Alejandro Awada

Acting

Alejandro Awada

Born

1951-12-07 (74)

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

82 titles

Alejandro Awada is an Argentine actor recognized for his work across film, theatre, and television. He's had notable roles in Historia de un clan (2015), The Aura (2005), Gone Fishing (2012), El marginal (2016), The Secretary (2020) and Yosi, the Regretful Spy (2022). He's the son of Abraham Awada, a Lebanese immigrant businessman, founder of the Awada clothing brand. He has four siblings, one of which is former First Lady Juliana Awada.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 25 titles

The Bar poster
6.3

In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar.

The Bar

2017

The Games Maker poster
5.4

Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save his family and defeat Morodian, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true games maker.

The Games Maker

2014

The Unseen poster
6.5

The film "Los Últimos" takes us into post-apocalyptic not-so-distant future in which there is war over water. This war reaches Latin America and the story follows a young couple trying to escape refugee camp in Bolivia and find better life in the west by the Pacific Ocean.

The Unseen

2017

The Mystery of Happiness poster
6.2

Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio suddenly vanishes, Santiago and Eugenio’s wife, join forces to look for him. What they discover is not what they set out to find, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.

The Mystery of Happiness

2014

Las voces poster
NR

Shortly before dying, dying, Ema tells her granddaughter about her grandfather. This reawakens in Clara, the girl's mother, an interest in knowing something about her father, whom she never met.

Las voces

2012

Francis: Pray for Me poster
6.7

A look at the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, form his early childhood days in Argentina to his becoming Pope Francis.

Francis: Pray for Me

2015

Amateur poster
4.0

Martin is a lonely television director who becomes obsessed with his neighbor Isabel when he finds an amateur porn video in which she participates. However Isabel turns out to be the wife of the owner of the TV network where he works.

Amateur

2016

La cola poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La cola

2012

La Voz poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Voz

2010

Samurai poster
NR

A Japanese immigrant (Nicolas Nakayama) and a war veteran (Alejandro Awada) search for an exiled samurai in the mountains of Argentina.

Samurai

2013

Surviving the 70's poster
5.0

A disgruntled book editor is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by a woman, who threatens to do the same if he does not read her book.

Surviving the 70's

2015

Gone Fishing poster
5.5

A recovering alcoholic travels to the untamed coast of Patagonia to reconnect with his estranged daughter in this gentle yet deeply resonant drama from Argentine writer-director Carlos Sorin.

Gone Fishing

2012

Kluge poster
2.0

Kluge a psychological thriller, a suspense story, about a French journalist, Anne, who is preparing a research paper on Argentina by interviewing female professionals. Travel to Buenos Aires for a series of interviews and begins with Marisa Losada, an illustrator of children's books. In the first encounter, an accidental exchange of identical cell phones takes place, and Anne receives shortly after a call from a certain Kluge who takes her for Marisa - whom she does not know personally - and makes a strange proposal to her.

Kluge

2010

El jugador poster
6.1

A retired gambler who works for a wealthy meat entrepreneur, travels to Mar del Plata where he must give a considerable sum of money to his boss's grandchildren.

El jugador

2016

Safe Passage poster
4.5

In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked his life for his ideals. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Mario, his son, who has been away from Miguel for a long time, now feels compelled to unravel the mystery of a name that, like a curse, pursues his father.

Safe Passage

2015

Cuando yo te vuelva a ver poster
NR

Thirty years after living in Spain, Paco returns to Argentina to sponsor the wedding of a friend. Retired and separated from his Spanish wife, he is reunited with his affections. As always, in the last thirty years, Margarita, and retired as a teacher, life creeps forward. In the wedding party, best man and Paco Margarita like in charge of catering, intersect again but not found, until he discovers a video of the party. Love truncated by the absence and her refusal to answer his letters, reborn in a search for lost time.

Cuando yo te vuelva a ver

2013

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

From Tuesday to Tuesday poster
8.0

Juan is a 35 year old man whose hobby is bodybuilding. He works in a factory, where despite its huge and muscled physique, is mistreated by his bosses and colleagues. His biggest dream is to leave that life gray and a better life, especially owning your own gym, but has yet to collect some money. And that is, when, in the evening of another of his routine days, attends a terrible episode before which makes a decision that suddenly puts a moral crossroads.

From Tuesday to Tuesday

2013

Una mujer sucede poster
NR

In an inland village, on a rainy night, the wake of a woman whose name is unknown takes place. There is only one mourner and two more men, attracted by destiny. During the night, like a game of cards, the identity of this woman who, according to them, once belonged to them and never saw again will be revealed.

