Federico Luppi
Birthday: Born in 1936-02-23 in Ramallo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Deathday: 2017-10-20
Federico José Luppi (February 23, 1936 - October 20, 2017) was a renowned first Argentine actor with an extensive career in film and television.
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Alta comedia
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El amor tiene cara de mujer
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El pacto
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Pan's Labyrinth
Character: Rey
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks....
The Devil's Backbone
Character: Dr. Casares
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge....
El derecho a la felicidad
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The three daughters of a mature marriage and their problems with the original boyfriends....
Las ruteras
Character: Trucker
The fight of a trucker to have his own vehicle....
Fermat's Room
Character: Fermat
Four mathematicians are imprisoned in a shrinking room; with the walls closing in, they must try anything to escape this fatal puzzle....
The flower of the mafia
Character: Luis Alterio
An influential mob boss and a cabaret star team up to increase his power....
Elsa & Fred
Character: Pablo
When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance....
Cronos
Character: Jesus Gris
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after d...
Machuca
Character: Roberto
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets...
Common Ground
Character: Fernando Robles
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow ...
The Messes of Susana
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When a marriage separates, a teenage girl chooses to move in with her father....
A Place in the World
Character: Mario
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....
A Matter of Principles
Character: Adalberto Castilla
A man with seemingly unwavering ethics is challenged by his new boss, who believes everyone has a price and it willing to prove it. In this Capra-esque tale no one leaves unscathed when principles and pragmatism collide....
The Last of the Just
Character: El Hombre del Puzzle
A religious thriller that centers on a theory: 30 people have been chosen by God to maintain the balance of world as we know it. These "Chosen Ones" have been methodically exterminated throughout history and it is now time to take out the last of the them....
Time for Revenge
Character: Pedro Bengoa
Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident....
Martin (Hache)
Character: Martín
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...
Men with Guns
Character: Dr. Fuentes
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results....
The Last Train
Character: Pepe
Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the form of a locomotive nicknamed the "33"...
Rebellion in Patagonia
Character: José 'Facón Grande' Font
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order....
Phase 7
Character: Zanutto
A man protects his pregnant wife from their neighbors after the apartment is quarantined....
Swindled
Character: Federico
In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of success, they're joined by Federico, the best, a true artist. Things go well until Pilar, a woman from Federico's past, re-enters his life with a proposal to con a golden goose - a swindle that will put them all on easy street. A double-cross may be in t...
Cheese Head
Character: Arquitecto Garchuni
It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 1993. Within the club, the four define themselves as outsiders, since they do not participate in the sports activities that are practiced there, and therefore do not fit into the logic that governs the place, being permanently bothered and mocked by the rest of the children of their age....
The Wind
Character: Frank Osorio
After the funeral of his daughter Ema, Frank Osorio travels for the first time to Buenos Aires to tell his granddaughter Alina about her mother's death. But Frank has to big secrets: the first one is about the identity of Alina's father and the second one is related to a crime....
The ABC of Love
Character: Toto
Film that includes three short films by different authors about love: "O pacto" by Eduardo Coutinho, "Terrible Night" by Rodolfo Kuhn, and "Magic World" by Helvio Soto....
La distancia
Character: Entrenador
Daniel, a young boxer on the point of winning the title several times, is beaten yet again and commits a robbery that lands him in jail. Guillermo, a self-destructive policeman tormented by his latent homosexuality, blackmails Daniel into committing a murder behind bars. In exchange, Daniel gains his freedom and returns to the only thing he knows how to do: box. But this time the search for pain to relieve the guilt has made his conservative style more aggressive. He remembers the last conversat...
Gangs from Rosario
Character: Tito
City of Rosario. After three decades in prison together in the same cell, Tito and Castor are released. Outside the youth's friends await, as well as mines, tango, nights of drunkenness and a suitcase full of money hidden in the Parana River. They will try to seize the time and live every second trying to retrieve each of those thirty years behind bars. And when things become complicated they will cover each other as they always did....
Moon in a Bottle
Character: Ruben Cumplido
Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who doesn't want to fall in love; she gets to know Pascal, the owner of the bar and a cabaret artist who is nervously waiting for the arrival of his old friends and lovers Irene and Kurt. Or she leaves with Don José another regular who is tormented by a letter he d...
Flop
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A review of fiction about the life of Florencio Parravicini....
Under Flag
Character: Coronel Hellman
Argentina: 1969: Major Molina has been sent to a military outpost in southern Patagonia to investigate the brutal murder of soldier Lito. The harsh weather conditions of Patagonia reflect the strict and cruel way in which the Colonel Hellman and his officers direct the garrison. Gradually comes to light that Lito was drugged by a fellow, Reppeto, and therefore was unable to participate in an unexpected military exercise at night. For his "disobedience", Lito was beaten to death. Molina seeks ju...
