Alejandro Agresti

Directing

Alejandro Agresti

Born 1961-06-02 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alejandro Agresti (born June 2, 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director and producer. He has become increasingly influential in the United States and directed The Lake House with top Hollywood actors Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia Alejandro Agresti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Valentin poster
7.4

Valentin, an 8-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, is surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving.

Valentin

2002

We're No Animals poster
4.3

A Hollywood actor grows tired of making the same corporate movies, so he moves to Argentina to find more experimental and meaningful work.

We're No Animals

2013

How to Survive a Broken Heart poster
10.0

D.C. has been abandoned by his girlfriend Nola, wants to go to Hollywood and participates in 'chicken races' out of desperation and lack of money; a perilous event in which one travels a certain distance on the road by car without stopping.

How to Survive a Broken Heart

1991

Buenos Aires viceversa poster
5.8

This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past

Buenos Aires viceversa

1996

No artwork available
10.0

Premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 1998.

Fuera

1998

Modern Crimes poster
6.7

One day, Tim (Roy Ward) stops to speak with one of those men with no apparent income and no apparent place of residence who can be seen on the streets of Amsterdam and who are ready to speak of profundities and mock-profundities at the drop of a hat. This particular man tells him that "people don't die, they get killed." For some reason, this strikes the lonely television repairman as profound. He has been building a ham radio at home out of spare parts so that he will have someone to talk to. Shortly after talking to the street person, his circle of friends is diminished by one when his friend Alex is reported to have killed himself. This in itself is a bit of a mystery, and Tim attempts to make sense of it by talking to a lawyer, Alex's girlfriend, and others.

Modern Crimes

1992

Behind the camera

The Lake House poster
7.0

When architect Alex Wyler moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster. Their correspondence, only through the 'magical' mailbox, turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

The Lake House

2006

Valentin poster
7.4

Valentin, an 8-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, is surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving.

Valentin

2002

Valentin poster
7.4

Valentin, an 8-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, is surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving.

Valentin

2002

Rapado poster
6.5

After the theft of his motorcycle, Lucio bums aimlessly around Buenos Aires drifting from one arcade and record store to the next, indulging in short chats with friends and, more often, setting out onto the streets alone.

Rapado

1992

Secret Wedding poster
7.5

As an anonymous man, Fermin leaves his underground hideout in the subway. The dictatorship in the country is followed by democracy, but the bright light of it blinds Fermin: he is displaced. At the police station, his anonymity is complete and he doesn't remember his own name. He is fitted with a past of 13 years of illegal political opposition from the police archives. When he keeps silent about the crimes of the dictator regime, he will be a free man. The woman he promised to marry, doesn't recognize him anymore, and thinks he is dead.

Secret Wedding

1989

Secret Wedding poster
7.5

As an anonymous man, Fermin leaves his underground hideout in the subway. The dictatorship in the country is followed by democracy, but the bright light of it blinds Fermin: he is displaced. At the police station, his anonymity is complete and he doesn't remember his own name. He is fitted with a past of 13 years of illegal political opposition from the police archives. When he keeps silent about the crimes of the dictator regime, he will be a free man. The woman he promised to marry, doesn't recognize him anymore, and thinks he is dead.

Secret Wedding

1989

A Less Bad World poster
6.3

A woman reunites with her husband, who vanished on her years ago.

A Less Bad World

2004

A Less Bad World poster
6.3

A woman reunites with her husband, who vanished on her years ago.

A Less Bad World

2004

A Less Bad World poster
6.3

A woman reunites with her husband, who vanished on her years ago.

A Less Bad World

2004

Wind with the Gone poster
7.4

Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.

Wind with the Gone

1998

Wind with the Gone poster
7.4

Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.

Wind with the Gone

1998

We're No Animals poster
4.3

A Hollywood actor grows tired of making the same corporate movies, so he moves to Argentina to find more experimental and meaningful work.

We're No Animals

2013

We're No Animals poster
4.3

A Hollywood actor grows tired of making the same corporate movies, so he moves to Argentina to find more experimental and meaningful work.

We're No Animals

2013

La cruz poster
6.3

Alfredo loses his job as a film critic after twenty years working for the same newspaper. His work mates have been trying to help him for a year because he is always drunk and angry, and his reviews have become sloppy. The cause: his wife and daughters have abandoned him and she is now living with Pablo, a famous artist. Alfredo wants to get his family back at any cost and tries to find out some terrible secrets about his new enemy to discredit him before Claudia...

La cruz

1998

La cruz poster
6.3

Alfredo loses his job as a film critic after twenty years working for the same newspaper. His work mates have been trying to help him for a year because he is always drunk and angry, and his reviews have become sloppy. The cause: his wife and daughters have abandoned him and she is now living with Pablo, a famous artist. Alfredo wants to get his family back at any cost and tries to find out some terrible secrets about his new enemy to discredit him before Claudia...

La cruz

1998

A Night with Sabrina Love poster
6.0

When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with his favorite adult movie star, Sabrina Love. However, getting there will be half the trouble of meeting Sabrina.

A Night with Sabrina Love

2000

A Night with Sabrina Love poster
6.0

When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with his favorite adult movie star, Sabrina Love. However, getting there will be half the trouble of meeting Sabrina.

A Night with Sabrina Love

2000

Surviving the 70's poster
5.0

A disgruntled book editor is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by a woman, who threatens to do the same if he does not read her book.

Surviving the 70's

2015

Surviving the 70's poster
5.0

A disgruntled book editor is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by a woman, who threatens to do the same if he does not read her book.

Surviving the 70's

2015

Figaro Story poster
8.0

An anthology film centering around the worldwide adventures of the Nissan Figaro.

Figaro Story

1993

City Life poster
7.7

A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.

City Life

1990

What We Wanted to Be poster
7.8

An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.

What We Wanted to Be

2024

What We Wanted to Be poster
7.8

An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.

What We Wanted to Be

2024

Hexagon poster
9.0

A compilation of six standalone short films, each inspired by a contemporary Dutch music composition and created as part of a collaboration between Nederlandse film directors and composers for a Holland Festival presentation.

Hexagon

1994