Ulises Dumont

Acting

Ulises Dumont

Born — Died

1937-04-07 — 2008-11-29

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ulises Dumont (April 7, 1937 – November 29, 2008) was a prolific Argentine film actor, credited with over 80 appearances in film and countless others in theatre and television from 1964 until his death in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulises Dumont, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.  

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 16 titles

A Less Bad World poster
6.3

A woman reunites with her husband, who vanished on her years ago.

A Less Bad World

2004

Grimm poster
5.7

One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no one will go unpunished for this.

Grimm

2003

No artwork available
8.0

Manuel travels to the small fishing village where his recently deceased wife, Paula, spent her childhood. There he meets Rosa, the owner of a restaurant; Héctor, whom he entrusts with rebuilding his wife's dilapidated family home; Toto, a colorful and helpful fisherman who was Paula's schoolmate; and Julia, a young architect who lost her daughter shortly after birth, and with her all hope of happiness.

La esperanza

2005

Close to the Border poster
7.0

Esteban is a journalist who is escaping to the northern border. In the Buenos Aires of 1978, his life is in danger. The threats after one of his articles in the newspaper and his own inner conflicts push him to run away. But crossing the border is impossible. He comes back to a village near the frontier, where he stays at Father Gabriel's, a priest with ideas and attitudes of mind far from the traditional church. There he will meet Marina and Margarita, who will complete this human group with strong convictions. His stay there will be a definitive experience.

Close to the Border

2000

El mar de Lucas poster
9.0

The night Juan Denevi celebrates his 50th birthday in his small restaurant, a beautiful woman walks in with a baby in tow and places him in his arms.

El mar de Lucas

2000

Smoking Room poster
5.8

The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to enforce the ban on smoking in their offices. From now on, those who want to smoke during working hours must do so in the street. Ramirez, one of the employees of this small office composed mainly of men, decides to begin collecting signatures against what he considers unfair. What Ramirez intends is to be use an unoccupied office as smoking room

Smoking Room

2002

To Die in San Hilario poster
6.0

The inhabitants of San Hilario make their living from funerals. They are awaiting their first customer in a long time.

To Die in San Hilario

2005

Horizontal/Vertical poster
NR

En una ciudad desconocida, en un edificio a través de las ventanas se puede ver el momento exacto en el que las cosas cambian. El antes comienza a ser el después y viceversa. Y nada vuelve a ser como antes. En este universo idéntico y diferente a la vez, se ve como los personajes cambian para siempre. In an unknown city, in a building through the windows you can see the exact moment when things change. The before begins to be the after and vice versa. And nothing goes back to the way it was before. In this identical and different universe at the same time, it is seen how the characters change forever.

Horizontal/Vertical

2009

La silla poster
10.0

A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.

La silla

2006

Un peso, un dolar poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Un peso, un dolar

2007

No artwork available
NR

A pair of friends arrive in a small town to perform an unwritten play, and while they write it, they develop relationships with some of the locals. The film aims to be a tribute, somewhere between humorous and pathetic, to the itinerant profession.

Ese mismo loco afán

2007

City without light poster
9.0

Desperate to support his family, an unemployed man is linked to a criminal who hides his past

City without light

2001

No artwork available
10.0

The film tells the story of a long-divorced couple who have watched their now-adolescent son grow up separately. This brings a sense of remorse that affects the parents, who decide to reunite to offer their son a way out of the hopelessness he finds himself in.

Los días de la vida

2000

I remember her now poster
NR

Rafael (Dumont) is a desolate retiree who doesn't want to live anymore and who travels to Mendoza with the idea of committing suicide. He stays at a small-time hotel called Rex, and there he meets Gladis (Spelzini), a lonely woman who works as a maid and takes care of her blind brother. Both live a sad life, with many marks from their past, but little by little a relationship between them is emerging.

I remember her now

2007

Rosas rojas... rojas poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rosas rojas... rojas

2005

Only People poster
6.5

A young doctor recently received must face the difficulties of his profession in a public hospital, proposing to make true the axiom learned in the faculty "you can not always be cured, but you must know how to care."

Only People

2000

1990s · 13 titles

La redada poster
7.0

With the imminent arrival of the President of the Nation, the governor of a province devises a plan to remove all vagrants and drunks from the streets.

La redada

1991

Wind with the Gone poster
7.4

Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.

Wind with the Gone

1998

The Eyes of the Scissors poster
4.6

Close-up on a man who censored films during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, slightly inspired by the infamous Miguel Paulino Tato.

The Eyes of the Scissors

1995

Historias breves III: Zapallares poster
9.0

In Zapallares prison, a mystery unfolds as an artist begins to turn his fellow inmates' dreams into realities.

Historias breves III: Zapallares

1999

Same Love, Same Rain poster
6.8

Jorge is a writer for a left-leaning Buenos Aires magazine that's at odds with the country's military dictatorship. He meets lovely and intelligent actress Laura and begins an on-and-off romance that will continue for the next two decades. Fearful of commitment, Jorge initially moves on from her and his fortunes suffer, but the situation changes when he and Laura renew their acquaintance. Meanwhile, the country undergoes a political transformation.

