Hector Olivera Filmography

Born:: Olivos, Argentina
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: Argentina-born director Hector Olivera is best known for his international exploitation films, which go back to the Argentina-made Psexoanalysis (1967). By the early '80s, he was working to a broader audience with titles such as Buenos Aires Rock '82, and two years later he moved into joint...Read More

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Antigua, Vida Mia

Crew: Director

Actors: Ana Belén, Cecilia Roth, Juan Leyrado, Jorge Marrale

Synopsis: Directed by Hector Olivera, Antigua, Vida Mia ("Antigua, My Life") explores concepts ranging from the pursuit of contentment among a spiritually bereft middle-class, the role of women in Argentinean society, and spousal abuse. The film begins with the arrest of Violeta Dasinski (Cecilia Roth), an Read More

2002
The Road

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Antonella Costa, Marita Ballesteros

Synopsis: As a child Manuel never knew his father, and as an adult the allure of exploring his origins simply becomes too powerful to resist. Setting out across the roads of Patagonia to attend the funeral of a distant relative, Manuel soon finds romance with a beautiful young photographer named Carolina. Read More

2000
Visitant

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julio Chávez, Alejandro Awada, Valentina Bassi, Mariano Bertolini

Synopsis: Seventeen years after the Falklands War, veteran Pedro (Julio Chavez), a one-handed taxi driver, is plagued with nightmares about Raul (Mariano Bertolini), who died while trying to help him in combat. Raul, who was a virgin when he died, appears to Pedro to ask if he can borrow his body to get Read More

1999
Una Sombra Ya Pronto Seras

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Pepe Soriano, Alicia Bruzzo, Eusebio Poncela, Luis Brandoni

Synopsis: This film follows the exploits of middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early 80's following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to Read More

1994
El Caso María Soledad

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Valentina Bassi, Belen Blanco

Synopsis: The well known Argentine murder case involving the murder of a young woman by a group of well-connected young men is the foundation for this political drama. The ensuing coverup by police made it impossible for the criminals ever to be brought to justice, but the dedicated efforts of protestors Read More

1993
Two to Tango

Crew: Director

Actors: Don Stroud, Adrianne Sachs, Duilio Marzio, Michael Cavanaugh, Alberto Segado

Synopsis: Before he retires, a professional assassin travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina to await orders for his last hit. While there, he falls for the tango-dancing love interest of his final target. Hector Olivera directs this English language version of his original Los Ultimos Dias De La Victima (1982) Read More

1988
Stormquest

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brent Huff, Kai Baker, Mónica Gonzaga, Rocky Giordani, Linda Lutz

Synopsis: This adventure-fantasy is set within a jungle inhabited by fearsome Amazon women. The warrior-girls have a strict taboo against fraternizing with males and when one of the clan is caught red-handed with a man, she is sentenced to be executed. Her illicit lover tries to save her. He receives Read More

1987
El Año del conejo

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

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

1987
La Noche De Los Lapices

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alejo Garcia Pintos, Vita Escardo, Pablo Novarro, Adriana Salonia, Pablo Machado

Synopsis: The brutal kidnapping, torture, and killing of six out of seven high school students in 1976 is the subject of this powerful docudrama, a highly-charged, emotionally gripping condemnation of Argentina's military rulers at that time. One of the students survived the ordeal, and this story is based Read More

1986
Amazons

Crew: Producer

Actors: Pehelope Jane Reed, Joe Whipp, Danitza Kingsley

Synopsis: This sexy sword-and-sorcery film from Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures was filmed on location in Argentina by a primarily South American crew. The plot concerns the efforts of Amazon queen Dyala (Ty Randolph) to secure a magic sword in order to defeat the evil sorcerer Kalungo (Joseph Whipp). Read More

1986
Cocaine Wars

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

1986
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom

Crew: Director

Actors: Bo Svenson, Vidal Peterson, Thom Christopher, Barbara Stock, Maria Socas

Synopsis: This run-of-the mill children's story features little prince Simon (Vidal Peterson) who has had to run away from his kingdom because his father Wulfrich (Edward Morrow) has been killed by the black-hearted magician Shurka (Thom Christopher). Now that Shurka has taken over the kingdom, Simon cannot Read More

1985
Barbarian Queen

Crew: Director

Actors: Lana Clarkson, Dawn Dunlap, Susana Traverso, Frank Zagarino

Synopsis: When Amazon queen Amathea's (Lana Clarkson) hubby-to-be is swiped by a marauding warlord (along with most of the other local men) and her lovely little sister Taramis (Dawn Dunlap) is raped, the vengeful Queen sets out with two other lady warriors to set things right. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1985
The Warrior and the Sorceress

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: David Carradine, Luke Askew, Maria Socas, Anthony de Longis, Harry Townes

Synopsis: Borrowing themes established in Yojimbo and its Italian version A Fistful of Dollars, this action/fantasy film features the exploits of Kain (David Carradine), a drifter/holy-man/martial arts expert who comes upon a village divided into three parts: two clans fighting over control of a water well Read More

