Antonella Costa

Acting

Antonella Costa

Born

1980-03-19 (46)

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Antonella Costa (born March 19, 1980 in Rome, Italy) is a film and television actress. She works in different countries including the cinema of Argentina.

Known for

Don't Look Down poster
5.7

A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.

Don't Look Down

2008

Killer Women poster
6.0

Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.

Killer Women

2005

The Motorcycle Diaries poster
7.4

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

The Motorcycle Diaries

2004

Epitaphs poster
7.3

Epitafios is a 2004 13-episode, Argentinian crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El Final Está Escrito ... The End Is Written. The series, which takes place in an unnamed South American city, was shot in Buenos Aires. The series was produced by HBO Latin America and Argentinian TV/film company Pol-Ka Producciones. It was written by Marcelo Slavich and Walter Slavich and directed by Alberto Lecchi and Jorge Nisco. Although all of the actors were Argentinian, a neutral Spanish was used instead of the local Rioplatense Spanish, avoiding colloquialisms such as the local vos in favor of the more common tú. The series debuted in Australia on SBS in May 2007 under the title If The Dead Could Speak. It premiered in Poland on Cinemax on November 6, 2008. In Germany, it premiered on November 6, 2009 on pay TV channel FOX under the title Epitafios - Tod Ist Die Antwort.

Epitaphs

2004

El hacker poster
NR

Próspero is a renowned Argentine hacker who refused to participate in the Falklands War and now manipulates networks and complex technological devices using high-level computing techniques.

El hacker

2001

Daughter of Fire poster
8.1

A foreign woman returns to her hometown with another identity. Her presence raises suspicions, but no one imagines the truth: she is the key piece of a bloody revenge. Having everyone's trust, she puts her plan into action and commits the most brutal crimes in a town that hides more secrets than it seems.

Daughter of Fire

2025

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 7 titles

Absent poster
5.9

Martín, a young student, gets injured during a swimming class. Sebastián, the PE teacher, takes him to the hospital. When they leave, he offers to drive him home, but Martín is planning to spend the night at a classmate's house, since there is no one at his own home.

Absent

2011

Inevitable poster
2.8

Fabian (Dario Grandinetti) works as a bank executive. After one of his colleagues in the bank dies, he falls into crisis. His wife, Mariela (Carolina Peleritti), is a psychologist and has Olga (Mabel Rivera) , an embittered woman who tries to take her frustration out on her, as one of her patients. Fabian will meet a famous blind author (Federico Luppi), who tries to help him. Following his advice, Fabian embarks himself on a relationship with Alicia (Antonella Costa), a young artist that he considers his inevitable love.

Inevitable

2014

Much Better Than You poster
4.5

In this urban comedy, Cristobal, a father and businessman, sees how his wife is awarded a scholarship and moves to Spain, wanting to take him and their children along with her. Humiliated by this, he disappears and wanders throughout Santiago looking for sex. After a pathetic night filled with failures, during which he is unable to forget his conflict, the time to chose shall come: either his family or his ego...

Much Better Than You

2013

Dry Martina poster
5.8

Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.

Dry Martina

2018

No artwork available
NR

A circus dwarf, imprisoned for a crime of passion, seeks a release from both his incarceration and his diminutive body while wooing a porn actress.

Sadourni's Butterflies

2013

Fermín Glorias Of Tango poster
7.5

A patient expresses himself using the lyrics and titles of tango songs as a result of a post traumatic stress disorder discovered by a psychiatrist.

Fermín Glorias Of Tango

2014

Olvídame poster
NR

Víctor Terx is a young, attractive, and mysterious man, preacher and leader of a spiritualist sect. He compulsively murders his occasional partners with cruelty. Ámbar Atlas is a young stripper at a brothelly nightclub, her beauty is unconventional and her sexuality exultant and perturbing. Christlike, she uses sex as a vehicule to her own destruction due to her inevitable death drive. Ámbar and Víctor will fall in love viscerally and passionately while they become aware of the proximity of an ineluctable danger that preys on them both. Together they will tortuously travel an esoteric underworld of mediums, witches and false shamans in the search for Ámbar's miraculous "cure".

Olvídame

2013

2000s · 18 titles

Don't Look Down poster
5.7

A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.

Don't Look Down

2008

The Motorcycle Diaries poster
7.4

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

The Motorcycle Diaries

2004

Bad Day to Go Fishing poster
6.6

Jacob van Oppen, the former strongest man on earth, and his manager Orsini, who calls himself "the Prince", make a good living by traveling around small South American towns and organizing wrestling exhibitions. Arriving in Santa Maria, they are met with uncommon enthusiasm, the local newspaper wants to sponsor the fight, helping hands placard the town with posters, and an open call is made for a worthy adversary. Ever so resourceful, Orsini knows how to find the right combatant, but fishing in Santa Maria could lead to a bigger catch than he'd hoped for.

Bad Day to Go Fishing

2009

El vestido poster
NR

Fernando and Ana meet again after a few years and relive their love story from two different angles. It is a story (or maybe two) that dives into the universe of the body, the memory of the body, the marks of love, desire, and memories. It is a story in which the "real world" is challenged by the emergence of desire.

El vestido

2009

Pernicioso vegetal poster
10.0

A policeman lifts a boy who was smoking marijuana in the street and in the patrol car they go through the streets of Buenos Aires.

