
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
5.7A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.
Don't Look Down
2008
8.2The 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
5.9Detective 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
4.3No synopsis available yet.
Las puertitas del Sr. López
1988
7.5Buenos 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
5.2A 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
6.7A 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Delicia
2017
7.3Oliveiro 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
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
NRA 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
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Todavía
2018
6.9Osvaldo 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
6.7Cristina'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
7.0Between 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
8.0Based on the work of Jose Hernandez, the film tells aspects of the life of the gaucho Martin Fierro.
La vuelta de Martín Fierro
1974
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación
1980
5.2Bernardo 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
6.7An 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
4.3The 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
10.0Amidst 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
6.8The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina.
Chronicle of a Boy Alone
1965
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
5.5A 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