Juan Carlos Ricci

Acting

Juan Carlos Ricci

Carcarañá, Santa Fe, Argentina

He had an extensive career in film, theater and television, which found its peak of recognition with his role in Damien Szifron's cult series The Pretenders. He was also a principal and a school teacher.

Acting credits

Extrañas Salvajes poster
4.3

An anthropologist arrives on an island inhabited by two tribes, one dark-haired and the other blonde, and begins to form a close relationship with a young woman from the latter group. One of the few co-productions between Argentina and Sweden, this is an erotic comedy featuring actors from both countries.

Extrañas Salvajes

1988

Muerte dudosa poster
NR

A young businessman, owner of a major publishing house, is found shot to the head. Everything suggests a murder, since he was doing a journalistic investigation about a shady business.

Muerte dudosa

1994

Román poster
1.0

An unexpected sexual awakening and the concealment of an unavoidable desire constitute the main motor of Román, a tale about self-discovery in which, without even noticing it, a quiet real estate agent starts feeling attracted to another man, twenty years younger than he is.

Román

2020

El vuelo del moscardón poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El vuelo del moscardón

2025

Samy and Me poster
6.6

Things begin to fall apart for Samy (Ricardo Darín), a longtime television writer on the brink of turning 40, when his midlife crisis starts interfering with his career. Suddenly, his scripts just aren't that funny, and he's considering leaving showbiz altogether. Can a pretty new actress (Angie Cepeda) help him turn his life around? Eduardo Milewicz directs this Spanish-language romantic comedy.

Samy and Me

2002

Héroes y demonios poster
7.0

Gabriel and Sergio meet at the psychiatric hospital where they are interned. Gabriel is a rebellious and violent young man marginalized by society. Sergio is a programmer and systems analyst and has an enviable attitude to fight against life. Soon the promise of fighting against injustice unites them.

Héroes y demonios

1999

The Extermineitors 2: The Dragon Vengance poster
6.5

The Dragon is in prison ready to escape and take revenge on those who stopped. This will help a mafia organization that moves in the world of illegal betting related to martial arts fights worldwide and also linked to drug trafficking. In prison, the Dragon is a sinister character, McClain (Randolph McClain), an American imprisoned for killing their opponents. But once released sent to compete in the World Martial Arts Championship with Hector Echavarria, Argentine and world champion wrestler.

The Extermineitors 2: The Dragon Vengance

1990

A Year Without Love poster
6.7

A writer dying of AIDS searches for a cure and human interaction in the hospitals and sex clubs of Buenos Aires.

A Year Without Love

2005

Las Lobas poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Las Lobas

1986

Perros de la noche poster
8.0

A young man forces his sister to work as a prostitute to earn enough money to survive.

Perros de la noche

1986

Thanks for the Fire poster
5.3

The failure of Budiño Ramon, who plans first murder of his father and is recognized after unable to carry it out, is due largely to the general attitude of a society that tolerates no dramatic gestures. However, the inadequacies of radical class, beliefs, feelings, profession and memory also plays a leading role in the drama.

Thanks for the Fire

1984

High Heels poster
5.4

A prostitute falls in love with a painter with whom she believes she can save her life.

High Heels

1985

La muerte de Sebastián Arache y su pobre entierro poster
7.3

A legend of curses and death in an austere and dry desert where rain will not fall. The story focuses on the experiences and misery of an indigenous man who meets his death in the middle of the film. The dead time and the morosity of the story operate as the stylistic foundation of this indispensable national film that was shot in Patquía, La Rioja.

La muerte de Sebastián Arache y su pobre entierro

1974

Los superagentes contra todos poster
9.0

The Aquarius secret service super agents face a mob boss.

Los superagentes contra todos

1980