Federico Luppi

Acting

Federico Luppi

Born — Died

1936-02-23 — 2017-10-20

Place of birth

Ramallo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

Federico José Luppi (February 23, 1936 - October 20, 2017) was a renowned first Argentine actor with an extensive career in film and television.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

2000s · 16 titles

Pan's Labyrinth poster
7.8

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

Pan's Labyrinth

2006

The Devil's Backbone poster
7.3

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

The Devil's Backbone

2001

Fermat's Room poster
6.6

Four mathematicians are imprisoned in a shrinking room; with the walls closing in, they must try anything to escape this fatal puzzle.

Fermat's Room

2007

Machuca poster
7.7

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

Machuca

2004

Common Ground poster
7.8

In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.

Common Ground

2002

Swindled poster
6.2

In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of success, they're joined by Federico, the best, a true artist. Things go well until Pilar, a woman from Federico's past, re-enters his life with a proposal to con a golden goose - a swindle that will put them all on easy street. A double-cross may be in the cards. The flashback over, can Ernesto hold his own in the present?

Swindled

2004

The Last Train poster
6.9

Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the form of a locomotive nicknamed the "33"

The Last Train

2002

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

Que es un Fantasma?: The Making of 'The Devil's Backbone' poster
5.8

The making of “The Devil’s Backbone” by Guillermo del Toro.

Que es un Fantasma?: The Making of 'The Devil's Backbone'

2004

Que parezca un accidente poster
5.0

A women is planning to kill her son-in-law after she finds out that he is unfaithful to her daughter.

Que parezca un accidente

2008

No artwork available
NR

The elaborate sets of The Devil's Backbone and gathers several interviews with Guilermo Del Toro, Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, and Federico Luppi, amongst others

The Devil's Backbone: Behind the Scenes

2001

Moon in a Bottle poster
5.0

Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who doesn't want to fall in love; she gets to know Pascal, the owner of the bar and a cabaret artist who is nervously waiting for the arrival of his old friends and lovers Irene and Kurt. Or she leaves with Don José another regular who is tormented by a letter he doesn't dare to open. They all want to change their lives. The moment has come to be brave and try to do the impossible. Can they put the moon in a bottle..?

Moon in a Bottle

2007

Cheese Head poster
5.9

It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 1993. Within the club, the four define themselves as outsiders, since they do not participate in the sports activities that are practiced there, and therefore do not fit into the logic that governs the place, being permanently bothered and mocked by the rest of the children of their age.

Cheese Head

2006

Elsa & Fred poster
7.7

When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.

Elsa & Fred

2005

The Stone Raft poster
5.3

An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.

The Stone Raft

2002

Divertimento poster
9.5

A rivalry between two actors proves to have dangerous consequences in this drama from Spain. Daniel (Federico Luppi) is the star of a popular television series who is interested in more prestigious work. and longs to appear on the legitimate stage. Daniel is lobbying for the leading role in Divertimento, a well-known play that made a star of leading man Bernardo Gabler (Francisco Rabal). When Daniel pays a visit to the theater where the play is being staged, he discovers to his surprise that Bernardo is waiting for him. Bernardo is not at all eager to turn over his signature role to another actor and insists on putting Daniel through a punishing audition, which turns out to be the least of Daniel's problems when Bernardo forces him to help hide a corpse, implicating him in a murder Bernardo claims to have committed.

Divertimento

2000

1990s · 14 titles

Cronos poster
6.7

Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.

Cronos

1993

Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead poster
7.0

Alcoholic prostitute Gloria is in the middle of a business deal with gangsters when a fatal confrontation occurs. She flees Mexico City, returning to her native Madrid, where she's reunited with her comatose husband and his mother, while hitman Eduardo is pursuing her to retrieve information.

Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead

1995

Martin (Hache) poster
7.5

After having a nearly fatal drug overdose, 19-year-old Argentine Martin is sent to Madrid, where his film director father lives with his new, younger lover, Alicia, and his bisexual actor friend, Dante.

Martin (Hache)

1997

A Place in the World poster
7.5

Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.

A Place in the World

1992

Extasis poster
5.8

Rober, Max and Ona, three young people living on the fringes of society, decide to commit a risky robbery.

Extasis

1996

My dear Tom Mix poster
5.6

Joaquina is aging in a small Mexican village in the 1920s. Her life is boring and she spends her days dreaming of her hero, cowboy Tom Mix. Everything Joaquina wants is to meet him. Her life changes when a bunch of bandits appears nearby. It's time for Tom Mix to stop the thieves and fulfill Joaquina's dreams of adventure.

My dear Tom Mix

1992

Under Flag poster
5.7

Argentina: 1969: Major Molina has been sent to a military outpost in southern Patagonia to investigate the brutal murder of soldier Lito. The harsh weather conditions of Patagonia reflect the strict and cruel way in which the Colonel Hellman and his officers direct the garrison. Gradually comes to light that Lito was drugged by a fellow, Reppeto, and therefore was unable to participate in an unexpected military exercise at night. For his "disobedience", Lito was beaten to death. Molina seeks justice, aided by the deceased's family and the village priest. However, he is forced to abandon the case when the military forces take the power in Buenos Aires. Years later, with democracy finally restored in Argentina, the case will be reopened causing the abolition of military service and the military justice system.

