Cecilia Roth

Acting

Cecilia Roth

Born

1958-08-08 (68)

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

82 titles

Cecilia Edith Rotenberg Gutkin (Buenos Aires, born August 8, 1956), better known as Cecilia Roth, is an Argentine theatre, film, and television actress. She is the winner of two Goya Awards and a European Film Award. She is known for being an "Almodóvar girl" and the "muse" of Fito Páez during the 1990s.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

Fito Páez: The World Within a Song poster
5.2

A documentary film that observes, listens to, and interacts with Fito Páez from a place of profound intimacy. The camera, almost invisible, witnesses his every move, accompanying him for over a year during recordings, rehearsals, tours, and performances in major cities across Latin America, Europe, and the United States. It is also a journey through the life of one of the greatest Spanish-language artists: his loves and heartbreaks, children and friendships, excesses, tragedies, failures, and successes.

Fito Páez: The World Within a Song

2026

The Crimes That Bind poster
6.5

When her son is accused of raping and trying to murder his ex-wife, Alicia embarks on a journey that will change her life forever.

The Crimes That Bind

2020

MORIA poster
10.0

Different stages of the life — past, present and even future — of the legendary Argentine vedette Moria Casán, showing how her figure as a cultural icon was built.

MORIA

2026

Goyo poster
7.0

A young autistic museum guide lives by a strict routine — until he falls in love with his coworker and must confront a whirlwind of new, intense emotions.

Goyo

2024

Mansión Helada poster
10.0

A portrait of what fame and love hurts.

Mansión Helada

2021

The Parties poster
6.0

Sergio, Mali and Luz reluctantly agreed to spend Christmas in the country with their mother; in part because of the guilt they feel about saying no when she has just come out of the hospital after a heart attack, but also because it would be nice to escape from their frustrations for a while.

The Parties

2022

The Intruder poster
5.9

Inés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. While on an idyllic trip she suffers a traumatic episode that she can’t recover from. She has trouble sleeping and experiences very vivid nightmares as strange sounds begin to emerge from inside her. Awake, Inés feels suddenly surrounded by people that seem to come from her dreams.

The Intruder

2021

En cumplimiento del deber poster
10.0

This documentary tells through the story of various relatives and testimonies the fire at the Iron Mountain company that led to the death of six police firefighters, two volunteer firefighters and two civil defense agents.

En cumplimiento del deber

2022

Conversations on Hatred poster
10.0

“Conversations on Hatred” by Vera Fogwill from Argentina narrates a real-time story of a farewell between two terminally ill women. In this intimate and deep conversation, they discuss their views on maternity, friendship, and their ways of dealing with the disease. A brilliant conversation starts, which reminds us all of the best cinema had to offer in the past.

Conversations on Hatred

2023

2010s · 8 titles

Pain and Glory poster
7.4

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

Pain and Glory

2019

I'm So Excited! poster
5.7

Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.

I'm So Excited!

2013

El Angel poster
7.4

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

El Angel

2018

Marriage poster
4.5

Esteban and Molly have been married for over twenty years. On a cold morning in June the couple realizes they have hit rock bottom and that their relationship is not what it once was. Marriage examines the different aspects that make a man and a woman click, those moments where a bond can become harder than a rock, but it will also illustrate the downfalls and all the little things that make a relationship worth fighting for.

Marriage

2013

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother poster
8.0

Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco Spain), explores Barcelona society at the turn of the millennium through the lives of five women.

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother

2012

La Intrusa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Intrusa

2015

The Making of All About My Mother poster
NR

A documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon.

The Making of All About My Mother

2012

Una Vida Posible poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una Vida Posible

2013

2000s · 14 titles

Talk to Her poster
7.6

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Talk to Her

2002

A Night with Sabrina Love poster
6.0

When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with his favorite adult movie star, Sabrina Love. However, getting there will be half the trouble of meeting Sabrina.

A Night with Sabrina Love

2000

Sofacama poster
7.2

A separated yet self-sufficient craftswoman puts up a friend who is also separating. The hostess has three teenage children, and the arrival of her guest will interfere with their domestic harmony, apart from slowly but surely causing a hormonal surge in one of the boys.

Sofacama

2006

Kamchatka poster
6.7

In 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecuted and kidnapped. This is the case of the parents of two children, who, knowing they are wanted, decide to hide.

Kamchatka

2002

Private Lives poster
4.4

Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the unavoidable memories of the torture that that was object during the dictatorship and a dramatic revelation.

