Lautaro Murúa

Acting

Lautaro Murúa

Born — Died

1926-12-29 — 1995-12-03

Place of birth

Tacna, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lautaro Murúa (29 December 1926 Tacna, Chile - 3 December 1995 in Madrid) was a Chilean-born Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter.  Born in Chile, Murúa moved to Argentina at the beginning of the fifties. He studied architecture and fine arts before entering the film industry. He worked primarily as an actor and appeared in over 80 films between 1949 and his death in 1995 although he also directed a handful of important films such as Shunko, Alias Gardelito and La Raulito, all with stories usually revolving around social topics. As an actor, Murúa participated in the 1960s film industry revival, acting in the movies of Leopoldo Torre Nilss…

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

Scream of Stone poster
6.3

A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.

Scream of Stone

1991

I, the Worst of All poster
6.0

A 17th-century Mexican nun defies expectations by becoming a renowned intellectual and writer during the Spanish Inquisition.

I, the Worst of All

1990

A Wall of Silence poster
5.7

A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.

A Wall of Silence

1993

Belmonte poster
5.0

Seville 1913. Juan is a weak-looking boy who has grown up in a marginal environment. But it transforms when at night it challenges bulls in fences. Calderón, an old bullfighter, looks at him, in his rare ways, in his passionate attitude, and guided by a strange obsession introduces Juan into the way of being a bullfighter. In a short time, Belmonte becomes a hero in his land, but his great challenge will be to face Joselito in the most important square: Madrid. Biographical film around one of the most emblematic bullfighters, Juan Belmonte.

Belmonte

1995

1980s · 10 titles

Tangos, the Exile of Gardel poster
6.8

Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.

Tangos, the Exile of Gardel

1985

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse poster
5.6

Shunka Wakan, formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son defend their tribe against gold rushers.

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

1983

The Beasts' Carnival poster
6.0

A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese assassins in hot pursuit, he takes refuge in the home of a local doctor and his two daughters who nurse him back to health and hide him from his pursuers, taking drastic and murderous measures to protect him... for they have plans of their own in store for their current guest.

The Beasts' Carnival

1980

Nights Without Moons and Suns poster
5.5

A criminal escapes from a court, with help of three miscreants, to find his lifelong friend, who is terminally ill. The police officer catch knows there is a hidden loot involved.

Nights Without Moons and Suns

1984

Funny Dirty Little War poster
6.7

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.

Funny Dirty Little War

1983

Girl with the Golden Panties poster
4.5

Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.

Girl with the Golden Panties

1980

Thanks for the Fire poster
5.2

The failure of Budiño Ramon, who plans first murder of his father and is recognized after unable to carry it out, is due largely to the general attitude of a society that tolerates no dramatic gestures. However, the inadequacies of radical class, beliefs, feelings, profession and memory also plays a leading role in the drama.

Thanks for the Fire

1984

Poor Butterfly poster
6.7

A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.

Poor Butterfly

1986

Paper Heart poster
10.0

Ups and downs of a news agency led by Antonio Borja, a veteran journalist formed during the Franco regime, with the help of his godson and protegé Tomás. The threat of economic bankruptcy, the appearance of Julia, a young journalist from last university generations, the background of the world of tabloids (tricks used by celebrities to remain so, reports sold exclusively by interested parties, photos of Stolen nudes that have been previously agreed) and what is behind the covers of magazines that weekly buy people eager for gossip form the rest of the plot.

Paper Heart

1982

Man on Pink Corner poster
NR

The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator, who recounts the events of a particular night at a Villa Santa Rita bar and brothel. The clientele, including the narrator, spend the evening drinking and dancing the tango. Their festivities are interrupted by the arrival of a formidable stranger in black.

Man on Pink Corner

1980

1970s · 16 titles

The Knight of the Sword poster
7.2

The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.

