Martín Adjemián

Acting

Martín Adjemián

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Acting

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37 titles

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Film credits

2000s · 11 titles

Gallito ciego poster
8.0

Facundo is a normal and normal boy, who needs a job to survive. He has just finished high school and is in a critical situation that does not allow him to continue studying. This is how he begins to wander around the city for several days until one morning, through a classified ad, he meets Doctor Benavidez, a man of respectable appearance, who offers him a job in decent conditions. But not everything is what it seems.

Gallito ciego

2001

La Ciénaga poster
6.8

Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.

La Ciénaga

2001

The Dog Pound poster
5.6

David, has just failed his university examinations and has one year to re-write them. Ruben, his father, a pragmatic and successful businessman, has been paying for David's education, the pursuit of which he considers a waste of time. Ruben wants David to work and make himself useful and he strikes a deal with him: David can stay and study for his exams at Ruben's house in La Perrera, a coastal resort town, while he builds a house for himself. And so, a year-long adventure starts for David, an urban intellectual, in the isolated La Perrera and among its off-season residents who include nearly as many dogs as men, where the only women are either pregnant or prostitutes, and where no one wants to work and things are done out of friendship more than anything else.

The Dog Pound

2006

On Probation poster
7.5

Mariano is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support to Alfredo, a policeman depressed over his wife cheating on him. Mariano is then accidentally involved in a double homicide investigation being conducted by Alfredo.

On Probation

2005

Palermo Hollywood poster
5.3

In a country that has been broken down and corupted by poverty, Pablo and Mario are best friends and local thieves. Although they come from very different backgrounds, they help each other out by commiting petty crimes that help Pablo support his family and Mario become independent from his own. In a twist of fate, they become involved in a kidnapping that goes sour. This tragedy triggers and unmasks a series of events that changes their lives forever. Now the two friends will be tested and their lives taken to the limit.

Palermo Hollywood

2004

Inheritance poster
6.8

Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable Olinda, the 60 year-old Italian immigrant owner of the restaurant. The two develop a friendship once they discover that the reasons for their having moved to Argentina are strikingly similar.

Inheritance

2002

Flesh on Flesh poster
3.8

Documentary on Argentine actress and sex symbol Isabel Sarli, including clips from her films and interviews with her and other actors.

Flesh on Flesh

2008

Only People poster
6.5

A young doctor recently received must face the difficulties of his profession in a public hospital, proposing to make true the axiom learned in the faculty "you can not always be cured, but you must know how to care."

Only People

2000

Tesoro mío poster
3.7

Soon to turn 40, Carlos is a humble bank clerk who feels that his life is a monotonous waste of time. When Carlos begins to feel condemned forever to a life of quiet despair, he is presented with an opportunity to rip off a bank.

Tesoro mío

2000

Potestad poster
5.8

A 60 year old medic tries to reconstruct a traumatic fact that changed his life while he is in the subway: the lost of his ten years old daughter.

Potestad

2003

30/30 poster
7.0

Adaptation of the story 30/30 by Dalmiro Sáenz.

30/30

2001

1990s · 12 titles

Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes poster
7.0

A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.

Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes

1998

Moebius poster
6.2

Deep within Buenos Aires's labyrinthine subway system, a train mysteriously disappears along with it's 30 passengers. The subway officials are greatly troubled and call in topographer Daniel Pratt to help them find it. Unfortunately, the tunnels are so vast and complex, that Pratt needs his mentor Hugo Mistein to help him. Unfortunately, he too has vanished.

Moebius

1996

Facundo, la sombra del tigre poster
5.6

The film focuses on the journey of General Juan Facundo Quiroga, with a very compromised health, to the north in order to resolve the conflict between the provinces of Salta and Tucuman.

Facundo, la sombra del tigre

1995

Sotto Voce poster
6.7

Telma (Norma Pons) is concerned when her father Salerno dies of a heart attack in a movie theater while watching a film of two thugs beating another man. She believes that there is something more to it, and seeks the help of Deganis (Patricio Contreras), a forensic psychiatrist. Deganis, having found out the names of the two actors doing the beating onscreen, looks one of them up. His name is Walensky (Lito Cruz), and he is looking for Smith (Martin Adjemian), the other actor.

Sotto Voce

1996

Historias Breves I: Dónde y cómo Oliveira perdió a Achala poster
6.3

Two men of low life travel by car under a sweltering sun. They do not find the place they are looking for, lost in a remote Argentine countryside. They arrive at a workshop to ask questions and events seem to take off. The short was part of "Short Stories I" (1995).

Historias Breves I: Dónde y cómo Oliveira perdió a Achala

1995

Sleepwalker poster
6.2

In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them.

Sleepwalker

1998

24 horas (Algo está por explotar) poster
7.0

The crew of a 24-hour store live their life while dealing with a drug cartel

24 horas (Algo está por explotar)

1997

Bad Times poster
6.7

Four independent short stories but they have in common that they happen in Buenos Aires during legislative elections. A candidate for deputy, Carlos Celestini floods the city with his image and can be seen in each of the stories.

Bad Times

1998

Lola Mora poster
10.0

The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

Lola Mora

1996

Historias Breves 1 poster
7.0

The film brings together the winners of the first edition of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) annual public script competition, the grand prize of which is the budget to produce a short film. Eventually screened in national theaters, the omnibus film gave rise and recognition to a new generation of Argentine filmmakers known collectively as the New Argentine Cinema—a wave of contemporary filmmaking that began in the mid-1990s in reaction to decades of political and economic crises in the country.

Historias Breves 1

1995

Asesinato a distancia poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Asesinato a distancia

1998

The Revenge poster
9.0

Pablo Nazareno is a 26-year-old guy who works at a science laboratory in a low work. After the mysterious death of one of the employees, weird things start to happen in the laboratory, and Pablo finds out that the lab may close. The arrival of Lucía Navarro, a beautiful computing expert, makes Pablo feel that he MUST discover what is going on in the lab... but this may put him in danger. There is only one thing that can give strength to Pablo: the love he starts to feel by Lucía.

The Revenge

1999

1980s · 5 titles

Mikel's Death poster
5.3

Opening at the funeral mass for Mikel, we flashback to those that played a part in Mikel's life and death; his estranged wife, his traditional Basque mother, a female impersonator and friend to Mikel in his coming out, and even the local priest.

Mikel's Death

1984

Tú estás loco Briones poster
5.0

Faustino Briones is a hardline Falangist who, unhappy with the changes in Spain and after mounting several scandals in his work, is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Without waiting for him, he begins to interact with the nuns of the place, but especially with one, Sr. Angustias with whom he is beginning to feel things

Tú estás loco Briones

1981

Epilogue poster
5.6

For many years, Rocabruno and Ditirambo co-authored their novels, and they were both in love with the same woman; but one day they went their separate ways. Ten years later, Ditirambo visits Rocabruno with the intention of asking him to write one last novel together.

Epilogue

1984

Cuentos para una escapada poster
9.0

With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.

Cuentos para una escapada

1981

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

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