
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
6.0Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
Killer Women
2005
6.0the 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
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Tiempo final
2000
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Atreverse
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Malandras
2003
No synopsis available yet.
Santos y pecadores
2013
Film credits
2010s · 10 titles
5.5Once 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Que lo parió (Inodoro Pereyra)
2015
NRJuan José Castelli's fall into disgrace after a hard campaign in the argentine war of independence
La revolución es un sueño eterno
2012
5.6A 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
6.0Leo 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
NRThe 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
5.2The 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
NRThis 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
4.819th 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
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Más adelante
2010
2000s · 11 titles
6.0In a remote town, a strange death hides a secret.
Infierno Grande
2004
5.5Rosario, 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
4.2Gonzalo 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
4.8In 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
6.5A 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
NRThe 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
9.0A 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
9.0A 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
10.0Baigorria, an ex-policeman, returns to his town after a year to take revenge on Reyes, an ex-partner who betrayed him.
El regreso
2003
10.0Black 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
4.0Tells the hectic life of four residents of the same building in a neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
Chile 672
2006
1990s · 9 titles
8.0In 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
5.5No synopsis available yet.
El sueño de los héroes
1997
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Historias Breves 3
1999
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La balada de Donna Helena
1994
5.6The 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
8.0Ignacio 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
6.7Telma (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
9.0A 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
9.0A 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
5.2A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.
Les longs manteaux
1986
7.2After 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
6.6After 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
NRA 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
5.9Since 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
NRA mature woman and a younger man are romantically related.
Mis días con Verónica
1980
1960s · 4 titles
7.3Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.
Invasion
1969
5.8The 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
10.0A young officer recently arrived from Buenos Aires takes charge of a military base on the edge of the desert.
La frontera olvidada
1969
NRYou'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
Series credits
6.0Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
Killer Women
2005
6.0Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
Killer Women
2005
6.0the 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
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Tiempo final
2000
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Atreverse
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Malandras
2003
No synopsis available yet.
Santos y pecadores
2013
6.0The 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La Leona
2016
NRPsychologist 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
El elegido
2011
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

