Luis Medina Castro

Acting

Luis Medina Castro

Born — Died

1928-04-12 — 1995-05-22

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 14 titles

Patolandia nuclear poster
10.0

El Pato faces a gang of spies who use a stuntman to seize an atomic pile.

Patolandia nuclear

1978

Difunta Correa poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Difunta Correa

1975

Furia en la isla poster
6.8

A beautiful woman who lives on an island is constantly harassed by men.

Furia en la isla

1978

Esta es mi Argentina poster
8.0

A geographical-musical walk through Argentina. Beautiful landscapes and the popular festivals of each region.

Esta es mi Argentina

1974

Quebracho poster
7.3

Set around 1910 in the Chaco region, the film depicts the plight of quebracho woodcutters, cruelly exploited by English businessmen with the support of the authorities, local police, and a paramilitary force established by the employers themselves.

Quebracho

1974

No artwork available
10.0

Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman as his captive bride. But little of interest happens after Ceferino is born. His beatification relies partly on his "miraculous" survival after falling in a stream as a baby, but the film does not present this with any great drama, and plods through the rest of the boy's life with similar tepor. Ceferino does well in school, attracts the interest of a priest, attends a Catholic school in Buenos Aires, and studies for the priesthood in Italy, where he dies of tuberculosis after a few unconvincing coughs.

Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá

1972

El Fausto criollo poster
10.0

An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role.

El Fausto criollo

1979

Si se calla el cantor poster
9.0

A man leaves his job working in the mining industry, falls in love with a girl and succeeds as a singer.

Si se calla el cantor

1973

Amalio Reyes, un hombre poster
7.7

Some years from the life of a neighborhood tough in Buenos Aires around 1915.

Amalio Reyes, un hombre

1970

La Mary poster
5.3

A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.

La Mary

1974

El principio del fin poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El principio del fin

1970

Mal de chagas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mal de chagas

1970

The Unforgettable Gang poster
10.0

The son of a businessman neglected by his father and orphaned by a mother, goes to a group of friends. A typical gang of humble neighborhood boys, led by Chirola. The history of this gang is ruled by two magical characters, El Hada de la Esperanza represented by Liliana Rodríguez Morlino and El Pombero, a typical Formosan character-legend, played by Jaime Cohen. Through these boys the life of the social classes of the time is reflected, the innocence of the boys apart from those values ​​and what children are capable of when they decide to transform things. During the story, the typical life of the province in which it was filmed, Formosa, and the daily life of the neighborhoods of the capital city that used to be a commercial port with Paraguay are highlighted.

The Unforgettable Gang

1972

Nosotros los monos poster
10.0

Following the life of Pampas boxer Mario Paladino, who died in the ring, this documentary delves into boxing as a job opportunity for men from the interior of the country.

Nosotros los monos

1971

1960s · 16 titles

That Forward Center Dies at Dawn poster
6.5

Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.

That Forward Center Dies at Dawn

1961

Los inconstantes poster
6.5

Stories about a group of young people who spend a week at a coastal resort.

Los inconstantes

1963

El hombre de la víbora poster
NR

A car salesman recounts his professional journey, from a clumsy beginning marked by invasive treatment and failed demonstrations to a successful fluency. This film Martínez Suárez made on commission for the Argentine automobile factory IKA.

El hombre de la víbora

1965

Maternidad sin hombres poster
8.0

The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.

Maternidad sin hombres

1968

Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes poster
7.5

A young man loses a hand after being attacked by a gang. A police inspector will make sure to find them and bring justice, whatever it takes.

Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes

1965

Viaje de una noche de verano poster
8.0

A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.

Viaje de una noche de verano

1965

Dar la cara poster
6.7

Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.

Dar la cara

1962

Soluna poster
7.0

A man goes to a sorcerer to hasten his reunion with a woman, and the sorcerer gives him a mask that accelerates time.

Soluna

1969

Esquiú, una luz en el sendero poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Esquiú, una luz en el sendero

1965

Los de la mesa 10 poster
7.6

The film refers to the romance between a young mechanic of humble working background and a university student from a well-to-do family of professionals who face the difficulties originated in their different social origins.

Los de la mesa 10

1960

Kuma-Ching poster
9.0

A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.

Kuma-Ching

1969

Don Segundo Sombra poster
5.8

The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.

Don Segundo Sombra

1969

La patota poster
6.1

A philosophy teacher is raped by her night school students.

La patota

1960

Three Times Ana poster
7.4

Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air," Ana is a rebellious, easy-living type among some beach bums whose sexual leanings tend to tip the scale at active promiscuity. In "The Cloud," Ana only exists in the imagination of an introverted man, who dreams of his ideal woman.

Three Times Ana

1961

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gotán

1965

Los guerrilleros poster
8.0

A group of youngsters, encouraged by their teacher, starts with guerrilla actions.

Los guerrilleros

1965

1950s · 7 titles

Blessed be you poster
8.0

María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.

Blessed be you

1956

No artwork available
8.0

The education received at home influences the future of some neighborhood boys of different economic status.

Ellos nos hicieron así

1953

Pasó en mi barrio poster
10.0

An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.

Pasó en mi barrio

1951

Luz, cámara, acción poster
6.0

Short film about the making of "El candidato".

Luz, cámara, acción

1959

No artwork available
9.0

A handsome newcomer in a village marries a local girl. A year or so later an abandoned baby is left on the couple's doorstep, a baby the man had with another woman. They decide to raise the kid along with the one they had together.

Guacho

1954

Zafra poster
6.8

A social drama centered on the miserable conditions experencied by cane cutters in Argentina's north.

Zafra

1959

El grito sagrado poster
8.5

El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.

El grito sagrado

1954