Norma Aleandro

Norma Aleandro

Born: May 2, 1936
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Norma Aleandro (born 2 May 1936) is an international award-winning Argentine actress, screenwriter, theatre director and author. She is considered one of the most celebrated and prolific Argentinean actresses of all time and is recognized as a cultural icon in Argentina.

Aleandro starred in the Oscar-winning 1985 film The Official Story, a role that earned her the Cannes Award for best actress. She has performed in other successful films like The Truce (1974), Cousins (1989), Autumn Sun (1996), The Lighthouse (1998), Son of the Bride (2001) and Cama Adentro (2005). For her performance as Florencia Sánchez Morales in the 1987 film Gaby: A True Story, she received a Golden Globe nomination and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Movies for Norma Aleandro...

The Paradise
Title: The Paradise
Character: Magdalena anciana
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Rosario, 1926. Magdalena and Anna Scilko, along with a group of women from the old continent, arrive to the city with the hope of a better future, escaping the post-war period. But nothing will turn out as they had imagined. When they get off the ship they will be kidnapped by The Abramovs, a family that operates as a criminal organization, and manages the most important network of brothels in the city.
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Norma Aleandro, el vuelo de la mariposa
Title: Norma Aleandro, el vuelo de la mariposa
Character: Self
Released: June 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Based on short stories and poems written by the actress, this documentary compiles fragments of the artist's life, configuring a story about the path traveled and an extensive career in film, theater and television.
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Maro’s Secret
Title: Maro’s Secret
Character: Maró
Released: October 7, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: The Bronze Garden
Released: June 25, 2017
Type: TV
Architect Fabián Danubio desperately tries to find his daughter, who has inexplicably disappeared leaving no trace.
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Angelita, la doctora
Title: Angelita, la doctora
Released: April 28, 2016
Type: Movie
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Benavidez’s Case
Title: Benavidez’s Case
Released: April 8, 2016
Type: Movie
During his entire existence, art teacher Benavidez has been living in the shadow of his formidable father, a famous artist who constantly reminded his son of his lack of talent and vision. Even more painful is that the love of his life, one of his ex-students, reveals herself to be a gifted artist. To some she’s even considered to be the true successor to Benavidez’s father. It’s no wonder that this creates tensions and after a devastating lovers quarrel, Benavidez puts all his artworks into a big case and, having nowhere else to go, drags it to his shrink. The man specializes in treating creative spirits and even has an artist’s colony in the basement of his huge mansion. As part of their therapy, his patients produce artworks that get sold for lucrative prizes at auctions organized by the psychiatrist himself. When he looks at what’s inside the case of Benavidez, he realizes that the son has finally surpassed his father.
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Title: Los ricos no piden permiso
Character: Angélica
Released: January 11, 2016
Type: TV
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El espejo de los otros
Title: El espejo de los otros
Released: September 3, 2015
Type: Movie
The Cenacle, a unique restaurant offers single-table work. In a ruined temple every night there is a last supper. Diners sitting at the table, define something important in their lives. Four stories plus the secret that bond the owners. Superb music.
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Cuidado con lo que sueñas
Title: Cuidado con lo que sueñas
Character: Lola
Released: February 8, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: En Terapia
Character: Lucía Aranda
Released: May 14, 2012
Type: TV
En Terapia is a 2012 Argentine remake of In Treatment. The main actors of the 2012 season are Diego Peretti, Julieta Cardinali, Germán Palacios, Ailín Salas, Dolores Fonzi, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Norma Aleandro. The second season added Carla Peterson, Gonzalo Slipak, Roberto Carnaghi and Luisana Lopilato.
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La Suerte en tus Manos
Title: La Suerte en tus Manos
Character: Susan
Released: March 29, 2012
Type: Movie
A professional poker player seeks out an old flame after his marriage fizzles.
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Asleep in the Sun
Title: Asleep in the Sun
Character: Amiga Ceferina
Released: March 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Lucio Bordenave carries on the Grey lifestyle of an unemployed worker, dedicated to the trade of watchmaking, until in a somewhat mysterious way, his wife is admitted to a Frenopatic Institute. From this point on, the story enters a territory without parameters where reality is confused with the imaginary, sleep with wakefulness, and insanity with lucidity.
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Familia para armar
Title: Familia para armar
Character: Elisa
Released: March 17, 2011
Type: Movie
Familia para armar tells the story of the emotive encounter between a father and his teenage daughter after a long and traumatic separation. Ernesto is an obfuscated and distant father and Julia a hardheaded daughter wanting to be loved and to rebuild the relationship with her father.
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Paco
Title: Paco
Character: Nina
Released: March 18, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of Francisco, a young psychics teacher who starts consuming drugs, his mother, a well known congresswoman and Nina, the woman who will try to save him from a horrible future.
