
Birthday:
08-08-1958
(66 years)
Birthplace:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Biography
Cecilia Edith Rotenberg Gutkin (Buenos Aires, born August 8, 1956), better known as Cecilia Roth, is an Argentine theatre, film, and television actress. She is the winner of two Goya Awards and a European Film Award. She is known for being an "Almodóvar girl" and the "muse" of Fito Páez during the 1990s.
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All About My Mother
Act like Manuela
event1999 star_border 7.6
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Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Rapture
Act like Ana Turner
event1980 star_border 6.8
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José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Act like Chica del Anuncio 'Bragas Ponte'
event1980 star_border 6.4
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After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.
Pigmalión
event1986
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Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress.
Labyrinth of Passion
Act like Sexilia
event1982 star_border 6.2
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An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid.
Dark Habits
Act like Merche
event1983 star_border 6.7
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After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Act like Chica anuncio
event1984 star_border 7.2
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A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
A Place in the World
Act like Ana
event1992 star_border 7.4
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Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.
Kamchatka
Act like Mother
event2002 star_border 6.6
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In 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecuted and kidnapped. This is the case of the parents of two children, who, knowing they are wanted, decide to hide.
Mansión Helada
Act like Griselda
event2021 star_border 10
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A portrait of what fame and love hurts.
Conversations on Hatred
event2023 star_border 10
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“Conversations on Hatred” by Vera Fogwill from Argentina narrates a real-time story of a farewell between two terminally ill women. In this intimate and deep conversation, they discuss their views on maternity, friendship, and their ways of dealing with the disease. A brilliant conversation starts, which reminds us all of the best cinema had to offer in the past.
Lucía, Lucía
Act like Lucía
event2003 star_border 5.1
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Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as she tries to find him. Things take a bit of a twist as she realized the kidnapping may not be as simple as it seems on the surface.
Empty Nest
Act like Martha
event2008 star_border 6.2
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Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.
Ashes of Paradise
Act like Juez Beatriz Teller
event1997 star_border 6.7
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A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth.
En cumplimiento del deber
Act like Narrator
event2022 star_border 10
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This documentary tells through the story of various relatives and testimonies the fire at the Iron Mountain company that led to the death of six police firefighters, two volunteer firefighters and two civil defense agents.
Cecilia Roth: Material for Rapture
Act like Self
event1979
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Recovered Zulueta short.
Desire
Act like Alina
event2002 star_border 5.5
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In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
Private Lives
Act like Carmen Uranga
event2001 star_border 3.8
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Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the unavoidable memories of the torture that that was object during the dictatorship and a dramatic revelation.
A Night with Sabrina Love
Act like Sabrina Love
event2000 star_border 5.7
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When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with his favorite adult movie star, Sabrina Love. However, getting there will be half the trouble of meeting Sabrina.
Sofacama
Act like Bernie
event2006 star_border 6
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A separated yet self-sufficient craftswoman puts up a friend who is also separating. The hostess has three teenage children, and the arrival of her guest will interfere with their domestic harmony, apart from slowly but surely causing a hormonal surge in one of the boys.
I'm So Excited!
Act like Norma Bosch
event2013 star_border 5.7
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Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.
Otros días vendrán
Act like Alicia
event2005 star_border 6
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Alicia (Cecilia Roth) is a school teacher in his forties who begins a relationship online with Zaz (Nacho Aldeguer), 17. When the affair begins to leak, the story takes a turn of 180 degrees. At that time Zaz's father (Antonio Resines) will take the center of the stage
Vivir mata
event1991
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A diplomat is sent to Wallachia late nineteenth century. There he meets a young princess. Back in Buenos Aires, and a century later and turned into a vampire, he meets another woman.
Luisa Sanfelice
Act like Regina Carolina
event2004 star_border 6.4
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An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.
Second Skin
Act like Eva
event1999 star_border 5.8
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When Elena finds a hotel bill in her husband’s pocket, she begins to suspect that he’s having an affair — but not that it’s with a man.
Marriage
Act like Molly
event2013 star_border 4.5
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Esteban and Molly have been married for over twenty years. On a cold morning in June the couple realizes they have hit rock bottom and that their relationship is not what it once was. Marriage examines the different aspects that make a man and a woman click, those moments where a bond can become harder than a rock, but it will also illustrate the downfalls and all the little things that make a relationship worth fighting for.
The Secret Garden
Act like Paola
event1984 star_border 5
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A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. Her current boyfriend, Arthur (Xabier Elorriaga), suspects the mysterious sender can be Lucia's former lover, whose strange death never reached clarified. Now it's time it's Arthur who put the cards on the table to get to the bottom of it.
Les pel·lícules del meu pare
event2007 star_border 3.6
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The protagonist has no memory of her father. However, as she watches the films he made before she was born, in which several young girls appear, she begins to suspect if there had been nothing between her father and her. To forget her loneliness and stay afloat she keeps a diary. Men begin to irritate her, she is increasingly attracted to women and desperately seeks a mother, a friend, a lover.
