Javier Portales
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Javier Portales, whose real name was Miguel Angel Alvarez (Tancacha, Córdoba; April 21, 1937 - Buenos Aires; October 14, 2003) was an Argentine actor and comedian of vast trajectory.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tancacha, Córdoba, Argentina
Birthday: April 21, 1937
Deathday: October 14, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Three Times Ana
Overview: Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air," Ana is a rebellious, easy-living type among some beach bums whose sexual leanings tend to tip the scale at active promiscuity. In "The Cloud," Ana only exists in the imagination of an introverted man, who dreams of his ideal woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-04-12
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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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Venido a menos
Overview: To continue pretending to be a position they no longer have, a run-down upper-class family moves into the home of a wealthy aunt.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-10-11
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Sex Humor
Overview: A video magazine (similar to National Lampoon) of erotic shorts stories.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-02
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Cantaniño cuenta un cuento
Overview: Two men, a woman, a chimpanzee and a talking horse travel around Argentina to put together a movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-12-06
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Este cura
Overview: A village priest protects a young mother rejected by the people and the mayor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-06-06
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Todos los pecados del mundo
Overview: The seven deadly sins are illustrated through short stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Last year of Nacional High School
Overview: This movie was based on a TV series popular in Argentina at that time dealing with the adventures of high school seniors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-10-26
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Dos quijotes sobre ruedas
Overview: The adventures of two truckers (one Argentine and the other Mexican) carrying different people and a suspicious trunk
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-06-16
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Maridos en vacaciones
Overview: Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together in an insurance company and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Elsa and Alicia). When they go on vacation to Mar del Plata, Alberto and Jorge decide to enjoy their "single life". In addition to this, they have to fulfill a duty entrusted by their boss: to find the revue theater entrepreneur Félix Sagastume, to sign an insurance contract. It is in a canteen where they go to look for him, and there they meet two aspiring vedettes (Zuzú and Bibí), who confuse them with important businessmen and see in them a possibility of achieving fame.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-06-26
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Ladies Photographer
Overview: Catrasca is a photojournalist with a fondness for women of all kinds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-04-13
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Hay que romper la rutina
Overview: Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Ethel and Gogó). Noticing that their sex life becomes boring, they cheat on them with co-workers. This is discovered and they are fired. Then, they get employed in a beauty institute, where they have many women at their disposal. Their wives learn of this mischief, and go to look for them at the institute, generating hilarious situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-29
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Las turistas quieren guerra
Overview: Alberto and Jorge are employees of a refrigerator, who one day see a bus where several beautiful tourists flirt with the guide who drives them and think that being guides will give them many love affairs. They manage to meet with the owner of the tourism company and his partner (Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas, respectively), who hire them immediately, promising them a quick promotion in the company. In reality, Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas are planning a scam of great magnitude, and they need two unwary to indisting them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-06-16
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The Knights of the Round Bed
Overview: Alberto, Jorge, Ricardo and Tristan are employees of a shoe store, all are married and share the friendship also between their wives. The 4 friends, faithful to the rogue style of Buenos Aires, go out of their way to have love affairs with the beautiful customers of the shoe store, and for that purpose one day they decide to rent, secretly, an apartment to use as a "bulín". The problems begin from then on, as everyone wants to be the first to release it and then, successively, take turns for their adventures. As is to be expected, it does not take long for the first entanglements to appear, while their wives seem to begin to suspect the adventures of these four typical Buenos Aires chantas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-03-22
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Los doctores las prefieren desnudas
Overview: Alberto, an employee of a car dealership, is commissioned by his boss to deliver a car that has been sold to a customer. Being a luxury car, he has no better idea than to invent an excuse to the new owner of the vehicle, delay delivery for the next day and use it to go out to have fun at night with his faithful friend Jorge. They both go to a revue theatre and, while witnessing the performance, the first vedette (Corina) faints. Then Alberto and Jorge pose as doctors, in order to meet Corina. As is to be expected, both decide to continue the deception with the passing of the days, causing the confusion to become bigger and bigger and harder to keep secret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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El Manosanta está Cargado
Overview: A common man that is tired of being treated as stupid, and starts treating other people the same way, acting as a Brazilian "Manosanta" (folk healer that cures people illnesses).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-06-04
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Los reyes del sablazo
Overview: Luisa discovers in the briefcase of Alberto, her husband, a fiery love letter, in which he is portrayed as an impetuous lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-02-16
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Te rompo el rating
Overview: A television network infiltrates an inept employee (Porcel) in the competition and he begins to ruin all the programs but, instead of subtracting audience, he only managed to improve it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-04-16
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Los fierecillos indomables
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-07-15
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Un terceto peculiar
Overview: A director of XXX films entrusts his assistant with the rental of a house for the filming with an international star. This, confused with the arrival of the star, preys the house to a friend to impress the groom
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-03-04
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Las mujeres son cosa de guapos
Overview: In 1930s Argentina, dim-witted Rufino and Jacinto are hired as tough guys ("guapos") by political boss Malatesta to intimidate his opponents, rig elections, etc. However, the two men change allegiances when they meet the lovely Mercedes and La Mendocina, victims of Malatesta and his gang.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-18
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El telo y la tele
Overview: A sex congress takes place in a hotel, and couples are secretely filmed in a Slivers way by the "scientists".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-04-18
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Los muchachos de mi barrio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-03-12
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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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Che, OVNI
Overview: A porteño tango singer is kidnapped by a UFO and taken to Madrid, London and Paris.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-07
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Los fierecillos se divierten
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-02-24
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Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos
Overview: Count Dracula travels to Buenos Aires with his secretary and stays in a very special hotel, where several mobsters are also staying.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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Two Crazy Privates 3
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-02-12
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Two Crazy Privates
Overview: Two violators of the military service law are incorporated as soldiers recently arrived from Europe and proposed to integrate a group that will operate in a jungle region, for which they have to prepare for difficult survival missions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-02-17
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Minguito Tinguitela, papá
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-06-27
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La mamá de la novia
Overview: Mother and daughter are both pop singers, but mom wants her little girl to get married. Wacky complications.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-05-04
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Las muñecas que hacen ¡pum!
