Hugo Arana
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Biography: Hugo Arana (July 23, 1943 - October 11, 2020 Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentinian film, television and theatre actor. Arana grew up in Monte Grande and moved with his family to Lomas de Zamora and then Lanus. He studied acting with Marcello Lavalle and Augusto Fernandez. In his first years as an actor, he was part of a theatre group called "Errare Humanum Est" and he acted in films such as El Santo de la Espada (1970) and La tregua (1974). In the 1980s, he became popular for his part in an advertisement for Crespi wine, and then for his part in the TV Sitcom Matrimonios y algo más (directed by Hugo Moser), in which he played two characters who were highly acclaimed by the public: the "Groncho" (in the comedy sketch "El Groncho y La Dama" (The Shabby Man and the Lady)) and Huguito Araña (a stereotypically femenine gay man). He has worked on the Telefé TV series Los exitosos Pells, where he played the director of the fictitious channel "Mega News", Franco Andrada. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugo Arana, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Birthday: July 23, 1943
Deathday: October 11, 2020
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Gender: Male
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La balada del regreso
Overview: A military from Salta returns with unitary troops to his province and must surround the stay of a federal supporter
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-16
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Cautiva
Overview: Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the country's "dirty war."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-03-20
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Chorros
Overview: Upon finding out that the bank where they work will go bankrupt, some employees decide to rob one of the institution's branches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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El soltero
Overview: Everyone tries that a successful single marry with a woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-17
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Delicia
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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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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Boomerang
Overview: Ximena, a 28-year-old, unstructured and modern, is trapped in a temporary "loop" with Walter and Aurelio, and has the difficult task of escaping before losing her sanity.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-02
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Made in Argentina
Overview: Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-08-12
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Chile Can Do It
Overview: The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-08
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No apto para menores
Overview: In a very exclusive summer resort, a curious exchange of married couples will take place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Dangerous Obsession
Overview: An Argentine truck driver is on a routine trip through Rio de Janeiro when he meets a mysterious countryman. They travel back to Argentina together, meeting a beautiful Brazilian journalist on the way. The truck driver has revenge on his mind, and both the adventurous young man, and the gorgeous girl join him in this venture. The only thing the three have in common are their obsession for honor and justice.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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Dibu 2: La venganza de Nasty
Overview: The evil Nasty comes to our world with two objectives -- kidnap Buji, and carry as much candy as possible back to his world. He has the ability to 'shape-shift', and using the appearance of Dibu, he holds up a bank so that he can get enough money to buy the candy. The police wrongly imprison Dibu, who manages to escape and confront Nasty.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-07-02
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El verso
Overview: Between farce and grotesque, John, who has lost his job, in a collective versea values of a knife sharpener, can not against debts contracted or can with his family, wife and two kids. One day, the woman left, runs out of credit and Juan is left with only his dream of being a radio announcer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-02-15
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To Return
Overview: An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets with his exgirlfriend and his best friend before the exile. The film presents an interpretation of the political and social situation in Argentina during the last years of the military government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-08-05
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A Place in the World
Overview: Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-04-09
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Don't Look Down
Overview: A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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Death in Buenos Aires
Overview: In the 1980s, after a businessman is murdered at his home, an experienced police inspector and his rookie partner must delve into the gay scene of the city to catch the killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-05-05
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Pistas para volver a casa
Overview: Two siblings on a mission. After their elderly father gets hurt in an accident, they run to his side. He has breaking news about their mother, who abandoned them. He also hid something valuable and now brother and sister must work together.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-03-05
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The Island
Overview: A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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Reparaciones
Overview: The special is a comedy of entanglement that happens around a typical neighborhood of the city that was altered by the presence of Nelson, a line, which we vizinhos consider an ungrateful place. Decide to hold a meeting to decide what to do and this is the scene for the first meeting between Mariela and Octavio. The problems of the neighborhood need to be excused by two young people to relate them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-12-07
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Seawards Journey
Overview: The tale of five Uruguayan villagers who embark on a journey to see the ocean for the first time. They depart in a broken down freight truck, property of Rodríguez, a taciturn man who loves the sea. Their point of departure is a local bar, and at the last minute, an unknown man from the bar joins their adventure.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-12-08
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Las puertitas del Sr. López
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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Angelita, la doctora
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-28
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Your Eyes Blazed
Overview: Amorous encounters and clashes between a group of parents of kindergarten .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-08
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Argentine Soldier Only Known by God
Overview: The story is centered on the human drama of three young people from a small town in Traslasierra, Córdoba, who from very different ideological places, are forever transformed by the war in Malvinas Argentinas (Falkland Islands).
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-04-06
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Te esperaré
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Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-11-02
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The Knight of the Sword
Overview: The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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Super Crazy
Overview: A 36-year-old meek woman realizes that there’s younger people trying to outpace her doing much less, so she makes a risky change by removing her filter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-07-04
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Sinuous Road
Overview: A former Olympic athlete must return to the city where she grew up to fix family problems and face her past.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-08-20
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Matrimonios y Algo Más
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-02-17
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Yanka y el espíritu del volcán
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Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-09-06
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La madre María
Overview: Based on the life of María Salomé Loredo, a figure famous for her healings and assistance to the poor of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-07-04
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Dale nomás
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Los golpes bajos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-06-05
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Chronicle of a Boy Alone
Overview: The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-05-05
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Este loco amor loco
Overview: Emilia, an imaginative young woman from a small town, goes to Buenos Aires in search of her missing sister. The clues take her to Andrés, a mysterious man who may have led her sister astray.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-09-27
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Todavía
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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The days that you gave me
Overview: A mature woman, a martyr of the home, with a husband who has lost love and two children who are into something else, decides one day to rebel and try a new life with a much younger man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-03-15
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The Dark Side of the Heart
Overview: Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-05-21
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Noche de ronda
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-11-13
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Quereme así (Piantao)
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Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-12-04
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El inquietante caso de José Blum
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-06-04
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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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The Funeral Home
Overview: Bernardo is an undertaker. He runs his mortuary business in the same house where he resides. In the front, he has his clients. And in the back, his dysfunctional family lives amongst coffins, wreaths, and the mischievous but nonviolent ghosts that visit on a daily basis. But when a malevolent entity enters the scene, it wreaks havoc on the already fractured household.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-04-15
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Atrapada por el vicio
Overview: Something very common in our days, an adolescent who does not find communication with her mother or stepfather falls into a depression that drags her down paths of difficult return. A film that shows the harshness of loneliness and the wrong search for drugs as a way out of problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-03-17
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Historias de papel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-10-29
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Caminata espacial
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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my mother-in-law is a zombie
Overview: Two sisters meet back after many years. They have the most strange confrontation. Satiric view of Argentine's society.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-04-21
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