Federico Luppi Movies
A woman finds her life changed when her parents divorce. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1966
A young woman just off the bus takes up with a drugstore cowboy in this somber and plodding tragic drama. She loses him to a chain-smoking woman of loose morals. The feature is plagued by uneven editing and seems to be twice as long as it really is. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Elsa Daniel, (more)
- 1967
This gang-directed feature deals with three stories of love. Argentina's Rodolfo Kuhn tells the story of a Buenos Aires man who backs out of his marriage the night before the ceremony. From Brazilian director Eduardo Coutinho is the tale of a young teenage couple. She agrees to sleep with the boy providing he agrees to join her in a suicide pact where both take poison. Helvio Soto from Chile presents a story that though influenced by Federico Fellini cannot hold a candle to the great director's work. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Héctor Pellegrini, (more)
- 1970
A once prominent family fight each other over the inheritance of a run down mansion. Motivated by individual greed, they turn on one another until they unite to subdue a stranger prone to violence. Outwardly the family retains respectability and their name is not sullied, but irreparable harm is done to the unit and mutual trust is shattered in the wake of the events that transpire. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Norma Aleandro, Bárbara Mujica, (more)
- 1971
Shocked into lethargy by the suicide death of her friend, Fina, an aristocratic Argentine now casts a critical eye on the activities she used to enjoy. Cocktail parties, polo matches, and dinner parties pall. However, her eye is agreeably drawn to a virile young artist, who soon thereafter becomes her lover. Her mother is shocked by her behavior, while her husband simply shrugs it off. Fina wants something more out of life than luxury, and she leaves her elegant family home to live with the young man in his poor surroundings. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1974
In the 1920s, workers in the far southern province of Argentina went on strike for better working and living conditions. In this film, the story of that strike is depicted. The military commander sent to investigate decides that the strikers' complaints are justified, and he signs an agreement with them. As soon as he leaves, the industrialists and landowners ignore the agreement. When the workers strike again, the owners convince the government that this strike has been caused by the subversive action of the Chilean government, and the strikers are massacred. Only after the tragedy does the military commander realize that he has been duped. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1975
After she shot the man who killed her father, the woman in this film was sentenced to seven years in prison. Her husband faithfully awaited her, and the movie explores their lives together and apart, their joy at being reunited, and their eventual estrangement. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cipe Lincovsky, Federico Luppi, (more)
- 1975
Love does not conquer all in this romantic melodrama. Laura (Thelma Biral) is an upper-class beauty, married comfortably but boringly to Felipe (Federico Luppi). Her young lover Martin (Juan Jose Camero) tries to persuade her to leave the marriage and enter a love-union with him, but to no avail. Similarly, Felipe finds real love with Sandra (Graciela Borges) a young, free-spirited model/photographer, but Laura cunningly brings him back under her thumb. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Graciela Borges, Thelma Biral, (more)
- 1975
This historical drama re-interprets and adapts its story from an episode in Argentine history which occurred in the 1830s when a provincial governor, Facundo Quiroga, was ambushed and killed by an exceptionally violent group of mercenary soldiers under the command of Santos Perez. The politics of that era, during which Argentina was ruled by the stern Juan Manuel de Rosas, are explored. Eventually, it is revealed that the men who hired Perez were the Renafe brothers. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Jose Maria Gutierrez, (more)
- 1981
Argentine actor/filmmaker Adolfo Aristarain, best known to American audiences for his political dramas and musicals, wanders the white corridors of medicine. Aristarain's protagonist is an insignificant worker in a huge plant run by corrupt management. When the worker is injured in an accident, he decides to get even with his bosses. He fakes a complete loss of speech, hoping to simultaneously collect a huge insurance settlement and awaken the outside world to the safety hazards plaguing the plant. More laudable for its intentions than its execution, Time for Revenge (Tiempo de Revancha) nonetheless won a prize at the Montreal World Film Festival. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Haydee Padilla, (more)
- 1982
After a hitman assassinates someone involved in financial dirty-dealings, he goes back to the boss who had ordered the killing, and is asked to murder another man "who knows too much." And so the hitman proceeds to spy on his target through a window - and observes him in a sexual relationship with the widow of the man he had just killed. Eventually, he has everything set up for the assassination and when he bursts into the man's apartment, he suddenly finds something totally unexpected that changes everything he had thought up to that moment. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Soledad Silveyra, (more)
- 1982
The crazy economic situation in Argentina after the 1976 financial reforms is highlighted and panned by this tragi-comedy on the lifestyles of the soon-to-be rich and infamous. Carlos Bonifatti (Federico Luppi) and Rubén Molinuevo (Julio de Grazia) are good friends married to sisters. They have a joint business which makes medicine chests -- that is until Taiwanese imports (now cheaper due to the reforms) turn them bankrupt. Rubén suffers the most because it was his talent that went into making the chests. Carlos, meanwhile, jumps at the chance to run a real estate and loan company when a friend of his offers him the position. He lives the good life that all up-and-coming Argentines enjoyed -- Miami shopping junkets, new homes and cars, the latest gadgets, and a new lover -- until he belatedly discovers he was used by his supposed friend, who has now taken off with all the company's money and Carlos' lover as well, to go live in the United States. Carlos eventually finds out he was duped by his friend, and he must face the consequences. The effect of the economic environment on personal relationships is painted with a sure hand, suggesting that even the mildest of citizens is affected when only money drives the society. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Julio de Grazia, (more)
