Juan Leyrado

Acting

Juan Leyrado

Born 1952-08-18 · Barracas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Juan Leyrado es un actor argentino de cine, teatro y televisión que nació en Buenos Aires, Argentina, el 18 de agosto de 1952) y ha desarrollado una intensa carrera profesional.

Acting credits

Un Fueguito: La historia de César Milstein poster
NR

It narrates the life of the last argentine who won the Nobel Prize, César Milstein. Perfect combination of science and adventure. This documentary traces through memories, anecdotes and descriptions, , how a scientist feels and how an adventurer thinks. An intensive course that shows his life from childhood in a family in southern Argentina, to his adult life in Cambridge (England) and his adventures in the mountains, islands and pyramids. Since 1963, their questions and discoveries have produced countless benefits, resulting in applications in medicine, biology and immunology, are major advances in basic scientific knowledge. César Milstein, a great scientist, whom colleagues describe him as a good fellow, hardworking and tenacious. His greater certainty was that, without adventure, would not science.

Un Fueguito: La historia de César Milstein

2010

Camila poster
7.2

In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.

Camila

1984

Wake Up Love poster
5.4

Ernesto is a journalist in his 40's who comes from a generation which encountered much political persecution and exile; between the memories and unhealed wounds of his past, stands Ernesto. When his good friend Ricardo calls him one day and proposes to get together after 25 years, they decide to gather all the members of the “old gang” in order to revive those old feelings the best way they know how, through some good old rock n' roll. Amongst one of Ernesto's encounters is Ana, an old love who will bring a twisting unexpected turn into his life. The old gang is comprised of Ricardo's depressive, hypochondriac wife Ana and her socially-conscious former lover Ernesto, a journalist who left Ana years ago to pursue his political ideologies in socialist Cuba.

Wake Up Love

1996

The Dark Side of the Heart poster
7.3

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?

The Dark Side of the Heart

1992

Condemned to Hell poster
4.4

Silvia is incarcerated in a corrupt women prison and forced to participate in drug distribution. When she refuses she is punished and her sister murdered. She will try to get free and get her revenge.

Condemned to Hell

1984

Chiquititas: Rincón de Luz poster
7.8

When Belén is hired as a cook at a gloomy orphanage, she discovers a group of children living under the cruel rule of its corrupt director and his ruthless assistant. Determined to restore hope and happiness to their lives, Belén joins forces with the children to expose the truth, overcome their oppressors, and build the loving family they have always dreamed of.

Chiquititas: Rincón de Luz

2001

The Good Destiny poster
7.0

It tells the story of a people who stood on the side of the freedom, civilization and progress, but also some who are on the side of unbridled capitalism and race. However, they is still a possibilities of utopia and solidarity.

The Good Destiny

2006

The Hush poster
6.2

Argentina, 1978. On the occasion of the World Cup, two Italian journalists travel to the South American country to provide a report on the event: instead, they will learn about the tragedy of Plaza de Mayo.

The Hush

2009

Paco Urondo, la palabra justa poster
9.0

The life of Francisco "Paco" Urondo, writer, poet, journalist and political activist.

Paco Urondo, la palabra justa

2005

Maradona, the Hand of God poster
5.8

Dramatizing of the many shocking highs and lows of Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona, an extraordinary athlete and arguably the greatest player in the history of the sport.

Maradona, the Hand of God

2007

Blessed by Fire poster
7.1

A war veteran, haunted by the horrors of war and the experiences he shared with fellow soldiers drafted to the battlefront as an 18-year-old conscript, is forced to confront the memories of his past after a former comrade attempts suicide. 20 years after the war, he finally attempts to reconnect with his past to begin to heal his old wounds.

Blessed by Fire

2005

Matar a Videla poster
NR

Julian plans to leave a legacy to society. The murder of genocidal dictator Jorge Rafael Videla. Result of a violent society, making a decision violent, Julian run huge risks, but the key is to not become the same monster that wants to kill.

Matar a Videla

2010

Vivir mata poster
9.0

A diplomat is sent to Wallachia late nineteenth century. There he meets a young princess. Back in Buenos Aires, and a century later and turned into a vampire, he meets another woman.

Vivir mata

1991

Mar de amores poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mar de amores

1998

El día que me amen poster
5.9

Mental illness and the power of friendship. Mara and Joaquín were childhood friends, next-door neighbors. They are now in their early 30s. She's returned to Acassuno after eight years abroad, ostensibly to audition for a part in a musical. Joaquín has been a recluse in his parents' house, perhaps because Mara left without a word years before. Mara seeks to renew the friendship, which may be good f

El día que me amen

2003

Murder in The Senate poster
5.2

Historical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England.

Murder in The Senate

1984

Murder in The Senate poster
5.2

Historical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England.

Murder in The Senate

1984

The Red Star poster
6.0

The investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.

The Red Star

2021

A Friend's Revenge poster
8.0

Ariel Llanarte, writer and journalist forced to live abroad, decides to return to the country. He has the purpose of finding out the reason why his best friend disappeared.

A Friend's Revenge

1987

From the Abyss poster
8.3

At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a single mother tells the story of how alcoholism destroyed her personal and professional life.

From the Abyss

1980

Memorias y olvidos poster
9.0

Two journalists start a documentary with the question ¿What happened to Argentina?

Memorias y olvidos

1987

A Giraffe on the Balcony poster
7.5

Lidia Muñoz is a retiree who has been living in Barcelona since 1978. Lidia was forced to exile from Argentina after the military dictatorship that ruled the country at that time tried to kidnap her and make her disappear. Pregnant with her only daughter, Valeria, she managed to escape to Spain. Forty years later, she receives a summons from the Argentine Ministry of Justice to testify in the trial for the kidnapping and disappearance of Oscar Medina, her boyfriend at the time and Valeria's father.

A Giraffe on the Balcony

2024

Antigua vida mía poster
4.5

An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua.

Antigua vida mía

2001

The Day You Love Me poster
7.0

Two communist lovers prepare to move to the Ukraine and work on a collective farm. Meanwhile, a celebrated pop singer visits their small town, and secrets are revealed.

The Day You Love Me

1986