Mario Luciani

Love Is a Fat Woman (1987)

José is a young journalist who gets fired over refusing to write an article about an American film crew, overdramatizing the situation in Argentina. When he goes looking for his old girlfriend, he runs into the crew again. ...

Made in Argentina (1987)

Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the pos ...

El prontuario de un argentino (1987)

An honest worker is forced to commit a crime for social reasons and unpleasant personal circumstances. After serving a prison sentence, he tries to rebuild his life. ...

Pinocchio (1986)

An old man named Geppetto creates a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life ...

Gerónima (1986)

Gerónima was a real "Mapuche" Indian woman that lived in Argentinian Patagonia. She lived with her four sons in a poor little house in the dry lands her family had owned for generations. In 1976, during the military dictatorial government that disappeared ...

Los insomnes (1986)

Small stories linked by a group of children who at night in Buenos Aires wander through the city and mingle with their families in an abandoned building ...

Los amores de Laurita (1986)

Laurita, a 40-year-old woman, accepts taboos of all kinds. In the search for an identity, she goes from one man to another, from the present to the past, from fantasy to reality. However, there is a tension that grows and grows, until it culminates in a su ...

Flores robadas en los jardines de Quilmes (1985)

After a chance meeting, two former lovers look back on their relationship. ...

Los tigres de la memoria (1984)

Looking for news of his ex-guerrilla sons, a man agrees to collaborate with his restaurant in a network of drug dealers. ...

Todo o nada (1984)

A street vendor and an unemployed person start working in a drug trafficking company. ...

Los enemigos (1983)

The film depicts an eccentric Argentine family consisting of an elderly woman, her son, and the maid. Their relationships with each other and the outside world are closely linked to the dictatorship that grips the country they live in. ...

Keep Waiting for Me (1983)

Juan remembers his childhood spent during the fifties in Argentina, when he lived doubts, fears and conflicts typical of the passage towards adolescence, surrounded by his family and the neighbors of the neighborhood ...

The Arrangement (1983)

Luis is a righteous man who begins a struggle and a moral debate with his family, neighbors and close friends when a corrupt municipal official offers a very convenient "arrangement". ...

El poder de la censura (1983)

It tells the story of three friends - two filmmakers and a producer - who embark on the filming of a film during the time of the Argentine military process and expose the operation of censorship, powerful instrument of the time, about the project. The prot ...

The Underground Man (1981)

Set in 1930, a tormented man and his butler live in an old house in Adrogué, where pornographic films are filmed in the basement following the grandfather's testament. ...

Momentos (1981)

A married woman with a traumatic past embarks on an affair with a younger married man. ...

Los superagentes y la gran aventura del oro (1980)

The daughter of an archaeologist believes she has found an Inca treasure and is protected by the superagents. ...

Toto Paniagua (rey de la chatarra) (1980)

Toto is a scrap metal dealer who became rich by a stroke of luck. Having fallen in love with a woman from a higher social class, he decides to take etiquette classes so he can get closer to her. ...

Queridas Amigas (1980)

Cantaniño cuenta un cuento (1979)

Two men, a woman, a chimpanzee and a talking horse travel around Argentina to put together a movie. ...

That's life (1977)

Tells the story, in the key of comedy of customs, of a typical bourgeois home in Buenos Aires for three decades. ...

Las locas (1977)

Those interned in a psychiatric establishment are involved in a police issue. ...

Alone (1976)

A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals. ...

El gordo de América (1976)

To celebrate his promotion, a manager (Javier Portales) decides to summon his brother from the field, but as he did not stop making disasters he sends him back. His brother (Jorge Porcel) is not convinced and dazzled by an advertisement decides to set up a ...

La Raulito (1975)

The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires. The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a re ...

Kid Head (1975)

The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", a real-life Argentine gangster in the '30s. ...

I Did Kill Facundo (1975)

The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835. ...

Dale nomás (1974)

The flower of the mafia (1974)

An influential mob boss and a cabaret star team up to increase his power. ...

Los golpes bajos (1974)

I want to kiss you sir! (1973)

A mechanic and an ad creator meet the daughter of an industrialist and her friend when they travel to Mar del Plata. ...

La piel del amor (1973)

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

The Bad Life (1973)

Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war. ...

The Mafia (1972)

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 t ...

El bulín (1969)

Employees of an office use for love dating the apartment of a single co-worker. ...

Il mago per forza (1951)

In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him. ...

The Knight is Here (1950)

A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation. ...