in the period from the overthrow of María Estela Martínez de Perón to the Falklands War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-05-02
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Patoruzito 2: La Gran Aventura
2006-06-08
Patoruzito 2: La Gran Aventura
Overview: Patoruzito travels to Buenos Aires to represent their race into a national holiday, and there is a mansion where a witch tries to make a fairy prisoner.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-06-08
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Dark Holiday
1989-05-01
Dark Holiday
Overview: American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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De los abandonados
1962-01-01
De los abandonados
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Los premios Mastropiero
2005-07-29
Los premios Mastropiero
Overview: The Mastropiero Awards is a musical humor theatrical show by the Argentine ensemble of informal instruments Les Luthiers, in which the classic format of their previous shows is not repeated. In this show, the group simulates an award ceremony for various artists from the fields of cinema, theater, television and music. During the ceremony, works and compositions by Johann Sebastian Mastropiero himself are performed. The play premiered at the Astengo Theater in Rosario, Argentina, on July 29, 2005
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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Cuidado con lo que sueñas
2013-02-08
Cuidado con lo que sueñas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-02-08
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Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae
1993-01-01
Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae
Overview: Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, ”Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls”, tells the story of the writer's life through stories from her family, friends and admirers.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Paradise
2022-09-08
The Paradise
Overview: Rosario, 1926. Magdalena and Anna Scilko, along with a group of women from the old continent, arrive to the city with the hope of a better future, escaping the post-war period. But nothing will turn out as they had imagined. When they get off the ship they will be kidnapped by The Abramovs, a family that operates as a criminal organization, and manages the most important network of brothels in the city.
Genres: Animation Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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The Truce
1974-08-01
The Truce
Overview: A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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For Example, Argentina
1985-12-02
For Example, Argentina
Overview: Documentary on State terrorism during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, made in its aftermath. Invited by the Goethe-Institut to hold a workshop with young film students, Schroeter contrasts the official statements of the regime with the testimony of victims, dissidents and relatives of the disappeared. And trust that their faces and words will resonate much more than a mere representation of violence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-12-02
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Los pocillos
1974-09-04
Los pocillos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-04
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Maro’s Secret
2021-10-07
Maro’s Secret
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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