Malena Alterio

Acting

Malena Alterio

Born 1974-01-21 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Acting credits

Días de cine poster
3.7

Comedy set in 1977, in which a renowned playwright (Alberto San Juan) tries to shoot a social protest drama starring a doldrums folk, former child star (Natalie Poza) and produced by a producer and shameless liar (Miguel Rellán). Inexperience, ambition, lack of means and the love-hate relationship with the star director shooting become a craze.

Días de cine

2007

Five Square Meters poster
5.8

Álex and Virginia, a couple planning to get married, buy an apartment located in a building under construction. When there are only a few months left before the apartments are to be delivered, the works are stopped indefinitely. Álex wants a solution and will do anything to get his apartment and have the life he had dreamed of.

Five Square Meters

2011

The Wedding Unplanner poster
6.5

Marina is a woman in her thirties who works organizing weddings. Not because she is an inveterate romantic just because, as she says, "when people are in love, they don't care about money". Unlike her customers, she enjoys a life without ties or commitments, until the moment when she falls in love with Carlos. The problem is not only he is about to get married, but also his fiancee is Marina's childhood friend and they have hired her as their Wedding Planner.

The Wedding Unplanner

2020

Torremolinos 73 poster
6.2

Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.

Torremolinos 73

2003

Mala Persona poster
5.9

Pepe is the best person in the world, until he discovers that he has a terminal illness and has months to live. To avoid suffering for his loved ones, Pepe decides to become the worst person in the world and thus keep them away from him so that they don't miss him when he dies.

Mala Persona

2024

Salad Days poster
7.5

A mixed salad and a trout meet on death row: The cold storage of a restaurant. They decide to unite in a single dish that will lead them to eternal love.

Salad Days

2001

Off Course poster
6.3

Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.

Off Course

2015

The Wedding poster
8.5

Mirta is Cuban and lives in Madrid. As many others immigrants she works in cleaning industry. Today at six o'clock p.m. her daughter is going to marry. But nothing turns out as she hopes, and to reach this wedding is more difficult than it appeared at first sight.

The Wedding

2013

Beta poster
NR

Beatriz is tired of enduring the bad habits of her husband Ignacio, and decides to put him in check. For this, he will carry out an experiment with the intention of saving his marriage and turning his home into a more efficient place.

Beta

2015

Marry Me, Maribel poster
5.3

Maribel (Natalia Dicenta) is a prostitute working in Madrid in the late fifties. One night he meets Marcelino (Carlos Hipolito), shy and quiet man who falls for her. For Maribel is in principle a client more, but gradually begins to feel attracted to the shy provincial, owner of a chocolate factory in Soria. Pili (Nathalie Seseña), Rufi (Mireia Ros) and Nini (Malena Alterio), the companions of Maribel, truculent by nature suspicious of this relationship and begin to suspect that the provincial could be a murderer. When Maribel Marcelino asks her to marry him, they intervene and away from Marcelino and his "strange family". Adapted from the play "Maribel and the Strange Family" by Miguel Mihura.

Marry Me, Maribel

2003

Moira poster
6.8

Germán is Argentine by birth, but has lived in Spain for thirty years with his wife Rosa and his daughter Lucía. On the day of the young woman's birthday, he receives a phone call that will force him to confront his past in a violent way. This Argentine exile then has to deal with the terrible experiences he experienced during the Argentine dictatorship while overcoming his current family problems.

Moira

2019

El balancín de Iván poster
6.8

Ana is a woman of thirty-something, goes back to the house where she spent of her childhood during the Argentine dictatorship.

El balancín de Iván

2002

Miguel and William poster
5.7

A romantic comedy inventing a friendship between Cervantes and Shakespeare who both fall in love with a beautiful Spanish woman.

Miguel and William

2007

Under Therapy poster
6.9

Three married couples undergoing therapy are summoned by their female psychologist to a meeting. The psychologist won’t be attending the reunion herself, but she will give to them instructions about what they must do. Thus, to the sound of a horn (literally), the six protagonists will gradually air their dirty laundry concerning their relationships and bring up issues like taking care of the kids, the different home tasks, money, jealousy and sex, until it all leads to a most unexpected and equally shocking end.

Under Therapy

2023

Casual Day poster
5.5

Casual Day is a company practice imported from the USA. Every Friday the workers are asked to exchange their suits for more informal attire. Ruy has always lived as he liked. Though clever, he's gotten himself into a jam. José Antonio, his girlfriend's father, has earmarked an important job for him in his company. He wants him to be his successor. At the age of 25, without actually having decided anything, he's trapped. He'd like to say no to the job, to José Antonio, to Inés, his girlfriend, and to the Casual Day stuff. But it's not easy to say no. What started out as a simple event, a weekend in the country, ends up deciding the rest of his life.

Casual Day

2007

Mirror, Mirror poster
5.7

Employees at a cosmetics firm grapple with their respective desires by arguing with themselves in the mirror, ahead of their company’s anniversary party.

Mirror, Mirror

2022

Toscana poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Toscana

2022

Under the Same Roof poster
5.5

Nadia and Adrián starts their particular world war when she files to divorce him.

Under the Same Roof

2019

Semen, a History of Love poster
4.6

A biologist in an insemination clinic unexpectedly falls in love with a free-spirited trapeze artist and the idea of fathering her child. A hilarious romantic comedy about love at first sight, with complications to follow...and more laughs than you could possibly conceive!

Semen, a History of Love

2005

La torre de Suso poster
5.9

Cundo emigrated to Argentina to seek a new life. Ten years later he returns home, to the funeral of an old friend, Suso. The film chronicles the reunion with family and friends and how Cundo wants to fulfill the ultimate dream of Suso. The film is a tribute to friendship. And above all friendship in a age where it is not so clear why you should remain friends with your childhood friends.

La torre de Suso

2007

Una Palabra Tuya poster
4.7

After years of setbacks, hopes, anxiety and realities, the fear that they don’t deserve to be happy has taken shape. Together, Rosario and Milagros take two different routes in life: one towards the cruelest nothingness with a joyful and vital attitude and the other towards a hopeful future from a redeemed life and in the middle there is forgiveness.

Una Palabra Tuya

2008

Las voces de la noche poster
4.9

Spain, fifties. In a town grew around a living factory Jorge (Tristan Ulloa), the youngest son of the founder, and Elisa (Laia Marull), daughter of accounting. The two live with their families and are able to endure the monotony of their lives because they spend the afternoon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at a hotel in the city. This secret life together is essential for both. The small room in the city where encounters occur has become the only place where they can be themselves. That little space, a little sinister, find it more cozy, warm and near the home of Elisa gorgeous, spoiled by the mother, or the great house of George, full of family memories. Both are aware of the type of relationship they have created, and not demand more. Until Elisa decides to break the rules.

Las voces de la noche

2003

Off Course to China poster
4.8

Braulio after his misadventures in Berlin, moves to Hong Kong along with Rafa and Hakan in search of new opportunities. However, it is not easy to succeed in a land where language, culture and customs are very different from Europe.

Off Course to China

2019

I Hate Summer poster
5.9

Due to a rental mistake, three families are forced to share a house in the Canary Islands, leading to chaotic and humorous situations as they try to live together.

I Hate Summer

2024