Autumn Sun
Character: Raul Ferraro
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 well-spoken, handsome and charming man whom she soon discovers is a Gentile and does not fulfill her reason for placing the ad. Having no alternative, Clara proceeds to instruct Raul with an intensive course in Judaism. Their journey is both humorous an...
Juan que reía
Character: Sr. Baiocco
Juan Libonatti, a seller of fine wines, like up in the company where he works. His car, a brand new Citroen, will be an essential tool to sell more wine in less time and be able to move up. But one day it is stolen and he had not paid the insurance fee. That will be the beginning of a tragedy that will lead to self-destruction....
Extasis
Character: Daniel
Rober, Max and Ona, three young people living on the fringes of society, decide to commit a risky robbery....
Cien veces no debo
Character: Millan
A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family....
Sweet Money
Character: Carlos
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....
Que parezca un accidente
Character: Arturo
A women is planning to kill her son-in-law after she finds out that he is unfaithful to her daughter....
Lisboa
Character: José Luis
Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman in the middle of nowhere. Somebody is looking for her and she has to escape to Lisboa. But what is the secret of this woman? Why does she want to go to Lisboa?...
The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca
Character: Aniceto
Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise....
Les longs manteaux
Character: Garcia
A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia....
The Corporation
Character: Dalmaso
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, who seems to be the perfect woman. She runs her innermost desires and shown to Felipe madly in love and happy. This is because light works for a firm called Hit Life, a company that makes the dreams and aspirations of people from becoming reality....
Exquisite Corpse
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Dark humor that shows human misery....
Funny Dirty Little War
Character: Ignacio Fuentes
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 post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message....
Inevitable
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Fabian (Dario Grandinetti) works as a bank executive. After one of his colleagues in the bank dies, he falls into crisis. His wife, Mariela (Carolina Peleritti), is a psychologist and has Olga (Mabel Rivera) , an embittered woman who tries to take her frustration out on her, as one of her patients. Fabian will meet a famous blind author (Federico Luppi), who tries to help him. Following his advice, Fabian embarks himself on a relationship with Alicia (Antonella Costa), a young artist that he con...
Wiped-Out Footprints
Character: Manuel
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 reignite the flame between them. As old secrets are revealed, the villagers must come to terms with their imminent loss and the drowning of their home....
Last Days of the Victim
Character: Raúl Mendizábal
Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests....
Acorralados
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No Return
Character: Víctor Marchetti
A thriller centered on a man who is accused of a crime he didn't commit....
Magallanes
Character: Coronel
Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter after 25 years with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption....
The Stone Raft
Character: Pedro
An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans....
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Character: Eduardo
A hit man searches for an alcoholic prostitute who has witnessed a crime and fled to Madrid....
The Stranger
Character: Manager
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....
Divertimento
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A rivalry between two actors proves to have dangerous consequences in this drama from Spain. Daniel (Federico Luppi) is the star of a popular television series who is interested in more prestigious work. and longs to appear on the legitimate stage. Daniel is lobbying for the leading role in Divertimento, a well-known play that made a star of leading man Bernardo Gabler (Francisco Rabal). When Daniel pays a visit to the theater where the play is being staged, he discovers to his surprise that Ber...
The Girlfriend
Character: Pancho
Since 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, sh...
The Tombs
Character: Espiga
"El Pollo," a 13-year-old child in reform school, witnesses and experiences the brutalization of the guards and the other inmates....
The Arrangement
Character: Luis
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"....
My dear Tom Mix
Character: Domingo
Joaquina is aging in a small Mexican village in the 1920s. Her life is boring and she spends her days dreaming of her hero, cowboy Tom Mix. Everything Joaquina wants is to meet him. Her life changes when a bunch of bandits appears nearby. It's time for Tom Mix to stop the thieves and fulfill Joaquina's dreams of adventure....
Entremés
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A young theater actor feels jealous when his girlfriend, part of the cast, has to kiss another actor on stage....
Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
Character: Amigo de infancia
When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life....
Mosaico
Character: Marcelo
The life of an advertising model, since she is discovered by a producer, until she decides to move away from the advertising environment....
The Kid
Character: Felipe
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 with his pub, the veterinarian Julio and his wife, or kind Lorena, who's stranded in the town. And gradually Gonzalo finds out what is really going on....
At the End of the Tunnel
Character: Guttman
A paraplegic computer engineer that moves in a wheelchair and works in his basement starts hearing noises and voices of bank-robbers....
