Lito Cruz
Also Known As: Oscar Alberto Cruz
Biography: Oscar Alberto Cruz was a first Argentine film, theater and television actor and theater director. He was the winner of the Martín Fierro award. In the working-class La Plata suburb of Berisso in 1941, he began performing in local theatres at the age of 15. Graduating from a La Plata secondary school, he continued to pursue his calling in La Plata's growing independent theatre scene.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berisso, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Adult: No
Birthday: May 14, 1941
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 18, 2017
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El camino de los sueños
Overview: Ignacio Silva returns to his hometown, a small port in southern Argentina. There he reunites with his memories and with a friend, and meets three women who lead him to see life differently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-08-19
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The Angry Toy
Overview: A 16-year-old young man, is fond of weapons and the manufacture of explosives. He participates in robberies and is persecuted by the Police, so his group of friends dissolves and he goes to live in another neighborhood and starts working in a bookstore. Dissatisfied, without expectations and full of resentment, Silvio tries to set the place on fire and flees through the city
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-09-10
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Sobre la tierra
Overview: A German baroness and her ailing husband arrive at a mansion in the middle of the countryside in Argentina in the decade of the 30s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-11-26
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Only People
Overview: A young doctor recently received must face the difficulties of his profession in a public hospital, proposing to make true the axiom learned in the faculty "you can not always be cured, but you must know how to care."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-04-27
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Amapola
Overview: A romantic reimagining of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set against the turbulent backdrops of the 1962 Argentinian military coup and the 1982 war for the Falkland Islands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-06-05
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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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Palos Fights Back!
Overview: You're in it follow the thrill, the excitement, the spine-chilling suspense. From the MONGRELS, through the trapdoors of BANGKOK, to the snows of SIBERA. It's SUPER-ACTION.
Genres: Action
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1969-12-25
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La frontera olvidada
Overview: A young officer recently arrived from Buenos Aires takes charge of a military base on the edge of the desert.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-01-02
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Darse cuenta
Overview: The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-08-30
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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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La Loma: no todo es lo que aparenta
Overview: In Argentina there were clandestine human experiments covered by the military dictatorship in order to investigate the existence of life after death. Today Julian Roy escapes from prison to cover up past events. The price of this mission: Sitar, manipulate and hold incommunicate the whole town.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-02
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Betibú
Overview: Once Pedro Chazarreta found murdered in the wonderful gated, El Tribuno newspaper hires retired detective novelist Nurit Iscar/Betibù that is installed in the area and a series of newspaper columns about the case. Along with the Chief of police of the newspaper, Mariano Saravia, and a veteran journalist, Jaime Breña, Betibù starts to investigate the murder. Using an old photo of the adolescence of Chazarreta, which shows him with fellow high school, the Group discovers an apparent connection between this murder and a succession of apparently trivial deaths of members of the photo. At the same time, Betibù must face its past emotional with the editor of the newspaper, Lorenzo Rinaldi, who seeks to restore the relationship.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-04-10
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El sueño de los héroes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-11-05
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La campana
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-12-15
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Contragolpe
Overview: Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Sotto Voce
Overview: Telma (Norma Pons) is concerned when her father Salerno dies of a heart attack in a movie theater while watching a film of two thugs beating another man. She believes that there is something more to it, and seeks the help of Deganis (Patricio Contreras), a forensic psychiatrist. Deganis, having found out the names of the two actors doing the beating onscreen, looks one of them up. His name is Walensky (Lito Cruz), and he is looking for Smith (Martin Adjemian), the other actor.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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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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Infierno Grande
Overview: In a remote town, a strange death hides a secret.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-08-26
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The Innocents
Overview: 19th century Argentina. After having had to leave the country fifteen years ago, prodigal son Rodrigo finally returns to the family farm in Mercedaria to introduce his wife Bianca to his parents. He’s not really looking forward to this family reunion. His youth was spent working with the slaves on the farm who were treated without mercy by his parents. His father regularly abused the female slaves, while his mother even burned one alive to save the family honor. It’s time for some ghostly revenge and this happens to coincide with Rodrigo’s return.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-04-09
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El día que cambió la historia
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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Otro corazón
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-11-08
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Invasion
Overview: Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-16
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The South
Overview: After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-05
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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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Nada x perder
Overview: Gonzalo Romero, a young Argentine lawyer, struggles to find his place in a world ruled by pessimism. When his father and brother are assaulted by the nephew of a senator, he sets out on a long journey to bring the aggressor to trial.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-11-22
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The Girlfriend
Overview: Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-04-13
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Gato negro
Overview: The film tells the life of Tito Pereyra since his childhood in a town of Tucuman (with an absent father) until the 1980 s in Buenos Aires, when democracy was restored. During that period he makes decisions that will change his life forever.It shows a human being with both bright and dark aspects, whose contrasts seem to determine his destiny.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-04-10
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El malentendido
Overview: A young woman will seek to reunite with her family after being adopted. After finding out her whereabouts with a detective, she will travel inside to meet them waiting to be recognized. Her mother and brother have a roadside post on the Paraguayan border, but only in appearance, as they actually do macabre and terrifying work.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-09-01
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Don Segundo Sombra
Overview: The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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Historias Breves 3
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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¿De quién es el portaligas?
Overview: Rosario, Argentina, the 80's. The story of three girl friends in their twenties, Julieta, Leonora y Romina, who have crazy rock-groupies lives, that get involved in a bizarre mafia chantage, after Leonora falls in the hospital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-09-20
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La balada de Donna Helena
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-03-12
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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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Gracias por los servicios
Overview: A luxurious apartment is assaulted by three subjects who, after murdering the maid, patiently await the arrival of the owner of the house. When it returns, it is pressured violently to indicate the place where half a million dollars would be found. The ignorant woman of the existence of money, sees how her home is progressively destroyed while, in different hiding places, documents are found that implicate her husband in criminal activities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-01
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Más adelante
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-05-25
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La revolución es un sueño eterno
Overview: Juan José Castelli's fall into disgrace after a hard campaign in the argentine war of independence
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-05-17
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Que lo parió (Inodoro Pereyra)
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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India Pravile
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-09-25
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