
Acting
Pepe Soriano
Born — Died
1929-08-25 — 2023-09-13
Place of birth
Colegiales, Buenos Aires City, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Pepe Soriano (born José Carlos Soriano, on September 25, 1929) is a prominent Argentine actor, director, and playwright. Soriano was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Enrolling at the prestigious University of Buenos Aires Law School, he entered one of the university's numerous theatre groups and, leaving law school to devote himself to the theatre, he produced his first work, El chaleco encantado ("The Enchanted Sweater") in 1950, among four other works he completed and staged while in school. Soriano debuted professionally in a production of A Midsummernight's Dream at the renowned Colón Theatre, in 1953. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Historias del otro lado
1988
8.0It tells, in a comedic tone, the story of the Scarpelli triplets (Guillermo Francella), Marcelo, Enzo, and Luis. Marcelo is a charming, womanizing hustler who aspires to succeed as an actor. Enzo is an unscrupulous office worker capable of anything to get money, and Luis, divorced with four children, is a serious and obsessive man responsible for running the family restaurant. Three brothers, very similar on the outside but very different on the inside, will find themselves united by various twists and turns in which they will share hilarious situations of entanglement.
Trillizos, ¡dijo la partera!
1999
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Peor es nada
1990
6.4A pharmacist attends to her colorful neighbors with the help — or distraction — of her eccentric assistants, restless children and flirty ex-husband.
Farmacia de guardia
1991
6.2No synopsis available yet.
R.R.D.T.
1997
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
7.0A woman recounts the last night on earth of a 100-year-old man who fights for the redemption of the misdeeds of his life.
Nocturna - Side B: Where the Elephants Go to Die
2021
6.7Ulysses is a hundred-year-old man, he lives alone and is on the verge of death. The last night of his life, he will experience something that will force him to rethink his past, his present and his sight about his reality. Tortured by remorse of guilt, confused by his senile dementia, he must make a last effort to reach his death in freedom or to become a soul in sorrow in eternal return.
Nocturna - The Great Old Man's Night
2020
2010s · 4 titles
4.3"Pecados" tells the love story between two young people (Bepo and Lourdes) in a remote village in Argentina.
Pecados
2012
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Babilonia, la noticia secreta
2010
5.9On her wedding day, Adrian, nervous, make a small mistake that aims to hide Leonora, his girlfriend, to avoid problems. But far from avoiding them, complicates the matter and the party runs the risk of end badly, like the future marriage of the couple.
My First Wedding
2011
5.6Based on the remains of never-completed Argentine features from the archives of the film museum in Buenos Aires. The film is, as it were, a parallel film history: an essay like a cinematographic Frankenstein, that blows new life into images that once seemed unsuccessful and pointless.
The Endless Film
2018
2000s · 9 titles
10.0No synopsis available yet.
A través de tus ojos
2006
6.9Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the form of a locomotive nicknamed the "33"
The Last Train
2002
7.8In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.
Common Ground
2002
Documentary about Fernando Iglesias, “Tacholas”, a Spanish actor who arrived in Buenos Aires in 1929 and participated in 52 national films.
Tacholas, un actor galaico porteño
2004
6.0The action takes place in the year 2068, in which the head of a corporation governed chaotically the Southern Cone of the Americas. Dr. Crux is an old rebel scientist and his son John Crux must become the hero expected to fight the evil and its minions.
Cóndor Crux
2000
10.0Buenos Aires at the end of the millennium a young filmmaker hopeless about their future decides to film his last act.
Ángel, la diva y yo
2000
7.2Amparo, a lawyer working as an advisor in an insurance company in Madrid is grieving over a traumatic event in her past. She will have to react, however, to the world surrounding her when a young man of her acquaintance dies mysteriously while working in a mine. Amparo will take over his case and discover in the process a world of corruption and illegal measures taken by the company that the young man worked for.
Sleeping luck
2003
8.0A story about corruption and drug trafficking with the complicity of judges and politicians. An investigation led by a journalist and a cop who try to uncover the truth behind the supposed suicide of a national senator.
Cargo de conciencia
2005
5.0In Chile, Mexican photographer Emilia falls in love with a rabbi and gets the news that her father is terminally ill.
El brindis
2007
1990s · 8 titles
7.0A man who witnesses the casual disappearances of coworkers from a factory starts making investigations.
Otra esperanza
1996
5.9Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
The Dumbfounded King
1991
5.9A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over. Written by
Tangos Are for Two
1998
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La maestra normal
1996
4.5This film follows the exploits of a middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early '80s following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a strange travelling millionaire, Barante, the hobo, and Coluccini, a bankrupt circus owner who involves "the engineer" in a rigged card game..
