Alejandro Doria

Directing

Alejandro Doria

Born 1936-01-11 · Martínez, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Alejandro Doria (Buenos Aires, November 1, 1936 - Buenos Aires, June 17, 2009) was an Argentine film director, television director, actor and theater director. In his career, he won many national and international awards, including the 2007 Goya Award and the Silver Columbus for Las manos, the Cóndor de Plata Award for Realizing, the South Award for Las manos, and the Montreal Festival Ecumenical Award for La island. The classic Argentine comedy film "Waiting for the float" is also his authorship (based on the play by Jacobo Langsner).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

18-j poster
7.0

A collection of 10 short films made by known Argentine directors on the AMIA bombing of July 18, 1994.

18-j

2004

Sofía poster
6.4

Set amidst a backdrop of political unrest and oppression in Argentina following the coup of the late 1980s, this impressive drama dwells upon a May-December love affair between a boy and a woman suspected of political subversion. When seventeen-year-old Pedro defiantly befriends political fugitive Sofia and provides her shelter, he creates a deep rift between himself, his family and his friends. Sofia is hunted because she was at one time in love with a Communist sympathizer. At first the relationship is purely platonic as Pedro helps her recover from a 23-day long flight that has left Sofia weak and starving for sleep. But as time passes, Pedro becomes increasingly involved with her and his schoolwork begins to suffer. Gradually he falls in love with her and she with him. But as the political situation grows more oppressive and the government steps up its search for subversives, the two begin making desperate plans to flee the country.

Sofía

1987

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

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

Waiting for the Hearse poster
8.1

Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?

Waiting for the Hearse

1985

Waiting for the Hearse poster
8.1

Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?

Waiting for the Hearse

1985

To Realize poster
7.2

After a brutal car accident, a young man falls into a coma and is left to be looked after by a doctor who suffers in his personal life and commits himself fully to save his patient.

To Realize

1984

To Realize poster
7.2

After a brutal car accident, a young man falls into a coma and is left to be looked after by a doctor who suffers in his personal life and commits himself fully to save his patient.

To Realize

1984

The Hands poster
6.1

The priest Mario Pantaleo discovers he has some power to diagnose and cure diseases through the laying on of hands. But the police and the church hierarchy will against him.

The Hands

2006

The Island poster
5.5

A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.

The Island

1979

The Island poster
5.5

A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.

The Island

1979

Proceso a la infamia poster
7.0

The disputes between two leaders, set in 1930s Cuidad de Buenos Aires.

Proceso a la infamia

1978

Fears poster
6.5

A plague ravages Buenos Aires. Those affected by it are executed on the spot; those who are healthy should report to the authorities. Escaping both from the authorities and from the disease, seven survivors head south.

Fears

1980

Fears poster
6.5

A plague ravages Buenos Aires. Those affected by it are executed on the spot; those who are healthy should report to the authorities. Escaping both from the authorities and from the disease, seven survivors head south.

Fears

1980

Contragolpe poster
7.0

Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan.

Contragolpe

1979

Los pasajeros del jardín poster
10.0

A man's terminal illness disrupts the happiness of his marriage.

Los pasajeros del jardín

1982

Los pasajeros del jardín poster
10.0

A man's terminal illness disrupts the happiness of his marriage.

Los pasajeros del jardín

1982