Juan Manuel Tenuta

Acting

Juan Manuel Tenuta

Born 1924-01-23 · Fray Bentos, Río Negro, Uruguay

Acting credits

Part-Time Lifeguards II: The Crazy Beach poster
6.6

Emilio and Guillermo are two sports club employees, that are fired due to their incompetence at work. They overhead that their favourite girls are going on vacation to Mar del Plata, and they decide to go. Once there they go to the casino and lose all their money, they find jobs as lifeguards.

Part-Time Lifeguards II: The Crazy Beach

1989

Cheese Head poster
5.9

It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 1993. Within the club, the four define themselves as outsiders, since they do not participate in the sports activities that are practiced there, and therefore do not fit into the logic that governs the place, being permanently bothered and mocked by the rest of the children of their age.

Cheese Head

2006

Maldita Cocaína poster
4.3

A father searches for the drug dealer responsible for his daughter's death. He kidnaps who he believes is the girlfriend of one of the thugs; the woman turns out to be an undercover agent of the DEA, who will help him carry out her revenge.

Maldita Cocaína

2001

Camila poster
7.2

In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.

Camila

1984

Vísperas poster
9.0

Life is a long way to adapt to fear. Monica, 33, recently separated, waits for the result of a medical examination, but has no courage to break the news to her self-centered relatives.

Vísperas

2007

Un Vintén pa’l Judas poster
NR

Christmas Eve. The children ask for money for the Judas (Un Vintén pa’l Judas), and the protagonist, a failed tango singer without means or will to live, meets a friend, a public employee, in search of some rummage. This one asks him to buy a lottery. The tango singer, in need of money to buy a guitar to use in a singing contest, collects the winnings for himself, betraying the trust of his friend, in the same way as the Judas that the children burn on the streets.

Un Vintén pa’l Judas

1959

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

Casi no nos dimos cuenta poster
8.0

A woman describes to her psychoanalyst the details of how she met her partner until the moment of their separation.

Casi no nos dimos cuenta

1990

No artwork available
NR

A sad woman decides to embark on a journey in a camper van and during the trip she encounters situations and characters that help her fulfill her daughter's dream.

El cine de Maite

2008

Cuatro pícaros bomberos poster
9.0

Four friends, who are volunteer firefighters, get into a series of problems when they discover a fraud.

Cuatro pícaros bomberos

1979

Night of the Pencils poster
7.0

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.

Night of the Pencils

1986

La Casa del Amor poster
10.0

A house in Buenos Aires where the oldest profession in the world is in practice.

La Casa del Amor

1973

Chechechela, una chica de barrio poster
9.0

A young woman remembers her three previous love relationships just before she gets married.

Chechechela, una chica de barrio

1986

Pleasure cruise poster
7.0

Two married men make a short trip to relax

Pleasure cruise

1980

The Underground Man poster
5.8

Set in 1930, a tormented man and his butler live in an old house in Adrogué, where pornographic films are filmed in the basement following the grandfather’s testament.

The Underground Man

1981

Rita y Li poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rita y Li

2011

Stolen Moments poster
9.0

1947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters Letty's dreams, her loneliness that only Miguel, a very young pianist, may share with her. Tomas, her husband, loves Letty and eagerly defends her against all the village, while she keeps playing her part of a 'femme fatale' with a romantic past and a very adventurous file. But on a windy day, a handsome and strange foreigner appears, coming from the sea, a man just as those Bette Davis used to fall in love with. For Letty, reality begins to look like the most incredible dreams of her. But this will call the police inspector's attention. With that mysterious spy, Letty will be involved in a story that will end as those stories she was so fond of when she was going to the movie theater of her little willage.

Stolen Moments

1998

Murder in The Senate poster
5.2

Historical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England.

Murder in The Senate

1984

La pandilla aventurera poster
9.0

In 1969, excited by the arrival of man on the Moon, a group of boys devised a rocket.

La pandilla aventurera

1990

Bárbara poster
8.5

Barbara is an Italian actress, superstar, who comes to Argentina to star in her own musical. She meets a photographer named Mauro and falls in love with him; but Mauro keeps a secret that she will soon discover.

Bárbara

1980

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

I Don't Want to Talk About It poster
6.5

In an Argentine village in the 1930s, the willful Leonor discovers that her beloved daughter, Charlotte, has dwarfism. Attempting to let her have as normal a childhood as possible, Leonor never discusses Charlotte's lack of stature, nor lets anyone else in the village ever mention it. As Charlotte grows up into a smart and self-possessed young woman, local eccentric Ludovico, who collects miniatures, becomes smitten with her.

I Don't Want to Talk About It

1993

Las sorpresas poster
9.0

"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there is a love triangle in which the deceived husband is blind.

Las sorpresas

1975

Siempre es difícil volver a casa poster
5.5

Four desperate men decide to rob a provincial bank. The plan is carried out, but something goes wrong and they must flee. Little by little, the victims become victimizers as they pursue the gang.

Siempre es difícil volver a casa

1992