Carlos Portaluppi (Mercedes, Buenos Aires, born June 8, 1967) is an Argentine theatre, film, and television actor.
La Dueña is a 2012 Argentine miniseries. It is a blockbuster starring Mirtha Legrand, who worked on this series after 46 years of retirement from acting in television....
An ex-cop entered a prison as convicted under a false identity in order to infiltrate within a group of prisoners that has just kidnapped the teenage daughter of an important national judge....
The series interspersed the most significant historical events of the southern country with the comings and goings of a family living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires....
Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder....
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The series proposes a new look at the human bonds of the new century. Each of the chapters develops a unique story. They are focused on the conflicts that their characters face in the face of the resistance of a society that often does not fully accept new realities, a product of the transformations that are currently being experienced....
La Casa del Mar (The house by the Sea) is the story of the disappearance of Laura Ramos, Pelaza's research and it's consequences. But it is also the story of Daniel and his friends, their secrets, their resentment. The plot will become more complex as the investigation proceeds. Is Laura alive? Why are there so many secrets? What's Daniel hiding?...
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 ...
Los Vecinos en Guerra (Spanish: Neighbors at War) is an Argentine television comedy starring Diego Torres, Eleonora Wexler and Mike Amigorena and originally aired on Underground contenidos.[1]...
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Hombres de honor was a 2005 Argentine telenovela, produced by Pol-Ka and aired by El Trece. It was starred by Laura Novoa and Gabriel Corrado....
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Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the Peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the 'Vecinos de Pompeya', a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father. At the very moment he takes the decision to leave his beloved Buenos Aires forever, it clearly appears that ...
Whisky Romeo Zulu tells the story prior to the crash of LAPA Boeing 737 that on August 31, 1999, caught fire after hitting an embankment in the center of Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. The disaster changed the history of civil and commercial aviation in Argentina, and the film recounts, from the standpoint of the director, a former airline pilot-how in some countries the safety of the flight is incredibly precarious....
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Osvaldo is going through a unique moment in his life. Selling a home forever alters family ties....
A murder in a house in Tigre triggers an investigation in the sphere of a political weekly. Crimes follow one another and the police can't solve the puzzle. A magazine journalist will try to get to the truth without knowing that more than one surprise awaits her....
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Mystery film from Juan José Jusid...
An experienced commercial pilot is forced to collaborate with his country's intelligence services to avoid being punished for a serious fault he committed on the job. He is quickly plunged into an underworld of intrigue and extortion that will put his life at risk and he will pay a very high price to escape from it....
Rodolfo (Luis Brandoni) is a retired doctor. Since he was widowed a few years ago, he lives alone in his house. For an unexpected event, his daughter Laura (Nancy Dupláa) with whom he barely speaks, needs to move with him for a few days. The coexistence will bring old discussions to the table, wounds that did not heal and the opportunity for them to connect again....
The priest Mario Pantaleo discovers he has some power to diagnose and cure diseases through the laying on of hands. But the police and the church hierarchy will against him....
A funeral home is hired to transport a body to a neighboring country, but an irresponsible employee loses the coffin in the middle of the street in a town in Entre Ríos. From there begins a power struggle to manage the situation among the inhabitants of the town. But that coffin hides something that unleashes a silent race of greed and betrayal to see who gets it....
A writer dying of AIDS searches for a cure and human interaction in the hospitals and sex clubs of Buenos Aires....
Argentina's Eva told from the perspective of journalist Rodolfo Walsh the remarkable story of Eva Peron. The obsession of this writer and journalist in the reconstruction of the history of Evita is both rebuilding your own life and death and the fate of the Argentines. Considered a saint for the humble and a myth to the world, Argentina's Eve is the story of a heroine of the twentieth century was the World with the promise to return and be millions. The film is made of a 70% cut-out animation an...
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The life of the poet, filmmaker, journalist, politician, teacher and union leader Homero Manzi. Since his time in prison, his friendships, the bohemian life, his time in the cinema and his memorable musical compositions....
Drama about a man who is supposed to kill his daughter....
An experienced fisherman is hired to try to find something that, apparently, is simply a fantasy installed in society....
During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers kidnap a group of young people. What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into hell: the wrong group has been kidnapped....
Nacho was a happy 21-year-old guy, with a great family, friends and girlfriend. But a year later he's not the same guy: he lives alone and he doesn't care anymore about anyone. He's lost and desperate, tortured by what happened a year ago....
Mariano is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support to Alfredo, a policeman depressed over his wife cheating on him. Mariano is then accidentally involved in a double homicide investigation being conducted by Alfredo....
