
Acting
Osvaldo Terranova
Born 1924-06-30 · Villaguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Acting credits
5.7A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.
The Kidnapper
1958
9.0A vagabond receives a large fortune as an inheritance and summons his peers to decide what to do with it.
Convención de vagabundos
1965
A woman seduces a father of a family, altering his structures and the family relationship.
Goodbye, Problems
1955
7.7A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
El curandero
1955
An Italian woman arrives in Buenos Aires and suffers all kinds of social and personal misadventures.
People with Me
1967
10.0A boy refuses to accept his new mother despite her best efforts.
La madrastra
1960
6.8This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.
The Party Is Over
1960
10.0A wealthy man asks for the hand of his best friend's daughter, a young woman. As the woman is in love with a man her own age, they hatch a plan to make him look like a bad luck charm and thus convince the father to break off the engagement.
Jettatore..!
1980
5.8In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impunity.
Diary of a Pig War
1975
7.1Catrasca (Jorge Porcel) is a man who works in a restaurant and in his spare time helps in a children's home. His problem is that he carries a family tradition that makes him cause catastrophes in his path, one of which takes his boss (Adolfo García Grau) to the hospital. Upon leaving the hospital, Catrasca is run over by Graciela (Graciela Alfano), the daughter of Professor Galíndez (Osvaldo Terranova). This is how he meets this professor, who has a formula that says he will be the salvation of humanity, so he is the object of persecutions by villains such as Dr. Linda Winters (Moria Casán).
El gordo catástrofe
1977
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
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
NROne day a mysterious lady appears at Detective Henry Chandler's office who wants to know everything related to the Froggy, an extraterrestrial race that plans to invade Earth to find the Krown crown, which grants certain powers to control time. Unfortunately, Chandler is not a highly skilled detective.
Krona 3 the Froggy Case
2018
7.7A photographer shoots a documentary film in a small town in Argentina (Uribelarrea) about the filming that a foreign producer is doing on the spot.
La película
1975
7.3The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
Grandma
1979
10.0A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.
From Man to Man
1949
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
5.8A former Triple A (Argentine anti-communist alliance) is abandoned by his former colleagues after the Argentine dictatorship falls, in the course of his solitude he slowly becomes more insane and falls further into dementia, at the same time as one of the parents of the many children that he murdered and tortured during the dictatorship persecute him for revenge.
In Retirement
1984
6.6Story of a ordinary human being who, by chance, take possession of the money that was stolen from a bank, thinking that will solve all his problems.
The Lion's Share
1978
6.3After 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
6.3A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people.
The Power of Darkness
1979
10.0In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.
In Burning Darkness
1959
10.0A woman tries to prove his son's innocence, a taxi driver who is accused of murder.
El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
1964
5.0A store clerk lives in the furniture section without anyone noticing.
La pícara soñadora
1956