Antigua vida mía
Act like Violeta Dasinski
event2001 star_border 3.5
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An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua.
The Semester We Loved Kim Novak
event1980 star_border 2
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In the late '50s, a young student falls in love with actress Kim Novak and fills the walls of his room with her photographs. One day, he meets a girl who looks a lot like her at a party, but is so shy that he needs to get drunk to declare his love.
Wild Horses
event1995 star_border 6.4
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A man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they're running away, they meet a girl who becomes part of the team.
Goyo
Act like Magda
event2024 star_border 6.8
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A young autistic museum guide lives by a strict routine — until he falls in love with his coworker and must confront a whirlwind of new, intense emotions.
Our Father
Act like Maite
event2006 star_border 6.9
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Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.
Las verdes praderas
Act like Matilde, hermana de Conchi
event1979 star_border 6.1
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José is a happily married executive, with children, a flat in Madrid and a house in the suburbs. It's Friday and the weekend seems to follow the usual pattern: football match with mates, travel to the mountains and family visit. Nevertheless, José feels no motivated by his routine, he no longer distinguishes leisure from their obligations, all of which result in an unexpected final decision by his attentive wife.
No toquen a la nena
event1976 star_border 7
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A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.
Martin (Hache)
Act like Alicia
event1997 star_border 7.5
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An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín brings the troubled teen to live with him in Spain. But though Martín tries to reach out to his son, he's unable to bond with anyone in his life -- including his much-younger girlfriend
Culpa cero
Act like Carola
event2024 star_border 7.4
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The life of Berta Muller, a successful writer, is shaken when, at the peak of her career, she is exposed in the media for plagiarism. Far from taking responsibility, he will deny the accusations and try to justify himself ridiculously, even if it means exposing all his darkness.
The Stranger
Act like Anita
event1987 star_border 6.2
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Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.
The Parties
Act like María Paz
event2022 star_border 6
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Sergio, Mali and Luz reluctantly agreed to spend Christmas in the country with their mother; in part because of the guilt they feel about saying no when she has just come out of the hospital after a heart attack, but also because it would be nice to escape from their frustrations for a while.
The Landless
Act like Narrator
event2004 star_border 6
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This documentary traces the rise of Brazil's Landless Movement (MST) from its founding in 1984 to the 2002 election of Brazil's first working class president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
Breadcrumbs
Act like Liliana Pereira
event2016 star_border 5.2
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When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile with her son and be able to live peacefully as a mother and a grandmother.
The Making of All About My Mother
Act like Self
event2012
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A documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon.
Talk to Her
Act like Espectadora (uncredited)
event2002 star_border 7.6
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Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Trágala, perro
Act like Micaela
event1981 star_border 6.3
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Sister Patrocinio is a nun who is stigmatized by Christ in her hands and feet. Although some believe in this mystical fact, others suspect of manipulation and take it to the court of justice.
La peli de Batato
Act like Herself
event2011 star_border 7
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Batato Barea, the “clown/intellectual/transvestite” was a genius of the underground scene who was able to represent all the nuances of a changing country with his own poetic radicalism, in such a unique way that it made him irreplaceable. That paradox is the basis for this documentary by Peter Pank and Goyo Anchou, two authors in search of a character and his legacy, but also his irreplaceable presence and instantaneous, evanescent theatricality, which challenged every mandate and convention.
El Angel
Act like Aurora
event2018 star_border 7.4
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Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
La familia bien, gracias
Act like Mónica
event1979 star_border 5.7
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Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The father was left alone in the family home, but loneliness overwhelms him so he decides to spend some time at home for each of their children, most of whom are married. But the experience ends up being disastrous.
Crecer de golpe
event1977 star_border 5.3
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It tells the complex relationship of Milo, a teenager, and his old protector. Adaptation of "Around the cage", work of the writer Haroldo Conti, disappeared in 1976 by Argentine dictatorship.
Pain and Glory
Act like Zulema
event2019 star_border 7.4
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Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Erotic Stories
Act like Sra. Josephson / Mujer Rubia (segments "Koñensonaten" and "Frac")
event1980 star_border 3.7
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A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
The Crimes That Bind
Act like Alicia
event2020 star_border 6.4
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When her son is accused of raping and trying to murder his ex-wife, Alicia embarks on a journey that will change her life forever.
Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother
Act like Self
event2012 star_border 8
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Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco Spain), explores Barcelona society at the turn of the millennium through the lives of five women.
The Intruder
Act like Marta
event2021 star_border 5.4
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Inés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. While on an idyllic trip she suffers a traumatic episode that she can’t recover from. She has trouble sleeping and experiences very vivid nightmares as strange sounds begin to emerge from inside her. Awake, Inés feels suddenly surrounded by people that seem to come from her dreams.
