Miguel Ángel Solá
Birthday: Born in 1950-05-14 in
Deathday: Alive
Miguel Ángel Solá is a prolific Argentine actor who has made over sixty appearances in film and TV in Argentina since 1973. Solá belongs to the Vehil's dinasty of actors, eight generations of actors originally from Catalonia. His mother was Paquita Vehil and his aunt the legendary Luisa Vehil. His sister Mónica is also an actress. He was born in Buenos Aires and began working in television in 1973 and made his big screen debut with Más allá del sol in 1975. His theater beginnings were in 1971; by 1976 he achieved stardom in Peter Shaffer's Equus with Duilio Marzio. He is well remembered in The Elephant Man (play), Deathtrap (play), Jean Cocteau's The Two-headed Eagle, etc. By the 1980s, he had become a major film actor appearing in major films such as Asesinato en el senado de la nación (1984) and A dos aguas (1988). In 1995, he portrayed the 1920s-era doctor and epidemiologist, Salvador Mazza, in the biopic Casas de fuego. In the 2000s he acted in La fuga (2001), The Impatient Alchemist (2000), La puta y la ballena (2004) and Arizona Sur (2004). He moved to Spain where he has a notable career in theater, movies and TV. Solá married to Spanish actress Blanca Oteyza in 1996.
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Lobos
Character: Alonso Soares
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Pollos sin cabeza
Character: Felipe Martinelli
In a recognizable world of madness, the world of elite soccer, young footballers become rich and famous overnight with little idea of how to manage it, and cheeky people try to make a living out of it....
Desaparecida
Character: Teniente Sierra
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Alta comedia
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Atreverse
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Atreverse
Character: Beatriz Pedemonti
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La novia gitana
Character: Salvador
Set in the heart of the Spanish Romani community, the fiction follows police inspector Elena Blanco and her team, as they try to crack the crime case pertaining to the murders of sisters Lara and Susana Macaya, separated by a 7-year gap....
U.C.O.
Character: Capitán Sierra
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La Leona
Character: Klaus Miller
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The House of the Seven Tombs
Character: Armando
Clara and Cecilia are two friends who have evolved very differently, regarding the scary stories that were so important during their childhood....
Love and Dread
Character: Jorge Luis Borges
Borges falls in love with Beatriz Viterbo, a high-class young woman, who decides to marry a government official who makes Borges strongly suspect him, speculating that he is a sadist who is slowly poisoning Beatriz. To save Beatriz Borges, he decides to turn to a detective, who becomes the hinge of an unthinkable story....
Subte: Polska
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As a young man, Tadeusz left behind his sweetheart and his entire family to fight for the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. After the war was lost, the rise of fascism made it unsafe for a Jewish communist to return to Europe, and Tadeusz was forced to immigrate to Buenos Aires, literally going underground to help build the subway tunnels beneath the city. Refusing the doctor’s pills he believes responsible for robbing his lucidity and manhood, Tadeusz’s past begins to meld with the pre...
Tango
Character: Mario Suárez
A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and boldly seductive dance film ever made....
Fausto 5.0
Character: Fausto
On his way to a medical convention, Dr Fausto runs into a man who claims the Doctor removed his stomach eight years ago in a surgical operation. Against all odds, he is still alive. The man turns up repeatedly and promises Fausto to make all his wishes come true. Reality starts dissolving and Fausto begins to lose control...
Plenilune
Character: Inspector
Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest....
La Mary
Character: Alberto
A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying....
Murder in The Senate
Character: Ramón Valdez Cora
Historical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England....
The Escape
Character: Laureano Irala
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buen...
The Whore and the Whale
Character: Suárez
A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for answers brings Vera to the Argentine Patagonia....
Casas de fuego
Character: Salvador Mazza
Film based on the life of Dr. Salvador Mazza, who, with a group of professionals, conducts an investigation to discover the antidote to a mysterious illness whose carrier is a nocturnal insect. A Mazza was regarded as the first doctor who fought the deadly Chagas disease in Argentina....
Under Flag
Character: Mayor Molina
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...
Momentos
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A married woman with a traumatic past embarks on an affair with a younger married man....
The Impatient Alchemist
Character: Zaldívar
The body of a naked man tied to a bed appears in a roadside motel. Sergeant Ruben Bevilacqua (Vila) and his colleague Virginia Chamorro assigned to investigate the case, which is especially delicate because Trinidad Soler, the dead, is a nuclear engineer and have sparked alarmist speculation in the press....
