Héctor Alterio
Birthday: 1929-09-21
Place of Birth: Chacarita, Buenos Aires City, Argentina
Biography: Héctor Benjamín Alterio Onorato (born September 21, 1929 in Buenos Aires, Argentina), known as Héctor Alterio, is an Argentine actor who participated in theater, films and series.
Movies
Por los senderos del libertador
Life and work of the Argentine hero José de San Martín, especially during the time he lived in Europ...
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Wild Horses
A man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to he...
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Flesh + Blood
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnappin...
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November
Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the ...
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Kamchatka
In 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecute...
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The Official Story
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, ...
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Tiger Head
After the May Revolution, Juan José Castelli has instructions to order the execution of ex-viceroy S...
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Intruders
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only know...
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The Last Train
Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the fo...
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La Regenta
The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of ...
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Scarab
Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he...
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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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Passionate People
Uma, tired of waiting for the man of her dreams to raise a family, decides that Nico, the boyfriend ...
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Burnt Money
Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became l...
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Contar hasta diez
Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rat...
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Cenizas del paraíso
A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the thr...
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Fumata blanca
A priest and his father investigate the disappearance of a cardinal who has damning information abou...
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The Detective and Death
In a European city agitated by racial unrest, a powerful tycoon must face the only thing he cannot d...
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The Crime of Cuenca
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's may...
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I, the Worst of All
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnif...
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En ninguna parte
In the middle of nowhere, along a secondary road, a small old gas station interrupts the arid countr...
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The Mafia
The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They ha...
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The Hidden Truth
After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns...
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Awaking from a Dream
Pascual is a seventy-year-old man who lives in a small town in Spain. He owns an old house and a lit...
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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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Waiting for the Messiah
In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals wit...
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La piel del amor
A woman seduces a young man so her homosexual husband can satisfy his desires....
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The Ugliest Woman in the World
Somebody has decided to celebrate New Year's Eve 2011 in a very twisted way - by dressing as a nun a...
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Mi general
A group of generals of the army meet for a course about NATO and new weapons. In the beginning every...
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Blancheflower: The Devil's Daughter
A story about love which can defeat even the Devil itself....
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The Nest
In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 ye...
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To Return
An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets ...
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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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La guerra de papá
Spain, March 1964: Quico is a very naughty child of three belonging to a wealthy middle-class family...
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The Knight of the Sword
The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin....
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Asignatura pendiente
Joseph and Helen, who had been boyfriends, there meeting some years later and fall madly in love aga...
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Summer of the Colt
This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the ...
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The Rosales
Film based on the real case of the sinking of the cazatorpedera "La Rosales", Navy Argentina, occurr...
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Fermín Glorias Of Tango
A patient expresses himself using the lyrics and titles of tango songs as a result of a post traumat...
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Nobel
This is the story of writer Alberto's long journey to Stockholm, where the Nobel Prize awaits him, i...
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Little Miracles
Rosalía is a cashier at a supermarket. She lives alone, loves reading fairy tales and hides in a mag...
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Kamikaze
Slastan, a Karadjistan man, is willing to blow himself up aboard a Moscow plane bound for Madrid, bu...
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Quebracho
Set around 1910 in the Chaco region, the film depicts the plight of quebracho woodcutters, cruelly e...
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El Tren de la Bruja
A man volunteers to take part in an experiment that attempts to analyse human behaviour under extrem...
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Wiped-Out Footprints
Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Sp...
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A Tram in SP
In a small town in the Basque country, Lucas and Maria are an elderly brother and sister. They share...
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Sagitario
A woman finds herself going from having no man in her life to having more suitors than she can handl...
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To an Unknown God
José, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he ...
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Camila
In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of...
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Rebellion in Patagonia
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society...
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Un cine como tú en un país como éste
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmake...
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Hail Hazana
In Spain, at the end of the Franco regime, students at a strict religious boarding school rebel agai...
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The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes...
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Cria!
Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death ...
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What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape...
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Continental
At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, ...
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El Lado Oscuro
An interrogator patiently listens to the confessions of a torturer who recreates, in minute detail, ...
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Love Deal
Joaquín goes to Russia for business. There he falls in love with Tatiana, a young and beautiful inte...
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Trout
In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but s...
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What Max Said
A mature man tries to ease his loneliness with fleeting encounters with friends, his lover, old acqu...
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The Basileus Quartet
The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing su...
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Pascual Duarte
In Extremadura, Spain, Pascual Duarte, a humble, simple and ignorant peasant, condemned to a boring ...
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A Sweet Scent of Death
Ramón is secretly in love with Adela. One morning, he discovers her corpse among the oat fields...
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Todo sol es amargo
When a group of terrorists hijack a train, the various passengers relive their memories....
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The National Shotgun
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt...
