Javier Drolas

Acting

Javier Drolas

Born

1972-04-03 (54)

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

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

Known for

The End poster
6.1

‘The End’ chronicles the passing of time in friendships and romances. The story is told through the memories of five friends who have partaken of the pleasures of youth in Rio de Janeiro, from the glamorous 1960s to the colorful 1980s. The five get together at the funeral of the most beloved of them, in the early 1990s. Adapted from the best-selling novel by award-winning actress and writer Fernanda Torres. The author herself has adapted the novel for television, diving into profound issues, such as aging and death. Always with Torres’ own celebrated brand of elegant, witty humor. The cast features a number of award-winning, household Brazilian actors.

The End

2023

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

Conflictos modernos poster
NR

The series proposes a new look at the human bonds of the new century. Each of the chapters develops a unique story. They are focused on the conflicts that their characters face in the face of the resistance of a society that often does not fully accept new realities, a product of the transformations that are currently being experienced.

Conflictos modernos

2015

En viaje poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

En viaje

2017

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

A Menina Sem Qualidades poster
5.4

In a middle-class school the story of the relationship between two young students, Ana and Alex, develops. A passion relationship, addiction and friendship that escapes the standards and at the same time is the translation of how young people today relate, among them, with other generations, with the institutions and social rules.

A Menina Sem Qualidades

2013

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

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

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

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

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

A Mother's Embrace poster
6.2

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

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

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

El público poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El público

2020

Legítima defensa poster
2.5

A prosecutor returns to his hometown to try and solve a series of homicides connected to his past.

Legítima defensa

2022

Bahía Blanca poster
5.4

Mario, a university professor, uses his research on the writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada to escape from his past. Settled in Bahía Blanca, the new city seems to be the ideal place for him to forget, until a chance encounter with an old friend unleashes the worst of dangers.

Bahía Blanca

2021

2010s · 17 titles

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

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

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

Rosita poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rosita

2019

You're Killing Me Susana poster
6.7

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

You're Killing Me Susana

2016

Lejos de Pekín poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lejos de Pekín

2019

I'm Gilda poster
7.6

The life and death of the tropical singer Gilda.

I'm Gilda

2016

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

Luna en Leo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Luna en Leo

2013

Manhunt: Bloody Tango poster
5.4

LKA-Zielfahnderin Hanna Landauer and her new colleague Röwer travel to Montevideo to find the couple Tezlaff. They once kidnapped an industrialist and extorted a 10 million ransom. The money has since disappeared, alongside a third unknown hostage taker.

Manhunt: Bloody Tango

2019

El padre de mis hijos poster
3.4

Eva isn't having the best time: her boyfriend dumped her overnight, for no apparent reason, and she's forced to move back in with her parents. She decides to have her first child, but she has no one to be with, and what begins as a worry turns into an obsession.

El padre de mis hijos

2018

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

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

In the clouds poster
7.0

An argentine woman and an American man have a cultural disagreement about intimacy and how romance is conceived.

In the clouds

2014

The Mural of Siqueiros poster
5.9

David Alfaro Siqueiros, recognized Mexican muralist, travels to Argentina in the thirties with the purpose of giving a few conferences and paint a mural of revolutionary subject matter, which faces local political rejection. The press mogul head of the newspaper Critica, Natalio Botana, personal friend to the President of the Nation Agustín P. Justo, propose Siqueiros to collaborate in the cultural supplement of the diary and paint a mural in the basement of his Villa Los Granados. Siqueiros accepts and does that his wife the poet Blanca Luz Brum meets him, his arrival to Los Granados and his romance with Botana provokes the jealousies of his powerful anarchist wife Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Siqueiros himself, which turns the Villa almost in one of the scenes of the Ejercicio Plástico, how Siqueiros named his work.

The Mural of Siqueiros

2011

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

The planets poster
NR

A woman who comes to transform the city. Two friends now at odds forever. A man who invades apartments to film women from afar. A writer who plagiarizes books and a translator who discovers it. A UFO epidemic in an unbearable summer.

The planets

2012

Series credits

The End poster
6.1

‘The End’ chronicles the passing of time in friendships and romances. The story is told through the memories of five friends who have partaken of the pleasures of youth in Rio de Janeiro, from the glamorous 1960s to the colorful 1980s. The five get together at the funeral of the most beloved of them, in the early 1990s. Adapted from the best-selling novel by award-winning actress and writer Fernanda Torres. The author herself has adapted the novel for television, diving into profound issues, such as aging and death. Always with Torres’ own celebrated brand of elegant, witty humor. The cast features a number of award-winning, household Brazilian actors.

The End

2023

Conflictos modernos poster
NR

The series proposes a new look at the human bonds of the new century. Each of the chapters develops a unique story. They are focused on the conflicts that their characters face in the face of the resistance of a society that often does not fully accept new realities, a product of the transformations that are currently being experienced.

Conflictos modernos

2015

En viaje poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

En viaje

2017

A Menina Sem Qualidades poster
5.4

In a middle-class school the story of the relationship between two young students, Ana and Alex, develops. A passion relationship, addiction and friendship that escapes the standards and at the same time is the translation of how young people today relate, among them, with other generations, with the institutions and social rules.

A Menina Sem Qualidades

2013

Variaciones Walsh poster
10.0

In each episode, which takes place independently of each other, commissioners Jiménez (Luis Luque) and Laurenzi (Darío Grandinetti) must solve different police cases that will be presented to them and will be a challenge for them, for which they will receive the help of the editor literary Daniel Hernández (Nicolás Cabré) who is looking to write a book about crimes.

Variaciones Walsh

2015

Gigantes poster
NR

This series narrates the events that a series of characters experience around different spaces that have been emblematic at a certain moment in history and that are currently forgotten. It combines documentary with fiction to show the neglect produced by abandonment and how it affects the lives of the characters. Each episode deals with a different place.

Gigantes

2011

Jorge poster
8.7

Jorge Peker (Santiago Gobernori) is a frustrated lawyer who does not practice his profession and who is employed in a call center. One afternoon Jorge learned that his father had died. A few days later, at the wake of his father, his girlfriend Luciana (Charo López) leaves him and learns that his father left him as a legacy a house. The conflict appears when you realize that you can not keep this huge house alone, which forces you to rent a room and the only candidate that comes is Ludovico (Javier Drolas), a live, active and enterprising boy, his complete opposite. Ludo is paralyzed and walks in a wheelchair. This makes Jorge fight against his prejudices and learn to live, not with someone different, but simply, with living with someone, accepting others and considering them. And so he sets out on the royal road to be able to form the family he always wanted.

Jorge

2013

A year without us poster
6.3

Ricardo y Clara have been dating since they had acne, but one day they realize they deserve to be alone, at least for a year, so they gather their friends and surprize them with the news.

A year without us

2015