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Character: Juan Dos
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star....
A Shadow You Soon Will Be
Character: Ingeniero
This film follows the exploits of a middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early '80s following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a s...
I Know Who You Are
Character: Mario
Paloma is a young psychiatrist, who is hired to work as a director of a clinic in Galicia, and is attracted to Mario, her very first patient. He suffers from a rare form of amnesia, commonly known as Korsakov's syndrome. As a result, both his short and long term memories are affected, and he has temporary lapses of perception. However, Paloma finds Mario to be a fascinating individual, not just a regular patient. Intrigued, she decides to explore Mario's past and, through their dialogues, their ...
La playa de los galgos
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Martín tries to find his brother Pablo, who disappeared after a terrorist incident to which he was apparently linked. In the course of his investigation, he meets Berta, a mysterious woman who leads him to an Argentinean psychiatrist exiled in Denmark who may have information about Pablo's whereabouts....
Foolish Heart
Character: Juan (adult)
Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite the knowledge that she spent two years at a clinic because she was "crazy." Juan sees Ana when he can and trains as a door-to-door salesman, but when the German photographer on the soul project gives him a viewfinder, it changes his life, putting him on the path to his later success as a H...
Bajo tus pies
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Funny Dirty Little War
Character: Juan
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....
Octavia
Character: Rodrigo
Rodrigo returns to his childhood home of Salamanca after a four-decade absence and a career as a guerrilla in Latin America, a secret agent in the Eastern Bloc and an official for an international agency. While Rodrigo may have attempted to put his past life behind him, the memory of his now deceased mother and his old-world family returns to haunt him. In an old city dominated by the weight of tradition, Rodrigo discovers a daughter about whose existence he had never known, as well as a grand-d...
8 Dates
Character: Fernando
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La desaparición
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Innocent Killers
Character: Professor Espinosa
Garralda is a troubled college student who only has to pass one last subject to obtain his academic degree. When his teacher catches him copying on a test, he requires him to perform a very unethical task in exchange for passing and thus achieving his goal....
The Children of the War
Character: Profesor de gimnasia
Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War....
Safe Passage
Character: Miguel (Present)
In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked his life for his ideals. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Mario, his son, who has been away from Miguel for a long time, now feels compelled to unravel the mystery of a name that, like a curse, pursues his father....
The Children of the War
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Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War....
Cupido confuso
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Nico wants to become independent with his neighborhood colleague, Raca, but she doesn't want ties. Fed up with his parents, Nico leaves home and rents a room on the outskirts. Despite the distance, he begins to hang out with Leo, Raca's little brother, a boy who is getting hormones, because he wants to transition into a woman. Nico is torn between the love of his brother or his sister. Meanwhile, their respective families fall apart, because in one there is no love nor in the other fidelity....
Dismissal
Character: Omar
A successful Spanish executive from a telecommunications company working in Argentina is about to face the most important week of his life, but all his plans will be sabotaged by an eccentric character who will make his week a living hell…...
Sunday's Illness
Character: Bernabé
Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left over thirty years ago. Chiara was just eight years old at the time. She now approaches her mother with an unusual request: to spend ten days together with her....
High Heels
Character: Rubén
A prostitute falls in love with a painter with whom she believes she can save her life....
La vida en rojo
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The Last Suit
Character: Abraham Bursztein
Cranky, crafty and always immaculately dressed, aged master tailor Abraham Bursztein finds himself facing his winter years in a retirement home after discovering his children have sold his home out from under him. Not one to go quietly, Abraham unexpectedly travels to Poland in order to deliver a suit to a childhood friend who saved his life during the Nazi occupation....
The South
Character: Floreal Echegoyen
After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment....
A dos aguas
Character: Rey
When Rey left Argentina after it fell under a military dictatorship in the late 1970s, he also left behind a very controlling and authoritarian father. Now he has returned to the country from exile for the funeral of his father. Though he left the man behind physically, their relationship still haunts him. Meanwhile, his old college pal Isabel has also returned to Argentina to help her husband and child cope with the effects of her long absence, brought about because she had a politically unsuit...
Blue-Eyed
Character: Daniel
In this suspense story, the main character, Johann Neudorff, immigrated to Argentina from Germany after World War Two, and has become a successful businessman there. He is unconcerned with the nature of the government there, which at the time of this film (1978) is a military dictatorship. His comfortable existence is disrupted when he discovers that his beloved daughter Laura has become the lover of a political activist who is on the military's hit list. When his daughter is kidnapped, Johann a...
