Lito Cruz

Acting

Lito Cruz

Born 1941-05-14 · Berisso, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Oscar Alberto Cruz was a first Argentine film, theater and television actor and theater director. He was the winner of the Martín Fierro award. In the working-class La Plata suburb of Berisso in 1941, he began performing in local theatres at the age of 15. Graduating from a La Plata secondary school, he continued to pursue his calling in La Plata's growing independent theatre scene.

Acting credits

Betibú poster
5.5

Once Pedro Chazarreta found murdered in the wonderful gated, El Tribuno newspaper hires retired detective novelist Nurit Iscar/Betibù that is installed in the area and a series of newspaper columns about the case. Along with the Chief of police of the newspaper, Mariano Saravia, and a veteran journalist, Jaime Breña, Betibù starts to investigate the murder. Using an old photo of the adolescence of Chazarreta, which shows him with fellow high school, the Group discovers an apparent connection between this murder and a succession of apparently trivial deaths of members of the photo. At the same time, Betibù must face its past emotional with the editor of the newspaper, Lorenzo Rinaldi, who seeks to restore the relationship.

Betibú

2014

Infierno Grande poster
6.0

In a remote town, a strange death hides a secret.

Infierno Grande

2004

Don Segundo Sombra poster
5.8

The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.

Don Segundo Sombra

1969

Les longs manteaux poster
5.2

A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.

Les longs manteaux

1986

Nada x perder poster
4.3

Gonzalo Romero, a young Argentine lawyer, struggles to find his place in a world ruled by pessimism. When his father and brother are assaulted by the nephew of a senator, he sets out on a long journey to bring the aggressor to trial.

Nada x perder

2001

The South poster
6.6

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.

The South

1988

To Realize poster
7.2

After a brutal car accident, a young man falls into a coma and is left to be looked after by a doctor who suffers in his personal life and commits himself fully to save his patient.

To Realize

1984

Gato negro poster
5.3

The film tells the life of Tito Pereyra since his childhood in a town of Tucuman (with an absent father) until the 1980 s in Buenos Aires, when democracy was restored. During that period he makes decisions that will change his life forever.It shows a human being with both bright and dark aspects, whose contrasts seem to determine his destiny.

Gato negro

2014

Invasion poster
7.3

Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.

Invasion

1969

Historias Breves 3 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Historias Breves 3

1999

La frontera olvidada poster
10.0

A young officer recently arrived from Buenos Aires takes charge of a military base on the edge of the desert.

La frontera olvidada

1969

El malentendido poster
9.0

A young woman will seek to reunite with her family after being adopted. After finding out her whereabouts with a detective, she will travel inside to meet them waiting to be recognized. Her mother and brother have a roadside post on the Paraguayan border, but only in appearance, as they actually do macabre and terrifying work.

El malentendido

2002

Detrás del sol, más cielo poster
9.0

A 17-year-old boy wants to get out of the poverty in which he lives with his working mother on a yerba mate plantation in the province of Misiones, in northern Argentina. Convinced that his luck will change when he finds his father who lives in the city of Asunción in Paraguay, he dreams of traveling to visit him.

Detrás del sol, más cielo

2008

Amapola poster
5.8

A romantic reimagining of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set against the turbulent backdrops of the 1962 Argentinian military coup and the 1982 war for the Falkland Islands.

Amapola

2014

Palos Fights Back! poster
NR

You're in it follow the thrill, the excitement, the spine-chilling suspense. From the MONGRELS, through the trapdoors of BANGKOK, to the snows of SIBERA. It's SUPER-ACTION.

Palos Fights Back!

1969

Más adelante poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Más adelante

2010

¿De quién es el portaligas? poster
5.5

Rosario, Argentina, the 80's. The story of three girl friends in their twenties, Julieta, Leonora y Romina, who have crazy rock-groupies lives, that get involved in a bizarre mafia chantage, after Leonora falls in the hospital.

¿De quién es el portaligas?

2007

The Angry Toy poster
9.0

A 16-year-old young man, is fond of weapons and the manufacture of explosives. He participates in robberies and is persecuted by the Police, so his group of friends dissolves and he goes to live in another neighborhood and starts working in a bookstore. Dissatisfied, without expectations and full of resentment, Silvio tries to set the place on fire and flees through the city

The Angry Toy

1998

La balada de Donna Helena poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La balada de Donna Helena

1994

The Innocents poster
4.8

19th century Argentina. After having had to leave the country fifteen years ago, prodigal son Rodrigo finally returns to the family farm in Mercedaria to introduce his wife Bianca to his parents. He’s not really looking forward to this family reunion. His youth was spent working with the slaves on the farm who were treated without mercy by his parents. His father regularly abused the female slaves, while his mother even burned one alive to save the family honor. It’s time for some ghostly revenge and this happens to coincide with Rodrigo’s return.

The Innocents

2015

The Girlfriend poster
5.9

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.

The Girlfriend

1989

Reparaciones poster
NR

The special is a comedy of entanglement that happens around a typical neighborhood of the city that was altered by the presence of Nelson, a line, which we vizinhos consider an ungrateful place. Decide to hold a meeting to decide what to do and this is the scene for the first meeting between Mariela and Octavio. The problems of the neighborhood need to be excused by two young people to relate them.

Reparaciones

2007

Sobre la tierra poster
9.0

A German baroness and her ailing husband arrive at a mansion in the middle of the countryside in Argentina in the decade of the 30s.

Sobre la tierra

1998

El sueño de los héroes poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

El sueño de los héroes

1997

Behind the camera