Germán de Silva

Acting

Germán de Silva

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

Germán de Silva (born 1953) is an Argentine theatre, film, and television actor.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 20 titles

27 Nights poster
6.4

When a woman is admitted by her daughters to a psychiatric clinic for her carefree ways, an expert must judge if she is ill or simply wants to enjoy life.

27 Nights

2025

Crazy Old Lady poster
5.7

Pedro receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What seems like a simple mission soon becomes his worst nightmare. Pedro needs to escape; but Alicia won’t let him...

Crazy Old Lady

2025

The Wrath of God poster
6.3

Convinced the tragic deaths of her loved ones were orchestrated by a famous novelist she worked for, Luciana turns to a journalist to expose her truth.

The Wrath of God

2022

The Attachment Diaries poster
3.5

Argentina, 1970s. A desperate young woman goes to a clinic to have a clandestine abortion. As her pregnancy is already through the fourth month, the doctor refuses. Instead, she proposes to sell the baby to one of her clients and offers to provide shelter in her house until the child is born. Their disturbed personalities will become intertwined in a strange and dangerous relationship.

The Attachment Diaries

2021

The Delinquents poster
6.4

Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering Román to split the money if agrees to hide it for the duration of his incarceration.

The Delinquents

2023

Legions poster
6.5

While evil forces descend on Argentina, humanity’s best hope, a once-legendary shaman is confined to an insane asylum, powerless to avert the demonic resurrection.

Legions

2022

Chile '76 poster
6.8

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

Chile '76

2022

El caníbal poster
NR

In 1936, in Cayastá, Aparicio Garay, a strange inhabitant of the islands, brutally murders an 11-year-old boy, and commits an act of cannibalism following the orders of his God, “El Hora”.

El caníbal

2020

Electrophilia poster
6.7

A girl wakes up from a coma six weeks after being struck by lightning.

Electrophilia

2023

Tomando estado poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tomando estado

2020

Welcome, Violeta! poster
7.3

Over the course of her stay at the remote residence, Ana becomes more and more familiar with Holden’s idiosyncratic methods that require the participating artists to abandon their own identities and live emotionally and psychologically as their characters. Captivated by her artistic investigation, Ana immerses herself wholly into the method and starts living as Violeta, until her fiction loses control.

Welcome, Violeta!

2023

The Last Heretic poster
5.4

Juan Conte is a world-renowned spokesman of the new atheism. After suffering a heart attack, he receives a transplant and a change in his personal life begins, opening up to the possibility of being in a couple for the first time. Juan will go on a journey of horror and pain, in which his vision of reality will be put to the test.

The Last Heretic

2022

Espejo poster
6.0

It is the story of Alicia, a woman who finds a way to go to the other side, through a strange family, to reunite with her deceased son.

Espejo

2020

Santa poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Santa

2021

A Loose End poster
6.5

Santiago, an Argentine police corporal, crosses the border into Uruguay fleeing from other police officers who are looking for him. Using his uniform, he inspects regional food stalls, sampling dairy products and cold cuts to survive, while trying to go unnoticed among the locals. Without money or lodging, but with empathy and cunning, he begins to plot a new life, receiving help from local characters he meets along the way and even finding what he believes to be the love of his life.

A Loose End

2025

The Dose poster
6.1

Marcos is an experienced nurse. He works in the night shift of a provincial private clinic. He is applied and professional but has a secret: in some extreme cases he applies euthanasia. He'll soon meet someone that knows what he's doing.

The Dose

2020

Writer poster
8.0

Year 1956. Rodolfo Walsh, young writer and translator, is an involuntary testimony of a failed insurrection attempt against the military dictatorship in Argentina. A little while later he receives the news that there are some survivors of the massacre. Together with his young colleague, they begin an investigate adventure which will bring them to the center of the labyrinth of power. The adventure will unite them in front of innumerable dangers that they'll face. A story of love and a political thriller all to the background of the tragic story of Argentina

Writer

2025

Reflejado poster
NR

Alejo has decided to leave his previous life behind. He gets a job as a window cleaner in an important building in downtown Buenos Aires. He prefers to go through the most complicated moment of his life in the city heights, immersed in an alien world that forces him to go through unexpected experiences. Vertigo, loneliness, workplace harassment, helplessness and abandonment will turn him into a lonely and paranoid man hanging by a thread that is too fragile.