Private Lives

2001

Otros días vendrán poster
6.8

Alicia (Cecilia Roth) is a school teacher in his forties who begins a relationship online with Zaz (Nacho Aldeguer), 17. When the affair begins to leak, the story takes a turn of 180 degrees. At that time Zaz's father (Antonio Resines) will take the center of the stage

Otros días vendrán

2005

Empty Nest poster
6.3

Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.

Empty Nest

2008

Our Father poster
6.9

Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.

Our Father

2006

Pernicioso vegetal poster
10.0

A policeman lifts a boy who was smoking marijuana in the street and in the patrol car they go through the streets of Buenos Aires.

Pernicioso vegetal

2002

Lucía, Lucía poster
5.2

Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as she tries to find him. Things take a bit of a twist as she realized the kidnapping may not be as simple as it seems on the surface.

Lucía, Lucía

2003

Luisa Sanfelice poster
6.3

An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.

Luisa Sanfelice

2004

Antigua vida mía poster
4.5

An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua.

Antigua vida mía

2001

Desire poster
5.6

In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.

Desire

2002

Les pel·lícules del meu pare poster
3.5

The protagonist has no memory of her father. However, as she watches the films he made before she was born, in which several young girls appear, she begins to suspect if there had been nothing between her father and her. To forget her loneliness and stay afloat she keeps a diary. Men begin to irritate her, she is increasingly attracted to women and desperately seeks a mother, a friend, a lover.

Les pel·lícules del meu pare

2007

1990s · 9 titles

All About My Mother poster
7.6

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

All About My Mother

1999

Second Skin poster
5.7

When Elena finds a hotel bill in her husband’s pocket, she begins to suspect that he’s having an affair — but not that it’s with a man.

Second Skin

1999

Martin (Hache) poster
7.5

After having a nearly fatal drug overdose, 19-year-old Argentine Martin is sent to Madrid, where his film director father lives with his new, younger lover, Alicia, and his bisexual actor friend, Dante.

Martin (Hache)

1997

A Place in the World poster
7.5

Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.

A Place in the World

1992

I, the Worst of All poster
6.0

A 17th-century Mexican nun defies expectations by becoming a renowned intellectual and writer during the Spanish Inquisition.

I, the Worst of All

1990

Cenizas del paraíso poster
6.9

A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth.

Cenizas del paraíso

1997

No artwork available
5.8

The making of Iván Zulueta's film Arrebato (1979). Interviews with cast, crew, and producers.

Arrebatos

1998

Wild Horses poster
6.6

Jose is an elderly rebel who, after being refused a withdrawal at a bank, returns with a gun and threatens to shoot himself if he doesn't get his cash. Pedro, a young teller, is disillusioned with his life and sees Jose's stunt as a way out when he pretends to be taken hostage, leaving the bank with the old man and a hefty amount of money. The unlikely duo become friends, picking up tough-girl Ana along the way, while avoiding the police.

Wild Horses

1995

La balada de Donna Helena poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La balada de Donna Helena

1994

1980s · 14 titles

Dark Habits poster
6.6

After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

Dark Habits

1983

What Have I Done to Deserve This? poster
7.1

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

1984

Pepi, Luci, Bom poster
6.3

After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.

Pepi, Luci, Bom

1980

Labyrinth of Passion poster
6.1

An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid.

Labyrinth of Passion

1982

The Stranger poster
6.2

Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.

The Stranger

1987

Rapture poster
6.7

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

Rapture

1980

Reproches poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Reproches

1980

The Loves of Kafka poster
7.0

A movie director from Argentine travels to Prague to make a film about Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská.

The Loves of Kafka

1988

El señor Galíndez poster
8.0

El senor Galindez is a Spanish movie starring Antonio Banderas

El señor Galíndez

1984

The Secret Garden poster
5.1

A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. Her current boyfriend, Arthur (Xabier Elorriaga), suspects the mysterious sender can be Lucia's former lover, whose strange death never reached clarified. Now it's time it's Arthur who put the cards on the table to get to the bottom of it.

The Secret Garden

1984

No artwork available
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Pepe, no me des tormento

1981

Erotic Stories poster
4.1

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.

Erotic Stories

1980

The Semester We Loved Kim Novak poster
3.5

In the late '50s, a young student falls in love with actress Kim Novak and fills the walls of his room with her photographs. One day, he meets a girl who looks a lot like her at a party, but is so shy that he needs to get drunk to declare his love.

The Semester We Loved Kim Novak

1980

Pigmalión poster
NR

Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress.

Pigmalión

1986

1970s · 6 titles

Rings of Fear poster
5.3

Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angela boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virginia (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name "Nemesis." Bizarre "accidents" start to befall the girls: Franca is injured when someone causes her horse to bolt and Virginia nearly breaks her neck on marbles left at the top of a staircase. But Di Salvo is determined to find the killer, even if it means using unorthodox methods. He is aided by Angela Russo's little sister Emily, whose helpful clues lead to a boutique owned by a dubious character and a vice ring where "rich influential men pay well for teenage favours..."

