Ricardo Aronovich

A Closed Book (2012)

Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, ...

Moscow Zero (2006)

In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to hell beneath the city. ...

Klimt (2006)

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

The Life (2004)

An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected. ...

The Tragedy of Hamlet (2002)

Peter Brook presents a new interpretation of the classic in a setting is vaguely eastern rather than Scandinavian, with a multi-ethnic cast . ...

Stranded (2001)

A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to surviv ...

Time Regained (1999)

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life. ...

Le radeau de la Méduse (1998)

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs R ...

The Impostor (1997)

This drama is based on a novel and incomplete screenplay by the late Maria Luis Bemberg. In 1930s Argentina, wealthy Sebastian (Antonio Birabent) leaves his Buenos Aires home for the family estate on the pampas. His family, concerned for his physical and m ...

Feliz Aniversário, Urbana! (1996)

Celestial Clockwork (1995)

Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star. ...

Le Mangeur de lune (1994)

A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train. ...

Black Light (1994)

When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali. ...

The Drummer of Ravel's Boléro (1992)

Probably no one in the public listening to the orchestra's rendition of Ravel's Bolero notices him but the drummer is a regular hero. For, although his mind is assailed by loads of unsettling thoughts and worries, he tries to keep the rhythm at any cost. H ...

La vie de Galilée (1992)

Mise-en-scène, at the Comédie-Française, of La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht. This is the last staging by Antoine Vitez. ...

La fable des continents (1991)

Initiatory journey of a soprano and an ethnologist in Africa, Asia and South America, in search of music from other cultures. ...

The Man Inside (1990)

Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity papers and at great personal risk, to join their staff. Once there ...

Nunca estuve en Viena (1989)

About an upper-class family during the Centenary of the May Revolution, which coincides with the decline of the aristocratic classes in those years. ...

The Family (1987)

"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carl ...

The Sidewalks of Saturn (1986)

Hugo Santiago and writers Juan José Saer and Jorge Semprún move back and forth between Paris and the city of Aquilea in a shadowy fable about exile. The frontier between one city and the other begins to blur after Bandoneonist Rodolfo Mederos is visited ...

Les longs manteaux (1986)

A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia. ...

Stress (1984)

A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue. ...

Le Bal (1983)

In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative. They tell the story of Parisian culture and politics from the 1920s—1980s. A disparate, anachronistic series of characters, including an ordi ...

Hanna K. (1983)

Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman's beliefs are challenged when she's appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. However, she bears witness to some of ...

Hughie (1983)

Alex Leclerc wanders through the empty corridors of a seaside hotel. He is a regular here, at least for Hughie, the former night watchman who died the day before. Alex is a professional gambler, a high roller. He will have to engage in a game of seduction ...

Missing (1982)

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicat ...

Chanel Solitaire (1981)

The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons. ...

Die Ortliebschen Frauen (1981)

A pessimistic drama about a family struggling to survive after the death of their father. Left behind are the simple-minded mother, the strong-willed daughter Josefine, another sister and a mentally retarded brother. Josefine takes over the reins and looks ...

Vrijdag (1981)

Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins with the theme of incest, as the father Georges (Frank Aendenboom) returns from serving his jail sentence for ...

Christmas Evil (1980)

Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood! ...

See Here My Love (1979)

Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him. ...

The Outsider (1979)

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even ...

Womanlight (1979)

Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance. ...

Flesh Color (1978)

Anna is a coach and a stripper at night. ...

The Recourse to the Method (1978)

Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultura ...

Je t'aime, tu danses (1977)

Cannes Film Festival 1975 ...

Providence (1977)

On the eve of his 78th birthday, ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongsi ...

Surreal Estate (1976)

An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately "literary" ploys of its housekeeper and two mysterious, lurking women. ...

Lumière (1976)

Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. ...

The Others (1975)

Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections. ...

That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)

Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector. ...

The Dominici Affair (1973)

In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his ...

The Assassination (1972)

Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. Sadiel, the exiled leader of a North African state, is being hunted by the ruthless Colonel Kassar, who wi ...

Dear Louise (1972)

Louise lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi, an Ita ...

The Sandpit Generals (1972)

Inspired by the classic novel by Brazilian cultural icon Jorge Amado, this is the story of a gang of homeless children lead by Pedro Bala. Set in Bahia, the film follows the adventures of Bala's gang of under aged outlaws as they steal, rape, find love, "c ...

Murmur of the Heart (1971)

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a ...

Papa, the Lil' Boats (1971)

In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (aka Venus de Palma) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each othe ...

Jaune, Le Soleil (1971)

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female character establishes the dialogue between these individuals and comments on the ideology of each; Until the fina ...

