Federico LuppiFilmography

Fermat's Room

Actors: Santi Millan, Alejo Sauras, Elena Ballesteros, Lluís Homar, Federico Luppi

Synopsis: A group of motley math experts must solve problems at lightning speed to avoid being squashed into oblivion in writer-director Luis Piedrahita's mindbending thriller Fermat's Room. The story begins with a handsome, twentysomething intellectual, Galois (Alejo Sauras) banking off the success of Read More

Pan's Labyrinth

Actors: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones

Synopsis: Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy-drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the Read More

The Distance

Actors: Miguel Angel Silvestre, Jose Coronado, Federico Luppi, Belén López, Lluís Homar

Synopsis: In first-time director Inaki Dorronsoro's explosive drama La Distancia (AKA The Distance, 2006), Miguel Angel Silvestre plays Daniel, and up-and-coming pugilist repeatedly on the verge of winning, but never quite able to cross the victory line. The frustrated Daniel commits a robbery that leads to Read More

Machuca

Actors: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim, Federico Luppi

Synopsis: Political unrest helps spawn and destroy a friendship between two schoolboys in this drama. In Chile in 1973, as the leadership of socialist president Salvador Allende was coming under fire from the nation's military leaders and the leaders of several powerful Western nations (including the United Read More

The Wind

Actors: Federico Luppi, Antonella Costa, Pablo Cedron, Esteban Meloni, Mariana Brisky, Ricardo Diaz Mourelle

Swindled

Synopsis: A con man finds himself up against an adversary he hasn't the strength to challenge in this crime drama from Spain. Ernesto (Ernesto Alterio) is a man who grew up learning the easier way to get out of trouble was to lie, and over the years, he's built a career out of his gift for twisting the Read More

Common Ground

Actors: Federico Luppi, Mercedes Sampietro, Arturo Puig, Carlos Santamaria, Yael Barnatan

Synopsis: Based on Lorenzo F. Aristarian's novel Rebirth and directed by Adolfo Aristarian, Common Places is a family drama from Argentina. College professor Fernando (Federico Luppi) and his devoted social worker wife Liliana (Mercedes Sampietro) live in a modest apartment in Buenos Aires. When he is Read More

The Last Train

Actors: Federico Luppi, Héctor Alterio, Gastón Pauls, Eduardo Miglionico

Synopsis: An abandoned Uruguay community rails against Hollywood's purchase of an antique locomotive in this comedy drama from sophomore director Diego Arsuaga. Despite the locals' joy over the sale of the train, the Friends of the Railroad Association views the purchase as the selling of an important part Read More

The Stoneraft

Actors: Federico Luppi, Icíar Bollaín, Gabino Diego, Ana Padrão, Diogo Infante

Synopsis: Five strangers from various parts of the Iberian Peninsula experience an outbreak of seemingly unrelated supernatural phenomena that only later take on greater significance in veteran director George Sluizer's 2002 seriocomic fantasy The Stoneraft. Joana (Ana Padrao), Jose (Gabino Diego), Maria (Iciar Bollain Read More

El Lugar Donde Estuvo El Paraaiso

Actors: Federico Luppi, Elena Ballesteros, Gastón Pauls, Paulina Gálvez, Gianfranco Brero

The Devil's Backbone

Actors: Fernando Tielve, Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi

Synopsis: Guillermo del Toro, who quickly became one of the most talked-about directors in contemporary horror films with his first two features, Chronos and Mimic, takes on a more subtle tale of terror with this psychological suspense piece. Casares (Federico Luppi) and Carmen (Marisa Paredes) operate a Read More

The Lost Steps

Actors: Irene Visedo

Synopsis: The Argentinean drama The Lost Steps takes a fictionalized look at actual crimes committed by the government. The main character is a young woman who learns she may have been taken away from her birth parents just after she was born. Her story starts to come out after she meets a man who claims to Read More

Rosarigasinos

Actors: Federico Luppi, Ulises Dumont, Maria Jose Demare, Francisco Puente, Emilio Bardi

Synopsis: Two lifelong prison buddies cope with life outside the big house in this award-winning Argentinean production. Federico Luppi and Ulises Dumont play Tito and Castor, two robbers whose failed scheme has landed them in Rosario prison for 30 years. Before being jailed, however, the duo stashed a sum Read More

Divertimento

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Federico Luppi

Synopsis: A rivalry between two actors proves to have dangerous consequences in this drama from Spain. Daniel (Federico Luppi) is the star of a popular television series who is interested in more prestigious work. and longs to appear on the legitimate stage. Daniel is lobbying for the leading role in Read More

