Luis Brandoni

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

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Strangers in the Park poster
6.5

A 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

Humo bajo el agua poster
3.5

A 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

San Pugliese poster
NR

Osvaldo 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

Karakol poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Karakol

2020

Carroceros poster
8.0

A 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

Hermanos, una historia de sangre poster
10.0

Documentary 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

Franklin, historia de un billete poster
3.6

Correa 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

Un tal Mario poster
NR

In 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

Heroic Losers poster
7.6

In 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

4x4 poster
6.2

Buenos 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

The Weasel's Tale poster
7.5

A 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

You Only Live Once poster
5.7

Leo 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

My Masterpiece poster
7.3

Arturo, 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

La Suerte en tus Manos poster
5.5

A professional poker player seeks out an old flame after his marriage fizzles.

La Suerte en tus Manos

2012

The Retirement poster
6.5

Rodolfo (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

Tokio poster
5.5

The story of two strangers who decide to overcome distance and loneliness, turning a casual meeting into an opportunity for a new beginning.

Tokio

2015

Aráoz y la verdad poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aráoz y la verdad

2015

2000s · 8 titles

It's Not You, It's Me poster
6.4

Thirty-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

A Day in Paradise poster
5.4

A 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

Waiting for the Hearse 2: The Party is Over poster
5.8

Nora and Antonio organize a prestigious celebration and invite their humble relatives.

Waiting for the Hearse 2: The Party is Over

2009

What Your Eyes Don't See poster
7.2

A 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

Felicitas poster
4.2

Buenos 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

Democracy poster
6.0

1983: 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

El país de nomeacuerdo poster
NR

This 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

Los pasos perdidos poster
8.0

An 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

Living Together poster
6.3

Two 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

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

El sueño de los héroes poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

El sueño de los héroes

1997

El verso poster
7.0

Between 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

The Fury poster
4.9

The 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

A Shadow You Soon Will Be poster
4.5

This 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

The Damned Rib poster
6.0

Four 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

Frontera sur poster
3.9

This 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

El mundo contra mí poster
10.0

An 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

De mi barrio con amor poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

De mi barrio con amor

1996

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 15 titles

The Money poster
7.5

Stories 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

Alone poster
10.0

A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals.

Alone

1976

Rebellion in Patagonia poster
7.6

In 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

La fidelidad poster
6.5

A 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

José María y María José (Una pareja de hoy) poster
NR

A couple of university students face the dilemma of abortion.

José María y María José (Una pareja de hoy)

1973

People in Buenos Aires poster
6.8

The romance of two migrants in Buenos Aires intercut with documentary footage of early '70s Argentina.

People in Buenos Aires

1974

Me enamoré sin darme cuenta poster
7.0

Two men love the same woman and plan ways to have her

Me enamoré sin darme cuenta

1972

Mr. President poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mr. President

1970

Autocine mon amour poster
7.0

A series of crazy sequences take place at a late-night drive-in movie theater.

Autocine mon amour

1972

Juan que reía poster
7.2

Juan 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

La gran ruta poster
6.0

A 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

No artwork available
7.5

Set in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, it showed the formation, rise and fall of a criminal gang.

Paño verde

1973

Acto de posesión poster
4.2

Raquel's not able to have children, so she and her boyfriend manipulate another young woman into bearing his child.

Acto de posesión

1977

The Truce poster
7.5

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

The Truce

1974

Basuras humanas poster
4.8

An adventuress causes two friends to confront each other, fakes the death of one and kills the wife of the other.

Basuras humanas

1972

Series credits

Sres Papis poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sres Papis

2014

Alta comedia poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alta comedia

1970

The Boss poster
8.2

Eliseo 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

Tiempo final poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Tiempo final

2000

A Rooster for Esculapio poster
7.0

A 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

The Man of Your Dreams poster
8.1

No synopsis available yet.

The Man of Your Dreams

2011

Nothing poster
7.8

An 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

Una familia especial como la tuya poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una familia especial como la tuya

2005

Señores papis poster
6.0

The 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

Reading Again Mafalda poster
7.8

This 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

Derecho Viejo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Derecho Viejo

2019

Durmiendo con mi jefe poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Durmiendo con mi jefe

2003

Cain y Abel poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cain y Abel

2010

My Brother-In-Law poster
9.5

Long 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