
Acting
Luis Brandoni
Born
1940-04-18 (86)
Place of birth
Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
74 titles
Luis "Beto" Brandoni (1940-2026) was one of Argentina's most renowned and significant actors. He was born in Dock Sud, a port community east of Avellaneda. He debuted on the stage in 1962, on television in 1963, and on film in 1966. He joined the National Comedy Theater in 1964 under the direction of Luisa Vehil. Politically active in the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), he served as cultural policy adviser for President Raúl Alfonsín (1983-89), and was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1993, where he served until 2001. He was an unsuccessful Argentine Senate candidate for the UCR in 2005, and for Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province, with nominee Ricardo Alfonsín, in 200…
Known for
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Sres Papis
2014
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
8.2Eliseo is the superintendent of an upscale building. On the surface, is cordial and docile in his role, but underneath Eliseo believes himself the omnipotent figure of the community — meddling in the affairs of residents and pulling strings as he sees fit. Eliseo's only concern is protecting his job, which comes under threat by a proposed pool project.
The Boss
2022
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Tiempo final
2000
7.0A young working-class man comes from Misiones (an Argentinian province) to Buenos Aires, with a fighting rooster, looking for his brother, and gets involved with low life characters, who introduce him to a world of crime.
A Rooster for Esculapio
2017
7.6In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.
Heroic Losers
2019
Film credits
2020s · 8 titles
6.5A former communist militant and a "live and let live" man form an unlikely friendship on a park bench, sharing their life stories with humor and heart.
Strangers in the Park
2026
3.5A look at love and friendship in a historic moment for Argentina after the recovery of democracy. It tells the story of Julián, a young ranch hand who is reunited with Patricio, the son of his boss and his childhood friend. The passage of time and being face to face in the countryside where they were born, will make them realize that their childhood affection has become an indomitable feeling.
Humo bajo el agua
2023
NROsvaldo Pugliese transcended the world, created his own style in tango and became a saint against bad luck for musicians. In the film, his daughter, granddaughter, musicians and fans retrace his steps to unveil this mystery.
San Pugliese
2024
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Karakol
2020
8.0A documentary about the fans of "Waiting for the Carriage", the Argentine film classic directed by Alejandro Doria, and which investigates the obvious and hidden reasons for this phenomenon.
Carroceros
2021
10.0Documentary that follows filmmaker Mariano Cohn's struggle to find the truth behind the mysterious death of his brother in 2015.
Hermanos, una historia de sangre
2024
3.6Correa is a retired boxer who spent much of his life running "errands" for Bernal, a violent mobster, who was also his former manager. A mistaken murder and his loyalty led to a few years in prison. Upon leaving him, he decides to turn his life upside down with Rosa, a prostitute who is the victim of a trafficking network commanded by Bernal and the police.
Franklin, historia de un billete
2022
NRIn the 70s, Mario Mactas, a prominent journalist for the magazine Satiricón, went into exile in Barcelona due to political repression in Argentina. His return introduced a unique vision of current affairs, challenging conventions still in force in the digital age.
Un tal Mario
2024
2010s · 9 titles
7.6In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.
Heroic Losers
2019
6.2Buenos Aires, Argentina. A luxurious van is parked on the sidewalk. A man enters with the purpose of stealing whatever he can find, but when he wants to leave, he cannot. The doors do not open, the control panel does not respond: the van has become an armored box and he is trapped like a mouse.
4x4
2019
7.5A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.
The Weasel's Tale
2019
5.7Leo is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. After taping a murder and keeping the evidence he runs away to stay alive and, in order to survive, he has to cover up himself. Under a new identity he will become an orthodox Hasidic Jew. A french ruthless killer, Duges and his associates López and Harken will hunt Leo. Their nonstop chase has only one exhilarating speed: all- out. Time is running out and his enemies are getting closer. Now Leo a ragtag bunch of misfits will face the biggest challenge of their lives.
You Only Live Once
2017
7.3Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.
My Masterpiece
2018
5.5A professional poker player seeks out an old flame after his marriage fizzles.
La Suerte en tus Manos
2012
6.5Rodolfo (Luis Brandoni) is a retired doctor. Since he was widowed a few years ago, he lives alone in his house. For an unexpected event, his daughter Laura (Nancy Dupláa) with whom he barely speaks, needs to move with him for a few days. The coexistence will bring old discussions to the table, wounds that did not heal and the opportunity for them to connect again.
The Retirement
2019
5.5The story of two strangers who decide to overcome distance and loneliness, turning a casual meeting into an opportunity for a new beginning.
Tokio
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Aráoz y la verdad
2015
2000s · 8 titles
6.4Thirty-year-old Javier is a surgeon and in his free time works as a disc jockey. He decides to marry and move to the United States with his girlfriend María. They make all their plans; they wed, and then María is the first to move and make contacts in their new home, while Javier packs up in Argentina and prepares to start his new life in the States. While he is on the way to the airport, he receives a call from María telling him that she is confused and has been seeing someone else.
It's Not You, It's Me
2004
5.4A cartoonist and painter who can not stand out and make a living, among other things, as a photographer of news magazines and a beautiful young woman who comes to Buenos Aires from inside the country to try to make it as a model and actress, living a love as passionate as fraught with disagreements.
A Day in Paradise
2003
5.8Nora and Antonio organize a prestigious celebration and invite their humble relatives.
Waiting for the Hearse 2: The Party is Over
2009
7.2A murder in a house in Tigre triggers an investigation in the sphere of a political weekly. Crimes follow one another and the police can't solve the puzzle. A magazine journalist will try to get to the truth without knowing that more than one surprise awaits her.
What Your Eyes Don't See
2000
4.2Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and fear sets them apart along more than ten years. When they are finally reunited, will they be able to overcome the pain and tragedy that haunts them?
Felicitas
2009
6.01983: After more than seven years of terror, the Argentineans recover the democracy. The reconstruction of a climate of time and an event that marked a point of break not only in the policy but in the culture and the arts of Argentina
Democracy
2008
NRThis is the story of an optimistic and amnesiac people who, at the slightest glimmer of light, are prone to forget the pain caused by repeating their mistakes at the polls or by knocking on the doors of the barracks, and rush into hopeful celebration: a dubious World Cup, a war with England, the coming of democracy, etc. And so, between pain and celebration, they await that promised future of abundance.
El país de nomeacuerdo
2005
8.0An Argentinean family living in Spain has their lives rocked when a famous author from their home country claims that their daughter is actually his granddaughter who was lost during a war.
Los pasos perdidos
2001
1990s · 10 titles
6.3Two single men in their late forties spend regular weekends in a semi-derelict house on the Paraná river delta near Buenos Aires. However, when a girl asks for shelter from a storm, both men are forced to re-evaluate their lives and their friendship.
Living Together
1994
6.4A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.
I Don't Owe 100 Times
1990
5.5No synopsis available yet.
El sueño de los héroes
1997
7.0Between farce and grotesque, John, who has lost his job, in a collective versea values of a knife sharpener, can not against debts contracted or can with his family, wife and two kids. One day, the woman left, runs out of credit and Juan is left with only his dream of being a radio announcer.
El verso
1996
4.9The life of federal judge Raúl Lombardi and his journalist son, Marcos, changes forever when they become entangled in a web of corruption and drug trafficking involving law enforcement officers, judges, and other high-ranking officials.
The Fury
1997
4.5This film follows the exploits of a middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early '80s following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a strange travelling millionaire, Barante, the hobo, and Coluccini, a bankrupt circus owner who involves "the engineer" in a rigged card game..
A Shadow You Soon Will Be
1994
6.0Four women decide to go together to have fun at a men's strip show. On the trip, the taxi driver pays attention to their conversation where each one tells the others her ideal of a man. Since then, he decides to pass himself off as the ideal man.
The Damned Rib
1999
3.9This historical drama addresses European immigration to the Americas (in this case to Buenos Aires, Argentina) during the last two decades of the 19th century. Among its main characters are a Spanish immigrant, a German one, and an established "Argentine." They compete for the affection of a more established female Spanish immigrant, now a successful businesswoman, albeit a prostitute.
Frontera sur
1998
10.0An overweight teenager tells a video camera that she will commit suicide in three days unless something emotional happens to her first.
El mundo contra mí
1996
8.0No synopsis available yet.
De mi barrio con amor
1996
1980s · 5 titles
8.1Mama 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
8.3No synopsis available yet.
Seré cualquier cosa, pero te quiero
1986
7.2After 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
6.9Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.
Made in Argentina
1987
5.4In times of dictatorship Argentina (1977), a young journalist suffers attacks of paranoia when he discovers suspicious persons , which could be paramilitaries in front of his building. Backdrop the last matches of World Cup 1978 Argentina live.
There Are Some Guys Downstairs
1985
1970s · 15 titles
7.5Stories whose common denominator is the lack of money: a young man who wants to capture a ticket, a boy-scout who dreams of singing the lottery jackpot, a frustrated self-robbery and a playboy who marries the daughter of a butcher.
The Money
1970
10.0A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals.
Alone
1976
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
6.5A man who meets with his lover in a hostel is caught in the act by his mother-in-law, who alerts his wife and lawyer.
La fidelidad
1970
NRA couple of university students face the dilemma of abortion.
José María y María José (Una pareja de hoy)
1973
6.8The romance of two migrants in Buenos Aires intercut with documentary footage of early '70s Argentina.
People in Buenos Aires
1974
7.0Two men love the same woman and plan ways to have her
Me enamoré sin darme cuenta
1972
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Mr. President
1970
7.0A series of crazy sequences take place at a late-night drive-in movie theater.
Autocine mon amour
1972
7.2Juan Libonatti, a seller of fine wines, like up in the company where he works. His car, a brand new Citroen, will be an essential tool to sell more wine in less time and be able to move up. But one day it is stolen and he had not paid the insurance fee. That will be the beginning of a tragedy that will lead to self-destruction.
Juan que reía
1976
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
Set in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, it showed the formation, rise and fall of a criminal gang.
Paño verde
1973
4.2Raquel's not able to have children, so she and her boyfriend manipulate another young woman into bearing his child.
Acto de posesión
1977
7.5A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
The Truce
1974
4.8An adventuress causes two friends to confront each other, fakes the death of one and kills the wife of the other.
Basuras humanas
1972
1960s · 5 titles
7.0Three colleagues must decide which one of them will be fired when the company they work for starts a downsizing process.
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo
1968
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La cigarra está que arde
1967
10.0A group of porteños attend the grand final between Manchester and Estudiantes.
We Are the Best
1968
8.0The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.
Maternidad sin hombres
1968
6.2A young mechanic ventures into motorcycle racing, but then decides to compete in motorsport disciplines.
Turismo de carretera
1968
Series credits
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sres Papis
2014
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
8.2Eliseo is the superintendent of an upscale building. On the surface, is cordial and docile in his role, but underneath Eliseo believes himself the omnipotent figure of the community — meddling in the affairs of residents and pulling strings as he sees fit. Eliseo's only concern is protecting his job, which comes under threat by a proposed pool project.
The Boss
2022
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Tiempo final
2000
7.0A young working-class man comes from Misiones (an Argentinian province) to Buenos Aires, with a fighting rooster, looking for his brother, and gets involved with low life characters, who introduce him to a world of crime.
A Rooster for Esculapio
2017
8.1No synopsis available yet.
The Man of Your Dreams
2011
7.8An iconic bon vivant, who barely has enough resources to maintain his affluent lifestyle, hires a young woman from Paraguay to replace the recently deceased maid who took care of him for more than 40 years.
Nothing
2023
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Una familia especial como la tuya
2005
6.0The story tells the experiences of four modern parents Favio Carbonetti (Luciano Castro), Ignacio Moreno (Joaquín Furriel), Franco Bertossi (Luciano Cáceres) and Mauro de Leone (Peto Menahem) and attractive friends who become friends by sharing daily talks at the door of your children's Kindergarten.
Señores papis
2014
7.8This documentary series reveals the origin of Quino's iconic cartoon and his sources of inspiration. Through a combination of stock material, interviews with famous Mafalda fans, and testimonies from historians, editors, and Quino's friends and family, the series offers a fresh look at this classic through the Maitena, Liniers, Montt, Tute, Rep, Kemchs, and Raquel Riba Rossi's analysis.
Reading Again Mafalda
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Derecho Viejo
2019
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Durmiendo con mi jefe
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cain y Abel
2010
9.5Long after becoming a widower with a daughter to raise, Roberto remarries. On his wedding day, his brother-in-law reappears, causing him a lot of trouble.
My Brother-In-Law
1993