Lisboa

Actors: Carmen Maura, Federico Luppi, Sergi López, Antonio Birabent, Laia Marull

Synopsis: A salesman offers a ride to a sexy woman and soon finds himself deep in trouble in the thriller Lisboa. Joao (Segi Lopez) is a traveling salesman from Portugal who is somewhere outside of Madrid when he stops to offer a lift to Berta (Carmen Maura), an attractive hitch-hiker. Sparks soon fly Read More

Las Huellas Borradas

Actors: Federico Luppi, Mercedes Sampietro, Elena Anaya, Héctor Alterio, Sergi Calleja

Synopsis: A man tries to reconcile with his past before it disappears in the allegorical drama Las Huellas Borradas. Manuel (Federico Luppi) is a writer who journeys from Argentina, where he lives, to the Spanish village where he was born; word has reached him that the town will soon literally vanish, as Read More

Sol De Otono

Synopsis: Though outwardly at peace being middle-aged and single, a Jewish woman still places a personal ad in a local newspaper requesting the company of an older Jewish man. This warm, tender romantic drama follows what happens when her best respondent turns out to be a gentile. Until she discovered his Read More

Frontera Sur

Actors: Jose Coronado, Peter Lohmeyer, Maribel Verdú, Federico Luppi, Luis Brandoni

Synopsis: Gerardo Herrero directed this Spanish-Argentine-German-French period fantasy drama set in turn-of-the century Buenos Aires. After widowed Roque (Jose Coronado) killed a man in Spain, he emigrated to Argentina with his young son Ramon (Francisco Corbalan). With his friend Hermann (Peter Lohmeyer) Read More

Extasis

Actors: Javier Bardem, Federico Luppi, Silvia Munt

Synopsis: Three aimless, unemployed and penniless youths hatch a devious plot in order to escape their nowhere lives in this lively Spanish thriller that begins as Rober and Max rob a supermarket owned by their cohort Ona's parents. Their next target is Daniel Peligro, the biological father of Max. Peligro Read More

Men With Guns

Actors: Danny Rivera, Federico Luppi, Damian Delgado, Dan Rivera Gonzalez, Tania Cruz, Damián Alcázar, Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody, Iguandili Lopez

Synopsis: A powerful political allegory set in an unnamed Latin American country, Men With Guns concerns Dr. Fuentes (Federico Luppi), an elderly physician long involved with a group that trains young people to provide health care for the poverty-stricken citizens of the outlying hill country, where small Read More

Martin (Hache)

Actors: Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Sancho Gracia

Synopsis: Upon learning that his estranged son in Buenos Aires may have attempted suicide by mixing dog tranquilizers with booze, expatriate Argentine film director Martin immediately leaves Madrid. Upon his arrival in Argentina, he learns that his ex-wife has given up on the aimless, depressive 19-year-old Read More

Caballos Salvajes

Actors: Cecilia Dopazo, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Héctor Alterio

Synopsis: An unlikely pair of outlaws take to the highway and become criminal folk heroes in this satiric comedy. Jose (Hector Alterio) is a 70-year-old anarchist who deposited $15,000 in a bank 20 years ago and wants to withdraw the money; however, he doesn't have the paperwork, and the bank staff keeps Read More

La Ley de la Frontera

Synopsis: This lively western from Spain centers on the exploits of a wealthy young troublemaker who escapes from a Franciscan monastery and teams up with a handsome country boy who has run away from the Army. Together the two try to become outlaws and pose as gang members under the notorious El Argentino Read More

Nadie Hablara de Nosotras Cuando Hayamos Muerto

Synopsis: This stylish, taut and unpredictable Spanish thriller is laced with black comedy and social consciousness as it tells the convoluted tale centering on alcoholic, unlucky Gloria Duque, an impoverished Mexico City prostitute. She is first seen performing fellatio on several crooks as they make Read More

Un Lugar en el Mundo

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Cecilia Roth, Leonor Benedetto

Synopsis: Adolfo Aristarain and Alberto Lecchi wrote this South American western in which sheep-herders battle a ruthless landowner. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Matar Al Abuelito

Actors: Federico Luppi, Ines Estevez, Alberto Segado, Emilio Bardi

Synopsis: The family of the elderly, rich-as-sin Don Mariano (Federico Luppi) are eagerly waiting for him to die. He's sickly and has taken to his bed. However, his loyal manservant (Emilio Bardi) takes it upon himself to find a cure for his boss's anomie. He brings his luscious stepsister (Ines Estevez) Read More

Cronos

Actors: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath

Synopsis: This surreal variant on the classic vampire tale is the directorial debut of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who garnered international acclaim and several awards. The film tells the story of elderly antique dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi, in a role originally written for Max Von Sydow) Read More

Las Tumbas

Actors: Norma Aleandro, Federico Luppi, Jorge Mayor

Synopsis: When El Pollo ("the chicken") is captured by authorities for stealing, he has the bad luck to be sent to a children's correctional institution. There, conditions are little short of nightmarish. When the boys there riot, he escapes confinement for a short while but is soon recaptured and sent to Read More

