
Directing
Luis Ortega
Born
1980-07-12 (46)
Place of birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Directing
Credits
30 titles
Luis Ortega was born in Buenos Aires in 1980. In 1999, at the age of nineteen, he directed his first feature film, Caja Negra, which received multiple international awards and launched him as one of the most promising and innovative filmmakers in Argentina. Since then, he developed a filmography with a strong signature, becoming one of the most daring and attractive voices in the independent Latin American scene, including Monobloc, Dromómanos and Lulú. In 2015, he wrote and directed Historia De Un Clan, a widely popular and critically acclaimed eleven-episode series. In 2016, he also directed the first two episodes of the successful series El Marginal.
Known for
7.4Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
El Angel
2018
5.6It tells the story of three characters: a young woman who works at a dry cleaner, a father who leaves prison and the Salvation Army, and an old woman.
Black Box
2002
6.7Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive.
Kill the Jockey
2024
NRAn armed young woman and a poet with a strange physical condition live in a house disconnected from the outside world. One day, a knife sharpener rings the doorbell and falls in love with the girl at first sight. The poet believes that it is death coming for him. When she becomes pregnant and her son is born, the young woman returns to her mother's house, a lady with serious mental problems.
Always Night
2025
No synopsis available yet.
Macadam
2022
NRAt night a traveling flash runs through the streets of Buenos Aires hell, illuminating even the most remote roads. It's easy to mistake it for an angel. Its light, volatile step numbs the city and condenses the glances. It takes refuge in subways and tunnels under the ground. It comes off time. It tempts the dead to come back. It is The Light. The comfort of the homeless.
Salomé
2020
Film credits
2020s · 1 titles
2010s · 2 titles
NRFollows a man as he silently goes through the desperation of a break-up. He aimlessly wanders the streets, meeting the night people of Buenos Aires; loners, thieves, fugitives, homeless, suicides, lovers and the ghost of the lost lover.
Nocturnos
2011
5.2Luis Ortega's apocalyptic third feature follows a group of five survivors as they embark on a journey that will force them to face their fears, dreams and longings in their quest for salvation across the Fijman River.
The Dirty Saints
2011
Behind the camera
7.4Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
El Angel
2018
7.4Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
El Angel
2018
5.6It tells the story of three characters: a young woman who works at a dry cleaner, a father who leaves prison and the Salvation Army, and an old woman.
Black Box
2002
5.6It tells the story of three characters: a young woman who works at a dry cleaner, a father who leaves prison and the Salvation Army, and an old woman.
Black Box
2002
6.7Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive.
Kill the Jockey
2024
6.7Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive.
Kill the Jockey
2024
6.7Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive.
Kill the Jockey
2024
NRAn armed young woman and a poet with a strange physical condition live in a house disconnected from the outside world. One day, a knife sharpener rings the doorbell and falls in love with the girl at first sight. The poet believes that it is death coming for him. When she becomes pregnant and her son is born, the young woman returns to her mother's house, a lady with serious mental problems.
Always Night
2025
NRAn armed young woman and a poet with a strange physical condition live in a house disconnected from the outside world. One day, a knife sharpener rings the doorbell and falls in love with the girl at first sight. The poet believes that it is death coming for him. When she becomes pregnant and her son is born, the young woman returns to her mother's house, a lady with serious mental problems.
Always Night
2025
NRAn armed young woman and a poet with a strange physical condition live in a house disconnected from the outside world. One day, a knife sharpener rings the doorbell and falls in love with the girl at first sight. The poet believes that it is death coming for him. When she becomes pregnant and her son is born, the young woman returns to her mother's house, a lady with serious mental problems.
Always Night
2025
NRAt night a traveling flash runs through the streets of Buenos Aires hell, illuminating even the most remote roads. It's easy to mistake it for an angel. Its light, volatile step numbs the city and condenses the glances. It takes refuge in subways and tunnels under the ground. It comes off time. It tempts the dead to come back. It is The Light. The comfort of the homeless.