Under Flag

1997

Wiped-Out Footprints poster
6.5

Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns for one last trip. There he meets widow Virginia, an old love, and begins to hope that he might reignite the flame between them. As old secrets are revealed, the villagers must come to terms with their imminent loss and the drowning of their home.

Wiped-Out Footprints

1999

Men with Guns poster
6.3

Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.

Men with Guns

1998

I Don't Owe 100 Times poster
6.4

A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.

I Don't Owe 100 Times

1990

Warriors and Prisoners poster
3.7

Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.

Warriors and Prisoners

1990

Wild Horses poster
6.6

Jose is an elderly rebel who, after being refused a withdrawal at a bank, returns with a gun and threatens to shoot himself if he doesn't get his cash. Pedro, a young teller, is disillusioned with his life and sees Jose's stunt as a way out when he pretends to be taken hostage, leaving the bank with the old man and a hefty amount of money. The unlikely duo become friends, picking up tough-girl Ana along the way, while avoiding the police.

Wild Horses

1995

Autumn Sun poster
7.4

Clara Goldstein is a lovely, middle-aged Jewish woman who, because of an impending visit from her American brother, is forced to create a contrived relationship with a man of her own faith. She places an ad in a personals column and meets Raul, a well-spoken, handsome and charming man whom she soon discovers is a Gentile and does not fulfill her reason for placing the ad. Having no alternative, Clara proceeds to instruct Raul with an intensive course in Judaism. Their journey is both humorous and captivating, but not without pitfalls. These two mature people risk a last chance at a meaningful relationship in their lives.

Autumn Sun

1996

Killing Grandpa poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Killing Grandpa

1993

1980s · 11 titles

The Stranger poster
6.2

Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.

The Stranger

1987

Sweet Money poster
6.9

A man meets a former military service buddy who offers him a good deal. Money starts pouring in, but things change from one day to the next.

Sweet Money

1982

Funny Dirty Little War poster
6.7

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.

Funny Dirty Little War

1983

Cocaine Wars poster
4.5

Miami DEA agent Cliff Adams is in South America working undercover for Gonzalo Reyes, the biggest cocaine exporter in South America. Cliff's fiancée, Janet Meade, is a reporter doing a story about Reyes. Reyes orders Cliff to kill Marcelo Villalba, who is running for his countries position as president, but Cliff can't bring himself to do it, because his assignment from the DEA is to work against Reyes. Reyes is afraid Villalba will put him out of business, and is afraid that Janet's story will do the same thing, so Reyes sends someone else after Villalba, and then Reyes has Janet kidnapped, and Cliff is the only one who can keep Reyes' plans from succeeding.

Cocaine Wars

1985

Les longs manteaux poster
5.2

A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.

Les longs manteaux

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Después del último tren

1989

The Arrangement poster
7.1

Luis is a righteous man who begins a struggle and a moral debate with his family, neighbors and close friends when a corrupt municipal official offers a very convenient "arrangement".

The Arrangement

1983

The Messes of Susana poster
9.0

When a marriage separates, a teenage girl chooses to move in with her father.

The Messes of Susana

1986

El año del conejo poster
8.0

Upon turning 55, Pepe, a bank manager, feels bored with his life. He abandons his family, quits his job, takes a woman younger than him as a lover, and becomes associated with a moneylender.

El año del conejo

1987

Time for Revenge poster
7.5

Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.

Time for Revenge

1981

Last Days of the Victim poster
7.4

Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests.

Last Days of the Victim

1982

1970s · 9 titles

The flower of the mafia poster
7.0

An influential mob boss and a cabaret star team up to increase his power.

The flower of the mafia

1974

Crónica de una señora poster
6.0

Following the death of a close friend, a woman caught in an unhappy marriage looks for ways to improve her life.

Crónica de una señora

1971

Paula contra la mitad más uno poster
7.3

Shortly before a match against River Plate, members of the Boca Juniors football team are kidnapped.

Paula contra la mitad más uno

1971

Pasión dominguera poster
9.0

A waiter, a notary, a policeman and some gravediggers leave everything to go and watch their favorite football team play.

Pasión dominguera

1970

Los herederos poster
9.0

A once prominent family fight each other over the inheritance of a run down mansion. Motivated by individual greed, they turn on one another until they unite to subdue a stranger prone to violence. Outwardly the family retains respectability and their name is not sullied, but irreparable harm is done to the unit and mutual trust is shattered in the wake of the events that transpire.

Los herederos

1970

I Did Kill Facundo poster
8.5

The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.

I Did Kill Facundo

1975

A Woman... poster
10.0

After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.

A Woman...

1975

Rebellion in Patagonia poster
7.6

In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.

Rebellion in Patagonia

1974

Mosaico (La vida de una modelo) poster
6.1

The life of an advertising model, since she is discovered by a producer, until she decides to move away from the advertising environment.

Mosaico (La vida de una modelo)

1970

1960s · 4 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera