Alfredo Alcón

Acting

Alfredo Alcón

Born — Died

1930-03-03 — 2014-04-11

Place of birth

Ciudadela, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Alfredo Félix Alcón was an Argentine theatre and film actor born in Buenos Aires. Widely regarded as one of the best and most important Argentine actors of the 20th century. He worked in more than 50 movies since his first one and received many recognitions for his work: among others, the Silver Condor, the Martin Fierro Award and the 1981 Diamond Konex Award.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 7 titles

El amante de las películas mudas poster
6.5

A boy has an unusual upbringing in a romantic setting, the household of a former film star, who reminisces about his past.

El amante de las películas mudas

1994

I Don't Want to Talk About It poster
6.5

In an Argentine village in the 1930s, the willful Leonor discovers that her beloved daughter, Charlotte, has dwarfism. Attempting to let her have as normal a childhood as possible, Leonor never discusses Charlotte's lack of stature, nor lets anyone else in the village ever mention it. As Charlotte grows up into a smart and self-possessed young woman, local eccentric Ludovico, who collects miniatures, becomes smitten with her.

I Don't Want to Talk About It

1993

Cortázar poster
6.2

A portrait which explores the legacy and impact of novelist Julio Cortazar's art, perceptively examining it within the context of shifting tides of Argentine culture and politics. The author reads his own texts in this poetic documentary.

Cortázar

1994

Cohen vs. Rosi poster
5.5

Two rival families of different origin join the force by the love of two young. The journalist Ariel Cohen falls in love for Carla Rosi, while investigating his father, Giancarlo, a wealthy shady business that is congressional candidate with presidential aspirations.

Cohen vs. Rosi

1998

Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae poster
6.5

Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, ”Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls”, tells the story of the writer's life through stories from her family, friends and admirers.

Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae

1993

País cerrado, teatro abierto poster
10.0

The history of the Teatro Abierto, which was initiated on July 28, 1981 as a cultural reaction against the last Argentine civic-military dictatorship, and organized by a group of artists and workers from the theater world

País cerrado, teatro abierto

1990

Malajunta poster
9.0

Documentary about Argentina's last military dictatorship and the legacy of one of the most brutal waves of repression, death and horror in Latin American history. Numerous people—historians, musicians, journalists, children of the desaparecidos (the disappeared) and others—talk candidly about how difficult it has been to uncover information about the whereabouts of the 30,000 missing men and women who were kidnapped and presumed murdered by the military. The intensely personal stories about missing relatives and the scope of the military junta's repressive policies also explain why, even now, many people resist coming to terms with Argentina's bloody past.

Malajunta

1996

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 11 titles

The Knight of the Sword poster
7.2

The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.

The Knight of the Sword

1970

Güemes, la tierra en armas poster
8.0

The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century.

Güemes, la tierra en armas

1971

Painted Lips poster
6.6

The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.

Painted Lips

1974

What's Autumn? poster
10.0

An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.

What's Autumn?

1977

Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf poster
7.1

The Mighty One offers Nazareno Cruz all the wealth in the world if he agrees to abandon his beloved; otherwise, the curse that supposedly weighs on him will be fulfilled.

Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf

1975

The Seven Madmen poster
6.3

After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.

The Seven Madmen

1973

The Mafia poster
6.3

The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.

The Mafia

1972

Love Letters of a Nun poster
4.0

Spain 1640, the reverend superior nun Mariana, attends the death of her younger sister, Isabel's husband, who is overcome with hopelessness and heartache. Isabel then kisses and caresses the cadaver's exposed body as if he were still alive. Mother Mariana

Love Letters of a Nun

1978

Saverio, el cruel poster
6.0

Saverio is an insurance broker who arrives in a small town after receiving a letter from a potential client requesting insurance for "special affections." Upon arriving at the mansion, Saverio is captivated by the beauty of Susana, the granddaughter and heiress to a vast fortune—beautiful, refined, and cultured. What Saverio doesn't suspect is that he will become the victim of a macabre plot, in which he plays a crucial role. Susana, in collusion with her family and friends, will feign madness with the sole purpose of making Saverio fall at her feet.

Saverio, el cruel

1977

Un idilio de estación poster
10.0

A girl falls in love with the son of a rancher, who gives her certain illusions about their relationship.

Un idilio de estación

1978

Kid Head poster
5.6

The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", a real-life Argentine gangster in the '30s.

Kid Head

1975

1960s · 11 titles

Con gusto a rabia poster
8.0

A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.

Con gusto a rabia

1965

Prisioneros de una noche poster
7.4

A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires.

Prisioneros de una noche

1962

Martín Fierro poster
6.2

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.

Martín Fierro

1968

Jandro poster
5.2

After marrying a rich heiress, a young man from humble origins is dedicated to looking for coal in the surroundings of Gijón.

Jandro

1965

The Innocents poster
5.9

A bank employee changes his life radically after the tragic death of his wife in a car accident along with a widower industrial.

The Innocents

1963

Un guapo del 900 poster
7.0

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

Un guapo del 900

1960

Voy a hablar de la esperanza poster
NR

A young writer wants to make a different cinema and a director presents a plot divided into 3 episodes.

Voy a hablar de la esperanza

1966

Faena poster
9.0

The images connect the workings of a slaughterhouse with a city that is also divided between executioners and dead people.

Faena

1961

Summerskin poster
6.0

In this drama, a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness. The woman knows that the son has fallen in love with her granddaughter, but the granddaughter does not reciprocate his feelings. Convinced she should do something about that situation, grandmother talks her granddaughter into going on a trip to Paris with the young man -- intent on bringing the two together. But this simple plan, it turns out, has unforeseen consequences

Summerskin

1961

The Rats poster
6.6

Returning from Switzerland, a young investigator meets María, his father's new wife. They immediately feel an irresistible attraction, which he tries to overcome by mixing it up with another woman.

The Rats

1963

The Pit poster
8.3

When a politician is murdered, the victim's daughter sets out to track down her father's killer. She soon suspects her father's friend and her own mother may have been involved in the murder plot, in this heavy-handed and tragic crime drama.

The Pit

1965

1950s · 7 titles

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