Luis Machín

Acting

Luis Machín

Born

1968-04-10 (58)

Place of birth

Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

92 titles

Luis Machín is an Argentine actor.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 16 titles

Barreda poster
7.2

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 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
7.4

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

Message in a Bottle poster
7.5

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

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

Shadow of the Cat poster
6.3

Gato lives on a remote farm with his teenage daughter Emma where without even basic communications tools they’re entirely cut off from the outside world. But once Emma comes into possession of a phone, she’s contacted by a party claiming to be working on behalf of her mother, who her father claimed abandoned her at birth. Infuriated, Emma heads off on a journey of self-discovery to reconnect with her mother, all the while Gato and his best pal Sombra (Danny Trejo) race to rescue her from the grim fate she’s unknowingly heading towards.

Shadow of the Cat

2021

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

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

Alone poster
6.9

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

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

Sector VIP poster
5.9

A girl comes to town to work as a dancer, an entrepreneur of the night becomes his manager. A journalist in decline, looking for the news that catapults him. All three converge in the VIP Sector, where human trafficking, fake news and transgressions of power coexist.

Sector VIP

2021

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

The Tangalanga Method poster
6.6

Shy corporate employee Jorge Rizzi's life takes an uproarious turn when he participates in a hypnosis session that rips off his inhibitions and releases a hilarious alter ego.

The Tangalanga Method

2023

Cut poster
5.0

Joaco's infidelity breaks up the couple with Vanesa. Trying to maintain a friendly relationship is a possibility that Vanesa accepts because she cannot think without him. The acceptance of the separation will be a painful path but one of personal growth.

Cut

2022

Lennons poster
10.0

Tells the irruption of a John Lennon impersonator, whom a stunt manager presents as the real idol, deceiving a famous television host who plans fearsome revenge.

Lennons

2023

Seven Dogs poster
6.3

A lonely guy who lives with seven dogs get a complaint from his neighbors. Will he come up with a creative solution to overcome this?

Seven Dogs

2022

2010s · 25 titles

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 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

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

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

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

La mosca en la ceniza poster
5.1

Two close girlfriends come to Buenos Aires from the Northwest looking for a better future, but they are victims of a hoax and should work in a brothel. There, one of them will adapt to survive and the other will try to flee.

La mosca en la ceniza

2010

El espejo de los otros poster
5.2

The Cenacle, a unique restaurant offers single-table work. In a ruined temple every night there is a last supper. Diners sitting at the table, define something important in their lives. Four stories plus the secret that bond the owners. Superb music.

El espejo de los otros

2015

Maldito seas Waterfall poster
3.0

Roque Waterfall leads, at age 30, an unproductive life living off a small family inheritance that leaves him enough free time to wander around in the nights of Buenos Aires. One day he meets Hans, a German intellectual who will try to make a documentary about Roque and people like him, people who do nothing.

Maldito seas Waterfall

2016

Fontanarrosa, lo que se dice un ídolo poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Fontanarrosa, lo que se dice un ídolo

2017

A Trip to the Moon poster
6.8

At fourteen years of age, Tomás is entering adolescence, that time in your life in which not only do you have to face physical and emotional changes, but in which there are also memories that start taking more traumatic forms. That is why he continuously visits a psychiatrist, why he acts a bit weird. He is a bit of a hermit, bearing, as much as he can, the extreme normalcy of his family, who are dying for summer to arrive so they can go to a time share at the beach, while Tomás wants to escape… to the moon.

A Trip to the Moon

2017

Bienvenido León de Francia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bienvenido León de Francia

2014

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

La revolución es un sueño eterno poster
NR

Juan José Castelli's fall into disgrace after a hard campaign in the argentine war of independence

La revolución es un sueño eterno

2012

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

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

La muerte de Marga Maier poster
6.0

In the wake of a carnival parade the river washes a corpse onto the shore. A crime has been committed, a mystery blossoms to life, and the legend of mythical cursed diamond is tantalizingly revived.

La muerte de Marga Maier

2017

No Return poster
6.0

A young man is struck and killed in a traffic accident, and the wrong man is accused of the homicide.

No Return

2010

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

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

Cauce poster
6.0

Ariel is a middle-class young man, a father of a family, who surprisingly loses his job in the context of a wave of layoffs. Altered and hiding from his family what happened, he escapes his father-in-law's birthday to go to a nightclub, where an old acquaintance offers to be part of a narco business. Ariel accepts, trusting that his participation will be limited, but things go out of control.