- 1983
In a trenchant and well-acted exposition of the effects of corruption on a small barrio, Argentine director Fernando Ayala has personalized the problems in this one neighborhood and at the same time, implied that its issues embrace the nation at large. Troubles start for Luis (Federico Luppi), a family man devoted to supporting his wife, son, and daughters, when a work crew arrives on their street to start digging to lay pipes for running water. But the new service is for only one half of the street, the other half lies in the wrong county. Soon the neighbors on the wrong side of the street are banding together to bribe the laborers to run illicit pipes to their homes as well, except that Luis cannot in all clear conscience join them. When he adamantly refuses to participate in the bribe scheme, everyone turns against him, even those in his own family. Reluctantly, he caves in to their pressure and goes to negotiate with the supervisor in charge of the pipeline work. Unfortunately, he is mistreated and the two get into a fight. It does not take long for policemen to arrive and needless to say, only one man is the guilty party here in the eyes of the law. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Julio de Grazia, (more)
- 1983
The apparent ease with which Argentina's political situation could degrade into extremists killing each other is illustrated in this interesting fictional allusion to historical reality. Suprino (Hector Bidonde), a local Peronist boss in the small town of Colonia Vela, schemes with the county mayor and a union leader to get the deputy mayor Fuentes (Federico Luppi) out of power - even though the Peronist is indebted to Fuentes. Fuentes is told that he has to fire his assistant because of the assistant's leftist sympathies - and he refuses. That evokes a harsh response from Suprino (the Peronist), who now has the police chief intervene for him. But Fuentes, rather than cave in to pressure, barricades his office, lines up men to stand by him, and gets ready for the first police assault. Leftist students then kidnap the police chief demanding that the attack on Fuentes stop - but their actions only serve to escalate the now raging conflict into a minor civil war. In the end, the film makes it clear that survival may be the only criterion determining who wins - which creates a village of losers, including the political process. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Miguel Ángel Solá, (more)
- 1984
Nightmare's Passengers is based on a true story that for several months in 1981 was splashed all over Argentina's front pages. The horribly mangled bodies of a prominent married couple are discovered in the trunk of a car. The sons of the victims are interrogated, and in flashback the younger son (Gabriel Lenn) tells "all." The boys' father (Federico Luppi) was a well-connected executive and secret homosexual; the mother (Alicia Bruzzo) was an alcoholic who sought an incestuous relationship with her sons. While the film never answers the question as to who committed the murder (no verdict had been reached at the time of filming) it devotes plenty of screen time to the depraved lifestyle of the victims--and also condemns the military junta then running Argentina, which allowed certain privileged people to behave as aberrantly as they wished so long as they were loyal to the junta. Originally titled Pasajeros de Una Pesadilla, Nightmare's Passengers was based on the book by Pablo Schoklender, the real-life younger son in the actual case. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Alicia Bruzzo, (more)
- 1985
In this downbeat and drawn-out story of personal woe in exile, Martin (Federico Luppi) takes his daughter and leaves Uruguay to live in a specific city in northwestern Spain. Passing himself off as a basketball coach (a total scam -- he knows zip about the game), he manages to support the two of them and at the same time, he goes out looking for the woman he once loved. Meanwhile, his wife's divorce lawyer is requesting the daughter to come home and live with her mother, and when Martin finally hunts down his former lover, she has about as much interest in him as his estranged wife. The exiled Uruguayan is definitely between a rock and a hard place, as his circumstances deteriorate from there. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Charo Lopez, (more)
- 1986
This politically charged black comedy from Argentina centers on a middle-aged married couple who desperately need a place to stay after the fall of the military government. They end up staying with a self-absorbed sculptor who basically locks them into a Spartan little room. At first the couple accepts the oppressive situation, but in time they rebel and suddenly the sculptor finds himself getting a dose of his own medicine. Unfortunately, the couple's anger gets the best of them and violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1986
A suspenseful adventure yarn that climaxes in all-out action at high noon, this taut tale is about an Argentine writer jailed in Bolivia for political reasons and then released when a new and liberal government takes over. He is now on a train home that is due to arrive at the Bolivian/Argentine border at midday. The catch is that a fascist general who has vowed that the writer will never go home again is waiting for him at the border town with a phalanx of armed men. Into this potential disaster walks an innocent geologist (Bernard Giraudeau) who first tries to avoid the ominous situation and then gets hopelessly involved. The writer's pretty daughter (Claudia Ohana) is also on hand to meet her father. She and the geologist are thrown together by circumstances, but a romance is not in the cards and not in the script either. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bernard Giraudeau, Claudia Ohana, (more)
- 1986
- R
In this low-budget but violent action-adventure, the DEA decides to send its top agent undercover as a drug-smuggling flier in South America. The assignment becomes personal after the kingpin behind the drug-ring murders the agent's partner. The agent's own life is jeopardized after he refuses to perform a hit for the drug lord. On video the film is titled Vice Wars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Schneider, Kathryn Witt, (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)
