Álvaro Rodríguez

Acting

Álvaro Rodríguez

Born

1948-10-25 (77)

Place of birth

Sevilla, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Known for

Acting

Credits

28 titles

Álvaro Rodríguez Granada (Sevilla, Valle del Cauca, October 25, 1948) is a Colombian film and television actor.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 8 titles

The Trip 2 poster
7.0

Lucho Calvo and his family arrive to Cartagena to have a memorable familiar vacation, but in his despair to bring a perfect vacation to his family, all his plans don't go well.

The Trip 2

2012

Indigenous Malice poster
5.0

Alvaro Rodriguez, an old swindler, owes a lot of money to a dangerous moneylender. To pay off the debt, he proposes to the man, who is also his boss, to finance one of his businesses. In the end, the 'indigenous malice' wins out and he ends up cheating his boss.

Indigenous Malice

2018

Perros poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Perros

2016

La Caleta poster
NR

Carlos is a millionaire who gets involved in drug trafficking in his job in order to make even more money. Gilderman, a homeless person, ends by coincidence finding the stash where Carlos hides his cash. This finding, beyond the fortune of Gilderman, leads to get into a lot of trouble.

La Caleta

2018

Animalario poster
NR

Dr. EGO's abominable genetic experiments have broken the tranquility of Animalario, a city now on the verge of chaos. GATTO, an experienced detective has not ceased in his quest to stop EGO and restore order, but this time, a deadly HIENA will do everything in her power to stand in his way.

Animalario

2012

Sofia and the Stubborn Man poster
5.9

An old lady lives in a quiet village in the Andes and has never seen the sea. For many years her husband has promised to take her to the Caribbean Sea, but the plans are always thwarted for different reasons.

Sofia and the Stubborn Man

2012

The Trip poster
7.1

Alex Peinado decides to takes his family on a road trip to Cartagena after 11 years of continuous work. But he also has a secret plan at the same time.

The Trip

2010

All Your Dead Ones poster
6.9

Salvador is a peasant who one day wakes up as usual to work on his land but instead finds a pile of corpses in the middle of his crops. He runs to notify the authorities but is Sunday and Election Day so the dead ones end up being a nuisance that nobody wants to deal with.

All Your Dead Ones

2011

2000s · 9 titles

Visitas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Visitas

2006

Dog Eat Dog poster
6.6

In the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.

Dog Eat Dog

2008

The History of the Pink Trunk poster
6.0

In 1945, in the train station of Bogota, Colombia, a dead girl is found in a trunk. The case is assigned to Detective Mariano Corzo, he has to deal with an inquisitive journalist Hipólito Mosquera while trying to solve the mysterious case. Nobody knows who the girl is, or who put her in the trunk. The things turn bad when Mosquera publish the news in the local newspaper. With the help of a bartender Martina Quijano, Corzo will find an answer for the question: Who killed the girl and why?

The History of the Pink Trunk

2005

Looking for you poster
7.0

William, a five-year-old boy, loses his innocence while helping his uncle Gustavo organize an orchestra with several friends.

Looking for you

2002

The Passion of Gabriel poster
7.5

In a small hamlet in the Colombian mountains, a newly appointed padre Father Gabriel finds himself torn between his spiritual calling and his desires for a young woman named Silvia, while also trying to protect his congregation from being drawn into the increasingly violent battles between the government military and rebel forces that surround the town.

The Passion of Gabriel

2009

Dios los Junta y Ellos se Separan poster
4.2

A mid-class Colombian family get into chaos when it's found out that the "Lord of the house", Benjamín, has been cheating on his wife for 20 years and has another son.

Dios los Junta y Ellos se Separan

2006

Bolivar Is Me poster
6.4

A soap opera actor wants to finish Bolivar's dream of a "Great Colombia": a super-state of 5 Latin-American countries to stop institutional chaos, lack of opportunity and ignite the rebuilding of the region after 160 years of internal war.

Bolivar Is Me

2002

The Deal poster
9.0

Based on a true story of a British television crew that travelled to Colombia to film a fake documentary about drug trafficking. In one scene, shot in the director’s hotel room, an actor played the part of a character whom the filmmakers passed off as Cali Cartel’s Number Three. They claimed they had risked their lives to get the interview. One sequence also shows a man pretending to swallow capsules of heroine and transporting them to London in his stomach. This phoney TV documentary is an international smash hit. When a London daily discovers that the whole thing is a hoax, a team of British journalists are sent out to Colombia to cover the story. Their report unleashes a scandal that shakes the very foundations of television in the UK.

The Deal

2005

Looking for Miguel poster
7.2

A wealthy Columbian politician blinded by his own privilege is forced to walk a mile in the shoes of the people he despises most after falling victim to a violent attack and subsequently losing his memory. Miguel was a man of fine stock, a politician who has led a charmed life since the day he was born. But Miguel has no appreciation for his lot in life, and scoffs at the everyday people who must struggle just to survive. One day, after being assaulted on the street and left for dead, Miguel awakens with no memory of the past. He has forgotten his distain for the dumpster divers, petty thieves, and wandering transients who crowd the city streets, and now their warmth and solidarity is the only thing keeping him alive. As Miguel forges a friendship with a pious but promiscuous drag queen, the fragments of the past gradually become illuminated in his mind, prompting him on a desperate quest to reclaim his identity and atone for the sins of his past.

Looking for Miguel

2007

1990s · 4 titles

Breath of Life poster
6.6

It begins with the tragedy of Armero, during the course investigates the murder of a beautiful woman and on his way some people die in the end a killing and a cemetery. Emerson Roque Fierro, former policeman and private investigator shadowing, investigates the murder of "Golondrina", a beautiful young woman, occurred in a seedy hotel in downtown Bogota. Without knowing who it is, begins to understand their relationships with a motley gallery of men: a corrupt politician, connected to drug trafficking and paramilitary groups, a bullfighter cunning and good for nothing, a boxer fallen on hard times with a force so stupid as rare Lotero intellect and an insightful blind. And in the midst of this, the dark threads entangling power to everyone, and especially the poor Fierro.

Breath of Life

1999

The People at Universal poster
7.0

Former Sergeant Diogenes Hernandez owns the Universal, a precarious detective agency private in the Centre of Bogotá, which is based in the same apartment where he and his wife Fabiola inhabit. His nephew, Clemente Fernández, who works at the Agency, maintains a romance with Fabiola, without trying to hurt the feelings of his uncle, but driven by the need to alleviate their empty urban and anonymous man.

The People at Universal

1991

Time Out poster
6.0

The whimsical and joyous parade of ridiculous events satirize the war that rages in Colombia right now and exposes the real spirit of those who inhabit such a beautiful country.

Time Out

1998

Amar y Vivir poster
7.5

Irene, a young singer who works at the fruit market, and Joaquín, a poor and hungry mechanic new in town, fell in love and struggle against violence in cold Bogotá.

Amar y Vivir

1990

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