Fine Powder
Character: Violin professor
The problems of a young man, his pregnant girlfriend and his lover....
Crecer de golpe
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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....
Malayunta
Character: Néstor
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....
Not Quite Adults
Character: Natalio
Lola, a 30-year-old failed kleptomaniac with a bad temper receives a phone call from Mar del Plata: her father, whom she thought had been dead for years, has just died, and she must travel in order to check on some things related to the inheritance. Along with Teo, her former boyfriend, and his sister Rita, she sets off in Teo's school van. In Mar del Plata, she meets Natalio, her father's partner, and everyone must now travel to Bariloche in order to spread the ashes of the deceased....
Celina's Scream
Character: Antonio
The castrating mother confronts the young woman who is going to marry her youngest son....
Beyond the Sun
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Biographic film about the pioneer of argentine aviation Jorge Newbery....
Los enemigos
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Proceso a la infamia
Character: El Nene
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The Crimes That Bind
Character: Ignacio
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....
Shadow of the Cat
Character: Otto
Gato lives on a remote farm with his teenage daughter Emma where without even basic communications tools they’re entirely cut off from the outside world. But once Emma comes into possession of a phone, she’s contacted by a party claiming to be working on behalf of her mother, who her father claimed abandoned her at birth. Infuriated, Emma heads off on a journey of self-discovery to reconnect with her mother, all the while Gato and his best pal Sombra (Danny Trejo) race to rescue her from the gri...
Night Runner
Character: Raimundo Conti
Eduardo, manager of an insurance company, is under a lot of stress and that's why he runs, especially when he is about to explode. One day, returning from an unsuccessful business trip, he meets a mysterious man at the airport who presents himself as a friend and benefactor and encourages Eduardo to change his life and be free...
Alone
Character: Víctor
Laura Garland lost her husband on the war while she’s pregnant. She lives in a big house which is divided in two. Government pursuits her claiming she must occupy the whole house, if she doesn’t, they will take it from her. Laura leases the house to Ricky, an outlaw that will bring new trouble in her life. At least she has another plan....
...Y mañana serán hombres
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Three best friends land in a reformatory together. After some muckraking abuses, a sensitive director helps them rehabilitate themselves....
Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Character: Hugo de los Ríos
This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives....
The Year of Fury
Character: Silveira
Uruguay (1972) unavoidably falls into a terrible dictatorship. Diego and Leonardo, two writers of a well-known TV comedy show, struggle to maintain their integrity under the pressure they receive to tone down their political satires against the military. On the side of the oppressors, Rojas, the lieutenant in charge of torturing subversive youth, finds emotional refuge in Susana, a prostitute. Slowly, the lives of all of them are deeply impacted by the yoke of the dictatorship that looms over th...
The Rabbits' House
Character: Abuelo
Argentina, 1975. Laura is only eight years old, but she knows that to survive you have to keep quiet. She shares her days with her mother and the other activists in a house where the clandestine printing of the Evita Montonera is hidden....
Fears
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A plague ravages Buenos Aires. Those affected by it are executed on the spot; those who are healthy should report to the authorities. Escaping both from the authorities and from the disease, seven survivors head south....
The Dark Side of the Heart
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Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?...
Bajo otro sol
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Student/radical returns to Argentina after years in exile, renews his old friendships and stalks a politician from the bad old days....
The Doctors
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There is everything in this hospital, a good doctor, one who only wants money, one with sexual perversions and the director who hides everything....
El prontuario de un argentino
Character: Camionero
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Words of Truth
Character: Self
The documentary looks in the life and work of Mario Benedetti, especially in his poetic work, the keys to an illustrious Montevideo. A man who has had to live several exiles and has received all the awards that this world can give. But above all, the affection of an unconditional, massive and faithful audience that follows him everywhere and pampers him every day with their applause and reading. A sad childhood, a youth full of work and reading, and a maturity full of commitments marked Benedett...
Eva Doesn't Sleep
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In 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A renowned embalmer was commissioned by the grieving Juan Perón to preserve her body for display, and Argentines flocked to be near "Evita". Three years later, when his government was overthrown by a military coup, Perón fled the country before he could make arrangements for the transportation of his wife's body. The military junta now in control kidnapped the corpse; so afraid were they of Eva's symbo...