Black Snow
Character: Sepia
Accused of killing his brother during adolescence, Salvador lives alone in the middle of Patagonia. Several decades later, his brother Marcos and his sister-in-law Laura, come to convince him to sell the lands they share by inheritance....
La vieja música
Character: Martín Lobo
The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about training a basketball team so he keeps the previous coach on and in the meantime tries to learn from videos and books, but his real reason for coming to Spain was to find out about an old lost love....
Frontera sur
Character: Ciriaco Maidana
This historical drama addresses European immigration to the Americas (in this case to Buenos Aires, Argentina) during the last two decades of the 19th century. Among its main characters are a Spanish immigrant, a German one, and an established "Argentine." They compete for the affection of a more established female Spanish immigrant, now a successful businesswoman, albeit a prostitute....
Pajarito Gómez
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A chronicle of the life and career of a popular singer: his humble origins, his rise to fame, and his exploitation by the media....
I Did Kill Facundo
Character: Santos Pérez
The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835....
El lugar donde estuvo el paraíso
Character: Consul
In Iquitos, during the era of military dictatorships, a consul must face the arrival of a daughter he does not see in years and the stalking of a military collaborator diplomat who comes to discover his protection to a deserter pilot....
Wild Horses
Character: Eusebio
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....
Sin opción
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A woman working for a crime lord must find out who stole a sum of money from her boss....
Cocaine Wars
Character: Gonzalo Reyes
Miami DEA agent Cliff Adams is in South America working undercover for Gonzalo Reyes, the biggest cocaine exporter in South America. Cliff's fiancée, Janet Meade, is a reporter doing a story about Reyes. Reyes orders Cliff to kill Marcelo Villalba, who is running for his countries position as president, but Cliff can't bring himself to do it, because his assignment from the DEA is to work against Reyes. Reyes is afraid Villalba will put him out of business, and is afraid that Janet's story will ...
Sobredosis
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An innocent teenager, the son of dysfunctional parents, descends into the abyss of drug addiction....
La revolución
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Pasajeros de una pesadilla
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A family consisting of parents, two sons and a teenage daughter falls apart morally....
Necronomicon – The Book of Hell
Character: Dieter
A librarian founds a copy of the fabled Necronomicon, only unleash hell on earth....
Que es un Fantasma?: The Making of 'The Devil's Backbone'
Character: Self
The making of “The Devil’s Backbone” by Guillermo del Toro....
Crónica de una señora
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Following the death of a close friend, a woman caught in an unhappy marriage looks for ways to improve her life....
Malayunta
Character: Bernardo
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....
Luna caliente
Character: Braulio Tennembaum
Returning to Argentina, an engineer trained in Europe visiting a friend of his father and meets the teenage daughter, who begins a relationship of love and passion....
Psique y Sexo
Character: Pablo (segment "La estrella del destino")
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 gravedigger ("La necrófila"). The sexual awakening of two teenagers and the reaction of their parents ("Chicos jugando al deseo") ....
Triangle of Four
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In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman....
A Woman...
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After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society....
Los herederos
Character: Carlos
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 their name is not sullied, but irreparable harm is done to the unit and mutual trust is shattered in the wake of the events that transpire....
Paula contra la mitad más uno
Character: Mike González
Shortly before a match against River Plate, members of the Boca Juniors football team are kidnapped....
Warriors and Prisoners
Character: Colonel Garay
Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives....
Pasión dominguera
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A waiter, a notary, a policeman and some gravediggers leave everything to go and watch their favorite football team play....
Killing Grandpa
Character: Don Mariano Aguero
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Siete semillas
Character: Manuel
This story tells how Ignacio Rodriguez, manager of a textile export company, lives so absorbed in his work that it creates personal crisis which leads to the hospital. After this episode his brother recommends visiting a spiritual guide, beginning a journey of learning that will take him to find the inner peace he needed....
Los pasos perdidos
Character: Bruno Leardi
An Argentinean family living in Spain has their lives rocked when a famous author from their home country claims that their daughter is actually his granddaughter who was lost during a war....
Kiss Me Deadly
Character: Cameo
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 client reads Sara's fortune, fate has a crucial confrontation with the law in store for her....
El año del conejo
Character: Pepé Tinelli
Upon turning 55, Pepe, a bank manager, feels bored with his life. He abandons his family, quits his job, takes a woman younger than him as a lover, and becomes associated with a moneylender....
The Frontier Law
Character: El Argentino
Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang....
Las garras del tiempo
Character: Visitante
A man visits a solitary anthropology museum when all of a sudden he starts aging rapidly....