Norma Aleandro

Norma Aleandro

Birthday: 1936-05-02

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Biography: 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.

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People with Me
People with Me

An Italian woman arrives in Buenos Aires and suffers all kinds of social and personal misadventures....

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Only Human
Only Human

Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister...

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Gardel: el hombre y el mito
Gardel: el hombre y el mito

Through important testimonies, the director Miguel Rodríguez Arias intends to reveal facts that inte...

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Cousins
Cousins

When Larry and Maria learn that their respective spouses are cheating on them, they try to turn the ...

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A Matter of Principles
A Matter of Principles

A man with seemingly unwavering ethics is challenged by his new boss, who believes everyone has a pr...

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The Official Story
The Official Story

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, ...

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Anita
Anita

Anita is the story of a young woman with Down syndrome who lives a happy, routine life in Buenos Air...

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The City of Your Final Destination
The City of Your Final Destination

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Lat...

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Vital Signs
Vital Signs

As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide w...

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Paco
Paco

The story of Francisco, a young psychics teacher who starts consuming drugs, his mother, a well know...

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Son of the Bride
Son of the Bride

At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilt...

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Cleopatra
Cleopatra

A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark ...

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Music on Hold
Music on Hold

Ezequiel is a film music composer that can't find the inspiration he needs to compose a new score an...

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The Escape
The Escape

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to esc...

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Live-In Maid
Live-In Maid

Buenos Aires is in a deep recession. As the money runs out, the relationship between an employer and...

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Desire
Desire

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
Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven

Teresa is a stewardess who lives a perfect life in the midst of his impeccable suits world clean and...

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A Night with Sabrina Love
A Night with Sabrina Love

When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with...

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Autumn Sun
Autumn Sun

Clara Goldstein is a lovely, middle-aged Jewish woman who, because of an impending visit from her Am...

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La Suerte en tus Manos
La Suerte en tus Manos

A professional poker player seeks out an old flame after his marriage fizzles....

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Cien veces no debo
Cien veces no debo

A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family....

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Gaby: A True Story
Gaby: A True Story

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and tri...

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The Seven Madmen
The Seven Madmen

After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will intr...

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Güemes, la tierra en armas
Güemes, la tierra en armas

The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century....

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Familia para armar
Familia para armar

Familia para armar tells the story of the emotive encounter between a father and his teenage daughte...

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Tobi
Tobi

A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an a...

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Foolish Heart
Foolish Heart

Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to pho...

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Norma Aleandro, el vuelo de la mariposa
Norma Aleandro, el vuelo de la mariposa

Based on short stories and poems written by the actress, this documentary compiles fragments of the ...

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Las verdes praderas
Las verdes praderas

José is a happily married executive, with children, a flat in Madrid and a house in the suburbs. It'...

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One Man’s War
One Man’s War

Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the ...

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El último piso
El último piso

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The Tombs
The Tombs

"El Pollo," a 13-year-old child in reform school, witnesses and experiences the brutalization of the...

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Carlos Monzón, el segundo juicio
Carlos Monzón, el segundo juicio

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Benavidez’s Case
Benavidez’s Case

Benavidez is a frustrated art teacher, argues with his wife and seeks refuge in his psychiatrist's h...

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Angelita, la doctora
Angelita, la doctora

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El espejo de los otros
El espejo de los otros

The Cenacle, a unique restaurant offers single-table work. In a ruined temple every night there is a...

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Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Nap
Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Nap

After the accidental death of his mother, Andres has to move in with his grandmother, Olga, and his ...

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Asleep in the Sun
Asleep in the Sun

Lucio Bordenave carries on the Grey lifestyle of an unemployed worker, dedicated to the trade of wat...

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Operación Masacre
Operación Masacre

In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon S...

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The Slowness
The Slowness

A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work becaus...

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Facundo, la sombra del tigre
Facundo, la sombra del tigre

The film focuses on the journey of General Juan Facundo Quiroga, with a very compromised health, to ...

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The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse

Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also le...

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Los días de Julián Bisbal
Los días de Julián Bisbal

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Las sorpresas
Las sorpresas

"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend...

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No toquen a la nena
No toquen a la nena

A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home...

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La muerte en las calles
La muerte en las calles

During the English invasions, a merchant forces his daughter to marry a soldier....

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Ay, Juancito
Ay, Juancito

A film about the life of Juan Ramón Duarte, Evita's only brother. His ascent, his excesses, and his ...

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Los herederos
Los herederos

A once prominent family fight each other over the inheritance of a run down mansion. Motivated by in...

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Forbidden
Forbidden

Portrait of the persecution of various intellectuals in the period from the overthrow of María Estel...

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Patoruzito 2: La Gran Aventura
Patoruzito 2: La Gran Aventura

Patoruzito travels to Buenos Aires to represent their race into a national holiday, and there is a m...

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Dark Holiday
Dark Holiday

American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into...

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De los abandonados
De los abandonados

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Los premios Mastropiero
Los premios Mastropiero

The Mastropiero Awards is a musical humor theatrical show by the Argentine ensemble of informal inst...

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Cuidado con lo que sueñas
Cuidado con lo que sueñas

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Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae
Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae

Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, ”Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls”, tell...

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The Paradise
The Paradise

Rosario, 1926. Magdalena and Anna Scilko, along with a group of women from the old continent, arrive...

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The Truce
The Truce

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future...

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For Example, Argentina
For Example, Argentina

Documentary on State terrorism during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, made in its after...

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Los pocillos
Los pocillos

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Maro’s Secret
Maro’s Secret

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El país de nomeacuerdo
El país de nomeacuerdo

This is the story of an optimistic and amnesiac people who, at the slightest glimmer of light, are p...

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