A Shadow You Soon Will Be
1994
5.5Two 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
4.9A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
Funes, a Great Love
1993
9.01947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters Letty's dreams, her loneliness that only Miguel, a very young pianist, may share with her. Tomas, her husband, loves Letty and eagerly defends her against all the village, while she keeps playing her part of a 'femme fatale' with a romantic past and a very adventurous file. But on a windy day, a handsome and strange foreigner appears, coming from the sea, a man just as those Bette Davis used to fall in love with. For Letty, reality begins to look like the most incredible dreams of her. But this will call the police inspector's attention. With that mysterious spy, Letty will be involved in a story that will end as those stories she was so fond of when she was going to the movie theater of her little willage.
Stolen Moments
1998
1980s · 12 titles
10.0Four friends, one of whom dies, and another, who discovers that he was killed, gets involved in a crime network.
Sentimental
1981
8.0A single pregnant teenager goes to live with her uncle, a mediocre entertainer in a seedy cabaret.
Te amo
1986
6.7A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.
Poor Butterfly
1986
4.5The story of El Nani, a juvenile delinquent from the years of the Transition, whose disappearance in a police station after an interrogation has not yet been clarified, putting the accent on the denunciation of police brutality and speculating on the outcome of the story. A story that mixes political denunciation and social chronicle of an era.
Matar al Nani
1988
3.9Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'.
The Sea and the Weather
1989
8.0The film depicts an eccentric Argentine family consisting of an elderly woman, her son, and the maid. Their relationships with each other and the outside world are closely linked to the dictatorship that grips the country they live in.
Los enemigos
1983
5.2Historical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England.
Murder in The Senate
1984
6.6Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, Pepe's wife believes her husband has been abducted and killed, so she tries to reach her husband through spiritualism. After Pepe surprises her with a nocturnal visit, he tells her he will touch his ear to signal it is he and not Franco in public appearances.
Wait for Me in Heaven
1988
5.1It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.
Pubis angelical
1982
8.0While a youth group led by Daniel causes the explosion of a truck loaded with materials to build a nuclear power plant, Laura accidentally kills his mistress, Judge. Both cases will cross.
Scapegoat
1985
6.5No synopsis available yet.
La Invitación
1982
6.8No synopsis available yet.
El tesoro
1988
1970s · 8 titles
7.0A bond develops between a truck driver and his newly-assigned helper, a young man who happens to be deaf.
El ayudante
1971
7.4The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
Grandma
1979
6.0A businessman in a good economic position spends his leisure time making asados, going to the races or going out with friends. He has a wife and a lover, but he can't satisfy either of them.
Juan Lamaglia y Sra.
1970
7.6In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
Rebellion in Patagonia
1974
7.1The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
Jewish Gauchos
1975
3.9When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.
Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
1973
8.5A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.
No toquen a la nena
1976
6.2A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
Heroína
1972
1960s · 5 titles
7.0Three colleagues must decide which one of them will be fired when the company they work for starts a downsizing process.
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo
1968
8.0Three stories told in a Turkish bathhouse: two braggarts are mocked by a starlet; two Boca Juniors fans and love-hate for two River Plate fan girls; a man, father of 8 daughters, seeks the boy despite his wife.
Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres
1967
6.5Different stories that take place in a hotel for a temporary shelter for couples.
Hotel alojamiento
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Los días de Julián Bisbal
1966
6.0A profiteer pretends to be a psychoanalyst to conquer women with sexual trauma.
Psexoanálisis
1968
1950s · 2 titles
6.0Boyhood friends grow up, form a tango orchestra, one of them writes a brilliant song commemorating their friendship before he dies.
Goodbye Boys
1955
8.0A film producer, his wife (an actress) and her lover (a young scriptwriter) are part of a love triangle that will lead to a crime. It is set during the decay of Argentinian cinema studios.
El protegido
1956
Series credits
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Historias del otro lado
1988
8.0It tells, in a comedic tone, the story of the Scarpelli triplets (Guillermo Francella), Marcelo, Enzo, and Luis. Marcelo is a charming, womanizing hustler who aspires to succeed as an actor. Enzo is an unscrupulous office worker capable of anything to get money, and Luis, divorced with four children, is a serious and obsessive man responsible for running the family restaurant. Three brothers, very similar on the outside but very different on the inside, will find themselves united by various twists and turns in which they will share hilarious situations of entanglement.
Trillizos, ¡dijo la partera!
1999
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Peor es nada
1990
6.4A pharmacist attends to her colorful neighbors with the help — or distraction — of her eccentric assistants, restless children and flirty ex-husband.
Farmacia de guardia
1991
6.2No synopsis available yet.
R.R.D.T.
1997
8.5The series recreates the life of the Spanish scientist Miguel Servet from his birth until his execution for blasphemy in 1553.
Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza)
1989
No synopsis available yet.
Alma de artista
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