Alfredo Alcón
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Biography: Alfredo Félix Alcón was an Argentine theatre and film actor born in Buenos Aires. Widely regarded as one of the best and most important Argentine actors of the 20th century. He worked in more than 50 movies since his first one and received many recognitions for his work: among others, the Silver Condor, the Martin Fierro Award and the 1981 Diamond Konex Award.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Birthday: March 03, 1930
Deathday: April 11, 2014
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Gender: Male
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Voy a hablar de la esperanza
Overview: A young writer wants to make a different cinema and a director presents a plot divided into 3 episodes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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Un idilio de estación
Overview: A girl falls in love with the son of a rancher, who gives her certain illusions about their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-21
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El dueño del sol
Overview: An authoritarian rancher about to die and his children live in a dingy mansion and fight each other over inheritance in a game of degradation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-06-11
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El prontuario del señor K
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-05-01
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Painted Lips
Overview: The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-23
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I Don't Want to Talk About It
Overview: In an Argentine village in the 1930s, the willful Leonor discovers that her beloved daughter, Charlotte, has dwarfism. Attempting to let her have as normal a childhood as possible, Leonor never discusses Charlotte's lack of stature, nor lets anyone else in the village ever mention it. As Charlotte grows up into a smart and self-possessed young woman, local eccentric Ludovico, who collects miniatures, becomes smitten with her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-05-20
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The Innocents
Overview: A bank employee changes his life radically after the tragic death of his wife in a car accident along with a widower industrial.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-09-26
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The Mafia
Overview: The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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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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Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf
Overview: Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-06-05
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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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Kid Head
Overview: The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", an authentic Argentine gangster in the '30.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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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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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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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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Martín Fierro
Overview: The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.
Genres: Western Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-07-04
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Summerskin
Overview: In this drama, a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness. The woman knows that the son has fallen in love with her granddaughter, but the granddaughter does not reciprocate his feelings. Convinced she should do something about that situation, grandmother talks her granddaughter into going on a trip to Paris with the young man -- intent on bringing the two together. But this simple plan, it turns out, has unforeseen consequences
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-08-31
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Cortázar
Overview: A portrait which explores the legacy and impact of novelist Julio Cortazar's art, perceptively examining it within the context of shifting tides of Argentine culture and politics. The author reads his own texts in this poetic documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-10-20
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País cerrado, teatro abierto
Overview: The history of the Teatro Abierto, which was initiated on July 28, 1981 as a cultural reaction against the last Argentine civic-military dictatorship, and organized by a group of artists and workers from the theater world
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-04-26
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El exilio de San Martín
Overview: San Martín's exile is crossed by the melancholic idea of return. A return that will never materialize. Distance, absence, remoteness. Are these founding traits of the Argentine soul? The Father of the Country who finally leaves, for better and for worse, his distant children alone.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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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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Prisioneros de una noche
Overview: A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-30
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Love Letters of a Nun
Overview: Spain 1640, the reverend superior nun Mariana, attends the death of her younger sister, Isabel's husband, who is overcome with hopelessness and heartache. Isabel then kisses and caresses the cadaver's exposed body as if he were still alive. Mother Mariana
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-29
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El caso Matías
Overview: In 1965, a man named Matías is taken to a psychiatric hospital, after being found at the streets, "in the company of homosexuals and in a state of intoxication by alcohol and drugs". His documentation says he's 41 years old and born in Poland. He says his mother was an aristocrat. His arrival will have a profound impact on the institution and, especially, on one of the doctors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-04-18
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Jandro
Overview: After marrying a rich heiress, a young man from humble origins is dedicated to looking for coal in the surroundings of Gijón.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-03-08
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Un guapo del 900
Overview: The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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La morocha
Overview: A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-30
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Love Never Dies
Overview: Three-episode film linked to each other by means of a medallion, where love is the engine that drives people to act the way they did.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-11
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The Hole in the Wall
Overview: In this modern retelling of the Faust legend, a freelance photographer meets the enigmatic Mefi, who leads him, through a hole in the wall, to a room where a disembodied voice predicts stock prices.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-06-03
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The Rats
Overview: Returning from Switzerland, a young investigator meets María, his father's new wife. They immediately feel an irresistible attraction, which he tries to overcome by mixing it up with another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Zafra
Overview: A social drama centered on the miserable conditions experencied by cane cutters in Argentina's north.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-16
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What's Autumn?
Overview: An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-05
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The pit
Overview: When a politician is murdered, the victim's daughter sets out to track down her father's killer. She soon suspects her father's friend and her own mother may have been involved in the murder plot, in this heavy-handed and tragic crime drama.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-06-08
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The Candidate
Overview: An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-24
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Con gusto a rabia
Overview: A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-05-05
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Faena
Overview: The images connect the workings of a slaughterhouse with a city that is also divided between executioners and dead people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Saverio, el cruel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-09-01
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A Difficult Widow
Overview: In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-07-18
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Luz, cámara, acción
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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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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El amante de las películas mudas
Overview: A boy has an unusual upbringing in a romantic setting, the household of a former film star, who reminisces about his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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La pícara soñadora
Overview: A store clerk lives in the furniture section without anyone noticing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-05-24
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