Reflejado

2024

No corre el viento poster
NR

Two brothers take care of themselves because their father abandoned them. Julián as a rebel, Marco trying to keep things in order and Ernesto wanting to get his children back; all three will make decisions that don't always turn out well.

No corre el viento

2024

Road to Success poster
4.0

Hugo brings his nephew to the selection of one of the major football clubs in Buenos Aires. This is part of an illegal deal that will allow Hugo to start a new life in the big city.

Road to Success

2022

2010s · 33 titles

Wild Tales poster
7.9

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

Wild Tales

2014

The Two Popes poster
7.5

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

The Two Popes

2019

Zama poster
6.5

In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.

Zama

2017

La Flor poster
7.3

An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes…

La Flor

2019

Las acacias poster
6.5

Rubén is a middle-aged Argentinian truck driver transporting timber between Paraguay and Buenos Aires. One day, at a truck stop, he picks up a young Paraguayan woman, Jacinta, whom his employer had told to take to Buenos Aires. To Rubén's surprise, Jacinta brings along her five-month-old daughter, Anahí.

Las acacias

2011

The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime poster
7.5

This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a better life for himself and his young wife, but soon finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt boss. The film is based on a thorough investigation of a real event that happened in Buenos Aires 10 years ago. Almost every scene in the film is inspired by real facts or based on well documented daily practices of the “meat business” and its environment. Both a shocking exposé of unscrupulous practices in the meat industry and a heart-wrenching personal story, El Patrón became one of the most successful Argentine films of 2014.

The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime

2014

Justo poster
NR

A young woman proposes to the passengers of a full bus a change in seats. On the trip they will discover that, regardless of the result, it is always good to review the established order.

Justo

2019

The Mugger poster
5.4

A man visits a school to enroll his son, but then he pulls out a gun and robs the school from their money. The movie follows the man and is shot with an unsteady handycam.

The Mugger

2017

La laguna poster
5.0

The Lagoon tells the story of two characters who are forced to start a trip together. A man looking for a lagoon with metaphysical properties and a local guide who knows the way. Two different worlds that converge in an austere ecosystem, on a mountain that marks a new code to follow. But as they move forward, the trip itself takes on meaning and eclipses the constant search for that precious objective.

La laguna

2013

Harpoon poster
5.7

The principal at a local high school has developed a reputation among the students and teachers for his unorthodox methods. When he comes down hard on the rebellious Cata for suspected drug use, he discovers there is more to her story. He sets out to help her, a decision with precipitous consequences.

Harpoon

2017

Postman poster
7.0

Set in the late ‘90s, in the height of the privatizations and the increase in poverty, Postman closely follows Hernán, a young man full of illusions that gets a job at the Central Post Office. There, a colleague teaches him the codes of the trade, but the harsh reality will force him to break them.

Postman

2019

The Moneychanger poster
7.1

Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.

The Moneychanger

2019

No artwork available
NR

Upon entering an abandoned house in the middle of the night, a girl and her father discover the body of a man who resembles the father. Their initial reaction is to flee the scene, but they decide to stay and begin to investigate the reasons behind this strange coincidence through a notebook found next to the body that is filled with writing.

The Forest Passage

2017

Ni un hombre más poster
4.8

Charly was abandoned right after birth in a convent. He is not aware of who the couple who are about to arrive and dine at the inn, actually are. Karla is about to show up with a dead man and one hundred dollars in the trunk of her car.

Ni un hombre más

2012

Túnel de los huesos poster
5.9

Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the process of digging a tunnel to escape, they make a bizarre and frightening discovery just as they are about to break through to freedom. One escapee promises to report their findings when they are all free and once out, he pays his debt to "the tunnel of bones,"sharing their macabre story with a local journalist, and ultimately the world.

Túnel de los huesos

2011

Ocio poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ocio

2010

El agua de los sueños poster
NR

In the 16th century, an Inca shaman provides Alvar Mayor with the opportunity to meet the demon Chahuar, with the aim of saving his daughter. Alvar thus immerses himself in a pre-Columbian legend in which the limit between reality and dream will be blurred. Based on an episode of the same name from the comic strip "Alvar Mayor" by Carlos Trillo and Enrique Breccia.

El agua de los sueños

2019

Matar a un perro poster
NR

Ramírez waits. He has to pass a test, he drives in silence towards the port of Buenos Aires. El Topo will give you a chance.

