Oscar Alegre
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 13, 1939
Deathday: November 12, 2016
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Known For
Play for Me
2001-05-17
Play for Me
Overview: Punk musician Carlos decides to set out to find out about his family history when his adoptive father Genaro dies. He leaves Buenos Aires with the bandoneon of Genaro as his only company and sets out for Los Angeles, a wind-shaken village in the middle of nowhere of the Argentinian pampa. After some troublesome quest, he finds there not only the secret of his origin, but also the love of this life and his own tune, which combines his past as punk drummer with the traditional elements borrowed from cumbias, chamamés, and criollo valses.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-17
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The Southern Cross
2003-05-14
The Southern Cross
Overview: Nora and Javier have been hired to transport a shipment of cocaine in an ambulance. With the help of Wendy, Javier's transvestite brother, they rob a part of the shipment and escape from the police. Moulded by loneliness, indifference and a lack of communication, Nora, Javier and Wendy are three youths with no future who move on the outer rim of society and are helpless in the face of a corrupt power. They hide in El Marquesado, a seaside resort built by the military on dynamited cliffs where Rodolfo and Mercedes, Javier and Wendy's parents, survive by rustling pigs and cows from neighbouring farms. The conflicts and tensions in this marginal family resurface as they are reunited in this remote place with a sinister past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-05-14
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Diary for a Tale
1998-11-18
Diary for a Tale
Overview: A young man works in the port of Buenos Aires translating the love letters that prostitutes receive and seeks inspiration for his works in them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-11-18
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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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Proxima salida
2004-10-07
Proxima salida
Overview: The stories of five railroad workers who have been sacked as a consequence of the economic crisis.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-10-07
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Paternoster
2016-03-17
Paternoster
Overview: Based on a true story about a man obsessed to be father, this terrific horror movie, show how the human brain is capable to make the most terrible acts surpassing the real life. Winner as best horror movie and best main actor in the Mar Del Plata international film festival, this movie will shock your senses.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-03-17
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Crane World
1999-06-17
Crane World
Overview: The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-06-17
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The Mudboy
2007-05-18
The Mudboy
Overview: Police try to hunt down a serial killer in 1912 Buenos Aires.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-05-18
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The Dirty Saints
2011-01-06
The Dirty Saints
Overview: Luis Ortega's apocalyptic third feature follows a group of five survivors as they embark on a journey that will force them to face their fears, dreams and longings in their quest for salvation across the Fijman River.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-01-06
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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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Historias Breves III: Nostalgia en la mesa 8
1999-03-28
Historias Breves III: Nostalgia en la mesa 8
Overview: In a neighborhood bar, a mysterious man tells a group of friends the story of an aspiring soccer player who, 50 years ago, tried out for an English club but who had the peculiar characteristic that he could only play soccer in flip-flops.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-03-28
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Everybody Has a Plan
2012-08-30
Everybody Has a Plan
Overview: Pedro, a humble beekeeper who lives in the mysterious Argentinian region of the Delta del Tigre, travels to Buenos Aires to visit his twin brother Agustín, a successful but troubled pediatrician with marital issues, to give him bad news and ask him for a favor hard to fulfill, a unexpected arrival which will change Agustín's life forever.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-08-30
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Your Life for Perón
2005-06-30
Your Life for Perón
Overview: Delirious black comedy about a leftist group that tries to kidnap General Peron's corpse the day of his death.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-06-30
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Young Blood
2007-04-05
Young Blood
Overview: A fateful attempt to reconcile an estranged family relationship offers a moving portrait of love blunted by tragedy in this affecting family drama from director Leo Ricciardi. Little Santiago is traveling into the countryside with his parents when a sudden tragedy prevents the trio from extending the olive branch to the boy's curmudgeonly grandfather Juan. A man whose long and difficult life gradually turned his heart to stone, Juan soon finds the companionship of his wide-eyed grandson offering new hope for a world he previously dismissed as callous and cruel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-04-05
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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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Sultans of the South
2007-12-21
Sultans of the South
Overview: A band of thieves steals from a Mexican bank and travel to Argentina to launder the money. Upon their arrival, the plan goes south and it's up to them to figure out what went wrong.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-12-21
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De muestra basta un botón
2014-04-02
De muestra basta un botón
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Genres: War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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Hermanitos del fin del mundo
2011-07-14
Hermanitos del fin del mundo
Overview: It is the story of "Pato" (Topa) and Pirucha (Muni), who together with a famous music group called La Pandilla de Sol, join forces to save the children of the "Home at the End of the World" from eviction. The film will advance through adventures, songs and stories until reaching an emotional, surprising and spectacular ending.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-07-14
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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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Historias Breves 1
1995-04-03
Historias Breves 1
Overview: The film brings together the winners of the first edition of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) annual public script competition, the grand prize of which is the budget to produce a short film. Eventually screened in national theaters, the omnibus film gave rise and recognition to a new generation of Argentine filmmakers known collectively as the New Argentine Cinema—a wave of contemporary filmmaking that began in the mid-1990s in reaction to decades of political and economic crises in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-04-03
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Inheritance
2002-06-20
Inheritance
Overview: Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable Olinda, the 60 year-old Italian immigrant owner of the restaurant. The two develop a friendship once they discover that the reasons for their having moved to Argentina are strikingly similar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-06-20
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A Last Wish
2008-11-16
A Last Wish
Overview: A man awaits his execution by firing squad. His last wish before dying is a kiss, and there are only men.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-11-16
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El jugador
2016-11-17
El jugador
Overview: A retired gambler who works for a wealthy meat entrepreneur, travels to Mar del Plata where he must give a considerable sum of money to his boss's grandchildren.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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Una mujer sucede
2012-11-22
Una mujer sucede
Overview: In an inland village, on a rainy night, the wake of a woman whose name is unknown takes place. There is only one mourner and two more men, attracted by destiny. During the night, like a game of cards, the identity of this woman who, according to them, once belonged to them and never saw again will be revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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Tatuado
2005-03-15
Tatuado
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-03-15
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Historias Breves I: Dónde y cómo Oliveira perdió a Achala
1995-05-19
Historias Breves I: Dónde y cómo Oliveira perdió a Achala
Overview: Two men of low life travel by car under a sweltering sun. They do not find the place they are looking for, lost in a remote Argentine countryside. They arrive at a workshop to ask questions and events seem to take off. The short was part of "Short Stories I" (1995).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-05-19
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Good Life Delivery
2004-01-27
Good Life Delivery
Overview: A young guy's home is taken over by his girlfriend's parents and their doughnut business.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-27
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Historias Breves 3
1999-05-19
Historias Breves 3
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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Chile 672
2006-11-30
Chile 672
Overview: Tells the hectic life of four residents of the same building in a neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-11-30
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