Juan Palomino

Acting

Juan Palomino

Born 1961-07-06 · La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Acting credits

The Corporation poster
NR

The story focuses on Felipe Mentor, an ambitious and successful entrepreneur forties. Her company, called Mentor, is ascendant, to signing an agreement with a prestigious firm. Personally, Philip is married to a beautiful and charming woman named Luz, who seems to be the perfect woman. She runs her innermost desires and shown to Felipe madly in love and happy. This is because light works for a firm called Hit Life, a company that makes the dreams and aspirations of people from becoming reality.

The Corporation

2012

Gunman poster
5.0

Pistolero is a fiction that in a certain way is an essay on violence. The story follows the criminal raid of Isidoro Mendoza and his brother Claudio in the rural Argentina during Ongania’s dictatorship, and how the violence of his criminal deeds begins to leave a mark in them. A teacher from Buenos Aires arrives to Isidoro’s life, and love is the possibility to open himself to a new life, but even as he tries, he can not escape the entropy generated by his own drives and actions.

Gunman

2019

Viaje a Tombuctú poster
3.7

Trip to Timbuktu is the story of Ana and Lucho, two teenagers who live in Peru. Their story of love, which starts in childhood, reveals the changes which took place in this country during the 80's. For them, the only way to survive in the middle of violence, poverty and lack of opportunities is through their love, a sort of refuge which has as its homeland an imaginary country called Timbuktu. Nevertheless, the reality will stand in their way and collapse their utopia.

Viaje a Tombuctú

2014

Standard poster
4.7

Five bricklayers work to construct and subsequently demolish a monument under the direction of a pseudo-architect. As they toil, the workers succumb to distractions and base desires, effectively dismantling the myths of national identity and cultural foundations.

Standard

1990

Mar.IA poster
5.5

Alina is a movie sound engineer. One day she receives an offer to do the direct sound for an erotic film featuring Maria Black, a famous star of the genre who had already retired. When Maria has a heart attack and dies in the middle of the shoot, and the producers decide not to call the police, a series of sinister and unexpected events are unleashed that will endanger everyone's lives.

Mar.IA

2023

Certeza poster
NR

On the verge of dying, wounded in the Malvinas, Martín hears his own voice coming from the future to rescue him. Thirty years later, Martín reunites with his girlfriend when he had to leave to fight in the Malvinas Islands. He wants to forget; and she needs to remember. Time is not linear, decisions from the past inevitably impact the future.

Certeza

2014

Yarará poster
NR

A film director sets out to find locations for his new film. With that goal in mind, he embarks on a journey to the northwest of Santa Fe, the area where his father filmed his debut 45 years earlier and where he intends to make the one he's currently working on.

Yarará

2015

A la deriva poster
NR

Ramón Antúnez, a sawmill laborer from the province of Misiones, is fired from his job. Overwhelmed by economic problems, he is seduced by his compadre Antonio, an experienced fisherman, to participate in a transfer of marijuana from Paraguay, across the river, to Leiva, a renowned drug trafficker in the area.

A la deriva

2012

El abismo… todavía estamos poster
NR

Argentine dictatorship, 1978. About to have a child, Ernesto moves in with his girlfriend Paloma. What he doesn't know is that the military is looking for them. When they are arrested, they are taken to a clandestine prison. Once there, Paloma dies in childbirth, and Ernesto is tortured to death. In 2010, Alejandro, Ernesto's priest brother, thinks he recognizes the couple's daughter, Natalia. After contacting his niece, she must decide whether to accept his true identity or the one imposed on her for 30 years.

El abismo… todavía estamos

2011

The Mural of Siqueiros poster
5.9

David Alfaro Siqueiros, recognized Mexican muralist, travels to Argentina in the thirties with the purpose of giving a few conferences and paint a mural of revolutionary subject matter, which faces local political rejection. The press mogul head of the newspaper Critica, Natalio Botana, personal friend to the President of the Nation Agustín P. Justo, propose Siqueiros to collaborate in the cultural supplement of the diary and paint a mural in the basement of his Villa Los Granados. Siqueiros accepts and does that his wife the poet Blanca Luz Brum meets him, his arrival to Los Granados and his romance with Botana provokes the jealousies of his powerful anarchist wife Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Siqueiros himself, which turns the Villa almost in one of the scenes of the Ejercicio Plástico, how Siqueiros named his work.

The Mural of Siqueiros

2011

Les longs manteaux poster
5.2

A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.

Les longs manteaux

1986

Contrasangre poster
7.5

Daniel, Juan Palomino is a security guard, he was once a policeman, and he would have liked to be a vigilante hero. But, far from it, his job is to take care of the buildings of others. The city will cross with Analía (Emilia Attias), a distant woman, obsessive and beautiful in a mysterious way. She avoids contact with men because she has been the victim of rape. That terrible past comes back when Julio, Esteban Meloni, a violent and obsessed man, gets out of jail. Between the three are weaving on the streets of the city a plot of passion and crime.

Contrasangre

2015

Tras los pasos de Superpocho poster
NR

Documentary that follows a group of filmmakers who investigate the existence of a Peronist superhero that Perón allegedly proposed to publish. They interview historians, graphic artists, and sociologists to reconstruct this figure, whose evidence was destroyed after the 1955 coup d'état and the persecution of Peronism.

Tras los pasos de Superpocho

2025

Three Wives poster
5.5

After being abandoned on New Year's Eve and discovering that their husbands have committed a robbery, three very different women choose to go to Argentina in search of their spouses.

Three Wives

2001

Warriors and Prisoners poster
3.7

Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.

Warriors and Prisoners

1990

Los Ángeles poster
6.0

In Los Angeles, only a few people survived the closure of the railroad. This is the story of the last residents who refused to leave the town and those who dared to seek life in the city.

Los Ángeles

2009

Night of the Pencils poster
7.0

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.

Night of the Pencils

1986

La sombra quema poster
NR

A man arrives with the obsession to recover his wife in the arid landscape of the Andes range. A pasional drama filled with violence is triggered when he discovers that she no longer expects him.

La sombra quema

2017

Paco poster
6.0

The story of Francisco, a young psychics teacher who starts consuming drugs, his mother, a well known congresswoman and Nina, the woman who will try to save him from a horrible future.

Paco

2010

Kryptonita poster
5.4

Movie adaptation of Leonardo Oyola's novel, which tells the story of the legendary DC comics superhero, Superman, if he, instead of falling in Smallville from Krypton, would have landed in the heart of Isidro Casanova, in La Matanza, deep in the west side of Buenos Aires.

Kryptonita

2015

Rita y Li poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rita y Li

2011

Miss Mary poster
6.7

A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power.

Miss Mary

1986

Madres de Mayo poster
6.0

Story of a young couple who suffered the tragic events of Argentina in the late seventies. He, because of the pregnancy of his girlfriend, decides to leave political activism, not knowing that the military are looking for him. After being arrested and taken to a clandestine detention center will be savagely tortured. His daughter Natalia will be raised by a military bourgeois family. But, eventually, the girl decides to investigate the truth about his origins and his true identity.

Madres de Mayo

2013

Diablo poster
7.2

A depressed former boxing champion gets involved in a big problem with his cousin the same day that he was about to make up with his ex-girlfriend.

Diablo

2012

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