Osvaldo Terranova

Osvaldo Terranova

Birth : 1924-06-30, Villaguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina

Death : 1984-10-04

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Osvaldo Terranova

Movies

Adiós, Roberto
Roberto separates from his wife and needs a place to stay. When he moves in with gay Marcelo, he is clueless about Marcello's sexuality and the two become close friends. One night after many drinks Roberto has sex with Marcelo and must confront his feelings and the potential ridicule of his family.
The Angry Toy
Silvio, a young poet and inventor, struggles to find employment and to give meaning to his life.
In Retirement
This action film dramatizes the military regime of Argentina who were responsible for the cruel violence and oppression of the so-called "missing" people.
Las travesuras de Cepillo
The encounter of a puppeteer with an orphan child and the subsequent relationship.
Este loco amor loco
Emilia, an imaginative young woman from a small town, goes to Buenos Aires in search of her missing sister. The clues take her to Andrés, a mysterious man who may have led her sister astray.
The Power of Darkness
A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people.
Grandma
Carmelo Spadone
The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
De cara al cielo
Life in a Neuquén fort during the Conquest of the Desert.
Contragolpe
Antonio Cesaró
Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan.
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.
Los superagentes y el tesoro maldito
Iván Krakchenkov
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.
El gordo catástrofe
Dr. Galindez
Catrasca (Jorge Porcel) is a man who works in a restaurant and in his spare time helps in a children's home. His problem is that he carries a family tradition that makes him cause catastrophes in his path, one of which takes his boss (Adolfo García Grau) to the hospital. Upon leaving the hospital, Catrasca is run over by Graciela (Graciela Alfano), the daughter of Professor Galíndez (Osvaldo Terranova). This is how he meets this professor, who has a formula that says he will be the salvation of humanity, so he is the object of persecutions by villains such as Dr. Linda Winters (Moria Casán).
El casamiento de Laucha
Drifter finds a steady job, meets a woman, settles down.
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.
La nueva cigarra
Los orilleros
The life, customs and death of an authoritarian man.
La película
A photographer shoots a documentary film in a small town in Argentina (Uribelarrea) about the filming that a foreign producer is doing on the spot.
Diary of a Pig War
Leandro Rey
A man who is entering old age facing a society in which young people removed the old.
Jewish Gauchos
The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
Rebellion in Patagonia
Outerello
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
The Seven Madmen
Ángel Erqueta
After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.
La revolución
Gente conmigo
Esteban Berardi
An Italian woman arrives in Buenos Aires and suffers all kinds of social and personal misadventures.
Convención de vagabundos
A vagabond receives a large fortune as an inheritance and summons his peers to decide what to do with it.
Bicho raro
El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
Padre de Zulema Puentes
La familia Falcón
Detrás de la mentira
Don Pedro
An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party.
Prisioneros de una noche
Roberto Brenda
A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires.
Last year of Nacional High School
Pedro Fegross
This movie was based on a TV series popular in Argentina at that time dealing with the adventures of high school seniors.
Chafalonias
After his wife's death, widower begins to learn details about a double life she led.
La madrastra
A boy refuses to accept his new mother despite her best efforts.
El asalto
A strange group of people steals a bank.
Fin de fiesta
This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.
In Burning Darkness
In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.
The Kidnapper
A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.
Enigma de mujer
Gabriel López
A series of anecdotes exposed from the point of view of a Samaritan woman who tries to fix the problems of the neighbors.
La pícara soñadora
A store clerk lives in the furniture section without anyone noticing.
El curandero
A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
La delatora
Marino
Crime-picture dealing with car thieves.
Goodbye, Problems
A woman seduces a father of a family, altering his structures and the family relationship.
Los problemas de papá
From Man to Man
A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.