Alfredo Alcon Movies
Max (Fernando Fernán Gómez), the wealthy family patriarch and head of a pharmaceuticals business, is dying of cancer and has relocated from Madrid to a Paris hospital for treatment. The members of his family, including his wife, Marie (Geraldine Chaplin), have gathered around him there. Victor (Leonardo Sbaraglia), the youngest son and last to arrive in Paris, lives in Argentina and has no ties to the family business. He sees Max, who is becoming incoherent and confused, secretly throwing away his medicine, pretending to sleep, and attempting to escape from the hospital. Victor notices that Max appears to be afraid of something, but he can't tell if his fear is well founded or if he is just delusional. In the midst of family conflict and questions about the inheritance, Victor helps Max search for answers about a mysterious figure from his past who may or may not exist, while encountering opposition from other family members. ~ Todd Kristel, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leonardo Sbaraglia, Fernando Fernán Gómez, (more)
- 1994
The career of a former Argentine silent movie star is the focus of this drama. The story is set in the 1950's and told in flashback. The story begins as Paolo and his mother move into the cold marble filled home of Ralph de Palma. In the tradition of Rudolph Valentino, Ralph de Palma was a Hollywood star of silent films. Ralph's career crashed with the advent of talkies. Now he runs a funeral parlor in his own country. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfredo Alcon, Carola Reyna, (more)
- 1987
In this tragedy (and political allegory), a father has two sons and two daughters. He is dying, albeit quite slowly. He has a cruel turn of wit and skillfully plays each child against the others, promising them his landholdings, among other things. Though some of the children complain of his harsh regime to sympathetic friends, one of them warns them that once their father passes away, if they are not careful they will replace his familiar manipulations with those of another, equally malign leader. According to reviewers, any resemblance of this story to classical myths and tragedies is entirely intentional. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfredo Alcon, Luis Luque, (more)
The director of the enigmatic, entirely memorable feature Man Facing Southeast confronts viewers with another exhuberantly metaphysical movie in Ultimas Imagenes del Naufragio. In the story, Roberto (Lorenzo Quinteras) is a man whose inner life has gone dead. He has no interest in his job (selling life insurance) or his family. About the only thing that interests him is his writing, but he currently has writer's block. When he sees a lovely young woman on the verge of throwing herself in front of a train, he can't help himself: he has to stop her. It turns out that the woman, Estela (Noemi Frenkel), is only slightly addled: she is a prostitute who uses this rather dramatic technique to pick up men. Interested in her as a character for his novel, he accompanies her home. At one point, the ghosts of her dead relatives get on the bus they are traveling on, but she refuses to speak to them so as to avoid having to speak about her father. Once Roberto gets to her home, he finds it to be a hot-bed of odd characters. Attracted by them to participate in life once more, even if that life is very peculiar, he visits them more and more frequently, and is fired from his job and abandons his wife. Estela has a very personal relationship with Jesus, and seeks his advice on how to get Roberto to notice her as a woman. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hugo Soto
- 1982
Unlike the suggestive title, this is a mixed-up trilogy of tales about a woman dying of cancer and the kidnapping of a petroleum magnate, the woman's memories about the tycoon, and the woman's imaginary vision of herself as someone living in the 1930s married to an arms dealer. All three stories intertwine to such a degree that the viewers, along with the dying woman, may start to confuse present reality from past indiscretions from wishful thinking. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Graciela Borges, Alfredo Alcon, (more)
- 1982
A young bachelor feels tied down while caring for his sick mother, but he still dreams of a successful career as a photographer. His chance comes from an unexpected quarter when he meets a man named Mephi who opens up a hole in a wall and takes the bachelor through to a fantasy land. Once there, and with Mephi's help, the bachelor enters into some unscrupulous activities in order to obtain his wish. After he has violated his own moral code, Mephi has a further deal for him: he will give him all the wealth he wants for possession of his soul at death. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfredo Alcon, Mario Alarcon, (more)
- 1977
During the economic hard times that took place in Argentina in the mid-1970s, highly trained professionals left the country in huge numbers in order to find work. In this story, Alejandro (Alfredo Alcon) is an architect who cannot get work, either because he does not have the right ideological credentials, or because it is simply not there. In fact, he would do anything someone would pay him to do, including digging ditches. Despite this, he refuses to leave his beloved homeland. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfredo Alcon, Dora Baret, (more)
- 1975
Directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, El Pibe Cabeza, or Kid Head, tells the fact-based story of an infamous small-town gangster who lived in Argentina during the 1930s. After raping the daughter of the village railway boss, Kid Head (Alfredo Alcon) is sent to jail where he meets and befriends a gangster. They pool their resources, escape from jail and go on a crime spree across the Argentine countryside. Their relationship becomes strained when they kidnap a woman and the police close in on their hideout. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfredo Alcon, Jose Slavin, (more)
- 1974
- R
Nana (Martha Gonzalez), the heroine of this movie, has only one chance at real love, with the good-looking ladies' man Juan Carlos (Alfredo Alcon). In this film, based on Manuel Puig's novel Heartbreak Tango, Nana is too shy to go to bed with him and reveal that she is not a virgin. When he discovers that he has tuberculosis, he is forced to leave town for an extended rest-cure, and when he returns, she has since married a wealthy man who takes her with him to glamorous Buenos Aires. Years after Juan Carlos' death, she journeys with her children to the town where he died. In her old age, though, she has virtually forgotten their love. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1974
