José A. Martínez Suárez

Directing

José A. Martínez Suárez

Born 1925-10-02 · Villa Cañás, Santa Fé, Argentina

José Antonio Martínez Suárez (2 October 1925 – 17 August 2019) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. He worked on more than 20 films between 1949 and 2003. He was the brother of actresses Mirtha and Silvia Legrand.

Acting credits

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7.0

Documentary about Fernando Iglesias, “Tacholas”, a Spanish actor who arrived in Buenos Aires in 1929 and participated in 52 national films.

Tacholas, un actor galaico porteño

2004

Donde comienza el camino poster
9.0

The journey of Fernando Birri, the great father of New Latin American Cinema, has left a mark that begins at the legendary Santa Fe Documentary School and continues to this day. His methods, influences, his founding role, his poetic-political commitment, and his artistic output are some of the milestones that make up his journey.

Donde comienza el camino

2005

Vlasta, el recuerdo no es eterno poster
NR

When she made her first film in 1960, Vlasta Lah was the only woman to direct a sound feature film in Argentina. Her path was arduous and long: from her childhood in a country torn apart by war to her training at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, to her arrival in Argentina fleeing another war, where she became the most important assistant director at Estudios San Miguel. Through her personal correspondence and a meticulous investigation, her name will be rescued from oblivion.

Vlasta, el recuerdo no es eterno

2025

The impossible dream poster
NR

A reconstruction of the artistic memory of the Biancos, Pelicoris, and Alonsos, a family interwoven with theater, film, and radio drama. Through the intimate puzzle piece that sisters Ingrid Pelicori and Irina Alonso piece together, the film rescues an essential legacy of Argentine cultural heritage and invites us to immerse ourselves in the golden decades of the 1940s through the 1970s.

The impossible dream

2025

Cine de pueblo, una historia itinerante poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cine de pueblo, una historia itinerante

2015

Valentina poster
7.5

A young millionaire meets a mechanic who has invented a carburetor as a result of a breakdown in her car.

Valentina

1950

Soy lo que quise ser poster
6.5

Biographical documentary that traces the life of José Martínez Suárez, unconditional lover of cinema, president of the most important Film Festival of the continent. A lucid protagonist of his life and times.

Soy lo que quise ser

2018

Nadie inquietó más poster
7.3

A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Spanish by birth, Argentinean by adoption, Narciso Ibañez Menta (1912-2004), spiritual disciple of Lon Chaney, the new man of a thousand faces, master of horror, star of Argentinean theater, cinema and television for decades.

Nadie inquietó más

2008

El cine a través de la música poster
NR

Tribute documentary on the relationship between music and image in the cinema, as a constitutive part of it, with great musical moments in Argentine films together with the words of those who compose and direct.

El cine a través de la música

2019

I Don't Know What Your Eyes Have Done to Me poster
7.0

Argentinean singer and tango legend Ada Falcón disappeared without a trace in 1942 at the height of her career. This is the story of how she was located sixty years later, living in an unexpected way, in an unexpected place.

I Don't Know What Your Eyes Have Done to Me

2003

The Generation of ‘60s. The Unknown Friendship poster
NR

The differences of origin and poetics between José Martínez Suárez and Manuel Antin, representatives of the cinema of the ‘60s’ Generation, are proof of the heterogeneity of the period and, at the same time, share the creation of a renovating and personal aesthetic that observes reality with a critical eye.

The Generation of ‘60s. The Unknown Friendship

2024

Behind the camera

El desafío poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El desafío

1978

El crack poster
6.2

Osvaldo, a football player on the rise, begins to be targeted by private interests who want to elevate him to the status of a sports star.

El crack

1960

El crack poster
6.2

Osvaldo, a football player on the rise, begins to be targeted by private interests who want to elevate him to the status of a sports star.

El crack

1960

Eloy poster
8.0

The film is about Eloy, a Chilean bandit and companion of Joaquín Murieta, who is wanted by the justice system on the border with Argentina. Although an escape seems impossible, in desperation he flees without a fixed destination.

Eloy

1969

Buenos días, Buenos Aires poster
NR

Documentary that registers the awakening of the city and its daily early movement.

Buenos días, Buenos Aires

1966

El hombre de la víbora poster
NR

A car salesman recounts his professional journey, from a clumsy beginning marked by invasive treatment and failed demonstrations to a successful fluency. This film Martínez Suárez made on commission for the Argentine automobile factory IKA.

El hombre de la víbora

1965

El hombre de la víbora poster
NR

A car salesman recounts his professional journey, from a clumsy beginning marked by invasive treatment and failed demonstrations to a successful fluency. This film Martínez Suárez made on commission for the Argentine automobile factory IKA.

El hombre de la víbora

1965

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

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

La Mary poster
5.3

A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.

La Mary

1974

Cómo seducir a una mujer poster
10.0

A shy young man has trouble relating to women and asks an extravagant relationship counselor for help.

Cómo seducir a una mujer

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

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

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

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

Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic poster
7.6

Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.

Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic

1976

Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic poster
7.6

Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.

Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic

1976

Viaje de una noche de verano poster
8.0

A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.

Viaje de una noche de verano

1965