Overview: An army of beautiful androids commits a series of singular murders: they explode when penetrated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-09-27
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Criminal Affair
Overview: A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-17
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Alejandra, mon amour
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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Two Crazy Pirates 2
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-07-10
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La noche del hurto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-06-10
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Las locuras del extraterrestre
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Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-06-07
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El gordo de América
Overview: To celebrate his promotion, a manager (Javier Portales) decides to summon his brother from the field, but as he did not stop making disasters he sends him back. His brother (Jorge Porcel) is not convinced and dazzled by an advertisement decides to set up an investigation office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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Custodio de señoras
Overview: Jorge is a photographer for a newspaper, from which he is fired. He then begins to work in a detective agency, where he is assigned the mission of protecting Monica, a beautiful woman threatened with death by an ex-boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-04-05
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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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Las pirañas
Overview: Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife, Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, it feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to do not lose permanently her husband or even fall into madness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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Del brazo y por la calle
Overview: Economic difficulties separating a young couple who, after the attempt to survive, decide to meet again.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-08-04
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El hombre del año
Overview: The life of a man who discovers two hearts changes abruptly when a group of criminals tries to seize one of them to transplant it to a Mafia Boss who has heart problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-11-19
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La noche viene movida
Overview: A businessman who receives his niece who comes from the interior experiences different situations in a hotel accommodation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-17
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Coche cama, alojamiento
Overview: A magazine company and some in-love couples board a night train where a gang of bandits is traveling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-02-29
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La fidelidad
Overview: argentina movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-09-24
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El tío Disparate
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Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-23
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Las locuras del profesor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-15
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Un muchacho como yo
Overview: Ye-ye boy loves his ye-ye girl so much that he quits his band and gets a job to show her pops that he'll be a responsible husband. The rest of the movie outlines the progress of his complete capitulation to bourgie values.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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Naked Tango
Overview: When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-27
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Con mi mujer no puedo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-07-17
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Esto es alegría
Overview: Three stories where optimism triumphs: a television director finds a new mother for his children, an old couple of artists deal with a sentimental crisis and an illustrator whose father is an alcoholic fights to educate his brother.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-09
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Canuto Cañete y los 40 ladrones
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-07-02
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Fiebre de primavera
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-03-18
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That Forward Center Dies at Dawn
Overview: Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-06-08
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Los debutantes en el amor
Overview: Four stories about sexual initiation in adolescence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-08-28
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Se acabó el curro
Overview: Two porteños try to swindle a Peruvian who is in Buenos Aires on vacation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-09-01
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Un toque diferente
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-08-04
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Reencuentro con la gloria
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-01
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Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola
Overview: Movie divided in three episodes: a family mother becomes a successful singer; an Argentinian reporter follows a Spanish cupletista from the beginning of the XX century; the reunion of three old actors and their lies about their success.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-19
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Una cita con la vida
Overview: The love story between two teenagers, children of incomprehensible parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-04-21
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My First Girlfriend
Overview: A romantic teen comedy about the rivalry between an Agrentinian man and a young American for the love of a beautiful girl from a rich family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-17
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No hay que aflojarle a la vida
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-07-24
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La guerra de los sostenes
Overview: This is a comedy full of tangles, with the picaresque occurrences of Tristan, and the involvement of frontline actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-30
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El bulín
Overview: Employees of an office use for love dating the apartment of a single co-worker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-06-12
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El mundo que inventamos
Overview: A provincial man comes to the big city and finds true love.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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Una jaula no tiene secretos
Overview: Buenos Aires, Argentina, New Year's Eve. Several people are trapped inside an elevator located in an office building.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-04
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We Are the Best
Overview: A group of porteños attend the grand final between Manchester and Estudiantes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-11-21
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