Osvaldo Terranova

Osvaldo Terranova

Born: June 30, 1924
Died: October 4, 1984
in Villaguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina

Movies for Osvaldo Terranova...

Adiós, Roberto
Title: Adiós, Roberto
Released: April 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Roberto separates from his wife and needs a place to stay. When he moves in with gay Marcelo, he is clueless about Marcello's sexuality and the two become close friends. One night after many drinks Roberto has sex with Marcelo and must confront his feelings and the potential ridicule of his family.
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The Angry Toy
Title: The Angry Toy
Released: October 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Silvio, a young poet and inventor, struggles to find employment and to give meaning to his life. Silvio has a homosexual relationship, which leaves him traumatized.
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In Retirement
Title: In Retirement
Character: Editor-in-chief
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A former Triple A (Argentine anti-communist alliance) is abandoned by his former colleagues after the Argentine dictatorship falls, in the course of his solitude he slowly becomes more insane and falls further into dementia, at the same time as one of the parents of the many children that he murdered and tortured during the dictatorship persecute him for revenge.
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Las travesuras de Cepillo
Title: Las travesuras de Cepillo
Released: January 22, 1981
Type: Movie
The encounter of a puppeteer with an orphan child and the subsequent relationship.
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Este loco amor loco
Title: Este loco amor loco
Released: September 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Emilia, an imaginative young woman from a small town, goes to Buenos Aires in search of her missing sister. The clues take her to Andrés, a mysterious man who may have led her sister astray.
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The Power of Darkness
Title: The Power of Darkness
Released: June 14, 1979
Type: Movie
A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people.
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Grandma
Title: Grandma
Character: Carmelo Spadone
Released: May 10, 1979
Type: Movie
The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
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De cara al cielo
Title: De cara al cielo
Released: May 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Life in a Neuquén fort during the Conquest of the Desert.
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Contragolpe
Title: Contragolpe
Character: Antonio Cesaró
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan.
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The Lion's Share
Title: The Lion's Share
Released: October 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Story of a ordinary human being who, by chance, take possession of the money that was stolen from a bank, thinking that will solve all his problems.
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Los superagentes y el tesoro maldito
Title: Los superagentes y el tesoro maldito
Character: Iván Krakchenkov
Released: August 3, 1978
Type: Movie
When the bionic superagents, after five years without vacations, go to Mar del Plata, they must fight against an international gang that intends to seize a treasure.
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El gordo catástrofe
Title: El gordo catástrofe
Character: Dr. Galindez
Released: September 8, 1977
Type: Movie
Catrasca (Jorge Porcel) is a man who works in a restaurant and in his spare time helps in a children's home. His problem is that he carries a family tradition that makes him cause catastrophes in his path, one of which takes his boss (Adolfo García Grau) to the hospital. Upon leaving the hospital, Catrasca is run over by Graciela (Graciela Alfano), the daughter of Professor Galíndez (Osvaldo Terranova). This is how he meets this professor, who has a formula that says he will be the salvation of humanity, so he is the object of persecutions by villains such as Dr. Linda Winters (Moria Casán).
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El casamiento de Laucha
Title: El casamiento de Laucha
Released: August 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Drifter finds a steady job, meets a woman, settles down.
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Crecer de golpe
Title: Crecer de golpe
Released: June 30, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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La nueva cigarra
Title: La nueva cigarra
Released: June 2, 1977
Type: Movie
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Los orilleros
Title: Los orilleros
Released: October 23, 1975
Type: Movie
The life, customs and death of an authoritarian man.
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La película
Title: La película
Released: October 2, 1975
Type: Movie
A photographer shoots a documentary film in a small town in Argentina (Uribelarrea) about the filming that a foreign producer is doing on the spot.
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Diary of a Pig War
Title: Diary of a Pig War
Character: Leandro Rey
Released: August 7, 1975
Type: Movie
A man who is entering old age facing a society in which young people removed the old.
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Jewish Gauchos
Title: Jewish Gauchos
Released: May 22, 1975
Type: Movie
The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
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Rebellion in Patagonia
Title: Rebellion in Patagonia
Character: Outerello
Released: June 13, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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The Seven Madmen
Title: The Seven Madmen
Character: Ángel Erqueta
Released: May 3, 1973
Type: Movie
After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.
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La revolución
Title: La revolución
Released: April 26, 1973
Type: Movie
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Title: Alta comedia
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: TV
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Gente conmigo
Title: Gente conmigo
Character: Esteban Berardi
Released: March 2, 1967
Type: Movie
An Italian woman arrives in Buenos Aires and suffers all kinds of social and personal misadventures.
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Convención de vagabundos
Title: Convención de vagabundos
Released: June 15, 1965
Type: Movie
A vagabond receives a large fortune as an inheritance and summons his peers to decide what to do with it.
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Bicho raro
Title: Bicho raro
Released: June 1, 1965
Type: Movie
The brother-in-law of a provincial teacher tries to take away the land on which he had built a school.
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El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
Title: El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
Character: Padre de Zulema Puentes
Released: August 20, 1964
Type: Movie
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La familia Falcón
Title: La familia Falcón
Released: May 2, 1963
Type: Movie
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Detrás de la mentira
Title: Detrás de la mentira
Character: Don Pedro
Released: December 12, 1962
Type: Movie
An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party.
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Prisioneros de una noche
Title: Prisioneros de una noche
Character: Roberto Brenda
Released: January 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires.
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Last year of Nacional High School
Title: Last year of Nacional High School
Character: Pedro Fegross
Released: October 26, 1961
Type: Movie
This movie was based on a TV series popular in Argentina at that time dealing with the adventures of high school seniors.
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Chafalonias
Title: Chafalonias
Released: November 17, 1960
Type: Movie
After his wife's death, widower begins to learn details about a double life she led.
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La madrastra
Title: La madrastra
Released: September 15, 1960
Type: Movie
A boy refuses to accept his new mother despite her best efforts.
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El asalto
Title: El asalto
Released: September 10, 1960
Type: Movie
A strange group of people steals a bank.
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Fin de fiesta
Title: Fin de fiesta
Released: June 23, 1960
Type: Movie
This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.
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In Burning Darkness
Title: In Burning Darkness
Released: June 4, 1959
Type: Movie
In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.
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The Kidnapper
Title: The Kidnapper
Released: June 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.
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Enigma de mujer
Title: Enigma de mujer
Character: Gabriel López
Released: September 27, 1956
Type: Movie
A series of anecdotes exposed from the point of view of a Samaritan woman who tries to fix the problems of the neighbors.
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La pícara soñadora
Title: La pícara soñadora
Released: May 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A store clerk lives in the furniture section without anyone noticing.
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El curandero
Title: El curandero
Released: August 25, 1955
Type: Movie
A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
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La delatora
Title: La delatora
Character: Marino
Released: June 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Crime-picture dealing with car thieves.
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Goodbye, Problems
Title: Goodbye, Problems
Released: May 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman seduces a father of a family, altering his structures and the family relationship.
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Los problemas de papá
Title: Los problemas de papá
Released: February 9, 1954
Type: Movie
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From Man to Man
Title: From Man to Man
Released: February 9, 1949
Type: Movie
A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.