Mi Querido Tom Mix

Actors: Ana Ofelia Murguia, Federico Luppi, Manuel Ojeda

Synopsis: These days, most people tend to forget that silent films were truly a universal medium, transcending boundaries of language, nationality and race. In this story an older woman, whose main entertainment is the silent cowboy films of Tom Mix, lives with her nephew. She seems to live the stories in Read More

Flop

Actors: Victor Laplace, Inda Ledesma, Leonor Manso, Enrique Pinti, Federico Luppi

Synopsis: This film is carefully designed to please local fans of the beloved Argentine stand-up comedian, stage performer and magician Florencio Parravicini. His stage name was "Flop." Florencio's father was a prison director, and he was raised among prisoners from the age of seven. Moments from the Read More

Guerriers Et Captives

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Federico Luppi, Leslie Caron, China Zorrilla

Synopsis: At the same time the last of the free Plains tribes in North America were being herded onto reservations, the Argentinians were similarly engaged on the plains Patagonia. In this drama, set in 1880, a colonel in the Argentine army has come to this remote region with his aristocratic French wife in Read More

La Amiga

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Cipe Lincovsky, Federico Luppi, Victor Laplace, Harry Baer

Synopsis: Maria (Liv Ullmann) and her actress friend Raquel (Cipe Lincovsky) react differently when both of their children are missing and presumed dead at the hands of military terrorists. Raquel moves to Berlin, while Maria continues the search for her missing child. She continues her search after the Read More

The Stranger

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Riegert, Barry Primus, David Spielberg, Marcos Woinski

Synopsis: 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 Read More

El Año del conejo

Actors: Federico Luppi, Luisina Brando, Juan Carlos Dual, Ulises Dumont

Synopsis: After a lifetime of playing it safe, a married bank employee decides to ditch his previous life and embark on a career as a financial speculator and single man. At first his ex-wife has a difficult time of it, but she begins a business of her own which succeeds magnificently. The speculator's Read More

Cocaine Wars

Actors: John Schneider, Kathryn Witt, Royal Dano, Rodolfo Ranni

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Sobredosis

Les Longs Manteaux

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Claudia Ohana, Robert Charlebois, Federico Luppi

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Malayunta

Actors: Federico Luppi, Bárbara Mujica, Miguel Ángel Solá

Bad Company

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Mayalunta

La Vieja Musica

Actors: Federico Luppi, Charo Lopez, Eva Cooper, Antonio Resines, Assumpta Serna

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Nightmare's Passengers

Actors: Federico Luppi, Alicia Bruzzo, Gabriel Lenn, German Palacios, Gabriela Flores

Synopsis: 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 Read More

A Funny Dirty Little War

Actors: Federico Luppi, Miguel Ángel Solá, Ulises Dumont, Julio de Grazia, Rodolfo Ranni

Synopsis: 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 Read More

El Arreglo

Actors: Federico Luppi, Julio de Grazia, Rodolfo Ranni, Haydee Padilla, Susú Pecoraro

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Los Ultimos Dias de la Victima

Actors: Federico Luppi, Soledad Silveyra, Ulises Dumont, China Zorrilla, Elena Tasisto

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Plata Dulce

Actors: Federico Luppi, Julio de Grazia, Gianni Lunadei, Nora Cullen

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Tiempo De Revancha

Actors: Federico Luppi, Haydee Padilla, Julio de Grazia, Ulises Dumont, Rodolfo Ranni

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Una Mujer

Actors: Cipe Lincovsky, Federico Luppi, Soledad Silveyra, Maria Vaner

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Triangulo de Cuatro

Actors: Graciela Borges, Thelma Biral, Federico Luppi, Juan Jose Camero, Jorge Rivera Lopez

Synopsis: 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. Read More

Yo Mate a Facundo

Actors: Federico Luppi, Jose Maria Gutierrez, Guillermo Murray

Synopsis: 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 Read More

La Patagonia Rebelde

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez

Actors: Pepe Soriano, Federico Luppi, Alicia Bruzzo

Crónica de Una Señora

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Los Herederos

Actors: Norma Aleandro, Bárbara Mujica, Emilio Alfaro, Carlos Carella, Federico Luppi

Synopsis: 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 Read More

ABC Del Amor

Actors: Federico Luppi, Héctor Pellegrini, Jorge Rivera Lopez

Synopsis: 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 Read More

The Romance of Aniceto and Francesca

Actors: Federico Luppi, Elsa Daniel, Maria Vaner

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Los Lios De Susana

Los Lios De Susana

Synopsis: A woman finds her life changed when her parents divorce. ~ All Movie Guide Read More