Same Love, Same Rain

1999

Historais Breves II: Juntos, in any way poster
8.0

An old tango singer tries to contact his teenage son. A woman who is death or the Devil appears to him and asks him to sell his soul to connect with his son again.

Historais Breves II: Juntos, in any way

1996

Tangos Are for Two poster
5.9

A 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

Yepeto poster
6.0

Yepeto is a professor in his 50's, a prestigious writer who holds a chair in the literature department. Cecilia, an 18 year old student is the object of Antonio's desire. (Antonio is a young athlete, also very attractive.) Yepeto starts to feel passionately, but silently attracted to Cecilia, while at the same time, builds up his friendship with Antonio. Will this force Yepeto to give up, out of loyalty to his friend and student Antonio, all contact with his desired student Cecilia

Yepeto

1999

Historias de amor, de locura y de muerte poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Historias de amor, de locura y de muerte

1996

Historias Breves 3 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Historias Breves 3

1999

El cóndor de oro poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

El cóndor de oro

1996

Al filo de la ley poster
4.0

A couple of swindlers steals a hotel in Miami. Both are pursued by a security officer, you want revenge.

Al filo de la ley

1992

Clandestine Stories in Havana poster
3.8

Argentine 40-year-old Laura, visiting Cuba for the first time on business, is divorcing her husband back in Buenos Aires. She's soon involved with smooth-talking cab driver Frank. Garment manufacturer Francisco, having lost his wife, children, and home, has traveled to Cuba to kill himself, but Frank's mother realizes that Francisco is the teenage lover who got her pregnant. In other relationships, a gay couple argue over whether or not to remain in the closet, and two documentary filmmakers have career conflicts.

Clandestine Stories in Havana

1997

1980s · 21 titles

The Rosales poster
6.7

Film based on the real case of the sinking of the cazatorpedera "La Rosales", Navy Argentina, occurred in 1892 on the coast of Uruguay. In that event only saved from death the captain and the officers, raising more suspicions.

The Rosales

1984

Las vacaciones del amor poster
NR

A group of high school students make their end-of-year trip to Bariloche. The excursion is complicated when it is discovered that the travel agency that takes them has scammed them

Las vacaciones del amor

1981

Rage of Honor poster
5.7

A Japanese cop, Shiro, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Shiro follows the murderer, a sadistic drug lord, up to Argentina

Rage of Honor

1987

Sentimental poster
10.0

Four friends, one of whom dies, and another, who discovers that he was killed, gets involved in a crime network.

Sentimental

1981

Te amo poster
8.0

A single pregnant teenager goes to live with her uncle, a mediocre entertainer in a seedy cabaret.

Te amo

1986

The Day You Love Me poster
7.0

Two communist lovers prepare to move to the Ukraine and work on a collective farm. Meanwhile, a celebrated pop singer visits their small town, and secrets are revealed.

The Day You Love Me

1986

Funny Dirty Little War poster
6.7

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.

Funny Dirty Little War

1983

Time for Revenge poster
7.5

Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.

Time for Revenge

1981

The Underground Man poster
5.8

Set in 1930, a tormented man and his butler live in an old house in Adrogué, where pornographic films are filmed in the basement following the grandfather’s testament.

The Underground Man

1981

No artwork available
10.0

A man visits his brother and his wife who live in a remote house and conflicts begin to arise between them

De halcones y palomas

1986

A King and His Movie poster
5.3

Buenos Aires movie director, very fond of the legend of the King of Patagonia and Araucania, decides to make a movie about it. Despite of financial troubles, technical problems, misfortune and desertions, he undertakes the journey to Patagonia for the film with a second-rate actor company. Neglected by the producer and shortly after by the company, he will make the movie alone, in a surreal landscape like mad.

A King and His Movie

1986

The Children of the War poster
5.5

Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War.

The Children of the War

1984

The Children of the War poster
5.5

Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War.

The Children of the War

1984

El año del conejo poster
8.0

Upon turning 55, Pepe, a bank manager, feels bored with his life. He abandons his family, quits his job, takes a woman younger than him as a lover, and becomes associated with a moneylender.

El año del conejo

1987

Los enemigos poster
8.0

The 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

The South poster
6.6

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.

The South

1988

Billetes, billetes... poster
9.0

A merchant who is a good father has no scruples to earn money and engage in a business that harms the State.

Billetes, billetes...

1988

No artwork available
9.0

While searching for the theme for his new novel, a writer interacts with various characters with whom he interacts.

The Man Who Looked for Reason

1986

Last Days of the Victim poster
7.4

Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests.

Last Days of the Victim

1982

Gracias por los servicios poster
NR

A luxurious apartment is assaulted by three subjects who, after murdering the maid, patiently await the arrival of the owner of the house. When it returns, it is pressured violently to indicate the place where half a million dollars would be found. The ignorant woman of the existence of money, sees how her home is progressively destroyed while, in different hiding places, documents are found that implicate her husband in criminal activities.

Gracias por los servicios

1988

Cuarteles de invierno poster
7.3

A boxer and a singer are hired by the Armed Forces to entertain the people of a small town. When their personalities and principles get them in trouble with the authorities, they support each other as they face their destiny.

Cuarteles de invierno

1984

1970s · 6 titles

Series credits