Salomé
2020
NRAt night a traveling flash runs through the streets of Buenos Aires hell, illuminating even the most remote roads. It's easy to mistake it for an angel. Its light, volatile step numbs the city and condenses the glances. It takes refuge in subways and tunnels under the ground. It comes off time. It tempts the dead to come back. It is The Light. The comfort of the homeless.
Salomé
2020
NRA young libertine priest and a deranged actress fall passionately in love. When she introduces him to a world of narcotics and madness and subsequently disappears, he spirals into despair, committing a series of murders that leave him magnetized.
Magnetized
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NRA young libertine priest and a deranged actress fall passionately in love. When she introduces him to a world of narcotics and madness and subsequently disappears, he spirals into despair, committing a series of murders that leave him magnetized.
Magnetized
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5.4The godmother and Perla are the world to "the little girl," a world defined by the four walls of a studio apartment with one window looking nowhere. Only space and alter the monotony, the blood transfusion sessions to which must be submitted Pearl and almost anonymous sexual encounters of the baby.
Monobloc
2005
5.4The godmother and Perla are the world to "the little girl," a world defined by the four walls of a studio apartment with one window looking nowhere. Only space and alter the monotony, the blood transfusion sessions to which must be submitted Pearl and almost anonymous sexual encounters of the baby.
Monobloc
2005
5.2Julieta and Federico are parents of three boys, it is a high class family. He is a successful architect. They receive the visit of Tito, uncle of Federico, a gray man who has just left the prison. Tito wants to go to the sea and Federico proposes to go to a house that he himself built for some friends, but Federico stays in the city, working.
Damn Summer
2011
5.2Julieta and Federico are parents of three boys, it is a high class family. He is a successful architect. They receive the visit of Tito, uncle of Federico, a gray man who has just left the prison. Tito wants to go to the sea and Federico proposes to go to a house that he himself built for some friends, but Federico stays in the city, working.
Damn Summer
2011
No synopsis available yet.
Time Fate Love
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7.0Two young urchins turn the streets of Buenos Aires into their own magical playground, in this vibrant portrait of young love.
Lulú
2016
7.0Two young urchins turn the streets of Buenos Aires into their own magical playground, in this vibrant portrait of young love.
Lulú
2016
7.5Five wanderers roam around Buenos Aires and it’s wild outskirts. God, schizophrenia and alcoholism is what gathers them in the search for salvation. A love triangle and the obsession over a little pig in the religiosity of the ghetto; a mental institution patient who finds an unstable emotional partner desperate for love; and the doctor of this story, an alcoholic, dangerous for himself and others, who heads without hesitation toward self destruction.
Dromómanos
2013
7.5Five wanderers roam around Buenos Aires and it’s wild outskirts. God, schizophrenia and alcoholism is what gathers them in the search for salvation. A love triangle and the obsession over a little pig in the religiosity of the ghetto; a mental institution patient who finds an unstable emotional partner desperate for love; and the doctor of this story, an alcoholic, dangerous for himself and others, who heads without hesitation toward self destruction.
Dromómanos
2013
5.2Luis Ortega's apocalyptic third feature follows a group of five survivors as they embark on a journey that will force them to face their fears, dreams and longings in their quest for salvation across the Fijman River.
The Dirty Saints
2011
5.2Luis Ortega's apocalyptic third feature follows a group of five survivors as they embark on a journey that will force them to face their fears, dreams and longings in their quest for salvation across the Fijman River.
The Dirty Saints
2011
NRLudmila Vieytes is in a cockfight in Cuba. With her baby in her arms and in a wheelchair, she comes to a passive acceptance of the torture, of the human and divine violence that shapes her beliefs.
Ludmila en Cuba
2013
NRLudmila Vieytes is in a cockfight in Cuba. With her baby in her arms and in a wheelchair, she comes to a passive acceptance of the torture, of the human and divine violence that shapes her beliefs.
Ludmila en Cuba
2013
