
Directing
Héctor Olivera
Born 1931-04-05 · Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hector Olivera is a renowned Argentinian producer and director. His career was particularly successful during the end of the 70s and the 80s.
Acting credits
Documentary about Fernando Iglesias, “Tacholas”, a Spanish actor who arrived in Buenos Aires in 1929 and participated in 52 national films.
Tacholas, un actor galaico porteño
2004
NRA documentary reading and oral reconstruction, based on interviews and archival material, of the collaboration between Héctor Olivera and Roger Corman in the 1980s, which led to the production of ten films in Argentina. This is a virtually unknown period in the history of Argentine cinema. Currently a WIP movie.
Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina
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5.3Manuel is a lonely young man of upper middle class who lives in Buenos Aires with his mother. Due to a fortuitous circumstance, one day he discovers that his father, whom he does not know and whom he supposes living abroad, is in the country. He decides to go and look for him and on his motorcycle starts a long way south through Patagonia.
El camino
2000
Testimonies about the life and work of writer and journalist Osvaldo Soriano.
Soriano
1999
Behind the camera
4.4An epic from the dark ages about the legendary lost tribe of warrior women! The girls fly into danger, come up against fierce tribes, fall prey to sorcery, put to rest a family rivalry of centuries past and battle to victory!
Amazons
1986
6.2The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.
The Boss
1958
4.4Set during the days of the Roman Empire. A simple village is raided by Roman troops, and most of the people are whisked off to be slaves or killed. Three women survive and set off to liberate their people. When they arrive at the Roman city, they team up with the local underground to seek vengeance and liberation of the slaves.
Barbarian Queen
1985
7.0The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.
Night of the Pencils
1986
7.0The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.
Night of the Pencils
1986
7.1A 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
3.9When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.
Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
1973
6.9A man meets a former military service buddy who offers him a good deal. Money starts pouring in, but things change from one day to the next.
Sweet Money
1982
3.2Simon, son of the king, must flee when the empire is overthrown by the evil Shurka. Schooled in the arts of magic, he must find the Ring of Magic and the Sword of Power and defeat the wizard who killed his father. He is joined in his quest by the swordmaster Kor, his faithful protector Gulfax, and the Forest Wizard Hurla.
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom
1985
7.5Consists of musical performances, mostly Argentine folklore, many of which are accompanied by dancing. Several sequences were filmed in scenic locations throughout the country.
Argentinísima
1972
3.6In a world where women rule and men are meant only for breeding purposes, two women start a revolt against the system when they begin to believe that the men are treated poorly.
Stormquest
1988
6.6A motel that is open all day specializes in beautiful women, and a couple of men decide to visit their rooms.
Open Day and Night
1981
6.5Leonor Capulletti and Quique Monteschi, fanatics of the same club, love each other in a passionate as well as conflictive courtship, because their respective families are allied in opposing and irreconcilable factions.
Love's Successes
1979
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
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
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
4.8A 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
4.8A 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
4.8A 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
6.0A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault.
La gran ruta
1971
4.8The Valet enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano and Estelle Rigault, are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
No Exit
1962
6.5Music execs find out their songs are being pirated, so a detective and his assistant are hired to catch the culprits.
Discotheque of love
1980
NRA look into Argentina's rock scene post-Cromañon's tragedy. It does not just present the most popular songs by soloists and bands featured in the film, but it goes backstage and shows the artists’ private world, how they write their music, where they live, how they became what they are and what their dreams are.
Que sea rock
2006
4.5Miami DEA agent Cliff Adams is in South America working undercover for Gonzalo Reyes, the biggest cocaine exporter in South America. Cliff's fiancée, Janet Meade, is a reporter doing a story about Reyes. Reyes orders Cliff to kill Marcelo Villalba, who is running for his countries position as president, but Cliff can't bring himself to do it, because his assignment from the DEA is to work against Reyes. Reyes is afraid Villalba will put him out of business, and is afraid that Janet's story will do the same thing, so Reyes sends someone else after Villalba, and then Reyes has Janet kidnapped, and Cliff is the only one who can keep Reyes' plans from succeeding.
Cocaine Wars
1985