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Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Nap
Title: Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Nap
Character: Olga
Released: February 4, 2010
Type: Movie
After the accidental death of his mother, Andres has to move in with his grandmother, Olga, and his estranged father Raul. Andres, who doesn't like to take a nap, wanders curiously through the neighborhood, where an illegal detention center is hidden, something everyone knows, but no one dare mention. Courage and fears will be tested with lasting consequences for all.
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A Matter of Principles
Title: A Matter of Principles
Character: Sarita
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Anita
Title: Anita
Character: Dora
Released: August 27, 2009
Type: Movie
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 to a family of Asian immigrants.
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The City of Your Final Destination
Title: The City of Your Final Destination
Character: Mrs. Van Euwen
Released: March 21, 2009
Type: Movie
28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography.
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Music on Hold
Title: Music on Hold
Character: Paula's Mother
Released: March 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Ezequiel is a film music composer that can't find the inspiration he needs to compose a new score and Paula is a pregnant woman recently abandoned by her boyfriend whose mother has just came from Spain to meet her husband. Together they will try to solve their problems.
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Patoruzito 2: La Gran Aventura
Title: Patoruzito 2: La Gran Aventura
Character: Bruja Jiuma
Released: June 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Patoruzito travels to Buenos Aires to represent their race into a national holiday, and there is a mansion where a witch tries to make a fairy prisoner.
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Los premios Mastropiero
Title: Los premios Mastropiero
Character: Princesa Ginebra (voz)
Released: July 29, 2005
Type: Movie
The Mastropiero Awards is a musical humor theatrical show by the Argentine ensemble of informal instruments Les Luthiers, in which the classic format of their previous shows is not repeated. In this show, the group simulates an award ceremony for various artists from the fields of cinema, theater, television and music. During the ceremony, works and compositions by Johann Sebastian Mastropiero himself are performed. The play premiered at the Astengo Theater in Rosario, Argentina, on July 29, 2005
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Gardel: el hombre y el mito
Title: Gardel: el hombre y el mito
Character: Entrevistada
Released: January 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Through important testimonies, the director Miguel Rodríguez Arias intends to reveal facts that intertwine the life of the singer with that of his people. His desires, his virtues, his defects and his defeats. It is the story of a captivating voice, the reflection of a soul that transcends borders and languages with its art.
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Live-In Maid
Title: Live-In Maid
Character: Beba Pujol
Released: September 21, 2004
Type: Movie
Buenos Aires is in a deep recession. As the money runs out, the relationship between an employer and her live-in maid changes dramatically.
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Only Human
Title: Only Human
Character: Gloria Dali
Released: July 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. Before her father returns from work, Leni reveals Rafi's origins. He accidentally drops a block of frozen soup out the flat window, probably killing a passerby. Leni initiates a cover-up and Rafi figures out the body is probably Leni's father. The body disappears and without telling the rest of the family what they know, Leni and Rafi organize a search for dad. Mom is sure he's having an affair. Leni's belly-dancing sister kisses Rafi. Her brother grabs a rifle to shoot the Arab. Can anything be put right?
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Ay, Juancito
Title: Ay, Juancito
Character: Doña Juana
Released: June 10, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Cleo
Released: August 14, 2003
Type: Movie
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
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Desire
Title: Desire
Character: Clarita
Released: October 10, 2002
Type: Movie
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
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Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven
Title: Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven
Released: March 21, 2002
Type: Movie
Teresa is a stewardess who lives a perfect life in the midst of his impeccable suits world clean and prepared foods. However the world scares land: men, motherhood, love ... Meanwhile, Julian, a young doctor, must travel to Ushuaia to throw the ashes of his dead wife in the place where they fell in love.
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Son of the Bride
Title: Son of the Bride
Character: Norma Belvedere
Released: August 16, 2001
Type: Movie
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos, a childhood friend, who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past.
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The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: La Varela
Released: May 24, 2001
Type: Movie
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 Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.
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Title: Tiempo final
Released: July 3, 2000
Type: TV
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A Night with Sabrina Love
Title: A Night with Sabrina Love
Character: Julia
Released: June 8, 2000
Type: Movie
When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with his favorite adult movie star, Sabrina Love. However, getting there will be half the trouble of meeting Sabrina.
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Foolish Heart
Title: Foolish Heart
Character: Mother
Released: June 2, 1998
Type: Movie
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 Hollywood director.
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The Lighthouse
Title: The Lighthouse
Character: Dolores
Released: April 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker, but they are actually very close. Memé flirts but has no luck with boys because of her injury... On their own now, Memé works as a waitress where she gets to know Andy. Returning to Montevideo, they meet Dolores, a friend of their late mother. Memé's affair with a man complicates her relationship with her sister. Then Andy invites the pair to his seaside retreat, a lighthouse.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Released: May 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Portrait of the persecution of various intellectuals in the period from the overthrow of María Estela Martínez de Perón to the Falklands War.
