Ricardo Darín
Also Known As: Ricardo Darin
Biography: Ricardo Darín (born January 16, 1957) is an Argentine actor. Darín is one of the biggest movie stars in Argentina. He played a number of parts in TV series for several years where he became popular as a young leading actor. His most prominent roles as a film actor include Nine Queens (2000), El Hijo de la Novia (2001), Luna de Avellaneda (2004), El Aura (2005) and La Señal (2007), which was also his directorial debut. He starred in the Academy Award winning film The Secret in Their Eyes (2009).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Birthday: January 16, 1957
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Gender: Male
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XXY
Overview: Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-06-14
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La rabona
Overview: A man and his daughter, tired of fights and routines, miss school and work the same day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-22
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The Secret in Their Eyes
Overview: Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-08-13
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The Aura
Overview: A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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The Dancer and the Thief
Overview: Present day. Chile. Legendary bank robber Vergara Grey is getting out of prison after 5 long years and is looking forward to a quiet, uneventful life together with his wife and son whom oddly he hasn't heard from in years. But soon his resolve is tested when he meets 19 year old Angel a young thief who insists the two join up to score the biggest heist of all time. Though tempted, he resists until he finds out that his beloved wife has gone off with a millionaire and his son wants to change his last name. Then Victoria, a graceful and mysteriously mute dancer living in a conservatory, steps into the picture. She captivates Vergara and Angel, as well as all others that cross her path, drastically changing their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-11-27
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Kamchatka
Overview: In 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecuted and kidnapped. This is the case of the parents of two children, who, knowing they are wanted, decide to hide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-17
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Same Love, Same Rain
Overview: Jorge is a writer for a left-leaning Buenos Aires magazine that's at odds with the country's military dictatorship. He meets lovely and intelligent actress Laura and begins an on-and-off romance that will continue for the next two decades. Fearful of commitment, Jorge initially moves on from her and his fortunes suffer, but the situation changes when he and Laura renew their acquaintance. Meanwhile, the country undergoes a political transformation.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-09-16
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Sammy and Me
Overview: Things begin to fall apart for Samy (Ricardo Darín), a longtime television writer on the brink of turning 40, when his midlife crisis starts interfering with his career. Suddenly, his scripts just aren't that funny, and he's considering leaving showbiz altogether. Can a pretty new actress (Angie Cepeda) help him turn his life around? Eduardo Milewicz directs this Spanish-language romantic comedy.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-07-11
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Carancho
Overview: Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Luján, he tries to leave this dark business but the shady law firm that he works for won’t let him off that easily.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-05-06
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Chinese Take-Away
Overview: A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-03-24
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Nine Queens
Overview: Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-31
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The Education of Fairies
Overview: A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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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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Back to the Siam
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Me sobra un marido
Overview: An entomologist returns to Buenos Aires, after a long expedition in Africa. Upon arrival he finds that his wife, who had not heard from him in a long time, has remarried.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-04-23
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Perdido por perdido
Overview: Vidal (Darín) is about to be bankrupt, so he sets up a fake car robbery with a small-time mobster to collect insurance and split the money. But his perfect plan becomes entangled by his increasingly dangerous ties to the mob and the meddling of a rogue insurance investigator (Pinti), who eventually strikes a deal with Vidal and decides to team up with him and his wife (Papaleo) to bring down the mob and expose the corruption that links a high-ranking executive to the mafia.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-07-29
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Les longs manteaux
Overview: A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-02-19
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En fuera de juego
Overview: Diego, an Argentine doctor traumatized by the soccer since his childhood, is not satisfied with his life. Javi is a representative of kids who start playing soccer, a Spanish third division manager who dreams of an opportunity to change their fate. Suddenly, the discovery of a young Argentinian star, will join Diego and Javi in a common adventure, full of surprises and and picaresque.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-06-01
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Moon of Avellaneda
Overview: The story of a social and sports club in a Buenos Aires neighborhood and of those who try to save it from being closed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-05-20
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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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Entre los Barras Bravas
Overview: Jon Sistiaga gives an inside and outside look into Argentina's Barra Bravas, the world's most violent football fans, who besides being radical fanatics for their club, they're organized as true mafias.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-02-12
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White Elephant
Overview: While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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The Signal
Overview: During the last days of Eva Peron, a pair of low-ranking detectives are thrust into a case of corruption involving the Mafia.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-09-13
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Deadly Revenge
Overview: When the new don discovers that sadistic mobsters were responsible for the death of his young son, he wreaks a deadly revenge.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-08-04
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A Gun in Each Hand
Overview: J. is depressed. E. lives peacefully. S. tries to get back with his wife. G. resorts to anxiolytics. P. plays seduction games. María and Sara exchange their husbands. L. calls his lover in a peculiar way.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-12-05
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Lovely Loneliness
Overview: A romantic comedy about a neurotic girl who makes a vow of solitude after getting dumped.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-09-26
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Thesis on a Homicide
Overview: Roberto is a Law professor whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that one of his best students has committed a brutal murder. Determined to uncover the truth, he begins a personal investigation…
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-01-17
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The Rosales
Overview: Film based on the real case of the sinking of the cazatorpedera "La Rosales", Navy Argentina, occurred in 1892 on the coast of Uruguay. In that event only saved from death the captain and the officers, raising more suspicions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-07-30
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Violet
Overview: A guy tries to find outside what he is unable to find inside.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-02-02
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7th Floor
Overview: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sebastián, a successful lawyer, leaves his ex-wife's condo, located on the seventh floor of an apartment building, to take his two children to school. While they run down the stairs, he uses the elevator. Once on the ground floor, Sebastián awaits the arrival of the children.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-05
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10 Years with Bebe
Overview: This documentary follows the journey of beloved Spanish musician Bebe as she embarks on a tour to celebrate her first album's 10-year anniversary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-29
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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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Wild Tales
Overview: Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.