The Knight of the Sword

1970

Los pocillos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los pocillos

1974

The Truce poster
7.5

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

The Truce

1974

Crónica de una señora poster
6.0

Following the death of a close friend, a woman caught in an unhappy marriage looks for ways to improve her life.

Crónica de una señora

1971

Alone poster
10.0

A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals.

Alone

1976

Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf poster
7.1

The Mighty One offers Nazareno Cruz all the wealth in the world if he agrees to abandon his beloved; otherwise, the curse that supposedly weighs on him will be fulfilled.

Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf

1975

The Traitors poster
7.6

Based on a true story, the film narrates the life of a fictitious Peronist union leader who, after years of militancy, gains power in the union during the 1960s and gradually becomes a corrupt bureaucrat.

The Traitors

1973

No toquen a la nena poster
8.5

A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.

No toquen a la nena

1976

Un guapo del 900 poster
6.8

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

Un guapo del 900

1971

Los chantas poster
9.0

Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score.

Los chantas

1975

Raulito Is Free poster
7.5

La Raulito travels to Madrid when she gets out of jail in Argentina to carve out a better future. Once in the Spanish capital, she participates in a documentary recounting his experience as a patient in a psychiatric hospital.

Raulito Is Free

1977

José María y María José (Una pareja de hoy) poster
NR

A couple of university students face the dilemma of abortion.

José María y María José (Una pareja de hoy)

1973

Quebracho poster
7.3

Set around 1910 in the Chaco region, the film depicts the plight of quebracho woodcutters, cruelly exploited by English businessmen with the support of the authorities, local police, and a paramilitary force established by the employers themselves.

Quebracho

1974

Argentinian Until Death poster
9.0

Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance.

Argentinian Until Death

1971

El destino poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El destino

1971

Las sorpresas poster
9.0

"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there is a love triangle in which the deceived husband is blind.

Las sorpresas

1975

1960s · 19 titles

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Misión 52

1962

Fuelle querido poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fuelle querido

1967

Shunko poster
6.8

A teacher arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must educate children against the will of their parents.

Shunko

1960

Una máscara para Ana poster
5.5

A movie director forces her actress wife not to practice her profession, so she escapes.

Una máscara para Ana

1966

Paula Cautiva poster
6.7

An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a traditional but poor family, and he finds himself falling in love with her.

Paula Cautiva

1963

Martín Fierro poster
6.2

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.

Martín Fierro

1968

Los traidores de San Ángel poster
6.0

Henchmen of the dictator from a South American country blackmail Nick Thomas into being a government spy. The former smuggler is to pose as a priest and enter a monastery thought to be sympathetic with rebel guerrillas. The release of the film coincided with real-life events, as Catholic priests continued to be the victims of government persecution throughout Latin America.

Los traidores de San Ángel

1967

No artwork available
NR

When a group of terrorists hijack a train, the various passengers relive their memories.

Todo sol es amargo

1966

The Eavesdropper poster
8.0

When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners - immigrants and zarzuela players - plan an attack on the president, he reports them to the police. In his adventure, he leaves behind a girlfriend and a lover, and ends up sharing his life with a disoriented girl.

The Eavesdropper

1966

Libertad bajo palabra poster
10.0

For good behavior, four prisoners are released for 24 hours.

Libertad bajo palabra

1961

Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes poster
7.5

A young man loses a hand after being attacked by a gang. A police inspector will make sure to find them and bring justice, whatever it takes.

Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes

1965

Invasion poster
7.3

Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.

Invasion

1969

Three Times Ana poster
7.4

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.

Three Times Ana

1961

Alias Gardelito poster
6.0

The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the music business. Yet at the same time, he does not stop his illegal means of making ends meet, stealing and petty thievery. Discouraged when his big break never quite materializes, Toribio heads for disaster when he joins up with a large smuggling scheme.

Alias Gardelito

1961

Pajarito Gómez poster
7.1

A chronicle of the life and career of a popular singer: his humble origins, his rise to fame, and his exploitation by the media.