Rings of Fear

1978

La familia bien, gracias poster
6.0

Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The father was left alone in the family home, but loneliness overwhelms him so he decides to spend some time at home for each of their children, most of whom are married. But the experience ends up being disastrous.

La familia bien, gracias

1979

Growing Up Suddenly poster
6.0

It tells the complex relationship of Milo, a teenager, and his old protector. Adaptation of "Around the cage", work of the writer Haroldo Conti, disappeared in 1976 by Argentine dictatorship.

Growing Up Suddenly

1977

Strawberry, Lemon and Mint poster
10.0

A saleswoman gets involved in a meaningless conversation between a military man and a film director.

Strawberry, Lemon and Mint

1978

Las verdes praderas poster
6.3

José is a happily married executive, with children, a flat in Madrid and a house in the suburbs. It's Friday and the weekend seems to follow the usual pattern: football match with mates, travel to the mountains and family visit. Nevertheless, José feels no motivated by his routine, he no longer distinguishes leisure from their obligations, all of which result in an unexpected final decision by his attentive wife.

Las verdes praderas

1979

No toquen a la nena poster
8.5

A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.

No toquen a la nena

1976

Series credits

PH: Podemos hablar poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

PH: Podemos hablar

2017

Rage (Furia) poster
6.5

Five women face extreme situations that will unleash their rage.

Rage (Furia)

2025

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

Moria poster
9.2

Moria Casán transforms her life story into a symbolic spectacle of fame, controversy and ceaseless reinvention.

Moria

2026

En Terapia poster
6.1

En Terapia is a 2012 Argentine remake of In Treatment. The main actors of the 2012 season are Diego Peretti, Julieta Cardinali, Germán Palacios, Ailín Salas, Dolores Fonzi, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Norma Aleandro. The second season added Carla Peterson, Gonzalo Slipak, Roberto Carnaghi and Luisana Lopilato.

En Terapia

2012

Atreverse poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Atreverse

1990

Atreverse poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Atreverse

1990

Atreverse poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Atreverse

1990

Atreverse poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Atreverse

1990

The Pier poster
6.8

High-profile architect Alexandra faces her worst nightmare when she gets a call from local cop Conrado to identify her husband Oscar's body, found on a pier in the beautiful Albufera landscape outside Valencia. Suicide? How can it be when they had made plans for their future just hours ago? But it only gets worse: Oscar had been leading a double-life with another woman, Veronica. Who is this woman? Who was the man she loved for 15 years? And what happened that fatal night on the pier?

The Pier

2019

La Mesías poster
7.5

The viral video of a Christian pop group made up of several sisters has an enormous effect on the life of Enric, a man tormented by a childhood marked by religious fanaticism and the yoke of a mother with messianic delirium.

La Mesías

2023

Epitaphs poster
7.2

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

Amas de casa desesperadas poster
1.3

Amas de Casa Desesperadas is an Argentine television series, that debuted on Canal 13 on August 30, 2006. Set in the fictional Manzanares Street, a suburb surrounding Buenos Aires, the series follows the lives of four housewives and the domestic problems and daily mysteries surrounding their husbands, friends and neighbors, which can be more sinister than they appear. The series' tone combines elements of drama, comedy, mystery, farce, soap opera and satire. Based on the American television series, Desperate Housewives, it was developed for Argentina by Buena Vista International and Pol-Ka Producciones. The show’s first season was broadcast by Canal 13 on Argentina, and also by other networks on Uruguay and Paraguay. On October 2006, Canal 13 renewed Amas de Casa Desesperadas for a second season, that will start filming on August 2007.

Amas de casa desesperadas

2006

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

Supermax poster
3.1

No synopsis available yet.

Supermax

2017

Trátame Bien poster
4.5

Tratame bien is an Argentine TV series made by Pol-Ka. It was awarded with seven Martín Fierro Awards in May 2010, including the Golden one.

Trátame Bien

2009

Según Roxi poster
NR

Segun Roxi is a comedy featuring a mother who divides her world between friends and enemies. Desperately fighting to tackle the pitfalls of motherhood, Roxi faces her challenges with sincerity and humor combined.

Según Roxi

2016

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alma de artista

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El pacto poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El pacto

2011

The Internationals poster
6.4

In 2001, a gang of Colombian thieves travel to Argentina to carry out robberies while the country is preoccupied with a political and economic crisis.

The Internationals

2020

El elegido poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El elegido

2011

Otro día perdido poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Otro día perdido

2025