Lito Cruz

Acting

Lito Cruz

Born — Died

1941-05-14 — 2017-12-18

Place of birth

Berisso, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 10 titles

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

Que lo parió (Inodoro Pereyra) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Que lo parió (Inodoro Pereyra)

2015

La revolución es un sueño eterno poster
NR

Juan José Castelli's fall into disgrace after a hard campaign in the argentine war of independence

La revolución es un sueño eterno

2012

Amapola poster
5.6

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

Otro corazón poster
6.0

Leo and María are expecting their first child and are about to move. María wants to give birth in her hometown, but Leo, upon learning that his father urgently needs a heart transplant, postpones the trip, takes him to live with him, and takes over the family business. His obsession with saving his father distances him from his own fatherhood and plunges him into a period of waiting that encompasses life, death, mourning for what was never, and the hope of what is still possible.

Otro corazón

2012

El día que cambió la historia poster
NR

The film narrates the struggles of the Argentine working class from the beginning of the 20th century until October 17, 1945, in the perspective of the meat workers of Berisso, leading protagonists of that day.

El día que cambió la historia

2012

Gato negro poster
5.2

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

La campana poster
NR

This is a story of unfulfilled love set in the port of Mar del Plata during the Falklands War. Despite the harsh climate, a fisherman sets out to sea to escape his emotions and gets lost, arriving at an area called La Campana, a mythical place where time stands still. While for him only an afternoon passes, on earth more than twenty years pass. Upon returning to the port, he discovers that the country is no longer the same and the people have changed.

La campana

2011

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

Más adelante poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Más adelante

2010

2000s · 11 titles

Infierno Grande poster
6.0

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

Infierno Grande

2004

¿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

Nada x perder poster
4.2

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

La Loma: no todo es lo que aparenta poster
4.8

In Argentina there were clandestine human experiments covered by the military dictatorship in order to investigate the existence of life after death. Today Julian Roy escapes from prison to cover up past events. The price of this mission: Sitar, manipulate and hold incommunicate the whole town.

La Loma: no todo es lo que aparenta

2007

Only People poster
6.5

A young doctor recently received must face the difficulties of his profession in a public hospital, proposing to make true the axiom learned in the faculty "you can not always be cured, but you must know how to care."

Only People

2000

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

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

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

El regreso poster
10.0

Baigorria, an ex-policeman, returns to his town after a year to take revenge on Reyes, an ex-partner who betrayed him.

El regreso

2003

India Pravile poster
10.0

Black humor film that tells the story of Enrique, a retired, outdated and unemployed film director, who decides to commit suicide with the help of his grandson.

India Pravile

2003

Chile 672 poster
4.0

Tells the hectic life of four residents of the same building in a neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

Chile 672

2006

1990s · 9 titles

Historias Breves III: Nostalgia en la mesa 8 poster
8.0

In a neighborhood bar, a mysterious man tells a group of friends the story of an aspiring soccer player who, 50 years ago, tried out for an English club but who had the peculiar characteristic that he could only play soccer in flip-flops.

Historias Breves III: Nostalgia en la mesa 8

1999

El sueño de los héroes poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

El sueño de los héroes

1997

Historias Breves 3 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Historias Breves 3

1999

La balada de Donna Helena poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La balada de Donna Helena

1994

Facundo, la sombra del tigre poster
5.6

The film focuses on the journey of General Juan Facundo Quiroga, with a very compromised health, to the north in order to resolve the conflict between the provinces of Salta and Tucuman.

Facundo, la sombra del tigre

1995

El camino de los sueños poster
8.0

Ignacio Silva returns to his hometown, a small port in southern Argentina. There he reunites with his memories and with a friend, and meets three women who lead him to see life differently.

El camino de los sueños

1993

Sotto Voce poster
6.7

Telma (Norma Pons) is concerned when her father Salerno dies of a heart attack in a movie theater while watching a film of two thugs beating another man. She believes that there is something more to it, and seeks the help of Deganis (Patricio Contreras), a forensic psychiatrist. Deganis, having found out the names of the two actors doing the beating onscreen, looks one of them up. His name is Walensky (Lito Cruz), and he is looking for Smith (Martin Adjemian), the other actor.

Sotto Voce

1996

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

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

1980s · 6 titles

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

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

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

Gracias por los servicios poster
NR

A luxurious apartment is assaulted by three subjects who, after murdering the maid, patiently await the arrival of the owner of the house. When it returns, it is pressured violently to indicate the place where half a million dollars would be found. The ignorant woman of the existence of money, sees how her home is progressively destroyed while, in different hiding places, documents are found that implicate her husband in criminal activities.

Gracias por los servicios

1988

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

Mis días con Verónica poster
NR

A mature woman and a younger man are romantically related.

Mis días con Verónica

1980

1960s · 4 titles

Series credits

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

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

Sos mi hombre poster
6.0

the story follows Ringo, a former boxer going through economic problems while trying to gain custody of his son working as a firefighter, and Camila, a young doctor who works as a resident in public hospitals and helps a community dinning room.

Sos mi hombre

2012

Tiempo final poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Tiempo final

2000

Atreverse poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Atreverse

1990

Malandras poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Malandras

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Santos y pecadores

2013

Señores papis poster
6.0

The story tells the experiences of four modern parents Favio Carbonetti (Luciano Castro), Ignacio Moreno (Joaquín Furriel), Franco Bertossi (Luciano Cáceres) and Mauro de Leone (Peto Menahem) and attractive friends who become friends by sharing daily talks at the door of your children's Kindergarten.

Señores papis

2014

La Leona poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Leona

2016

El aval poster
NR

Psychologist Martín Rivera is one day invited for a coffee by a stranger named José Sagasti, who informs him that his grandfather had made a pact with his boss, "The Devil", who he did not comply. Therefore Rivera, as his only male descendant, becomes the guarantee of said commitment. Martín and his closest ones start to be intensively harassed by Sagasti, until the pact can be finally fulfilled.

El aval

2006

El elegido poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El elegido

2011

No artwork available
NR

Young psychologist Martín Mondragón is contacted by a mysterious man named José Sagasti, who tries to collect an old debt that Martin's grandfather left when he died. Rivera, being the first male descendant, is the most suited guarantor to pay off the debt, which consists in giving his soul to the devil by dropping a bit of blood from an old parchment.

Collateral Man

1997

Behind the camera