Juan Minujín

Acting

Juan Minujín

Born 1975-05-20 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Juan Minujín (Buenos Aires, born May 20, 1975) is an Argentine theatre, film, and television actor. He trained as an actor with Cristina Banegas, Julio Chávez, Alberto Ure, Pompeyo Audivert and Guillermo Angelelli. In 1996 he began to work in theatre. Between 1997 and 1998 he moved to London, where he completed his training as an actor. From 2000 he does it as a guest actor with the group El Descueve, with which he participates in tours in Latin America and Europe.

Acting credits

Focus poster
6.9

Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

Focus

2015

The Two Popes poster
7.5

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

The Two Popes

2019

Sundays poster
7.1

17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt, this unexpected vocation is the manifestation of a deeper problem.

Sundays

2025

The Wrath of God poster
6.3

Convinced the tragic deaths of her loved ones were orchestrated by a famous novelist she worked for, Luciana turns to a journalist to expose her truth.

The Wrath of God

2022

Zama poster
6.6

In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.

Zama

2017

Without Blood poster
6.2

In a frontier landscape at the beginning of the 20th century, gunmen descend on a remote farmhouse, determined to exact revenge. Their target, a doctor — alone with his son and daughter — tries desperately to protect his children. Inevitably, bullets fly.

Without Blood

2025

I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me poster
6.4

A writer's career — and entire life — suddenly goes off script when he falls prey to a dangerous web of criminals right before moving to Barcelona.

I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me

2023

2 + 2 poster
6.5

When the fun of double dating begins to grow old, Richard and Bettina share a dirty little secret with their friends Diego and Emilia: They live a double life as swingers, and would love to share this practice with them.

2 + 2

2012

Extraordinary Stories poster
7.7

X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore.

Extraordinary Stories

2008

Zenitram poster
5.9

Set in a decaying Buenos Aires, a poor Argentine (Minujin) wrestles with his newly discovered superpowers.

Zenitram

2010

Bandido poster
5.8

Roberto Benítez, "Bandido", is a popular singer who’s about to leave his career behind. What do you do with your dreams when dissatisfaction has settled in every bone? A random event leads the protagonist to reunite with old friends and gives his existence and unexpected breath of life.

Bandido

2021

Recreo poster
6.2

Three couples with their children. A long weekend in the countryside. A reunion between friends that starts with enjoyment and laughter becomes a cohabitation that will bring up old conflicts, hidden secrets, and unexpected encounters.

Recreo

2018

Adult poster
6.0

Fourteen-year-old Antonio was living with his father when suddenly one day his father didn't come home and didn't respond to his messages or phone calls. Antonio learns from a neighbor that his father has been hospitalized due to a motorcycle accident, and since then he has had to cope with life on his own; in addition to studying for schoolwork and feeding himself, he also has to spend money on fixing his car....... It is not easy to get through to the day when his father is released from the hospital, and Antonio discovers that his father has gone to the police station, and it turns out that the car accident has another hidden agenda...

Adult

2025

Los últimos románticos poster
3.7

Two great friends who live in a small coastal town face an opportunity that will change their lives forever.

Los últimos románticos

2019

Sofacama poster
7.2

A separated yet self-sufficient craftswoman puts up a friend who is also separating. The hostess has three teenage children, and the arrival of her guest will interfere with their domestic harmony, apart from slowly but surely causing a hormonal surge in one of the boys.

Sofacama

2006

Exomologesis poster
7.0

In Exomologesis, the filmmaker and poet César González set out to show the consequences of a society governed by obedience and the consequences of this in times of neoliberalism. Unlike his previous films, in color and with many scenes shot outdoors, this is a black and white film that takes place in a two-room apartment, which allows us to see that an office can also be a closed institution.

Exomologesis

2016

The Marriage App poster
6.0

Tangled in a troubled marriage, a frustrated couple finds hope in a watch-based app that rewards good deeds — until unhealthy obsessiveness takes over.

The Marriage App

2022

The Substitute poster
5.9

Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their everyday lives. But soon, he must step out of his professional duties when Dilan, one of his students, is threatened by a local drug kingpin.

The Substitute

2022

An Unexpected Love poster
6.3

It tells the story of Marcos and Ana, who have been married for more than 25 years, but enter into an existential crisis that leads them to separate. The life of singles seems fascinating and exciting at first, but soon it also becomes monotonous for her and nightmarish for him.

An Unexpected Love

2018

The Good Intentions poster
6.3

An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.

The Good Intentions

2019

Stephanie poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Stephanie

2005

Lost Embrace poster
6.5

In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.

Lost Embrace

2004

Ni un hombre más poster
4.8

Charly was abandoned right after birth in a convent. He is not aware of who the couple who are about to arrive and dine at the inn, actually are. Karla is about to show up with a dead man and one hundred dollars in the trunk of her car.

Ni un hombre más

2012

Guacho poster
NR

A short road movie about an internal monologue. As Guacho wanders through the city, the film delves into his stream of consciousness where the young man raises existential questions about the relationship between parents and children.

Guacho

2007

Behind the camera