Juan and Ismael are great friends, they work in a corralón in Moreno. Riding the truck they go through the winter and live with the harshness of work, they do it with humor, sometimes helped by alcohol. Friendship is a difficult wall to break between them. Juan, drives the truck and lives surrounded by dogs, Ismael, loads the truck and dreams of having money....
Sergio is a drama teacher for children. Through his classes we learn something about him and his students. Pain is above fear. Children can only act as children. A child cannot act as a policeman, an old man, a prostitute, for example. The great advantage of a child is that he is the only one who can act as a child naturally. Therefore, their greatest competitors are animals....
Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable Olinda, the 60 year-old Italian immigrant owner of the restaurant. The two develop a friendship once they discover that the reasons for their having moved to Argentina are strikingly similar....
During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown off course, she decides to interrupt her journey and wander through the unfamiliar city....
Are we what others see, or are we what we allow others to see? Most likely it is the view of others which delimits our own identity, as a young divorced mother named Julieta convinces herself. This evening is like any other: her two young sons are roughhousing in their cramped apartment. They whoop and shout while their mother makes desperately futile attempts at the computer to concentrate on writing a report for work. Feeling intense pressure, Julieta tries to quiet the conflict but finds it d...
Sometimes the links can be built from the passions. Sometimes those links can become passions. For Hugo, a solitary taxi driver from Buenos Aires, the total, absolute and exclusive passion is San Lorenzo, which is not only an active part of his past, but a healthy obsession that bathes that gives color to his life. Until a single mother and her son cross their path. Now there will be someone to share the passion with. Maybe something more....
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A romantic holiday has left Inés all alone. She's not at all happy about it....
A film about the life of Juan Ramón Duarte, Evita's only brother. His ascent, his excesses, and his demise, in the times of Juan Domingo Perón....
The financial problems of a Jewish community are a nightmare for their leader, Rabbi Aaron. Cornered and overwhelmed, Aaron tries a last resort: embark on a trip to the Far East to get donations....
Mariano, a neurotic young man about to get married, tries to carry out a small scam in order to set up his brand new apartment. Everything goes wrong as his beloved Siam Di Tella ends up in possession of a very eccentric homeless man....
Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions....
This film focuses on an aging starlette (Silvia Perez) was once an it-girl. She returns to her hometown for her niece's birthday party and has to deal with her conservative family who does not agree with her chosen lifestyle....
Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse....
A political thriller about child trafficking. Danger arises in Abril’s life (Diana Lamas), an apathetic and absent-minded accountant, after her cherished uncle Ángel (Mario Pasik) and her best friend from adolescence Guille (Carlos Portaluppi) turn up on New Year’s Eve. Both these presences turn out to be closely related to a judicial investigation into the dark secrets of Abril’s family, leading her up to the realization that her personal experience is deeply intertwined with politics. The stru...
Marcos is an experienced nurse. He works in the night shift of a provincial private clinic. He is applied and professional but has a secret: in some extreme cases he applies euthanasia. He'll soon meet someone that knows what he's doing....
A methodical man falls for a pregnant woman with a very particular life story....
Anita is the story of a young woman with Down syndrome who lives a happy, routine life in Buenos Aires, being meticulously cared for by her mother Dora. One tragic morning in 1994, everything changes when Anita is left alone, confused and helpless after the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association is bombed (the deadliest bombing in Argentina's history). As Anita wanders through the city, she learns not only to care for herself, but touches the lives of those around her, from an alcoholic t...
Axel, a Spaniard with Asperger syndrome, decides to travel to Buenos Aires in search of his former companions, with whom he formed in the past a music band that was not successful. Axel meets again with Javier, a geography teacher, and Lucas, a health visitor; three estranged friends who reluctantly come together to become the ones they never were: almost legends....
Carlos Castro's documentary traces the lives of Alicia Eguren and John William Cooke, companions of life and militancy, at the same time that it combines the history of the Peronist movement, its victories, hopes and failures....
10-year-old Santiago's parents, who is hardly at home, use their conflict to reproach each other for desertions and failures, transforming the solution to their son's problem into a simple fight of power between them....
A family takes refuge in an old country house the last hours before the announced final judgment. But the unexpected appearance of an intruder, who claims to be a savior, puts their faith and destiny at risk....
A girl comes to town to work as a dancer, an entrepreneur of the night becomes his manager. A journalist in decline, looking for the news that catapults him. All three converge in the VIP Sector, where human trafficking, fake news and transgressions of power coexist....
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time....
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