Una mujer sucede

2012

Verdades verdaderas, la vida de Estela poster
5.6

In 1976, a coup d'etat by the Armed Forces replaced the argentine constitutional Government and policies of terror that trampled on human rights were implemented. In a few years, the hidden and silent violence of these policies spiraled and 30,000 citizens of different ages and social conditions were murdered. They were wrongly called the disappeared and, among them, there were young children or unborn young who were delivered in prisons of the military dictatorship and whose kidnappers abducted and registered as their own children. This movie tells the story of Estela Barnes Carlotto, a human rights activist in Argentina, chairwoman of the Association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who stopped being a housewife to get involved in public affairs after the kidnap of her daughter, Laura Estela Carlotto in 1977. The film is about the way her life was transformed.

Verdades verdaderas, la vida de Estela

2011

The Vampire Spider poster
5.8

A teenager goes to the foothills of the Andes to deal with his phobias.

The Vampire Spider

2012

Eva & Lola poster
6.7

Eva and Lola are close friends. While Eva tries to cope with her past creating a fantasy life, Lola does not want to handle with the truth of her real identity. Two friends with different views of the same story.

Eva & Lola

2010

Sangre blanca poster
4.3

Martina and Manuel cross the border from Bolivia as «mules». Manuel dies with the cocaine capsules inside his body. Martina turns to her father, who she never met before, for help.

Sangre blanca

2018

El otro: no todo es lo que ves poster
NR

Marcos is a 35-year-old cadet, cynical, unbelieving, passive and pessimistic, with a completely individualistic philosophy of life, who after being involved in a bank robbery meets a mysterious man who gives him a new lease on life. To get his life back, Marcos must prove his innocence and decides to investigate what really happened in the robbery. When Marcos finally gets what he needs for his acquittal, he must make a decision: to remain the center of his life or to put the other person first.

El otro: no todo es lo que ves

2014

El almuerzo poster
NR

On May 5, 1976, writer Haroldo Conti was kidnapped by the military dictatorship, which had taken over Argentina that same year. Two weeks later, the newly elected de facto president, Jorge Rafael Videla, invited several figures of national culture to a private luncheon at the Government House: Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato, Horacio Ratti, Father Castellani, and the President's General, General Villarreal. The film narrates the historic event shared by these figures during one of the most disastrous moments in our history.

El almuerzo

2015

2000s · 26 titles

Nine Queens poster
7.8

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the "nine queens".

Nine Queens

2000

The Aura poster
7.0

A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…

The Aura

2005

The Hairy Tooth Fairy poster
6.6

Lucía, an active little girl, looses a tooth. Santiago, her father, is an out-of-work boss, and her mother, Pilar, is a successful but overworked architect, reassure Lucía, by telling her that the Hairy Tooth Fairy (a mouse named Pérez) will come to her bedroom to collect her tooth, leaving some money in its place. A mouse who had been monitoring the situation tells another mouse, who in turn tells another mouse until finally the news reaches Pérez, The Hairy Tooth Fairy, who lives in a boat in the port along with hundreds of other mice. They receive the teeth that he collects, and then clean, shape and polish them so that they can be transformed into shiny round pearls. These pearls are then carried through the citys sewers until finally they reach the jewellers owned by Morientes, where an old friend exchanges them for their weight in gold.

The Hairy Tooth Fairy

2006

The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2 poster
6.8

Eight year old Lucas would like to know how the Tooth Fairy exchanges coins for teeth without getting caught. He is determined to stay awake all night to find out. Meanwhile, a little mouse falls into a trap set by a dishonest contractor who is desperate to tell the world his secret, that the mouse is the Tooth Fairy. Lucas and his family has to do everything in their power to help the sweet little mouse with its mission, which since time immemorial, is to make children happy...

The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2

2008

Arizona sur poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Arizona sur

2007

Partiendo átomos poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Partiendo átomos

2005

Dangerous Obsession poster
6.7

An Argentine truck driver is on a routine trip through Rio de Janeiro when he meets a mysterious countryman. They travel back to Argentina together, meeting a beautiful Brazilian journalist on the way. The truck driver has revenge on his mind, and both the adventurous young man, and the gorgeous girl join him in this venture. The only thing the three have in common are their obsession for honor and justice.

Dangerous Obsession

2004

No artwork available
7.0

It was the Winning Project of the INCAA Contest on the crisis in 2002. Very black humor to tell a time that today evokes memory.

El 48

2004

No artwork available
8.0

Salvador is a translator with a left-wing militant past who can see how his former colleagues surrendered to the rules of capitalism. He meets a young Adventist with whom he will live a love story.