Rings of Fear
Act like Salesgirl
event1978 star_border 5.6
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Angelo Russo, a sixteen year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angelo boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virgina (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name "Nemesis". Bizarre "accidents" start to befall the girls: Franca is injured when someone causes her horse to bolt and Virgina nearly breaks her neck on marbles left at the top of a staircase. But Di Salvo is determined to find the killer, even if it means using unorthodox methods. He is aided by Angelo Russo's little sister Emily, whose helpful clues lead to a boutique owned by a dubious character and a vice ring where "rich influential men pay well for teenage favours" ...
The Loves of Kafka
Act like Hermana de Kafka
event1988 star_border 6
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A movie director from Argentine travels to Prague to make a film about Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská.
I, the Worst of All
Act like La Virreina (voice)
event1990 star_border 5.6
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Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In order to pursue her love of writing, Juana enters the convent and gains international renown. When the Inquisition comes, the local Vicereine becomes Juana's protectress and erotic muse, and soon begins a thrilling romance of startling passion and intensity.
El señor Galíndez
Act like Coca
event1984
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El senor Galindez is a Spanish movie starring Antonio Banderas
Epitaphs
Act like Marina Segal (26 ep.)
event2004 star_border 7.1
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Epitafios is a 2004 13-episode, Argentinian crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El Final Está Escrito ... The End Is Written. The series, which takes place in an unnamed South American city, was shot in Buenos Aires.
The series was produced by HBO Latin America and Argentinian TV/film company Pol-Ka Producciones. It was written by Marcelo Slavich and Walter Slavich and directed by Alberto Lecchi and Jorge Nisco. Although all of the actors were Argentinian, a neutral Spanish was used instead of the local Rioplatense Spanish, avoiding colloquialisms such as the local vos in favor of the more common tú.
The series debuted in Australia on SBS in May 2007 under the title If The Dead Could Speak. It premiered in Poland on Cinemax on November 6, 2008. In Germany, it premiered on November 6, 2009 on pay TV channel FOX under the title Epitafios - Tod Ist Die Antwort.
Trátame Bien
Act like Sofía (37 ep.)
event2009 star_border 4.5
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Tratame bien is an Argentine TV series made by Pol-Ka. It was awarded with seven Martín Fierro Awards in May 2010, including the Golden one.
Historia de un clan
Act like Epifania Calvo de Puccio (11 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.6
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This drama based on a true story follows the Puccios, a criminal family who kidnaps wealthy people and holds them hostage in their home.
The Messiah
Act like Alicia (7 ep.)
event2023 star_border 7.5
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The viral video of a Christian pop group made up of several sisters has an enormous effect on the life of Enric, a man tormented by a childhood marked by religious fanaticism and the yoke of a mother with messianic delirium.
Killer Women
(1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 5.6
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Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
Según Roxi
Act like Rania Majal (1 ep.)
event2016
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Segun Roxi is a comedy featuring a mother who divides her world between friends and enemies. Desperately fighting to tackle the pitfalls of motherhood, Roxi faces her challenges with sincerity and humor combined.
Desperate Housewives
Act like Alicia Oviedo (23 ep.)
event2006 star_border 1.5
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Amas de Casa Desesperadas is an Argentine television series, that debuted on Canal 13 on August 30, 2006. Set in the fictional Manzanares Street, a suburb surrounding Buenos Aires, the series follows the lives of four housewives and the domestic problems and daily mysteries surrounding their husbands, friends and neighbors, which can be more sinister than they appear. The series' tone combines elements of drama, comedy, mystery, farce, soap opera and satire.
Based on the American television series, Desperate Housewives, it was developed for Argentina by Buena Vista International and Pol-Ka Producciones. The show’s first season was broadcast by Canal 13 on Argentina, and also by other networks on Uruguay and Paraguay. On October 2006, Canal 13 renewed Amas de Casa Desesperadas for a second season, that will start filming on August 2007.
En Terapia
Act like Gabriela Girat (28 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5.7
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En Terapia is a 2012 Argentine remake of In Treatment. The main actors of the 2012 season are Diego Peretti, Julieta Cardinali, Germán Palacios, Ailín Salas, Dolores Fonzi, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Norma Aleandro. The second season added Carla Peterson, Gonzalo Slipak, Roberto Carnaghi and Luisana Lopilato.
The Pier
Act like Blanca (16 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7
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High-profile architect Alexandra faces her worst nightmare when she gets a call from local cop Conrado to identify her husband Oscar's body, found on a pier in the beautiful Albufera landscape outside Valencia. Suicide? How can it be when they had made plans for their future just hours ago? But it only gets worse: Oscar had been leading a double-life with another woman, Veronica. Who is this woman? Who was the man she loved for 15 years? And what happened that fatal night on the pier?
The Internationals
(8 ep.)
event2020 star_border 6.4
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In 2001, a gang of Colombian thieves travel to Argentina to carry out robberies while the country is preoccupied with a political and economic crisis.
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