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Autumn Sun
Title: Autumn Sun
Character: Clara Goldstein
Released: August 8, 1996
Type: Movie
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 and captivating, but not without pitfalls. These two mature people risk a last chance at a meaningful relationship in their lives.
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Carlos Monzón, el segundo juicio
Title: Carlos Monzón, el segundo juicio
Character: Jueza
Released: January 11, 1996
Type: Movie
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Facundo, la sombra del tigre
Title: Facundo, la sombra del tigre
Character: Encarnación Ezcurra
Released: March 31, 1995
Type: Movie
The film focuses on the journey of General Juan Facundo Quiroga, with a very compromised health, to the north in order to resolve the conflict between the provinces of Salta and Tucuman.
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Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae
Title: Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae
Character: (voz)
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, ”Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls”, tells the story of the writer's life through stories from her family, friends and admirers.
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The Tombs
Title: The Tombs
Character: Maria
Released: August 8, 1991
Type: Movie
"El Pollo," a 13-year-old child in reform school, witnesses and experiences the brutalization of the guards and the other inmates.
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One Man’s War
Title: One Man’s War
Character: Nidia
Released: April 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.
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Cien veces no debo
Title: Cien veces no debo
Character: Mother
Released: May 3, 1990
Type: Movie
A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.
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Vital Signs
Title: Vital Signs
Character: Henrietta Walker
Released: April 13, 1990
Type: Movie
As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they must impress the Chief of Surgery while learning how to survive the life-and-death area of medicine and the complexity of their everyday lives.
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Dark Holiday
Title: Dark Holiday
Character: Isha
Released: May 1, 1989
Type: Movie
American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.
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Cousins
Title: Cousins
Character: Edie Hardy Kozinski
Released: February 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Two couples go to a mutual friends wedding, and end up swapping partners.
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Gaby: A True Story
Title: Gaby: A True Story
Character: Florencia
Released: October 30, 1987
Type: Movie
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
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For Example, Argentina
Title: For Example, Argentina
Released: December 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Documentary on State terrorism during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, made in its aftermath. Invited by the Goethe-Institut to hold a workshop with young film students, Schroeter contrasts the official statements of the regime with the testimony of victims, dissidents and relatives of the disappeared. And trust that their faces and words will resonate much more than a mere representation of violence.
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The Official Story
Title: The Official Story
Character: Alicia Marnet
Released: April 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
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Las verdes praderas
Title: Las verdes praderas
Character: Fidela
Released: March 26, 1979
Type: Movie
José is a happily married executive, with children, a flat in Madrid and a house in the suburbs. It's Friday and the weekend seems to follow the usual pattern: football match with mates, travel to the mountains and family visit. Nevertheless, José feels no motivated by his routine, he no longer distinguishes leisure from their obligations, all of which result in an unexpected final decision by his attentive wife.
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Tobi
Title: Tobi
Character: Profesora
Released: December 19, 1978
Type: Movie
A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.
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No toquen a la nena
Title: No toquen a la nena
Character: Andrea
Released: August 5, 1976
Type: Movie
A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.
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Las sorpresas
Title: Las sorpresas
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: Movie
"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there is a love triangle in which the deceived husband is blind.
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Los pocillos
Title: Los pocillos
Released: September 4, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Truce
Title: The Truce
Character: Mujer del colectivo
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
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Operación Masacre
Title: Operación Masacre
Character: Sra. Carranza
Released: September 26, 1973
Type: Movie
In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.
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The Seven Madmen
Title: The Seven Madmen
Character: Hipólita
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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Güemes, la tierra en armas
Title: Güemes, la tierra en armas
Character: Macacha Güemes
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century.
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Los herederos
Title: Los herederos
Character: Maria Concepción
Released: June 18, 1970
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Alta comedia
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: TV
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Title: El amor tiene cara de mujer
Released: January 27, 1970
Type: TV
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The Slowness
Title: The Slowness
Character: Martha
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicated emotional and economically. These circumstances thwart his rebelliousness.
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Gente conmigo
Title: Gente conmigo
Character: Valentina Vernisi
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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Los días de Julián Bisbal
Title: Los días de Julián Bisbal
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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El último piso
Title: El último piso
Released: June 5, 1962
Type: Movie
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De los abandonados
Title: De los abandonados
Character: Locución
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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La muerte en las calles
Title: La muerte en las calles
Released: August 30, 1952
Type: Movie
During the English invasions, a merchant forces his daughter to marry a soldier.