Adolfo Aristarain
Adolfo Aristarain (born October 19, 1943) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.
Works
El maravilloso mundo de Carlitos
Release Date: 2009-10-01
Character: Él Mismo
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 Date: 2004-04-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 23
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 Date: 2002-10-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 27
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 Date: 1997-03-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Hombre en Bar
Vote Count: 92
Les Derniers Jours de la victime
Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.
Release Date: 1995-09-04
Department: Writing
Job: Original Film Writer
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 Date: 1995-08-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
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 Date: 1992-04-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 54
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 Date: 1987-12-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Cinema Assistant (uncredited)
Vote Count: 21
Recién casados
Pepe Carvalho is hired to guard the gifts at at wedding.
Release Date: 1986-04-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Pigmalión
Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress.
Release Date: 1986-03-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
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 Date: 1986-02-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
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 Date: 1986-02-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Las aventuras de Pepe Carvalho
Release Date: 1986-02-21
Department: Writing
Job: Adaptation
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 21
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 Date: 1982-04-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Dueño quiosco
Vote Count: 24
Time for Revenge
Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.
Release Date: 1981-07-30
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 34
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 Date: 1980-08-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Vendedor de discos
Vote Count: 7
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 Date: 1980-02-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Participante en fiesta de la productora
Vote Count: 7
La fiesta de todos
Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country during its last dictatorship.
Release Date: 1979-05-24
Department: Production
Job: Production 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 Date: 1978-10-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 15
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 Date: 1978-08-03
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
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 Date: 1977-08-11
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 1
Crecer de golpe
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 Date: 1977-06-30
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 3
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 Date: 1977-02-24
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant 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 Date: 1976-08-05
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 1
A Woman...
After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.
Release Date: 1975-09-11
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
La Mary
A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.
Release Date: 1974-08-08
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 7
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 Date: 1974-08-01
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 16
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
Release Date: 1973-04-13
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 1
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 Date: 1972-09-30
Department: Writing
Job: Dialogue
Vote Count: 69
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 Date: 1971-10-27
Department: Directing
Job: Third Assistant Director
Vote Count: 29
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 Date: 1970-12-04
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 27
Chao amor
Release Date: 1968-09-19
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
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 Date: 1967-09-07
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 3
Villa Delicia, playa de estacionamiento, música ambiental
A girl's school gets turned into a brothel during holidays.
Release Date: 1966-06-30
Department: Directing
Job: Second Assistant 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 Date: 1965-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 1
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 Date: 1962-11-29
Character: Cameo-estudiante 2 (no acreditado)
Vote Count: 7