Norma Aleandro

Acting

Norma Aleandro

Born 1936-05-02 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Norma Aleandro (born 2 May 1936) is an international award-winning Argentine actress, screenwriter, theatre director and author. She is considered one of the most celebrated and prolific Argentinean actresses of all time and is recognized as a cultural icon in Argentina. Aleandro starred in the Oscar-winning 1985 film The Official Story, a role that earned her the Cannes Award for best actress. She has performed in other successful films like The Truce (1974), Cousins (1989), Autumn Sun (1996), The Lighthouse (1998), Son of the Bride (2001) and Cama Adentro (2005). For her performance as Florencia Sánchez Morales in the 1987 film Gaby: A True Story, she received a Golden Globe nomination and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Acting credits

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

Cousins poster
6.0

When Larry and Maria learn that their respective spouses are cheating on them, they try to turn the tables on them by pretending to have an affair. However, they soon find themselves falling in love.

Cousins

1989

Operación Masacre poster
6.9

In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.

Operación Masacre

1973

The Slowness poster
7.1

A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicated emotional and economically. These circumstances thwart his rebelliousness.

The Slowness

1969

The City of Your Final Destination poster
5.7

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography.

The City of Your Final Destination

2009

Son of the Bride poster
7.5

At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos, a childhood friend, who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past.

Son of the Bride

2001

Vital Signs poster
4.6

As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they must impress the Chief of Surgery while learning how to survive the life-and-death area of medicine and the complexity of their everyday lives.

Vital Signs

1990

Autumn Sun poster
7.3

Clara Goldstein is a lovely, middle-aged Jewish woman who, because of an impending visit from her American brother, is forced to create a contrived relationship with a man of her own faith. She places an ad in a personals column and meets Raul, a well-spoken, handsome and charming man whom she soon discovers is a Gentile and does not fulfill her reason for placing the ad. Having no alternative, Clara proceeds to instruct Raul with an intensive course in Judaism. Their journey is both humorous and captivating, but not without pitfalls. These two mature people risk a last chance at a meaningful relationship in their lives.

Autumn Sun

1996

Los herederos poster
9.0

A once prominent family fight each other over the inheritance of a run down mansion. Motivated by individual greed, they turn on one another until they unite to subdue a stranger prone to violence. Outwardly the family retains respectability and their name is not sullied, but irreparable harm is done to the unit and mutual trust is shattered in the wake of the events that transpire.

Los herederos

1970

One Man’s War poster
7.2

Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.

One Man’s War

1991

Tobi poster
5.1

A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.

Tobi

1978

No artwork available
NR

An Italian woman arrives in Buenos Aires and suffers all kinds of social and personal misadventures.

People with Me

1967

No artwork available
10.0

Portrait of the persecution of various intellectuals in the period from the overthrow of María Estela Martínez de Perón to the Falklands War.

Forbidden

1997

The Official Story poster
7.5

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

The Official Story

1985

Los pocillos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los pocillos

1974

Live-In Maid poster
7.2

Buenos Aires is in a deep recession. As the money runs out, the relationship between an employer and her live-in maid changes dramatically.

Live-In Maid

2004

Anita poster
7.0

Anita is the story of a young woman with Down syndrome who lives a happy, routine life in Buenos Aires, being meticulously cared for by her mother Dora. One tragic morning in 1994, everything changes when Anita is left alone, confused and helpless after the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association is bombed (the deadliest bombing in Argentina's history). As Anita wanders through the city, she learns not only to care for herself, but touches the lives of those around her, from an alcoholic to a family of Asian immigrants.

Anita

2009

Ay, Juancito poster
4.8

A film about the life of Juan Ramón Duarte, Evita's only brother. His ascent, his excesses, and his demise, in the times of Juan Domingo Perón.

Ay, Juancito

2004

Asleep in the Sun poster
4.2

Lucio Bordenave carries on the Grey lifestyle of an unemployed worker, dedicated to the trade of watchmaking, until in a somewhat mysterious way, his wife is admitted to a Frenopatic Institute. From this point on, the story enters a territory without parameters where reality is confused with the imaginary, sleep with wakefulness, and insanity with lucidity.

Asleep in the Sun

2012

Gaby: A True Story poster
6.5

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Gaby: A True Story

1987

Dark Holiday poster
8.0

American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.

Dark Holiday

1989

Los premios Mastropiero poster
8.4

The Mastropiero Awards is a musical humor theatrical show by the Argentine ensemble of informal instruments Les Luthiers, in which the classic format of their previous shows is not repeated. In this show, the group simulates an award ceremony for various artists from the fields of cinema, theater, television and music. During the ceremony, works and compositions by Johann Sebastian Mastropiero himself are performed. The play premiered at the Astengo Theater in Rosario, Argentina, on July 29, 2005

Los premios Mastropiero

2005

I Don't Owe 100 Times poster
6.4

A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.

I Don't Owe 100 Times

1990

Only Human poster
6.3

A mismatched couple discovers that whatever can go wrong will go wrong during a family visit.

Only Human

2004

Behind the camera