
Birthday:
10-25-1944
Deathday:
02-28-2015 (70 years)
Birthplace:
Córdoba, Argentina
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Dark Blue Almost Black
Act like Andrés (Vater)
event2006 star_border 6.8
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Jorge is a young man whose plans for the future are put on hold when his father has a stroke. For seven years, he diligently nurses his father and works as a janitor while studying part time to get a business degree. When Natalia, his childhood crush, returns from a stint studying abroad, Jorge begins to yearn for something better. He is desperate to find a new and better job, but finds that no one will hire him because he has experience only as a janitor. Antonio, Jorge’s older brother, soon to be released from jail, is an opportunist who has never gotten along with their father. In prison, at a theater workshop, Antonio meets Paula, a beautiful young woman in jail on drug charges. Paula has a problem because she flirted with another inmate's boyfriend.
25 Carat
Act like Pardo
event2008 star_border 6
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Abel is a boxer turned debt collector who is struggling to provide for his young son. When he falls in love with beautiful car thief Kay, the couple plan for a new crime-free beginning. To fund their new law-abiding life, however, they conspire for one last big score. The resulting fiasco takes them on a rough ride through the gritty Barcelona underworld. Winner of Best Film at the 2009 Málaga Spanish Film Festival.
The Beckoning
Act like Miguel
event2009 star_border 6
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Francesca is a pediatrician who is dedicated to both motherhood and children, married to another physician, Pedro. After the birth of a new child, Francesca begins to suffer from postpartum depression. Following the advice of friend and psychiatrist Jean, the couple move to a new home away from the city…
Modesty
Act like Sr. Braun
event2007 star_border 4.3
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Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is offered a last chance at falling in love, a teenager struggling to handle the doubts generated by puberty and a small boy who sees ghosts. As is the case in many families, in spite of living together, all the characters in Pudor are alone.
Black Flowers
Act like Clavel
event2009 star_border 4.4
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Following the failure of his last mission, RFG spy Michael Roddick decides to disappear, taking along Elena, the daughter of a Russian spy who died under strange circumstances. They settle in Barcelona and open a restaurant, to help them to forget about the past. Nevertheless, his former colleagues reappear alleging there are still some matters yet to be settled.
A Time for Defiance
Act like Lucas
event1998 star_border 6.2
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After the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In the interim, he meets a young lady with whom he falls in love. Assisted by her and her family members, the soldier attempts to save Goya's masterpiece intact amidst the war and violence.
Los días no vividos
event2012
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David (Javier Godino) is awakened by the startling news of the imminent end of the world, and decides to spend his last hours with his friend Jaime (Axier Etxeandia), but he finds Silvia (Ingrid Rubio), a prostitute newcomer to Madrid to rebuild her live.
Welcome to Farewell-Gutmann
Act like Lúger
event2008
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Ruiz died. The Human Resources department of the pharmaceutical company Farewell-Gutmann has lost a dedicated director, but Lazarus, Adele and Ferdinand will miss him. Still warm body of the deceased, their subordinates killed begin the race for succession. The arrival of an eccentric from the central executive will forever change the relationship between them.
The Cold Call
event2012 star_border 5.8
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The story of salesman Salvador Lozano and his ambiguous relationship with young hostess Inés.
Profilaxis
Act like Médico
event2003 star_border 5
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One man explains how he discovered what he calls "the paradise of pleasure."
Traumalogy
event2007 star_border 8
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During the wedding of Antonio, the eldest of a family of five brothers, the father suffers a heart attack. The wedding is interrupted and the whole family moves to the hospital, where throughout a tense night of waiting, all the trauma and misery begin to emerge.
Caminos de tiza
event1988 star_border 6
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A nun teacher that is going to die decides to travel around Spain to meet her 3 favorite students to ask if she learned something from her teaching period.
[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
Act like Dr. Ricarte
event2014 star_border 5.6
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Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.