Pajarito Gómez

1965

The Venerable Ones poster
6.4

Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader, Lucas, and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.

The Venerable Ones

1963

The Party Is Over poster
6.8

This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.

The Party Is Over

1960

Las pirañas poster
6.4

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, feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to not permanently lose her husband or fall into madness.

Las pirañas

1967

Dar la cara poster
6.7

Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.

Dar la cara

1962

1950s · 10 titles

La Hechizada poster
NR

Baltasar, a young man in his twenties, is sent by his father to live with his aunt Dolores, an elderly widow and childless widow, on the Las Pataguas farm. There he meets his neighbors, the Araneda family, owners of the El Pantano farm and parents of the beautiful Humilde, with whom Balthazar falls in love. But the girl is "bewitched" by Saúl Araneda, her seductive cousin, whom the locals consider dangerously jealous.

La Hechizada

1950

The House of the Angel poster
7.2

A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forcibly kept innocent of the sexual nuances of some adult relationships, she is not too clear on her rights, his intentions, or the consequences when her father's best friend starts to lust after her.

The House of the Angel

1957

La caída poster
6.6

A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for the student, but the couple experiences problems when she declines to leave what he refers to as "that lunatic asylum."

La caída

1959

Detrás de un largo muro poster
7.2

A young girl from a small town migrates to the capital of Buenos Aires, only to find a home in the slum area of the city.

Detrás de un largo muro

1958

The Kidnapper poster
5.7

A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.

The Kidnapper

1958

In Burning Darkness poster
10.0

In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.

In Burning Darkness

1959

Concert for a tear poster
10.0

A young woman passionate about music leaves everything for it, putting aside her family and a lover.

Concert for a tear

1955

Enigma de mujer poster
NR

A series of anecdotes exposed from the point of view of a Samaritan woman who tries to fix the problems of the neighbors.

Enigma de mujer

1956

No artwork available
NR

A wife tries to win back her husband's interest, as their marriage is seriously threatened by the arrival of her best friend and schoolmate in Venezuela.

Una madeja de lana azul celeste

1955

Llampo de sangre poster
9.0

Based on Oscar Castro's novel rtp slot, the film is set in the El Encanto mine, in the interior of Rancagua, where prospectors and barreteros dig the bowels of the earth in search of hidden riches.

Llampo de sangre

1954

Series credits

Behind the camera

Shunko poster
6.8

A teacher arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must educate children against the will of their parents.

Shunko

1960

Valentina poster
6.1

In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.

Valentina

1982

Un guapo del 900 poster
6.8

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

Un guapo del 900

1971

Un guapo del 900 poster
6.8

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

Un guapo del 900

1971

Raulito Is Free poster
7.5

La Raulito travels to Madrid when she gets out of jail in Argentina to carve out a better future. Once in the Spanish capital, she participates in a documentary recounting his experience as a patient in a psychiatric hospital.

Raulito Is Free

1977

Alias Gardelito poster
6.0

The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the music business. Yet at the same time, he does not stop his illegal means of making ends meet, stealing and petty thievery. Discouraged when his big break never quite materializes, Toribio heads for disaster when he joins up with a large smuggling scheme.

Alias Gardelito

1961

Cuarteles de invierno poster
7.3

A boxer and a singer are hired by the Armed Forces to entertain the people of a small town. When their personalities and principles get them in trouble with the authorities, they support each other as they face their destiny.

Cuarteles de invierno

1984

Cuarteles de invierno poster
7.3

A boxer and a singer are hired by the Armed Forces to entertain the people of a small town. When their personalities and principles get them in trouble with the authorities, they support each other as they face their destiny.

Cuarteles de invierno

1984

La Raulito poster
6.0

The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires. The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a reformatory for juvenile offenders, prison and psychiatric hospital. Raulito manages to escape, and finds work at Constitución railway station in Barrio Constitución. Raulito meets up with another street child and they become close friends. They both eventually manage to escape to Mar del Plata.

La Raulito

1975