La Quille, bon Dieu ! (1971)

Sweet Hunters (1970)

An ornithologist goes on a field trip to a deserted island near the mainland with his wife and small son, and is joined by the wife's sister, who is getting over an abortion; later, an escaped convict is discovered. A situation which may seem naturalistic ...

Invasion (1969)

Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders. ...

Los caras sucias (1969)

The Man Who Bought the World (1968)

In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape. ...

Los taitas (1968)

"James was already living in Paris, and assisting his master Robert Bresson when he began hatching his own filmmaking career. Adapted from Borges short story, THE TAITAS functioned as a testing ground for INVASION, not only in terms of its style but also i ...

The Girl from Ipanema (1967)

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremel ...

As Cariocas (1966)

Divided into three episodes based on stories by Stanislaw Ponte Preta (Sérgio Porto), the film portrays three young people from Rio de Janeiro: a furious lover, a beautiful beachgoer, and a former beauty queen. All live in profound solitude amid the appar ...

Villa Delicia, playa de estacionamiento, música ambiental (1966)

A girl's school gets turned into a brothel during holidays. ...

Toda Donzela Tem Um Pai Que é Uma Fera (1966)

General's daughter, who lives with her boyfriend without being married, gets in trouble when her conservative father decides to visit her. A friend decides to help them, but things only get worse. ...

Orden de matar (1965)

Upon learning of the murder of a friend, a police inspector sets out to take justice on his own. This attitude, contrary to his usual convictions, will gradually destroy him. ...

Psique y Sexo (1965)

A movie in four parts. A frustrated woman finds love with a painter ("La estrella del destino"). A woman tries to seduce her subordinate when she takes him to her apartment ("La buscona"). A woman who killed her husband falls in love with the gravedigger ...

The Pit (1965)

When a politician is murdered, the victim's daughter sets out to track down her father's killer. She soon suspects her father's friend and her own mother may have been involved in the murder plot, in this heavy-handed and tragic crime drama. ...

The Obsessed of Catulé (1965)

In the Brazilian countryside, poor sharecroppers join a messianic group led by Joaquim, who believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Gaining power over the peasants, he begins to persecute those who do not pay absolute obeisance. ...

São Paulo, Incorporated (1965)

Carlos is a young man from the São Paulo middle class who works for a big company during a time when foreign automobile industries were settling in Brazil. Shortly after, he accepts a job at a factory that makes automobile parts, where he becomes manager. ...

Bossa Nova Beach (1965)

El bombero está triste y llora (1965)

The Guns (1964)

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their laten ...

The Venerable Ones (1963)

Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader, Lucas, and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love b ...

El televisor (1962)

With the expansion of television in Argentina people changed their customs and schedules. This is the story of a family father who refuses to change his own, but who suffers after having acquired a television set. ...

The Old Young People (1962)

The frustrations felt by certain middle-class youth in Argentina during the early sixties. ...

Crimen (1962)

A construction worker has some terrible thoughts on his break time. ...

Three Times Ana (1961)

Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air, ...

Faena (1961)

The images connect the workings of a slaughterhouse with a city that is also divided between executioners and dead people. ...

Los de la mesa 10 (1960)

The film refers to the romance between a young mechanic of humble working background and a university student from a well-to-do family of professionals who face the difficulties originated in their different social origins. ...

Dimensión (1960)

Diario (1960)

Life and use of a newspaper, from its preparation and distribution until it becomes a paper boat as a toy for a child. It won the silver bear in the Festival of Berlin. ...

En Buenos Aires, hoy (1959)

Institutional short requested by the Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. ...

Estadio (1959)

A day in an Argentine football stadium. ...

The First Foundation of Buenos Aires (1959)

In 1956, the humorous designer Oski made a work about the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires. Fernando Birri made a film from this work in 1959, using the original text of the German explorer Ulrich Schmidel. This film, which disappeared in the years ...

The Generation of ‘60s. The Unknown Friendship (2024)

The differences of origin and poetics between José Martínez Suárez and Manuel Antin, representatives of the cinema of the '60s' Generation, are proof of the heterogeneity of the period and, at the same time, share the creation of a renovating and person ...

Cortázar y Antín: cartas iluminadas (2018)

In the 60s and thanks to the epistolary exchange, the young filmmaker Manuel Antín and the famous writer Julio Cortázar devised four films. An ocean away, a fruitful collaboration and genuine friendship are born. ...

Person (2007)

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, fa ...

Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère (2002)

Star at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love of Alain Delon. From Luchino Visconti to Otto Preminger, through Zulawski and Costa Gravas, she turned with the greatest. The directors interview those who knew ...