El traductor

2007

Whisky Romeo Zulú poster
6.7

Whisky Romeo Zulu tells the story prior to the crash of LAPA Boeing 737 that on August 31, 1999, caught fire after hitting an embankment in the center of Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. The disaster changed the history of civil and commercial aviation in Argentina, and the film recounts, from the standpoint of the director, a former airline pilot-how in some countries the safety of the flight is incredibly precarious.

Whisky Romeo Zulú

2005

El día que me amen poster
5.9

Mental illness and the power of friendship. Mara and Joaquín were childhood friends, next-door neighbors. They are now in their early 30s. She's returned to Acassuno after eight years abroad, ostensibly to audition for a part in a musical. Joaquín has been a recluse in his parents' house, perhaps because Mara left without a word years before. Mara seeks to renew the friendship, which may be good f

El día que me amen

2003

Ay, Juancito poster
4.8

A film about the life of Juan Ramón Duarte, Evita's only brother. His ascent, his excesses, and his demise, in the times of Juan Domingo Perón.

Ay, Juancito

2004

Buenos Aires plateada poster
7.0

A television director seeks the support of two old guerrilla comrades, now incorporated, like him, into the squad to broadcast the pilot program of a television series based on his own story, but they, who occupy important positions in the media of communication and the government now has other commitments.

Buenos Aires plateada

2000

Dibu 3 poster
6.3

Facing an imminent attack from Mars, planet Earth sends Dibu to Mars as a peace ambassador -- the only hope for averting the attack. Amazingly, he finds a friendly population, whose only issue is that they are fed up of their planet being used as a nuclear dump site. Besides averting the Martian attack, Dibu also inadvertently manages the save hit planet from the diabolical designs of an ambitious general

Dibu 3

2002

Tiger Head poster
8.2

In the aftermath of the May Revolution, which sparked the end of Spanish colonial rule and the establishment of the first independent government in Buenos Aires, revolutionary leader Juan José Castelli is given the order to oversee the execution of former viceroy Santiago de Liniers. This pushes Castelli into a deep moral conflict, forcing him to confront the tension between revolutionary justice and personal conscience, as well as the human cost of political change.

Tiger Head

2001

Acrobacias del Corazón poster
8.0

A film director is preparing her latest film. As filming progresses, the love story she shared with her ex-husband and the musician in the film resurfaces.

Acrobacias del Corazón

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

The Escape poster
6.3

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.

The Escape

2001

The Die Is Cast poster
6.9

Felipe, an aspiring actor, believes he is jinxed after an unfortunate event. His struggle to find the cause and cure of his jinx. His half-brother is not doing much better, but among the two of them embark on a mission to change their lives and fulfill their father's dream.

The Die Is Cast

2005

El camino poster
5.2

Manuel is a lonely young man of upper middle class who lives in Buenos Aires with his mother. Due to a fortuitous circumstance, one day he discovers that his father, whom he does not know and whom he supposes living abroad, is in the country. He decides to go and look for him and on his motorcycle starts a long way south through Patagonia.

El camino

2000

Un amor de Borges poster
7.0

Estela Canto and Jorge Luis Borges meet in 1944. She is an intelligent and beautiful woman. He, still an unknown writer, is shy and very attached to his mother. They fall in love, or at least Borges does.

Un amor de Borges

2000

No Escape poster
6.0

The spiritual journey of a man with a debt that cannot be paid. In a Korean supermarket not too important, a small embezzlement is discovered. Luciano, a young man who works there, is pressured by the Koreans to return the money he stole in less than twenty-four hours.

No Escape

2003

No artwork available
4.0

The movie depicts the last days of life of photographer Gabriela Liffschitz, who went into a coma the following day after the shooting and died two days later, on February 13, 2004, as a result of breast cancer. Liffschitz, who knew that he was affected by a terminal breast cancer film project along with Enrique Piñeyro, assuming you had a few months to live.

Bye Bye Life

2008

Passionate People poster
4.3

Uma, tired of waiting for the man of her dreams to raise a family, decides that Nico, the boyfriend of her best friend Lucy, has all necessary features. So she asks her a favor: to lend her boyfriend once. In the middle of surprising situations, Uma convinces Lucia and Nico. That way it starts what first seems "a simple procedure"...

Passionate People

2002

Tesoro mío poster
3.7

Soon to turn 40, Carlos is a humble bank clerk who feels that his life is a monotonous waste of time. When Carlos begins to feel condemned forever to a life of quiet despair, he is presented with an opportunity to rip off a bank.

Tesoro mío

2000

Sin intervalo poster
9.0

A retired movie star decides one day, without explaining why, to reunite with his family, with whom he no longer maintains a close relationship. This experimental film was created through improvisational exercises by the actors, who followed the guidelines for their respective characters provided by the director.