Cauce

2017

Destino anunciado poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Destino anunciado

2013

Miracle in the Fall poster
NR

A dive bar, a tango environment, a card game of truco, a pregnant waitress mistreated by a boss, who later ends up leaving her in the street with her newborn son. The son, named Faxman after an old illusionist, grows up and becomes an illusionist himself, traveling through different Argentine cities with his show. During one of his performances, Faxman meets Candelaria, who becomes his assistant as well as the love of his life.

Miracle in the Fall

2019

In the Future poster
4.0

Each love story in the film takes us to a different past, from a different present. The hope for a bright future is an illusion that keeps us expecting, as it unleashes the anguish of waiting for something extraordinary to happen. In this strange time, shaped by memory pieces and by what could have happened but didn’t, is where the characters of the film inhabit, awaiting the arrival of the future. The storyteller in “In the Future” is a ghost. My ghost. The film explores several love stories, both heterosexual and homosexual, in different pasts and presents, focusing on memory and what might have happened.

In the Future

2010

Violeta Went to Heaven poster
6.8

A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.

Violeta Went to Heaven

2011

2000s · 10 titles

Maradona, the Hand of God poster
5.7

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

No artwork available
NR

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

Espiral

2004

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

Normal, así lo resuelve Trovato poster
6.5

In a secondary school where classes have not been taught for the last five years, teachers must resume their "usual" task, given the arrival of a new director.

Normal, así lo resuelve Trovato

2005

Felicidades poster
8.0

Three stories of ordinary people intersect on Christmas Eve: a dentist desperate to find his son's toy; a writer who is not happy and decides to look for the woman of his dreams; and a doctor who intends to flirt with a Spanish woman.

Felicidades

2000

What Your Eyes Don't See poster
7.2

A murder in a house in Tigre triggers an investigation in the sphere of a political weekly. Crimes follow one another and the police can't solve the puzzle. A magazine journalist will try to get to the truth without knowing that more than one surprise awaits her.

What Your Eyes Don't See

2000

A Red Bear poster
7.1

Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of the money and reunite with his family, or at least avenge the damage done.

A Red Bear

2002

El astillero poster
7.2

After 5 years, a man returns to his hometown with the intention of taking revenge on those who drove him out and running a recovering shipyard.

El astillero

2000

Potestad poster
5.8

A 60 year old medic tries to reconstruct a traumatic fact that changed his life while he is in the subway: the lost of his ten years old daughter.

Potestad

2003

La entrega poster
9.0

A wave of anonymous attacks will capriciously unite the stories, leading them towards an inexorable end.

La entrega

2002

Series credits

Son amores poster
5.4

Son amores is an Argentine telenovela originally broadcast between 2002-2003. It was produced by Pol-Ka Producciones & broadcast by Canal 13 in Argentina.

Son amores

2002

Montecristo poster
5.3

Montecristo was an Argentine telenovela produced by Grupo Telefe, premiered on April 24, 2006, on Telefe, which achieved great national and international success.

Montecristo

2006

Viudas e hijos del Rock & Roll poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viudas e hijos del Rock & Roll

2014

Killer Women poster
6.0

Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.

Killer Women

2005

Tiempo final poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Tiempo final

2000

Moria poster
9.2

Moria Casán transforms her life story into a symbolic spectacle of fame, controversy and ceaseless reinvention.

Moria

2026

Moria poster
9.2

Moria Casán transforms her life story into a symbolic spectacle of fame, controversy and ceaseless reinvention.

Moria

2026

Padre Coraje poster
5.0

An idealistic man unknown to the townspeople is accused of murder. To avenge his name he pretends to be the priest and discovers a story full of betrayals and misery.

Padre Coraje

2004

Mi hermano es un clon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mi hermano es un clon

2018

Good Guys poster
NR

Good Boys is the story of a group of parents whose children will be involved in a critical situation when they make a bad decision that will change their lives forever. A group of friends decide to help and avenge one of the girls who is the victim of an attempted abuse, making a bad decision that will make them fall into the trap of a person who subdues them and forces them to become a gang wanted by the police. The boys will be forced to perform certain compromising actions and will be trapped in a circle from which they will not be able to escape. This new reality will lead them to exacerbate their emotions and live very intensely the romances and love stories, while they fight to survive in a world that is totally alien to them. For their part, their families will debate between doing the right thing or what their hearts dictate.

Good Guys

2023

Argentina 2001 poster
8.3

This Spanish-language series chronicles the politics and events leading up to the most severe economic and social crisis in Argentina’s history since its return to democracy. At the center of a government in crisis, a political appointee works as a liaison between the current administration and opposition party figures who seek to rise to power.

Argentina 2001

2023

The Mind Behind Power poster
6.8

The president-elect's psychologist is blackmailed by a mysterious organization to force the chief executive to resign.