Matar a un perro

2013

The Rotten Link poster
4.7

Prostitute Roberta lives with her brother and demented mother in an Argentinian rural village. Mother warns Roberta that she can have sex with almost any man in the village, except one – because then she would be killed. However, this last candidate, Sicilio, has put his sights on her.

The Rotten Link

2015

The Last Elvis poster
6.0

In the unique world of the Buenos Aires celebrity-impersonator scene, “Elvis” Gutiérrez is a star. By day, though, he must contend with a dead-end factory job and an ex-wife who worries about how his obsessive behavior affects their young daughter, Lisa Marie. Feeling more connected to his persona as the King than to his own family, Gutiérrez retreats from reality until a tragic accident interrupts his plans and forces him to grapple with his real-world responsibilities.

The Last Elvis

2012

Maldito seas Waterfall poster
3.0

Roque Waterfall leads, at age 30, an unproductive life living off a small family inheritance that leaves him enough free time to wander around in the nights of Buenos Aires. One day he meets Hans, a German intellectual who will try to make a documentary about Roque and people like him, people who do nothing.

Maldito seas Waterfall

2016

She Wolf poster
4.4

She Wolf is a serial killer who traps her men in the subway in Buenos Aires. She seduces, has sex with them and kills them. But one of those men is a police officer who is investigating her crimes. Running away from him she meets a dealer with whom she stars a relationship. This romance unravels a war between her three personalities: the monster woman, the sensual woman and the human woman who can still love.

She Wolf

2013

El dorado de Ford poster
NR

An experienced fisherman is hired to try to find something that, apparently, is simply a fantasy installed in society.

El dorado de Ford

2015

Samurai poster
NR

A Japanese immigrant (Nicolas Nakayama) and a war veteran (Alejandro Awada) search for an exiled samurai in the mountains of Argentina.

Samurai

2013

The Second Death poster
5.0

Clueless on a gruesome case, a skeptical and lonely policewoman in a small village, is guided by a newly arrived clairvoyance gifted boy, who claims that the murderer is the Virgin Mary.

The Second Death

2012

Contrasangre poster
7.5

Daniel, Juan Palomino is a security guard, he was once a policeman, and he would have liked to be a vigilante hero. But, far from it, his job is to take care of the buildings of others. The city will cross with Analía (Emilia Attias), a distant woman, obsessive and beautiful in a mysterious way. She avoids contact with men because she has been the victim of rape. That terrible past comes back when Julio, Esteban Meloni, a violent and obsessed man, gets out of jail. Between the three are weaving on the streets of the city a plot of passion and crime.

Contrasangre

2015

Quest for the Power Sphere poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Quest for the Power Sphere

2013

La huella en la niebla poster
4.5

Elías, wounded and lost in the mist, rows back to his island only to find that the flood has washed away everything and his home lies lonely. He will try to change but this is not enough for the water to wash his blood.

La huella en la niebla

2014

To the Desert poster
4.7

Julia works as a waitress on the night shift of the Comodoro Rivadavia casino. There, she meets Gwynfor, a customer who offers an interesting work opportunity in the oil industry. And so, what starts out as a morning appointment, résumé in hand, becomes a nightmarish journey in the middle of the arid landscape of Patagonia, a space Ulises Rosell uses with the cinematic power of a western, with the inclemency of the sun and the darkness of night ravaging the protagonists. Inspired by the stories of captive women from the 19th century,

To the Desert

2017

The Student poster
6.3

Roque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates his time to one of the many groups vying for control of the university, motivated less by grand political ideals than by a wish to get close to Paula, an attractive young teacher heavily involved in internal university politics.

The Student

2011

La educación del Rey poster
6.1

Escaping from his criminal baptism, Reynaldo Galíndez, called el Rey, breaks into the patio of the house where Carlos Vargas, a retired security guard, lives. Carlos proposes Reynaldo a deal: he will repair the damage caused and, in return, Carlos will not call the police.

La educación del Rey

2017

Lock Charmer poster
6.8

Sebastián is a locksmith who begins to have revelatory visions about his clients every time he touches their locks. This power complicates his life.

Lock Charmer

2014

It's All In Your Head poster
NR

A political thriller about child trafficking. Danger arises in Abril’s life (Diana Lamas), an apathetic and absent-minded accountant, after her cherished uncle Ángel (Mario Pasik) and her best friend from adolescence Guille (Carlos Portaluppi) turn up on New Year’s Eve. Both these presences turn out to be closely related to a judicial investigation into the dark secrets of Abril’s family, leading her up to the realization that her personal experience is deeply intertwined with politics. The struggle between justice and power will show that child trafficking is an omnipotent international business packed with accomplices.

