Acting

Ana María Ambas

Acting credits

Hidden Witnesses poster
4.3

A prostitute and her boyfriend and pimp extort money from those who hire the services of prostitutes in a Buenos Aires neighborhood by filming them without warning, but one of their victims turns out to be a powerful French businessman.

Hidden Witnesses

2001

Muchacho poster
5.5

A man falls in love with a woman from high society - but her father doesn't approve of their love.

Muchacho

1970

Made in Argentina poster
6.9

Osvaldo 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

Algún lugar en ninguna parte poster
NR

Oscar, before embarking on a trip to visit a client in the interior of the province of Buenos Aires, performs a routine check-up at the office of a doctor friend, who finds him to be in very good health. The journey that begins is the trigger for another, more personal and profound journey, towards his own life.

Algún lugar en ninguna parte

2009

Hostage of an Illusion poster
3.8

Pablo is being pursued by what seems like a mob of fans. However, the truth soon emerges that his assailants are actually the cast of characters from his books who are angry that he won’t continue to write their lives. When Laura, a former student, turns up on Pablo’s doorstep soon after with plans for romance, the two fall into a passionate love affair. But when she starts showing signs of paranoia, Pablo questions whether she may in fact be one of his literary creations.

Hostage of an Illusion

2012

The Girlfriend poster
5.9

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.

The Girlfriend

1989

Pasajeros de una pesadilla poster
5.6

A family consisting of parents, two sons and a teenage daughter falls apart morally.

Pasajeros de una pesadilla

1984

Los debutantes en el amor poster
7.0

Four stories about sexual initiation in adolescence.

Los debutantes en el amor

1969