Genres: Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-08-21
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I Choose to Believe
Overview: It narrates the epic title obtained by the Argentine National Team in the World Cup Qatar 2022 with testimonies of the protagonists, told from the intimacy and in first person.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-12-07
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Open Day and Night
Overview: A motel that is open all day specializes in beautiful women, and a couple of men decide to visit their rooms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Torrente 5
Overview: Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-03
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The Stranger
Overview: Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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El destino del Lukong
Overview: Two jerks. Two mobs. A destiny. The story will focus on a building manager (José) and a neighbor (Juan), who accidentally discover the body of their neighbor. Although this amazes them, they never imagined that it would lead them to a ridiculous and funny endless chase for the conjecture of a mythical Italo-Asian legend, the legend of the Lukong, which has crossed both the European and Asian continents to solve, in one way or another, in Argentina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Democracy
Overview: 1983: After more than seven years of terror, the Argentineans recover the democracy. The reconstruction of a climate of time and an event that marked a point of break not only in the policy but in the culture and the arts of Argentina
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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Truman
Overview: Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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Delirium
Overview: A group of friends is looking for a change in their lives. Believing that a film will bring them fame and wealth, they embark on the project without many cinematic knowledge, but with a famous actor in mind to star: Ricardo Darín.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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Kóblic
Overview: Colonia Helena, Argentina. The mysterious Tomás Kóblic, a former Navy pilot, works as a fumigator while dealing with his dark past and the intrigues of the corrupt police commissioner…
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-14
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Black Snow
Overview: Accused of killing his brother during adolescence, Salvador lives alone in the middle of Patagonia. Several decades later, his brother Marcos and his sister-in-law Laura, come to convince him to sell the lands they share by inheritance.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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The Summit
Overview: At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-08-17
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Everybody Knows
Overview: Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-05-09
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La discoteca del amor
Overview: Music execs find out their songs are being pirated, so a detective and his assistant are hired to catch the culprits.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-08-07
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The Beach of Love
Overview: A young man is forcibly taken to a beach by his brother and a friend to make him forget his girlfriend.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-02-21
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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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An Unexpected Love
Overview: It tells the story of Marcos and Ana, who have been married for more than 25 years, but enter into an existential crisis that leads them to separate. The life of singles seems fascinating and exciting at first, but soon it also becomes monotonous for her and nightmarish for him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-08-02
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Juventud sin barreras
Overview: A portrait of frivolous youth. Unfortunate events force a group of club-hopping young men and women to face reality and reevaluate their lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-12-13
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Revancha de un amigo
Overview: Ariel Llanarte, writer and journalist forced to live abroad, decides to return to the country. He has the purpose of finding out the reason why his best friend disappeared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-11
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Los éxitos del amor
Overview: Leonor Capulletti and Quique Monteschi, fanatics of the same club, love each other in a passionate as well as conflictive courtship, because their respective families are allied in opposing and irreconcilable factions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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The Tent of Love
Overview: A group of young people who want to go camping acquires a circus tent by mistake.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-07-05
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Heroic Losers
Overview: In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-08-15
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Serrat & Sabina: Two for the Road
Overview: Joan Manuel Serrat fled to Mexico when Franco ordered his persecution. In Argentina and Chile, his commitment against military regimes is still remembered. Joaquín Sabina arrived later. His poetry bewitched the audience. In Argentina, he is a tango singer as much as a rocker; in Mexico, the mariachis sing their songs. The former is a symbol, a venerated figure; the latter is a “cuate,” as they say in Mexico, a buddy with whom you can always count.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-27
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Así es la vida
Overview: Tells the story, in the key of comedy of customs, of a typical bourgeois home in Buenos Aires for three decades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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La fiesta de todos
Overview: Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country during its last dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-05-24
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Torrente 5
Overview: Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-03
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Argentina 1985
Overview: In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.
Genres: Drama History Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-29
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La peste del insomnio
Overview: 30 actresses and actors from Latin America, seek to evoke hope in the midst of the health and economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, through the reading of fragments from the work of Gabriel García Márquez alluding to the plague of oblivion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-06-11
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Eduardo Galeano, Vagamundo
Overview: A hug movie, for the biggest storyteller in Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-08-07
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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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The Song of Buenos Aires
Overview: By notice, the heir to a fortune named Juan González is summoned. Three men with that name appear but only one is the one who has the right to inheritance. The boys to receive it must live with a mysterious lady and her daughter to access it.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-02-28
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He nacido en la ribera
Overview: A born soccer player leaves his town and his family to become a professional footballer. He has stardom, money, and a beautiful model, but realizes he left behind the important values that helped him achieve his success.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-08-19
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Asesinatos sólo en El Hormiguero
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-09-03
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