It's All In Your Head

2019

2000s · 5 titles

Extraordinary Stories poster
7.7

X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore.

Extraordinary Stories

2008

Meanwhile poster
5.0

Violeta asks Mono for "a little time" to decide what to do with her partner. Eva arrives in the city ready to do anything to change her life. Meanwhile is the story of "a time," of that time that passes while several stories intertwine in a dizzying puzzle that never quite fits together. A moving description of stories that are woven together by chance, an ensemble account of the uncertainty, despair, boredom, love, and heartbreak that weave urban relationships, a dramatic comedy about the bonds that make up life in the city.

Meanwhile

2006

Anita poster
7.1

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

Los porfiados poster
9.0

In South America, Artemio, a young knife sharpener, joins a revolutionary movement whose members include Bragueton, an unemployed soldier; Domingo Acevedo, a compulsive gambler; Don Bachetta, a retired anarchist; and Eva, a young French woman with whom Artemio falls madly in love. This small group secretly plans to launch a terrorist attack. Love and friendship sustain the illusion, but passions soon run high in the closed environment of their cohabitation, giving way to the worst of human baseness and proving the ineffectiveness of collective action.

Los porfiados

2002

The Custodian poster
6.5

Living the mundane existence of a professional bodyguard, always in the shadows of his clients, Ruben decides to make a change that will finally give him a personal connection outside of his solitary world.

The Custodian

2007

Series credits

In the Mud poster
7.6

Five female prisoners forge a unique bond after a deadly accident... until corruption and turf wars within a ruthless prison threaten to destroy them.

In the Mud

2025

Envious poster
8.2

After a devastating breakup, Vicky, almost 40, embarks on a quest for new love, unaware it will lead her to a profound—and hilarious—self-discovery.

Envious

2024

My Sad Dead poster
6.2

A reclusive doctor with supernatural abilities faces a disruption when her young niece visits, bringing a different and more intense approach to their shared gift of communicating with spirits.

My Sad Dead

2026

Campanas en la noche poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Campanas en la noche

2019

Ringo. Glory and Death poster
7.5

After a string of bad contacts, Argentina’s greatest heavyweight boxer, Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena, arrives in Nevada in 1976 seeking to restart his career. There, Ringo unknowingly stumbles into the criminal world of Joe Conforte, who promises Ringo a bright future. But a bright future would not come, nor a sought-after rematch against Ali, as the boxer would be found dead in three months' time.

Ringo. Glory and Death

2023

The Absent Voice poster
7.8

When his older brother is found dead, apparently by suicide, the renowned psychoanalyst Pablo Rouviot is the only one convinced that it is a murder. With the assistance of Officer Cecilia Bermúdez as his sole ally, Pablo takes on the investigation, uncovering a much larger scheme with a serial killer at its core.

The Absent Voice

2024

Tiempo libre poster
8.0

A fairly realistic fiction by Martín Piroyansky about the life of Martín Piroyansky. The story revolves around an actor who loses his job due to an employment contract, which for many people is an unsolved mystery.

Tiempo libre

2015

El maestro poster
8.0

El Maestro is an Argentine miniseries co-produced by Pol-ka Productions, Turner Broadcasting System, eltrece and Cablevisión, which is broadcast by TNT, since September 13, 2017. It stars Julio Chávez, in the role of Prat, a former classical dance dancer who knew how to be a world figure.

El maestro

2017

Según Roxi poster
NR

Segun Roxi is a comedy featuring a mother who divides her world between friends and enemies. Desperately fighting to tackle the pitfalls of motherhood, Roxi faces her challenges with sincerity and humor combined.

Según Roxi

2016

Cromo poster
7.0

A scientist dies in mysterious circumstances while performing an investigation into a tannery in Corrientes. Her husband and his best friend (who was a lover of women) travel to the place to discover what had happened, and end up getting into an issue that threatens their lives.

Cromo

2015

El galán de Venecia poster
NR

Galán is a plumber who falls in love with Venecia, a millionaire girl who lives under the mantle of her father, Mr. Dolape, and the mistreatment of her stepmother Lucrecia, who prepares a plot with Carlos Carlos to obtain the worst ending.

El galán de Venecia

2017