The Mind Behind Power

2024

Cromañón: The Night of the Fire poster
8.2

It's 2008. A news story connects Malena, 22, with her traumatic past. In 2004, she attended a rock concert at the República de Cromañón venue, where a fire broke out, and 194 young people died. Now, four years later, a new event will link her to past loves and friendships, helping her overcome the guilt she feels for being alive.

Cromañón: The Night of the Fire

2024

Rizhoma Hotel poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rizhoma Hotel

2018

Criminal poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Criminal

2005

Todos Contra Juan poster
8.7

Hand in hand with Gaston Pauls, Todos contra Juan is a series that aired in 2008 on the America channel. The story deals with the life of Juan Perugia, who was very famous during his adolescence for participating in the most successful youth soap opera in the 1990s.

Todos Contra Juan

2008

Hermanos y detectives poster
8.3

An administrative police officer, Franco Montero, receives as an inheritance the care of a half-brother that he did not know. Lorenzo Montero, a child prodigy with an IQ of 200 who changes his way of life and his work. The eleven-year-old's intelligence puts Franco and his assistant Gustavo Mansilla in charge of the homicide division. By deducing and exploring the three, they solve the most striking cases.

Hermanos y detectives

2006

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lobo

2012

The Lobbyist poster
5.5

Matias Franco is a successful and immune lobbyist. Immersed in the world of politics and influence trafficking, he seeks to seal the deal of his life and partners with Pastor Elián Ospina, placing him under the eye of justice.

The Lobbyist

2018

Los cuentos de Fontanarrosa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los cuentos de Fontanarrosa

2007

Historia clínica poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Historia clínica

2012

Encerrados poster
9.0

When people are unexpectedly locked in, their 'monsters' emerge from the depths of themselves, without control or logic.

Encerrados

2018

Cromo poster
7.0

A scientist dies in mysterious circumstances while performing an investigation into a tannery in Corrientes. Her husband and his best friend (who was a lover of women) travel to the place to discover what had happened, and end up getting into an issue that threatens their lives.

Cromo

2015

El hombre que volvió de la muerte poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

El hombre que volvió de la muerte

2007

El hincha poster
6.0

A middle-class young man joins the "brava bar" of a soccer club in the Buenos Aires suburbs, Argentina, and manages to ascend within the criminal structure until he reaches a place of leadership that he could never find in his own environment.

El hincha

2022

Balas perdidas poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

Balas perdidas

2017

Sandro de América poster
9.2

Sandro de América is a series of Argentine biographical, musical, dramatic and romantic television broadcasted by Telefe and produced by The Magic Eye, starring Antonio Grimau, Marco Antonio Caponi and Agustín Sullivan, who will perform the famous Argentine singer and composer Sandro en different stages of his life. The series has 13 episodes and debuted on March 5, 2018, broadcasting Monday through Thursday, over three weeks, as a "unique event" television.

Sandro de América

2018

Inconvivencia poster
NR

Lucas and Caro are a thirty-something couple who, after seven years of romance, are facing a crisis due to a worn-out and reproachful relationship. In this way they consider how effective are all the prejudices that build our traditional relationships and ties

Inconvivencia

2019

To Catch a Thief poster
6.1

In this remake of the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie, a retired cat burglar sets out to save his reformed reputation by catching an imposter.

To Catch a Thief

2019

Botines poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Botines

2005

La viuda de Rafael poster
NR

A transsexual starts a legal fight for her right to be recognized as the widow of her late partner. Based on the homonymous novel by Luis Daniel Estrada Santiago.

La viuda de Rafael

2012

Las palomas y las bombas poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Las palomas y las bombas

2016

Melody, la chica del metro poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Melody, la chica del metro

2023

El legado poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

El legado

2014

Gigantes poster
NR

This series narrates the events that a series of characters experience around different spaces that have been emblematic at a certain moment in history and that are currently forgotten. It combines documentary with fiction to show the neglect produced by abandonment and how it affects the lives of the characters. Each episode deals with a different place.

Gigantes

2011

The Footprints of the Secretary poster
7.0

Luis Madero is a young professor of History at a prestigious high school. It is essentially phobic. Until Camila arrives and introduces herself as the assistant of Don Federico Madero, her grandfather. Luis does not want to know anything with that man who leaves him to look for him. Camila notices Luis of the death of Don Federico and the delivery of his unique inheritance; an old cane. From this moment strange things begin to happen in Luis's life; Someone is watching, they are following him and both will begin a path that puts them in the writings of Mariano Moreno, in the footsteps of the Secretary.

The Footprints of the Secretary

2013

Tafi Viejo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tafi Viejo

2025

Cain y Abel poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cain y Abel

2010

Otro día perdido poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Otro día perdido

2025