Adrian Ghio Movies
- 1989
- R
Maximo Brockman (Adrian Ghio) is an Argentine immigrant who marries Jana (Mira Jokovic), a young Jewish girl from Yugoslavia. After the wedding, they bid goodbye to her parents and board an ocean liner bound for South America. The naive Jana soon discovers her husband is a notorious white slave trader. Although he keeps her as his wife, Maximo forces Jana to work as a prostitute in a Buenos Aires brothel. When she falls in love with an honest local, Maximo resorts to blackmail to keep her. Later, Jara's brother comes over from Yugoslavia to save his sister and restore the family's good name. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Adrian Ghio, Mirjana Jokovic, (more)
- 1987
- R
After witnessing a murder, Alice Kildee (Bonnie Bedelia) is involved in a car accident. She wakes up in a hospital with no memory of who she is, but has total recall concerning the murder. The problem is, no such killing has been reported. So the authorities, assuming that Alice is merely fantasizing, release her picture to the papers in hopes of identifying her. Through the help of psychiatrist Harris Kite Peter Riegert, Alice comes to realize that the murder she has described in such vivid detail actually took place in a movie she saw just before her accident. But if this is the case, why is a hit man (David Spielberg) determined to rub out poor Alice? There's a plot twist a second in the U.S./Argentine co-production The Stranger, which manages to emulate Alfred Hitchcock without ever imitating The Master outright. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Riegert, (more)
- 1976
The trials and tribulations of a woman whose husband has walked out on her are the focus of this romantic melodrama. Often, it looks as though all the men she meets only want to go to bed with her. They had better beware, though, for her ex-husband is still jealous of her liaisons. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Graciela Borges, Mabel Manzotti, (more)
- 1975
It is not widely known that Argentina, which is thought to have harbored many ex-Nazis (such as Josef Mengele), is also the home of a large and well-established population of Jews who fled the pogroms of Russia near the turn of the century and settled in the Argentine countryside. This film tells the story of those early settlers, many of them new to farm work and all of them new to the horse-riding traditions of the region's cowboys ("gauchos"). Based on the book by Alberto Gerchunoff who was one of these immigrants. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pepe Soriano, Luis Politti, (more)
- 1974
In Buenos Aires, a poor student keeps himself in college by working as a salesman to the city's department stores. Between his studies and his work, he has no time for pleasantries, which irks one of the shopgirls he meets, and she begins taunting and teasing him whenever they meet. At the same time, he has been developing a telephone relationship with a young woman, at first very guarded, then more friendly. Finally, they are great pals. To their mutual surprise, the phone pals turn out to be the salesman and the shopgirl. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
