
Acting
Mario Luciani
Born 1939-05-22 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Acting credits
Gerónima was a real "Mapuche" Indian woman that lived in Argentinian Patagonia. She lived with her four sons in a poor little house in the dry lands her family had owned for generations. In 1976, during the military dictatorial government that disappeared 30.000 people, she and her four sons were visited by social workers. Worried about Geronima's poor conditions of existence, including health, they took the whole family to the hospital "to help them", with unexpected tragic consequences. The film that reconstruct Geronima's story is based in a interview realized by a physician while she was at the hospital. The main actress, Luisa Calcumil is also a real "Mapuche" woman, as well as Aimé Painé, the singer that interprets the authentic "Mapuche" songs the film includes.
Gerónima
1986
8.5The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.
I Did Kill Facundo
1975
5.6The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", a real-life Argentine gangster in the '30s.
Kid Head
1975
9.0Employees of an office use for love dating the apartment of a single co-worker.
El bulín
1969
8.0The film depicts an eccentric Argentine family consisting of an elderly woman, her son, and the maid. Their relationships with each other and the outside world are closely linked to the dictatorship that grips the country they live in.
Los enemigos
1983
4.0An old man named Geppetto creates a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life
Pinocchio
1986
10.0A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals.
Alone
1976
5.9A married woman with a traumatic past embarks on an affair with a younger married man.
Momentos
1981
6.9Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.
Made in Argentina
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Queridas Amigas
1980
7.0Two men, a woman, a chimpanzee and a talking horse travel around Argentina to put together a movie.
Cantaniño cuenta un cuento
1979
6.9To 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.
El gordo de América
1976
10.0In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
Il mago per forza
1951
8.0Looking for news of his ex-guerrilla sons, a man agrees to collaborate with his restaurant in a network of drug dealers.
Los tigres de la memoria
1984
10.0Toto is a scrap metal dealer who became rich by a stroke of luck. Having fallen in love with a woman from a higher social class, he decides to take etiquette classes so he can get closer to her.
Toto Paniagua (rey de la chatarra)
1980
5.8Set in 1930, a tormented man and his butler live in an old house in Adrogué, where pornographic films are filmed in the basement following the grandfather’s testament.
The Underground Man
1981
4.0Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.
The Bad Life
1973
7.0An influential mob boss and a cabaret star team up to increase his power.
The flower of the mafia
1974
6.0The 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
8.0A mechanic and an ad creator meet the daughter of an industrialist and her friend when they travel to Mar del Plata.
I want to kiss you sir!
1973
6.5A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
The Knight is Here
1950
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Los golpes bajos
1974
4.0Laurita, a 40-year-old woman, accepts taboos of all kinds. In the search for an identity, she goes from one man to another, from the present to the past, from fantasy to reality. However, there is a tension that grows and grows, until it culminates in a surprise. Her memory goes back to review her loves and the different stages of her life: adolescence, her transgressing role and her fight against her own prejudices.
Los amores de Laurita
1986
7.2José is a young journalist who gets fired over refusing to write an article about an American film crew, overdramatizing the situation in Argentina. When he goes looking for his old girlfriend, he runs into the crew again.
Love Is a Fat Woman
1987