Adolfo Aristarain

Adolfo Aristarain (born October 19, 1943) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.

Works

Martin (Hache)

An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín brings the troubled teen to live with him in Spain. But though Martín tries to reach out to his son, he's unable to bond with anyone in his life -- including his much-younger girlfriend

Release Date1997-03-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Hombre en Bar

Vote Count94

The Stranger

Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.

Release Date1987-12-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Cinema Assistant (uncredited)

Vote Count22

Dar la cara

Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.

Release Date1962-11-29

Charactersd Cameo-estudiante 2 (no acreditado)

Vote Count7

Last Days of the Victim

Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests.

Release Date1982-04-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Dueño quiosco

Vote Count25

The Beach of Love

A young man is forcibly taken to a beach by his brother and a friend to make him forget his girlfriend.

Release Date1980-02-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Participante en fiesta de la productora

Vote Count8

La discoteca del amor

Music execs find out their songs are being pirated, so a detective and his assistant are hired to catch the culprits.

Release Date1980-08-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Vendedor de discos

Vote Count7

El maravilloso mundo de Carlitos

Release Date2009-10-01

Charactersd Él Mismo

Las aventuras de Pepe Carvalho

Release Date1986-02-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count21

The Blood Spattered Bride

A young newlywed woman begins to have disturbing nightmares just after settling into the old mansion that has belonged to her husband's family for centuries. When her sinister dreams come true, the innocent bride is caught in a maddening maze of unspeakable horrors.

Release Date1972-09-30

DepartmentWriting

JobDialogue

Vote Count71

Open Season

Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.

Release Date1974-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count17

Time for Revenge

Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.

Release Date1981-07-30

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count35

Captain Apache

The title character is a US army Captain of Native American descent who is asked to investigate the murder of an Indian agent. His only clue is "April morning", the last words spoken by the victim. Can he unravel the mystery before the clock runs out?

Release Date1971-10-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobThird Assistant Director

Vote Count31

Roma

Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.

Release Date2004-04-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count24

Wrath of the Wind

A mute gunslinger takes on an oppressive landlord in 19th century Valencia and falls in love with a local woman.

Release Date1970-12-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count27

La Mary

A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.

Release Date1974-08-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count7

A Place in the World

Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.

Release Date1992-04-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count56

A Woman...

After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.

Release Date1975-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Growing Up Suddenly

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.

Release Date1977-06-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count3

Common Ground

In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.

Release Date2002-10-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count28

The ABC of Love

Film that includes three short films by different authors about love: "O pacto" by Eduardo Coutinho, "Terrible Night" by Rodolfo Kuhn, and "Magic World" by Helvio Soto.

Release Date1967-09-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count4

La aventura explosiva

Super agents must protect a scientist inventor of a new type of synthetic fuel that works if a certain speed is not exceeded.

Release Date1977-02-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Orden de matar

Upon learning of the murder of a friend, a police inspector sets out to take justice on his own. This attitude, contrary to his usual convictions, will gradually destroy him.

Release Date1965-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1

Young Sierra, peso pluma

Young Serra , after a boxing match dies falling from the roof of his house. The coach of his opponent that night, and old friend of Young, hire the services of Pepe Carvalho to find the mother of the son of Young so it will not be alone .

Release Date1986-02-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea

Release Date1973-04-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1

Les Derniers Jours de la victime

Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.

Release Date1995-09-04

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

La fiesta de todos

Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country during its last dictatorship.

Release Date1979-05-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

The Lion's Share

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.

Release Date1978-10-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

The Frontier Law

Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang.

Release Date1995-08-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Chao amor

Release Date1968-09-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Recién casados

Pepe Carvalho is hired to guard the gifts at at wedding.

Release Date1986-04-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

La dama inacabada

An executive asks Carvalho to obtain photographs of his wife with her lover in order to obtain a divorce. To do so, Carvalho travels to Menorca.

Release Date1986-02-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Los superagentes y el tesoro maldito

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.

Release Date1978-08-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

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.

Release Date1976-08-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1

Villa Delicia, playa de estacionamiento, música ambiental

A girl's school gets turned into a brothel during holidays.

Release Date1966-06-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Assistant Director

Pigmalión

Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress.

Release Date1986-03-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Los superagentes biónicos

The three protagonists undergo surgery after suffering the explosion of a bomb planted by Kink Kong's gang, whom they had captured but escaped. Then, equipped with bionic powers, the super agents fight against a gang of counterfeiters who stole two plates to print $50 bills from the US. [1] In this episode they will debut a yellow sports car, license plate C672998, with hidden weapons.

Release Date1977-08-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1

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