Javier Drolas

Acting

Javier Drolas

Born 1972-04-03 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Javier Drolas (Buenos Aires, born April 3, 1972) is an Argentine theatre, film, and television actor.

Acting credits

Eighteen poster
NR

On the first birthday without her recently deceased mother, Paula starts to remember her. While trying to deal with her own grief, Paula must find a way to connect with her father, Ricardo, who seems to be drifting away from her each passing day.

Eighteen

2025

Sidewalls poster
7.5

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

Sidewalls

2011

Sublime poster
7.1

When 16-year-old Manu realises that he has fallen in love with his bandmate Felipe, turbulent emotions start brewing beneath the surface. How do you avoid losing a friendship once its very foundation has shifted?

Sublime

2022

Self-adhesive Love poster
2.0

Two strangers meet in a bar and after sleeping together for the first time they secrete a substance that adheres them forever.

Self-adhesive Love

2007

The Messenger poster
5.0

Vera, imprisoned at a military fortress during the dictatorship, 1969, get to know a soldier, Armando, who, in the face of torture, decides to take messages from Vera to his family and establishes an affective relationship with D. Maria, Vera’s mother. Despite the horrors of the time, the film works on this possibility of a dialogue between two lonely and lost human beings: a high-middle-class lady and a young southerner of rural origin. Today, Vera, aged 70, is a professor at the university, and debates with her students about politics, forgiveness and Hannah Arendt.

The Messenger

2024

Superdulce poster
9.0

A sinister pot of dulce de leche comes into the lives of Alejandro and Lucía, and will change everything.

Superdulce

2017

How to Win Enemies poster
5.8

Lucas, a young lawyer obsessed with crime novels, turns a chance encounter with a beautiful woman into a date ending in his bed. But when he wakes up alone, missing a secret stash of cash, the game’s afoot. Inspired by his favorite gumshoes, Lucas looks for clues. What was once a love story becomes the caper to end all capers.

How to Win Enemies

2015

Rosita poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rosita

2019

You're Killing Me Susana poster
6.6

An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him.

You're Killing Me Susana

2016

The Good Intentions poster
6.3

An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.

The Good Intentions

2019

The Book of Delights poster
4.7

The film brings Clarice Lispector’s novel Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres to the current days. In the plot, Lóri is a lonely and melancholic woman. She divides her time between her duties as a school teacher and her relationships, which are always fast and shallow. By chance, she meets Ulisses, an acknowledged Philosophy professor, who is self centered and provocative. Although he knows nothing about women, Lóri learns with him how to love and to face her own loneliness.

The Book of Delights

2022

Sidewalls poster
7.1

Mariana and Martin have similar lives: the same loneliness, the same neurosis, even the same apartment, but they can’t meet. Their only link is also what separates them: the sidewall.

Sidewalls

2006

A Mother's Embrace poster
6.3

In 1996, during one of the biggest tropical storms ever to hit Rio de Janeiro, Ana and her firefighter team must evacuate a nursing home at risk of collapsing — but they soon discover the place’s mysterious residents have other plans with the arrival of the rain.

A Mother's Embrace

2024

I'm Gilda poster
7.6

The life and death of the tropical singer Gilda.

I'm Gilda

2016

The Inner Ear poster
NR

After an accident, Lorenzo begins to hear a persistent ringing that profoundly alters his relationship with the world.

The Inner Ear

2026

Lejos de Pekín poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lejos de Pekín

2019

Sinuous Road poster
5.4

A former Olympic athlete must return to the city where she grew up to fix family problems and face her past.

Sinuous Road

2018

Luna en Leo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Luna en Leo

2013

Lo nuestro no funciona poster
9.0

Three men and a woman meet for a few days on an island in the Tigre. The relations between them are ambiguous.

Lo nuestro no funciona

2003

No artwork available
NR

42-year-old photographer Jo has her first baby and celebrates the joy of motherhood with her husband and friends. But one drink awakens an old addiction and she struggles to stay in control, protect her role as a mother, and keep her life from falling apart.

Imperfect

The Red Star poster
6.0

The investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.

The Red Star

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La hora de los brujos

The Returned poster
5.5

Julia, wife of a wealthy lord living near the Iguazu Falls, has nightmares for several days. The lord builds a fence to ward off the indigenous people, the Guarani tribe, but Julia is still anxious about her son Manuel’s safety. One day Manuel suddenly disappears, and when searching for him, Julia runs into her maid, Kerana, who was believed to have died one year before, under the falls.

The Returned

2019

Severina poster
6.4

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?

Severina

2017