Luis Mottura

History

Luigi Mottura, better known as Luis Mottura, was an actor and film, television and theater director who was born in Italy and carried out most of his professional activity in Argentina, the country where he settled.

Movies

Los evadidos
Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from director Enrique Carreras was the official entry for Argentina at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival.
La murga
The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.
Blessed be you
Director
MarĂ­a has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.
El mal amor
Director
Widow meets her husband's family for the first time after his death; her mother-in-law hates her and her husband's son from earlier marriage falls in love with her.
Mi hermano Esopo (Historia de un Mateo)
Director
Una noche cualquiera
Director
An unsuccessful actor wants to get money from his uncle to mount a play, and seeks a woman and a child to make them look like his wife and son.
Filomena Marturano
Director
Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.
La dama del collar
Director
A rich woman's personal secretary borrows an expensive piece of jewelry without permission for a night on the town... and then loses it. Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant.
Vacaciones
Director
A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.
Madame Bovary
Dialogue Coach
Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
30 seconds of love
Director
After running over a young man with her car, a girl is forced to kiss him for 30 seconds, in order not to pay the expensive fine.
Un beso en la nuca
Director
To get revenge on her unfaithful husband, a woman pretends to be crazy and makes him believe that she takes her doctor as her husband.
Rigoberto
Director
A man finances the invention of a friend overshadowed and dominated by the women of his family.
Punto negro
Director
A married man hides from his family that he has a black son, which causes a true tragedy.
Ginevra degli Almieri
Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.