Sin intervalo

2002

1990s · 5 titles

Series credits

PH: Podemos hablar poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

PH: Podemos hablar

2017

You Are The One poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

You Are The One

2006

Mujeres de nadie poster
3.2

Mujeres de nadie (Nobody's Women) is an Argentine telenovela produced by Pol-ka and broadcast by El Trece from May 10, 2007, to November 17, 2008

Mujeres de nadie

2007

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alguien que me quiera

2010

The Kingdom poster
7.3

After his running mate's murder, a controversial televangelist becomes Argentina's presidential candidate. But nothing about him is as holy as he seems.

The Kingdom

2021

Killer Women poster
6.0

Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.

Killer Women

2005

Los simuladores poster
8.7

A small team of con artists for hire use their skills to solve common people's life problems.

Los simuladores

2002

Tiempo final poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Tiempo final

2000

Epitaphs poster
7.3

Epitafios is a 2004 13-episode, Argentinian crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El Final Está Escrito ... The End Is Written. The series, which takes place in an unnamed South American city, was shot in Buenos Aires. The series was produced by HBO Latin America and Argentinian TV/film company Pol-Ka Producciones. It was written by Marcelo Slavich and Walter Slavich and directed by Alberto Lecchi and Jorge Nisco. Although all of the actors were Argentinian, a neutral Spanish was used instead of the local Rioplatense Spanish, avoiding colloquialisms such as the local vos in favor of the more common tú. The series debuted in Australia on SBS in May 2007 under the title If The Dead Could Speak. It premiered in Poland on Cinemax on November 6, 2008. In Germany, it premiered on November 6, 2009 on pay TV channel FOX under the title Epitafios - Tod Ist Die Antwort.

Epitaphs

2004

Hombres de honor poster
5.3

Hombres de honor was a 2005 Argentine telenovela, produced by Pol-Ka and aired by El Trece. It was starred by Laura Novoa and Gabriel Corrado.

Hombres de honor

2005

Yosi, the Regretful Spy poster
6.9

An Argentinian intelligence agent goes undercover in the Jewish community to gather information, unwittingly preparing the ground for anti-Semitic terrorist attacks. Years later, he decides to bring the truth to light.

Yosi, the Regretful Spy

2022

No artwork available
6.0

Nafta Súper was born as a spin-off of the argentinian cult film "Kryptonita" (Kryptonite) from 2015. Eight suburban episodes, eight mocking, engaging, and ferocious hunts. Nights of drinking that are nights of shooting, lived with adrenaline, dark humor, and glistening sweat.

Nafta Súper

2016

Post Mortem poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Post Mortem

2020

Historia de un clan poster
7.8

This drama based on a true story follows the Puccios, a criminal family who kidnaps wealthy people and holds them hostage in their home.

Historia de un clan

2015

Dracula poster
7.0

The mysterious Professor Dreshko teaches Anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine. During an exam, he discovers among the students a blonde girl with light eyes and curly hair who reminds him of an old flame. She is Lourdes, the daughter of the rector of the university and she is about to get married.

Dracula

1999

Historias de Diván poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Historias de Diván

2013

Sol Negro poster
7.8

Sol Negro was an Argentine television miniseries that aired on the América TV channel in late 2003. The plot focuses on the story of a young man who is admitted to a neuropsychiatric hospital to evade prison, and revolves around his insertion in the circle of inmates of the hospital and a complicity network to take away his share of a family inheritance.

Sol Negro

2003

The Secretary poster
NR

It tells the story of Julio Brigante, a prosecutors secretary of a high IQ, who goes to facts corresponding to his prosecutors office. The plot presents the cases that Brigante must reconstruct from the scene of the crime for the subsequent assembly of the judicial file. This "reconstruction" is projected from the imaginary of Brigante who, from evidence in the scene, imagines in his mind the passing of the facts.

The Secretary

2020

El legado poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

El legado

2014

The Paradise poster
NR

The story of a medic guard in a hospital, their personal lifes and their medic cases.

The Paradise

2011

Tierra De Rufianes poster
2.5

No synopsis available yet.

Tierra De Rufianes

2016

Pan y vino poster
NR

The plot of the series is centered on Felipe (Ivo Cutzarida) and Florencia (Maite Zumelzú), a couple who are about to divorce and share a restaurant called Bread and wine that is part of the division of assets, however, through encounters and misunderstandings in the workplace will discover that perhaps she is not so sure about asking for a divorce, nor is he so sure that he wants to stay by her side, as he seems to be. On the one hand, Felipe will have a sentimental relationship with Sofía (Mercedes Oviedo), the new kitchen assistant, and on the other, Florencia will show interest in Lucas (Tomás de las Heras), the waiter from the rest.

Pan y vino

2015