Horacio Peña

Acting

Horacio Peña

Acting credits

Pájaros rojos poster
NR

In the revolted 70's in Argentina, teenage Graciela is an artist and a poet. She and Julio, a charismatic student leader, are brought together by their ideals for social justice. Her poems reach young musician Flecha, who dreams of singing them for a roaring crowd. As the times grow harder and more dangerous, friends are persecuted, Graciela and Julio protect each other, but the dictatorship kidnaps them. Graciela's mother desperate search for her daughter brings her together with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who's relentless clamor for their missing children is only met with more terror and death from the bloody dictatorship. 35 years later, that mother publishes a book of Graciela's poems, and brings it to Flecha, now an accomplished musician. He turns them into songs that let her words live and fly.

Pájaros rojos

2023

Rapado poster
6.5

After the theft of his motorcycle, Lucio bums aimlessly around Buenos Aires drifting from one arcade and record store to the next, indulging in short chats with friends and, more often, setting out onto the streets alone.

Rapado

1992

The Hands poster
6.1

The priest Mario Pantaleo discovers he has some power to diagnose and cure diseases through the laying on of hands. But the police and the church hierarchy will against him.

The Hands

2006

Killing Grandpa poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Killing Grandpa

1993

Three minutes poster
7.5

"Three minutes" is a film in the fantasy genre. It is the love story between Alex, a journalist who, forced to speak very quickly in his newscast, must take this substance that accelerates his nervous system and Ana, a young piano student who in order to become a concert pianist, needs to gain speed in her piano playing. They both end up over accelerating and finding each other in a parallel world where everything around them seems to have stopped moving. In this motionless world, they will live their great romance.

Three minutes

2008

Moon of Avellaneda poster
7.2

The story of a social and sports club in a Buenos Aires neighborhood and of those who try to save it from being closed.

Moon of Avellaneda

2004

The Fury poster
4.9

The life of federal judge Raúl Lombardi and his journalist son, Marcos, changes forever when they become entangled in a web of corruption and drug trafficking involving law enforcement officers, judges, and other high-ranking officials.

The Fury

1997

Hermanas poster
5.9

Argentinian sisters Elena and Natalia, who were separated, meet again in Texas in 1984.

Hermanas

2005

Abierto de 18 a 24 poster
9.0

The owner of a tango academy finds the possibility of love after the arrival of a charming character.

Abierto de 18 a 24

1988

Tiger Head poster
8.2

In the aftermath of the May Revolution, which sparked the end of Spanish colonial rule and the establishment of the first independent government in Buenos Aires, revolutionary leader Juan José Castelli is given the order to oversee the execution of former viceroy Santiago de Liniers. This pushes Castelli into a deep moral conflict, forcing him to confront the tension between revolutionary justice and personal conscience, as well as the human cost of political change.

Tiger Head

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Seis personajes en busca de un autor

1986

Condenados poster
6.0

Unit 9 was the prison where the brutal military dictatorship held thousands of political prisoners, separating their leaders into two Death Rows, only to murder them without trial. Not only would the prisoners be murdered by the army, but their families as well. The struggle for life and dignity was renewed every day, and will, ingenuity, and humor were weapons of resistance.

Condenados

2013

Del brazo con la muerte poster
10.0

A criminal takes advantage of a bum who crosses his path and convinces him to carry out robberies for him.

Del brazo con la muerte

1966