This retelling of a popular legend, based on a radio drama scripted by Juan Carlos Chiappe, was tremendously popular throughout Argentina when it was released in 1974. Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to folklore, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon. Everyone in the village is relieved when this doesn't happen. The boy grows up and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Griselda. Around his 20th birthday, he is visited by the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he will turn his back on his love for Griselda; if he fails to do this, he will certainly become a wolf. Nazareno bravely chooses to continue in his love, and duly turns into a wolf. While he is being hunted down by the villagers, he is led to a mysterious cavern where the Devil again appears. Nazareno is told that he will be killed, but because of his goodness he will go to heaven. The Devil wants a message delivered to God: he's tired of being the bad guy on earth and wants to retire. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Juan Jose Camero, Alfredo Alcon, (more)
- 1973
The elaborate plans of a group of would-be revolutionaries in the 1930s are foiled, in this Argentine film, when a group of military men pull off a coup and use the stated aspirations of the civilian group to justify their actions. Since the muddle-headed revolutionaries couldn't decide whether they wanted a government of the right-wing or the left, but could only determine that they wanted a "successful" one, they have no basis for objections. The movie follows the revolutionaries' story through one of its members, a disillusioned and idealistic intellectual. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1972
The names have been changed to protect the guilty in this crime thriller that is based on the exploits of Argentine mafiosi in the '20s and '30s. Francesco Donato (Jose Slavin) is the current godfather of the Argentine mafia, but his assistant Luciano (Alfredo Alcon) wants his job. He believes he knows ways to expand their business beyond prostitution and protection rackets. His kidnap and murder of a prominent millionaire gives the mob really bad press. Indeed, the resulting public furor results in the police cracking down hard on all gangster activities, which is not good for Luciano's longevity. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1970
Alfredo Alcon stars as the Argentine military hero General Jose de San Martin. He falls in love and marries the beautiful Remedios de Escalada (Evangelina Salazar) who gives birth to the couple's daughter before her untimely demise. San Martin helps to liberate Argentina, Peru and Chile from Spanish control. Hector Alterio is Simon Bolivar in this historical drama and love story. The general makes an adventurous and dangerous crossing of the Andes Mountains and engages in several military clashes that test the bravery of the freedom fighters. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfredo Alcon, Lautaro Murúa, (more)
- 1968
This story is taken from the 1872 poem written by Argentine poet Jose Hernandez. Martin (Alfredo Alcon) is a gaucho and a happily married family man who is drafted by the army. Sent to a remote outpost to fight Indians, he is relegated to working on the camp commandant's farm. After his tour of duty, Martin is held at gunpoint and forced to continue working the farm. He finally escapes, but returns home to find his family gone and his home destroyed. Drunk and dependent, he kills a black man in a fight and is forced to flee. When the deputy Craze (Altar Mural) sees how bravely Martin fights against the posse, he helps Martin kill off his adversaries. The two move out to an Indian camp where white men are accepted. They are content for many years until Martin leaves when his friend Craze dies. He returns to civilization and relocates his estranged sons before having a showdown with the brother of the man he killed. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfredo Alcon, Graciela Borges, (more)
- 1965
When a gangster is murdered, the victim's daughter sets out to track down her father's killer. She soon suspects her friend and her own mother may have been involved in the murder plot, in this heavy-handed and tragic crime drama. The film was the official Argentine entry at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival in spite of efforts by the festival committee to discourage the feature from being shown. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfredo Alcon
- 1963
A few beats seem to have been missed somewhere along the way in this flawed psychological drama by Argentine director Luis Saslavsky). The story is told in flashbacks and centers on the interactions of two half-brothers. The older of the pair is a research scientist who does experiments on rats. He has also carried on an affair with has his stepmother. The younger, teenage brother is a musical genius whose mental stability is not the best but he seems to manage fairly well until he learns about his brother's affair. That sends him over the edge and tragedy is the result. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Aurora Batiste, Alfredo Alcon, (more)
- 1961
Director Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson and his wife, screenwriter Beatrice Guido have once more put together an interesting picture on the trials and tribulations of those somewhat comfortably set in life, in economic terms anyway. In this drama a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness. The woman knows that the son has fallen in love with her granddaughter, but the granddaughter does not reciprocate his feelings. Convinced she should do something about that situation, grandmom talks her granddaughter into going on a trip to Paris with the young man -- intent on bringing the two together. But this simple plan, it turns out, has unforeseen consequences. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Graciela Borges, Franca Boni, (more)
- 1961
This standard love story with a twist of murder, involves a dancehall hostess who falls for a young worker, and vice-versa. The hostess is prey to the lascivious inclinations of another man, an unscrupulous type who makes sure the young worker is beaten up to discourage him from his interest in the hostess. The tale continues to unfold as the villain corners the object of his desire and tries to rape her, but she is not a helpless victim and the results of his attack are tragic. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfredo Alcon, Maria Vaner, (more)
- 1958
Unlike the standard American westerns at this time that portray Native Americans with Caucasian actors, this Argentine film by director Lucas Demare actually has Atahualpa Yupanqui as Galvan, one of the Native Americans who rebel against their working conditions. As in many Latin films, songs and dances entertain in the interludes between action scenes. The setting is a sugar-cane plantation that exploits its workers beyond their capacity to endure, resulting in a rebellion. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Graciela Borges, Alfredo Alcon, (more)