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The Judge's Wife
The wife of a judge feels lonely because her husband works too much. Therefore she seeks another lov...
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País cerrado, teatro abierto
The history of the Teatro Abierto, which was initiated on July 28, 1981 as a cultural reaction again...
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Don Juan in Hell
While the last remnants of the Empire are extinguishing and King Philip II (1559-1598) is dying in ...
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Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his...
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The Children of the War
Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this fil...
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The Voyeur
Despite being unhappy about it, a middle-aged man, allows his wife to carry on affairs in order to k...
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Murder in the Central Committee
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelo...
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A la pálida luz de la luna
Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United ...
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En mil pedazos
Jorge Sueiro is a private detective who seeks revenge on Da Costa, a criminal who is fault his daugh...
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Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac)
A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her r...
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Diary for a Tale
A young man works in the port of Buenos Aires translating the love letters that prostitutes receive ...
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Semen, a History of Love
A biologist in an insemination clinic unexpectedly falls in love with a free-spirited trapeze artist...
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Life, Love and Death
Divided into three grotesque stories of absurd humor that, as the title suggests, are based on life,...
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Paper Heart
Ups and downs of a news agency led by Antonio Borja, a veteran journalist formed during the Franco r...
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Nudos
Barcelona, 2002. A coffin is carried to the cemetery of Montjuïc in a chariot drawn by horses. The l...
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Unpredictable Guy
Following his mother`s death, wise son Sebastian attempts to organise dad Nestor to cope with basic ...
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Kargus
A series of vignettes is woven into a larger story in this first film to be written and directed by ...
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F. E. N.
Two former students of a strict religious school decide to return there during the summer holidays t...
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Adiós, Roberto
Roberto separates from his wife and needs a place to stay. When he moves in with gay Marcelo, he is ...
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The Other Trade
In their search for work, a group of workers face familiar frustrations. Cedrón raises his own confl...
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Memorias de Leticia Valle
A fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction and scanda...
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Argentinian Until Death
Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance....
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Dreams from the Middle of the World
A bus called Sueños (Dreams) links three modern-day tales set in exotic Ecuador - the equator-stradd...
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Sofía
Set amidst a backdrop of political unrest and oppression in Argentina following the coup of the late...
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Y que patatín, y que patatán
Five parts that reflect a critical look on the universe of children. An ironic metaphor about the tr...
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Wild Tango
A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells th...
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Gentille Alouette
Gentille Alouette is a 1990 French-Chilean film written and directed by Sergio Castillo. Geraldine C...
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The Books and the Night
A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation...
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Paño verde
Set in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, it showed the formation, rise and fall of a criminal gang....
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Héroes y demonios
Gabriel and Sergio meet at the psychiatric hospital where they are interned. Gabriel is a rebellious...
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Manuel and Clemente
Manuel and Clemente, couple in the shower and in various scheming, try to do business with miraculou...
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Cómo seducir a una mujer
A shy young man has trouble relating to women and asks an extravagant relationship counselor for hel...
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El amor infiel
Infidelities that begin when a couple relates to another for commercial reasons....
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Noche de reyes
Miguel Bardem's Christmas comedy Noche de Reyes (Twelfth Night) intercuts a variety of story lines. ...
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El habilitado
Five employees submerged in the basement of a large store in Mar del Plata are grotesquely linked to...
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El hombre de la deuda externa
A middle-class man earns a millionaire fortune that he decides to use to pay Argentina's foreign deb...
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Cleopatra
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark ...
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Don Segundo Sombra
The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his ...
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Memorias del ángel caído
A group of parishioners die poisoned upon receiving communion, during the investigation of the event...
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Frontier
Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambl...
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El Cepa Returns
Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime...
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After All It's Only Life
Three women ridiculed by their husbands plan to take revenge with the intention of showing them that...
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Nora
Nora is 30 years old; she lives with her Argentinian grandfather Nicolás and regularly takes care of...
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Puzzle
A bank robbery goes wrong. The robbers, two of them unemployed family men, take two hostages, one of...
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Like Shooting Stars
An Italian composer in crisis takes a break in Valencia, where he takes a shine to a famous singer....
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King of the River
An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby ...
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The Fridays of Eternity
A prostitute tries to communicate with one of her lovers who died in a duel, but who appears to him ...
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The Consequences
Since Fabiola saw her husband die in a diving accident, nothing has been the same again. Tired of no...
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Cinque Storie Inquietanti: La Zampa del Gatto
Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanel...
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Private Lives
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentin...
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Te rompo el rating
A television network infiltrates an inept employee (Porcel) in the competition and he begins to ruin...
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Barbablù, Barbablù
An old patriarch at the gates of death, who has been married five times, reunites his family and ind...
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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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The Endless Film
Based on the remains of never-completed Argentine features from the archives of the film museum in B...
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