Luis Machín

Acting

Luis Machín

Born 1968-04-10 · Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

Luis Machín is an Argentine actor.

Acting credits

Barreda poster
6.6

A fictionalized drama film based on one of the most shocking crimes in Argentina's history. In 1992, Ricardo Barreda was an unassuming dentist, brutally murdered his wife, mother-in-law, and two adult daughters in their family home. Branding himself as a victim, Ricardo Barreda ignited a media storm and fueled a national scandal.

Barreda

2026

The Unseen poster
6.5

The film "Los Últimos" takes us into post-apocalyptic not-so-distant future in which there is war over water. This war reaches Latin America and the story follows a young couple trying to escape refugee camp in Bolivia and find better life in the west by the Pacific Ocean.

The Unseen

2017

The Settlers poster
6.7

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.

The Settlers

2023

Belén poster
7.3

In the conservative northwestern region of Argentina, Julieta finds herself accused of infanticide after a medical emergency. With support from her attorney and women's rights advocates, she fights for justice in a landmark case that could change lives.

Belén

2025

Testarossa poster
NR

In a Buenos Aires Airbnb, an Italian woman and a stranger share wine and pasta in an unexpected encounter. A visual homage to the 1950s, where tango, Italian roots, desire, and infidelity intersect in an intimate story amidst the magical Buenos Aires nightlife.

Testarossa

2025

Woman Unchained poster
NR

1977, Argentina. Gina (37) is obsessively trying to conceive a child with her husband Carlos (58), with whom she previously lost a baby before birth. Carlos is a powerful businessman involved in shady deals with the military during the dictatorship. A former equestrian champion, Gina finds solace in horseback riding to escape the anguish of not becoming a mother. One afternoon, she gives in to the attraction she feels for the stable boy at her riding club. They become lovers, but she soon realizes that love alone cannot heal her wounds. Later, she finds out the army has kidnapped her best friend. In search of help, she turns to a captain from her husband's inner circle – unaware that she's walking into a trap.

Woman Unchained

2025

Message in a Bottle poster
7.2

A renowned sommelier finds a way to communicate with her past self in an attempt to correct the mistakes that have shaped her life. However, each message sent triggers unexpected consequences, altering not only her present but also the fates of those around her. What begins as an opportunity to make amends for the past becomes a race against time to prevent everything from spiraling out of control.

Message in a Bottle

2025

Everything Together poster
9.0

Federico León crosses the path of the cinema to tell in Everything together the endless, torn struggles of a couple that never stops separating.

Everything Together

2002

The Moneychanger poster
7.1

Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.

The Moneychanger

2019

Asleep in the Sun poster
4.2

Lucio Bordenave carries on the Grey lifestyle of an unemployed worker, dedicated to the trade of watchmaking, until in a somewhat mysterious way, his wife is admitted to a Frenopatic Institute. From this point on, the story enters a territory without parameters where reality is confused with the imaginary, sleep with wakefulness, and insanity with lucidity.

Asleep in the Sun

2012

Alone poster
6.8

Laura Garland lost her husband on the war while she’s pregnant. She lives in a big house which is divided in two. Government pursuits her claiming she must occupy the whole house, if she doesn’t, they will take it from her. Laura leases the house to Ricky, an outlaw that will bring new trouble in her life. At least she has another plan.

Alone

2021

The Mural of Siqueiros poster
5.9

David Alfaro Siqueiros, recognized Mexican muralist, travels to Argentina in the thirties with the purpose of giving a few conferences and paint a mural of revolutionary subject matter, which faces local political rejection. The press mogul head of the newspaper Critica, Natalio Botana, personal friend to the President of the Nation Agustín P. Justo, propose Siqueiros to collaborate in the cultural supplement of the diary and paint a mural in the basement of his Villa Los Granados. Siqueiros accepts and does that his wife the poet Blanca Luz Brum meets him, his arrival to Los Granados and his romance with Botana provokes the jealousies of his powerful anarchist wife Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Siqueiros himself, which turns the Villa almost in one of the scenes of the Ejercicio Plástico, how Siqueiros named his work.

The Mural of Siqueiros

2011

No artwork available
NR

A marriage enters into crisis due to a “health” issue. They have decided to quit smoking and their lives, more or less ordered, slide towards disaster. Or is quitting smoking not a vice like any other?

No fumar es un vicio como cualquier otro

2011

No artwork available
NR

Based on the short story by Ray Bradbury: "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl."

Espiral

2004

To Kill The Dragon poster
7.1

The nightmarish tale of two siblings cruelly separated as kids. The youngest, Elena, is confined to the world of darkness, where she leads a miserable life. The eldest, Facundo, remains in paradise, where he lives a peaceful life as a doctor with his wife and two daughters. 25 years later, the two are reunited to face the family tragedy that separated them.

To Kill The Dragon

2019

The Funeral Home poster
5.2

Bernardo is an undertaker. He runs his mortuary business in the same house where he resides. In the front, he has his clients. And in the back, his dysfunctional family lives amongst coffins, wreaths, and the mischievous but nonviolent ghosts that visit on a daily basis. But when a malevolent entity enters the scene, it wreaks havoc on the already fractured household.

The Funeral Home

2021

The Winter of the Odd Ones Out poster
3.6

A fiction based on the feelings and emotional states that a group of people experience in a small in-country town.

The Winter of the Odd Ones Out

2011

La sombra azul poster
3.3

Argentina, 1976. With the beginning of the military dictatorship, a young police officer is accused of belonging to the ERP guerrilla group. He is tortured by his former colleagues and held as a political prisoner for two years. He survives the brutal prison conditions and is released on parole, but a few months later decides to escape the country. Denmark grants him asylum, and he lives in Copenhagen for fifteen years. When he returns, now a democratic country, he discovers that some of those who tortured him were not only still police officers but high-ranking officials.

La sombra azul

2012

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

Existir poster
4.0

Two friends driven by a perverse hacker are guided in the search of a missing friend from a few years ago.

Existir

2021

Necrofobia poster
4.8

A mentally fragile man must conquer his fear of death in order to stave off a killer’s advances.

Necrofobia

2014

The Suffering poster
5.6

Pablo Rouviot is a renowned psychoanalyst. His life changes completely when Paula arrives to his office and asks him to prove that his brother, a man with serious psychological problems and accused for the murder of his father, is in no able condition to be judged.

The Suffering

2017

Perros del viento poster
5.0

Ariel, a transmedia screenwriter, returns from Spain to Rosario, his hometown, to investigate the strange case of dog suicides in a park by the river. Upon his return, he reconnects with his past, where he encounters, among others, Laura, the woman he loved, and José María, his best friend and Laura's husband. These will be intense days, filled with contradictions, misunderstandings, and tensions that will push everyone to the brink of irrationality.

Perros del viento

2022

Birds of Paradise poster
5.4

"It's an everyday universe that exists 7 feet over our heads. They are city birds that you can find in every tree or every corner." Juan: a sparrow that feels ordinary and underestimates his own race. Accidentally, he changes the way he looks, and the same reason that will make him feel unique is what is going to put his life in danger. Feifi: a beautiful canary that manages to escape from the cage of a network tycoon (Mr. Puertas), and starts trying a new life in freedom, as a common bird. Both of them will need to be something that they aren't and will face danger and adventures with their friends (Libia, the Pidgeon; Pipo, the Humming Bird; Clarita, the Bat; and some more). A clumsy cat, some psyco Southern Lapwings and Mr. Puertas will make everything even harder for them. Juan and Feifi will try to shape their destiny to feel truly free. Written by Anonymous

Birds of Paradise

2010