Family United
Act like Padre
event2013 star_border 5.9
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Five siblings gather to celebrate a wedding at their family estate on the day Spain plays the final of the 2010 World Cup.
Robbery at 3 O'clock… and Half
event2003 star_border 4.7
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A German bank buys a small Spanish entity and announces to its employees that it will pre-retire them on January 1st. The cashier Galindo proposes his fellow coworkers a plan to steal a large sum of euros which will arrive on New Year's Eve.
The Longest Penalty Shot in the World
Act like Rodríguez
event2005 star_border 5.3
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Fernando (Fernando Tejero) is a loser. A gray type, without ambition, that works like bookcases distributor in a supermarket of the quarter. In his free short whiles, he is a substitute keeper of a football team, a third regional one. In all the season he has not played a single minute. But the last Sunday of the league the referee indicates penalty and the regular keeper injures itself. Fernando must occupy the goal for the first time. If penalty scores, the team of the district will proclaim champion. If no, all the effort of a year will not have been worth for anything. When the penalty is just about to be kicked, a group of indignant fans with the referee invades the field and prevents the kick. The competition committee decides that the penalty must play the following Sunday, in the same goal, with same players and the field closed to the public. El Penalti más largo del mundo, (The Longest Penalty Shot in the World) is exactly the history of that week of delay.
Box 507
Act like Director Europa Sur
event2002 star_border 6.4
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Modesto, an honest and responsible professional, is a manager of a small bank branch in Costa del Sol. His daughter died in a forest fire which he had thought to be accidental. One day he wakes up in his bank, after being locked and dragged by unknown men, and finds out in a safety-deposit box that the fire was plotted. From that day on, he sets on a personal crusade for justice.
Mad Love
Act like Re Fernando di Aragona
event2001 star_border 6.1
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The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Lolita's Club
Act like José
event2007 star_border 5.2
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The divergent lives of twin brothers, Raúl, a violent policeman, and Valentín, a mentally handicapped man, cross paths again when the former decides to visit his family.
Physics II
event2004 star_border 5
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Jorge lives in a room without a window, without light, without air, without a way out and with little hope. His father, Andrés, is the doorman of the building. He is about to retire and wants Jorge to keep the job, but Jorge wants to go to university.
Maktub
Act like Paco
event2011 star_border 7.6
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The title refers to those strange coincidences that happen to us sometimes and that seem inevitable, like a product of destiny. Inspired by the experience of a Canarian child victim of cancer, the film is conceived as a Christmas story.
Freedomfighters
Act like Durruti
event1996 star_border 6.3
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At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
The Limits of Control
Act like Second American
event2009 star_border 6
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A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
Redondela
Act like Tarrés
event1987 star_border 4.4
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4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions point to Franco's brother.
Obaba
Act like Ismael
event2005 star_border 6.2
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A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery.
Luna negra
Act like César Quintana (194 ep.)
event2003 star_border 2
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Many years ago, a haunting letter-caster predicted a bright future to a young César Quintana, Luck will be with you for twenty-five years. You will achieve fame and fortune. but after the term, your son will have an accident, which will be the beginning of all your ills
The woman got it right: César published her novel "El loft", winning with it a prestigious literary award. He married Almudena Velázquez, the wealthy heiress to a publishing mogul, managing the Eclipse publishing house. Both have a daughter named Lucía Quintana Velázquez, a beautiful, active, and noble young woman who is only encouraged by her mother to write a book. Lucia has suffered from congenital heart disease since she was little, which she has controlled thanks to the medication she takes.
Letter to Eva
Act like Juan Perón (2 ep.)
event2013 star_border 5.5
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Juana Doña, a communist woman; Carmen Polo, dictator Franco's wife; and Eva Duarte, President Perón's wife, the first lady of Argentina, the idolized Evita, crisscross their lives during Evita's official visit to Spain, an autarchic country isolated from the world, in June 1947. Behind the pomp of reception there is a pharaonic preparation, hidden businesses, battles in the Caudillo's court and the possibility of saving a human life.
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