Movies: Federico Luppi

Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns for one last trip. There he meets widow Virginia, an old love, and begins to hope that he might reig...

A movie in four parts. A frustrated woman finds love with a painter ("La estrella del destino"). A woman tries to seduce her subordinate when she takes him to her apartment ("La buscona"). A woman who killed her husband falls in love with the graved...

A family consisting of parents, two sons and a teenage daughter falls apart morally....

A review of fiction about the life of Florencio Parravicini....

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his pos...

A man meets a former military service buddy who offers him a good deal. Money starts pouring in, but things change from one day to the next....

A once prominent family fight each other over the inheritance of a run down mansion. Motivated by individual greed, they turn on one another until they unite to subdue a stranger prone to violence. Outwardly the family retains respectability and thei...

Luis is a righteous man who begins a struggle and a moral debate with his family, neighbors and close friends when a corrupt municipal official offers a very convenient "arrangement"....

A women is planning to kill her son-in-law after she finds out that he is unfaithful to her daughter....

In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman....

Clara Goldstein is a lovely, middle-aged Jewish woman who, because of an impending visit from her American brother, is forced to create a contrived relationship with a man of her own faith. She places an ad in a personals column and meets Raul, a wel...

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Argentinian Drama An avant-garde young man rents a room from an older couple in Argentina. As his eccentricities become increase, they come to grate on his conservative landlords, who try to control his behavior more....

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Dark humor that shows human misery....

During his last night as a bachelor, a man imagines what would happen if he ran away and avoided marriage, or if he were able to avoid conventions and have a sincere relationship with his girlfriend. Adaptation of the homonymous short story by Robert...

"El Pollo," a 13-year-old child in reform school, witnesses and experiences the brutalization of the guards and the other inmates....

His mother has left and Gonzalo doesn't know why. How he is taking care of his little infant sister all alone, though he himself is barely ten years old. Neighbours help and try to figure out what should be done with the two children. Like old Felipe...

A serial killer of prostitutes is threatening the authorities. Sara steps in, unemployed and without a place to live, staying for a while with her friend Pata. Sara gets a job in a courthouse particularly concerned about the killer. When Pata's clien...

The story focuses on Felipe Mentor, an ambitious and successful entrepreneur forties. Her company, called Mentor, is ascendant, to signing an agreement with a prestigious firm. Personally, Philip is married to a beautiful and charming woman named Luz...