Hugo Arana

Acting

Hugo Arana

Born 1943-07-23 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Hugo Arana (July 23, 1943 - October 11, 2020 Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentinian film, television and theatre actor. Arana grew up in Monte Grande and moved with his family to Lomas de Zamora and then Lanus. He studied acting with Marcello Lavalle and Augusto Fernandez. In his first years as an actor, he was part of a theatre group called "Errare Humanum Est" and he acted in films such as El Santo de la Espada (1970) and La tregua (1974). In the 1980s, he became popular for his part in an advertisement for Crespi wine, and then for his part in the TV Sitcom Matrimonios y algo más (directed by Hugo Moser), in which he played two characters who were highly acclaimed by the public: the "Groncho" (in the comedy sketch "El Groncho y La Dama" (The Shabby Man and the Lady)) and Huguito Araña (a stereotypically femenine gay man). He has worked on the Telefé TV series Los exitosos Pells, where he played the director of the fictitious channel "Mega News", Franco Andrada. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugo Arana, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Don't Look Down poster
5.7

A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.

Don't Look Down

2008

Argentine Soldier Only Known by God poster
8.2

The story is centered on the human drama of three young people from a small town in Traslasierra, Córdoba, who from very different ideological places, are forever transformed by the war in Malvinas Argentinas (Falkland Islands).

Argentine Soldier Only Known by God

2017

Death in Buenos Aires poster
5.9

Detective Chávez, a family man and a tough cop, is put in charge of the investigation into a homicide that took place in the most exclusive circles of high society 1980s Buenos Aires. At the crime scene, Chávez meets officer Gómez, nicknamed The Goose, a good-looking rookie who becomes his right-hand man and goes undercover as bait to catch the murderer.

Death in Buenos Aires

2014

Las puertitas del Sr. López poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Las puertitas del Sr. López

1988

The Official Story poster
7.5

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

The Official Story

1985

Te esperaré poster
5.2

A famous Spanish writer is creating a new fictional character: a man of the world who has traveled the globe and, due to a series of circumstances, has ended up in Argentina. There, he meets an architect hiding a terrible secret.

Te esperaré

2017

Super Crazy poster
6.7

A 36-year-old meek woman realizes that there’s younger people trying to outpace her doing much less, so she makes a risky change by removing her filter.

Super Crazy

2018

Delicia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Delicia

2017

The Dark Side of the Heart poster
7.3

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?

The Dark Side of the Heart

1992

No artwork available
10.0

Two hustlers on a journey from the suburbs to the capital. Tarta and Paragua are two street vendors who spend their unfortunate lives, with more sorrow than glory, working in the poorest neighborhoods of Greater Buenos Aires. Times are tough, and the crisis is hitting hard.

Caminata espacial

2000

Matrimonios y Algo Más poster
NR

A straight-to-VHS film consisting of a recording of a theater version of the famous TV program, played in 1988 in Teatro Astros.

Matrimonios y Algo Más

1988

Todavía poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Todavía

2018

Made in Argentina poster
6.9

Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.

Made in Argentina

1987

Cautiva poster
6.7

Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the country's "dirty war."

Cautiva

2004

El verso poster
7.0

Between farce and grotesque, John, who has lost his job, in a collective versea values ​​of a knife sharpener, can not against debts contracted or can with his family, wife and two kids. One day, the woman left, runs out of credit and Juan is left with only his dream of being a radio announcer.

El verso

1996

La vuelta de Martín Fierro poster
8.0

Based on the work of Jose Hernandez, the film tells aspects of the life of the gaucho Martin Fierro.

La vuelta de Martín Fierro

1974

Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación

1980

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

Dangerous Obsession poster
6.7

An Argentine truck driver is on a routine trip through Rio de Janeiro when he meets a mysterious countryman. They travel back to Argentina together, meeting a beautiful Brazilian journalist on the way. The truck driver has revenge on his mind, and both the adventurous young man, and the gorgeous girl join him in this venture. The only thing the three have in common are their obsession for honor and justice.

Dangerous Obsession

2004

Chile Can Do It poster
4.3

The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.

Chile Can Do It

2008

Historias de papel poster
10.0

Amidst the hustle and bustle of a big city, five short stories intertwine to tell the story of their protagonists at the most decisive moment in their lives, when loneliness, dreams, social dictates, the loss of memories, and death sweep through them and unite them in a shared vision: that of redefining the present.

Historias de papel

2024

Chronicle of a Boy Alone poster
6.8

The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina.

Chronicle of a Boy Alone

1965

No artwork available
9.0

Emilia, an imaginative young woman from a small town, goes to Buenos Aires in search of her missing sister. The clues take her to Andrés, a mysterious man who may have led her sister astray.

Este loco amor loco

1979

The Island poster
5.5

A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.

The Island

1979