Movies by Héctor Alterio

After All It's Only Life

After All It's Only Life

Three women ridiculed by their husbands plan to take revenge with the intention of showing them that they are not as they say. "Las boludas" was exhibited on television under another name "Solo se trata de vivir."

To an Unknown God

To an Unknown God

José, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he spent his childhood, perhaps to embrace the painful memory of tragic experiences, perhaps to bury it definitively.

The Seven Madmen

The Seven Madmen

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.

Paño verde

Paño verde

Set in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, it showed the formation, rise and fall of a criminal gang.

Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac)

Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac)

A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to handle; or can she control it?

The Children of the War

The Children of the War

Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War.

Nora

Nora

Nora is 30 years old; she lives with her Argentinian grandfather Nicolás and regularly takes care of her friend Meri's children. She writes the horoscope for the town newspaper, although her dream is to be a travel writer. When her grandfather dies, she inherits an old Dyane 6. Despite being a terrible driver, Nora will set out aimlessly on a road trip along the Basque coast so that her grandfather's ashes may finally rest beside those of her grandmother. The road will soon teach her that she's not a born traveller and that her dream had not...

The Mafia

The Mafia

The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.

La piel del amor

La piel del amor

A woman seduces a young man so her homosexual husband can satisfy his desires.

Manuel and Clemente

Manuel and Clemente

Manuel and Clemente, couple in the shower and in various scheming, try to do business with miraculous apparitions. Near the Sevillian town of El Palmar de Troya, in 1968, people begin to say that the Virgin appears and the two friends take advantage of the situation. Soon a network of economic interests and credulity is created that makes it easier for Manuel and Clemente to achieve their goal: a monumental basilica, a religious order of nuns, priests and bishops of their own, and even a pope, Gregory XVII. Satire on the curious origin of th...

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.

El Cepa Returns

El Cepa Returns

Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the various locations where the shooting of the mythical film, narrating the infamous Grimaldos case (1910), took place.

Tiger Head

Tiger Head

After the May Revolution, Juan José Castelli has instructions to order the execution of ex-viceroy Santiago de Liniers. That put you at a crossroads with respect to your convictions.

Life, Love and Death

Life, Love and Death

Divided into three grotesque stories of absurd humor that, as the title suggests, are based on life, love and death.

A Tram in SP

A Tram in SP

In a small town in the Basque country, Lucas and Maria are an elderly brother and sister. They share a house with their memories and the ghosts of the people they have loved throughout their lifes. They know that sooner or later they will buy their ticket for their final journey. Marcos and Roma are young and alone. She's a nurse and paints windows that embellish the views from her room. Marcos is a street performer with no home of his own, clinging to his accordion and a pile of questions. They don't know that sooner or later they will all ...

The Books and the Night

The Books and the Night

A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various aspects of his thought and his life.

A Sweet Scent of Death

A Sweet Scent of Death

Ramón is secretly in love with Adela. One morning, he discovers her corpse among the oat fields

What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape

The Judge's Wife

The Judge's Wife

The wife of a judge feels lonely because her husband works too much. Therefore she seeks another love and finds it in the person of a young man.

The Voyeur

The Voyeur

Despite being unhappy about it, a middle-aged man, allows his wife to carry on affairs in order to keep his marriage together.