Adolfo Aristarain

Adolfo Aristarain

Birth : 1943-10-19, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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

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Adolfo Aristarain

Movies

Roma
Producer
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.
Roma
Story
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.
Roma
Director
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.
Common Ground
Producer
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.
Common Ground
Writer
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.
Common Ground
Director
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.
Martin (Hache)
Hombre en Bar
An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son (Juan Diego Botto) tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín (Federico Luppi) 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
Martin (Hache)
Producer
An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son (Juan Diego Botto) tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín (Federico Luppi) 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
Martin (Hache)
Writer
An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son (Juan Diego Botto) tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín (Federico Luppi) 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
Martin (Hache)
Director
An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son (Juan Diego Botto) tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín (Federico Luppi) 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
Les Derniers Jours de la victime
Original Film Writer
Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.
The Frontier Law
Writer
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.
The Frontier Law
Director
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.
A Place in the World
Producer
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.
A Place in the World
Screenplay
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.
A Place in the World
Director
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.
The Stranger
Cinema Assistant (uncredited)
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.
The Stranger
Director
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.
Recién casados
Writer
Pepe Carvalho is hired to guard the gifts at at wedding.
Recién casados
Director
Pepe Carvalho is hired to guard the gifts at at wedding.
Pigmalión
Director
Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress.
Pigmalión
Writer
Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress.
La curva de la muerte
Writer
Carvalho goes to Galicia to meet his daughter.
La curva de la muerte
Director
Carvalho goes to Galicia to meet his daughter.
El caso de la gogo-girl
Director
Carvalho travels to France in search of a missing girl
El caso de la gogo-girl
Writer
Carvalho travels to France in search of a missing girl
El mar, un cristal opaco
Writer
Pepe Carvalho investigates the murder of a young woman.
El mar, un cristal opaco
Director
Pepe Carvalho investigates the murder of a young woman.
Golpe de estado
Writer
In a situation of political crisis, an immobilist group prepares to carry out a coup d'état by assassinating the president of the government, for which an American mercenary is hired.
Golpe de estado
Director
In a situation of political crisis, an immobilist group prepares to carry out a coup d'état by assassinating the president of the government, for which an American mercenary is hired.
La dama inacabada
Writer
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.
La dama inacabada
Director
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.
Young Sierra, peso pluma
Writer
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 .
Young Sierra, peso pluma
Director
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 .
Last Days of the Victim
Screenplay
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.
Last Days of the Victim
Shopkeeper
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.
Last Days of the Victim
Director
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.
Time for Revenge
Story
Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.
Time for Revenge
Screenplay
Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.
Time for Revenge
Director
Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.
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.
La discoteca del amor
Director
Music execs find out their songs are being pirated, so a detective and his assistant are hired to catch the culprits.
La discoteca del amor
Writer
Music execs find out their songs are being pirated, so a detective and his assistant are hired to catch the culprits.
The Beach of Love
To forget his girlfriend a young man is taken to a beach by his brother and a friend.
The Beach of Love
Writer
To forget his girlfriend a young man is taken to a beach by his brother and a friend.
The Beach of Love
Director
To forget his girlfriend a young man is taken to a beach by his brother and a friend.
La fiesta de todos
Production Manager
Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country and in which important personalities in world football and culture involved.
The Lion's Share
Writer
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.
The Lion's Share
Director
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.
Los superagentes y el tesoro maldito
Assistant Director
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.
Los superagentes biónicos
Assistant Director
Crecer de golpe
Assistant Director
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.
La aventura explosiva
Assistant Director
Super agents must protect a scientist inventor of a new type of synthetic fuel that works if a certain speed is not exceeded.
No toquen a la nena
Assistant Director
A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.
A Woman...
Assistant Director
After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.
La Mary
Assistant Director
A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.
Open Season
Assistant Director
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.
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
Assistant Director
The Blood Spattered Bride
Dialogue
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.
Captain Apache
Third Assistant Director
An Indian discovers plans to assassinate the president when he was investigating another murder.
The ABC of Love
Assistant Director
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.
Villa Delicia, playa de estacionamiento, música ambiental
Second Assistant Director
Orden de matar
Assistant Director
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.