Álvaro Marenco

Фильмы

Las simples cosas
Gonzalo has decided to die, but before leaving he calls his son Jorge for a final movie night. There, father and son will discover the simple things they kept hidden for many years.
The year I was born
Producer
Gustavo is a 33-year-old psychologist who takes care of Gerardo, his father. Pedro is a 36-year-old history teacher who comes to the country to meet his family for the first time in his life. None of them are ready for what comes ahead in the next forty-eight hours.
The year I was born
Gustavo is a 33-year-old psychologist who takes care of Gerardo, his father. Pedro is a 36-year-old history teacher who comes to the country to meet his family for the first time in his life. None of them are ready for what comes ahead in the next forty-eight hours.
Volvió
Leonel
Paroniria
Alex
Keyla is a beautiful young woman trying to get over a disturbing episode from her past. Unfortunately, her step dad's visits and the usual male harassment she suffers generate something dark within her. By the time her psychologist covers her secret, it is too late.
La Mexicana
Tony Marengo
Father
Tomás misses his dad. And death, paternity, love… these concepts are mysteries that Tomás, a catholic priest, would like his father to explain him. That's why he constantly visits his tomb with hope of hearing a truth.
Days of Light
Hombre 1
This beautifully integrated, multi-threaded narrative seamlessly interweaves six stories set in radically different locations across Central America, ranging from the tropical forests of Guatemala to the skyscrapers of Panama City. When a solar storm leaves the region without power, myriad dramas unfold over the course of five days during which all conveniences of modernity are stripped away. In Costa Rica, a pastor and his daughter worry for the future of their church, while in El Salvador, a grandmother and grandson make an arduous journey into the city. A husband and wife reconnect in Honduras, as a young couple nurses a mysterious stranger back to health in Guatemala. Meanwhile, in Nicaragua, a young woman prepares for her quinceañera and in Panama, a housekeeper grows exasperated with her demanding employer.
Te presento a mi novio
Apego
Dancer
A 35 year old Chilean exiled mom reconnects an old college love through Facebook, that moments sets dilemma: she might turn into the woman she swore she will never be: her mother.
The Gazelle's Dance
Alejandro
As a soccer star back in the day, Eugenio used to be known as “The Gazelle” for his speed and dexterity in the field. He retired young, unable to score a trophy. Now 72 and living in a retirement home, Eugenio is determined to win a dance contest with the help of his partner Carmen and his openly gay instructor Daniel.
Enredados La Confusión
Old Man
John, in a mid of millionaire robbery, meets the love of his life, Ana. But now he has to choose between money and love. He chooses love and decides to return the money but the confusion starts with an accident, which happens on the way
Violeta at Last
Violeta's Father
Recently divorced, 72-year-old Violeta lives alone in her childhood house, tending to her lush tropical garden and making plans to turn her property into a boarding house. When she discovers the bank is about to take away her house, she breaks all the rules to hold onto her home and her freedom.
Todos somos Óscar
Lightning Falls Behind
Hernandez had already made films in Guatemala and Mexico and this time found inspiring locations, unusual atmosphere and enthusiastic young people in Costa Rica. In this consciously unpolished film, the rebellious girls Sole and Ana open the trunk of a car in grandma’s garden and find something they’d rather immediately forget.
Red Princesses
Diego
The Nicaraguan border in the eighties. Eleven-year-old Claudia and her younger sister experience the street fighting at first hand outside their car window. Their parents are Sandinista activists and, although the family is now escaping to neighbouring Costa Rica, the struggle continues. Their parents fire off terse commands and the girls are packed off to their relatives. The film focuses on the point of view of the two sisters, who are very close, as they learn more than they are able to cope with, but too little really to understand. A revolutionary struggle, seen through the eyes of children.
The Sanatorium
Juancito
A group of friends decide to make a documentary about the ghosts that are supposed to be haunting The Sanatorium in Costa Rica, things get creepy when the arrive to the place.
Melcochita del Toboso
On the 400th anniversary of The Quixote this presents a new take on the encounter between Don Quixote and Dulcinea
Variaciones sobre un mismo crimen
A cinephile falls asleep during a projection and reality starts to confuse with dreams
El moto
Based in the famous Costa Rican novel, El Moto follows the misadventures of a orphan men
Teatro Nacional: Un siglo para soñar
A documentary about the National Theather of Costa Rica, in the anniversary of the Costa Rican architectural landmark
Eulalia
Taxista
A naive village girl leaves for city during transitional times for Costa Rica.
El hombre de la pierna cruzada
Costa Rican short drama
Añoranzas del viejo Cartago
Manuel de Jesús Jiménez Oreamuno
A Costa Rican film
Mektoub
Rouge
Directed by Ali Ghalem.
The Desperate Ones
Migration agent (uncredited)
In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.
Special Mission Lady Chaplin
Attendant
Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan is a rich American specialized in submarine researches. Dick Malloy is an American secret agent. What have the three in common? Perhaps a sunk American atomic submarine with sixteen missiles still on board? And why every other scene one, two, ten or more men are trying to kill Malloy in every conceivable way?
Пропавший отряд
Soldier (uncredited)
Франция пятидесятых годов прошла через целую цепь поражений в так называемых локальных войнах, а ее солдаты и офицеры приобрели не только бесценный военный опыт, но и неудовлетворенность и депрессии, свойственные такого рода конфликтам. С позором выдворенные из Юго-Восточной Азии, французские солдаты сразу оказываются в охваченном партизанской войной пустынном Алжире и вынуждены вступить в схватку с коварным и изощренным противником.