Pernicioso vegetal

2002

Swim Alone poster
7.0

The film does not describe, rather it observes, in a distant manner, the world of Martin, a seventeen year old who feels he doesn’t belong anywhere, not at home, school, nor with his friends or members of his rock band. In search of some happiness, Martin takes off to the coastal town of Mar de Plata, where his older brother lives. Unglamorous, yet enchantingly addictive and refreshingly genuine, Acuña paints a confused and uncomfortable world, and makes us want revisit it over and over again.

Swim Alone

2003

Lloronas poster
NR

Two friends walk together through the city and through their moods, ignoring everything that happens around them; the universe closes for each one in her lament, in her monologue of love. In this recurrence the reason for the pain is emptied and only the trace, the desolation, remains.

Lloronas

2009

Sons And Daughters poster
7.0

We are in Argentina in 1977, a woman gives birth to twins. With the complicity of the midwife he manages to hide the child, second child. The first, a boy, is taken into custody by the regime's guards. The scene moves to the Milan of today. The young Rosa contacts Javier and tries to convince him that they are twin brothers, separated at birth. Thus, the two begin a journey to rediscover their origins and their past. A bitter reality is ready to overwhelm them ...

Sons And Daughters

2002

The Wind poster
7.1

After the funeral of his daughter Ema, Frank Osorio travels for the first time to Buenos Aires to tell his granddaughter Alina about her mother's death. But Frank has to big secrets: the first one is about the identity of Alina's father and the second one is related to a crime.

The Wind

2005

No artwork available
10.0

A film director who, due to his passion for carrying out his feature film project, is about to lose his house due to a mortgage and turns to a childhood friend who is a bank manager, who offers to cancel the debt in exchange for him vacating a house occupied by homeless people.

La sombra de las luces

2001

Cobrador: In God We Trust poster
4.1

Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.

Cobrador: In God We Trust

2007

Como un avión estrellado poster
6.6

A young man becomes obsessed with a gardening student who is about to leave for Switzerland.

Como un avión estrellado

2005

Felicitas poster
4.2

Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and fear sets them apart along more than ten years. When they are finally reunited, will they be able to overcome the pain and tragedy that haunts them?

Felicitas

2009

The Escape poster
6.3

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.

The Escape

2001

Hoy me desperté poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoy me desperté

2006

El camino poster
5.2

Manuel is a lonely young man of upper middle class who lives in Buenos Aires with his mother. Due to a fortuitous circumstance, one day he discovers that his father, whom he does not know and whom he supposes living abroad, is in the country. He decides to go and look for him and on his motorcycle starts a long way south through Patagonia.

El camino

2000

Three minutes poster
7.5

"Three minutes" is a film in the fantasy genre. It is the love story between Alex, a journalist who, forced to speak very quickly in his newscast, must take this substance that accelerates his nervous system and Ana, a young piano student who in order to become a concert pianist, needs to gain speed in her piano playing. They both end up over accelerating and finding each other in a parallel world where everything around them seems to have stopped moving. In this motionless world, they will live their great romance.

Three minutes

2008

Today and Tomorrow poster
5.4

At 24, Paula wants to be an actress, but if she doesn't find her rent money she'll be homeless in 24 hours. Paula is so desperate that she seriously contemplates becoming a prostitute.

Today and Tomorrow

2004

1990s · 2 titles

Series credits

Killer Women poster
6.0

Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.

Killer Women

2005

Epitaphs poster
7.3

Epitafios is a 2004 13-episode, Argentinian crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El Final Está Escrito ... The End Is Written. The series, which takes place in an unnamed South American city, was shot in Buenos Aires. The series was produced by HBO Latin America and Argentinian TV/film company Pol-Ka Producciones. It was written by Marcelo Slavich and Walter Slavich and directed by Alberto Lecchi and Jorge Nisco. Although all of the actors were Argentinian, a neutral Spanish was used instead of the local Rioplatense Spanish, avoiding colloquialisms such as the local vos in favor of the more common tú. The series debuted in Australia on SBS in May 2007 under the title If The Dead Could Speak. It premiered in Poland on Cinemax on November 6, 2008. In Germany, it premiered on November 6, 2009 on pay TV channel FOX under the title Epitafios - Tod Ist Die Antwort.

Epitaphs

2004

El hacker poster
NR

Próspero is a renowned Argentine hacker who refused to participate in the Falklands War and now manipulates networks and complex technological devices using high-level computing techniques.

El hacker

2001

Daughter of Fire poster
8.1

A foreign woman returns to her hometown with another identity. Her presence raises suspicions, but no one imagines the truth: she is the key piece of a bloody revenge. Having everyone's trust, she puts her plan into action and commits the most brutal crimes in a town that hides more secrets than it seems.

Daughter of Fire

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Santos y pecadores

2013

The Cleaning Lady poster
7.6

Rosa is a single mother forced to become the “cleaning lady” for the mob. Her skills to spotlessly clean any crime scene keeps the mob safe until the detectives decide to investigate the chemicals.

The Cleaning Lady

2018

Gigantes poster
NR

This series narrates the events that a series of characters experience around different spaces that have been emblematic at a certain moment in history and that are currently forgotten. It combines documentary with fiction to show the neglect produced by abandonment and how it affects the lives of the characters. Each episode deals with a different place.

Gigantes

2011

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