1984
El Arreglo

Crew: Producer

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

1983
The Deathstalker

Crew: Co-producer, Producer

Actors: Richard Hill, Barbi Benton, Richard Brooker, Lana Clarkson, Victor Bo

Synopsis: Richard Hill is Deathstalker in this sweat-drenched Sword-and-Sorcery romp. Armed with the Sword of Justice, which renders him invincible, Hill takes on main villain Victor Bo. Barbi Benton is the delectable damsel in distress, whose costume budget must have come to about 18 cents. This Read More

1983
A Funny Dirty Little War

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

1983
Desde El Abismo

Crew: Producer

Actors: Thelma Biral, Alberto Argibay, Héctor Pellegrini, Adriana Parets, Raul Rizzo

Synopsis: Thelma Biral heads the cast of the intense Spanish domestic drama Desde El Abismo. After giving birth to her son, Thelma lapses into post-partum depression. Nothing seems to shake her out of her doldrums-except drink. Her growing dependence upon alcohol results in disaster for all concerned. Read More

1982
Abierto Dia y Noche

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tincho Zabala, Pablo Alarcon

Synopsis: The hotel in this story is a place where people can rent a room by the hour or by the night, depending on their budget and the women involved -- a kind of hotel known by several other slang terms in many dialects. A series of vignettes revolve around the revolving-door policy of the hotel, with Read More

1982
Plata Dulce

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

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

1982
Los Ultimos Dias de la Victima

Crew: Producer

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

1982
Los Viernes De La Eternidad

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Thelma Biral, Héctor Alterio, Susana Campos

Synopsis: The Argentine Fridays of Eternity takes a simple romantic plot and gives it texture with a scintilla of fantasy. Thelma Biral and Hector Alterio are the lovers who pledge eternal devotion. In this case, eternity is not a affectionate exaggeration; it is, indeed, Eternity. Combining other-worldly Read More

1981
La Discoteca Del Amor

Crew: Producer

Actors: Cacho Castana, Mónica Gonzaga, Ricardo Darín, Tito Mendoza, Marcos Woinsky

Synopsis: This Spanish production involves a detective investigating a piracy case. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
La Nona

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pepe Soriano, Juan C. Altavista, Osvaldo Terranova, Graciela Alfano, Eva Franco

Synopsis: La Nona (Pepe Soriano) is 100 years old and lives in the midst of her poor Argentine family, eating them out of house and home. The desperate family members try every means they can think of to appease her appetite, including sending even the most poorly skilled out to work. In this black comedy Read More

1978
El Tango Cuenta su Historia

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Reggae may come from the Caribbean, and Dixieland Jazz may come from New Orleans, but the distinctive syncopations of the Tango definitely come from Argentina. This Argentine documentary explores the relatively recent history of this distinctive Latin American musical form, pioneered by Astor Read More

1978
Triangulo de Cuatro

Crew: Producer

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

1975
El Muerto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juan Jose Camero, Thelma Biral, Francisco Rabal, Jose Maria Gutierrez

Synopsis: This South American western, set in 19th-century Buenos Aires, follows the trails of a young man who must leave his home after he fatally stabs an enemy. He ends up in Montevideo where he is assisted by a prominent arms and cattle smuggler. After proving his loyalty to the smuggler, the young man Read More

1975
La Patagonia Rebelde

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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

1974
Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez

Crew: Director

Actors: Pepe Soriano, Federico Luppi, Alicia Bruzzo

1973
Eye to Eye [Video Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Art appreciation. A historical series that looks at different styles of art. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Argentinisima

Crew: Director

Actors: Carlos Alberto "Chango" Nieto

1972
La Guita

Crew: Producer

Actors: Norman Briski, Luis Brandoni

Synopsis: This excellent comedy vehicle for Norman Briski finds the actor playing ten different characters in six separate stories. The first story concerns a poor young man who chases after a 1,000 peso note at a construction site of a new building. The final story has a young man reluctant to marry the Read More

1970
La Fiaca

Crew: Producer

Actors: Norman Briski, Norma Aleandro, Jorge Rivera Lopez

Synopsis: A young clerk becomes a victim of boredom and quits his job. While his mother and family believe he is headed for insanity, he finds time to enjoy life away from the pressures of work and social responsibilities. Nestor (Norman Briski) makes good use of his idle time by reflecting on his life and Read More

1969
Los Psexonalizados o Los Neuroticos

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Norman Briski, Jorge Salcedo, Marcela Lopez Rey, Héctor Pellegrini

Synopsis: Sigmundo (Norman Briski) masquerades as a psychoanalyst in order to bed down with a bevy of beautiful women in this offbeat sex comedy. Flashbacks recall the experiences of his patients, and fantasies and dream sequences are employed throughout the film. His targets are a virgin who claims to have Read More

1969
Psexoanalisis

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Norman Briski, Libertad Leblanc, Elsa Daniel

Synopsis: A unique cross-section of patients fall for a man posing as a psychiatrist who offers them group therapy. A young bachelor falls for a nymphet. Another girl loses her virginity accidentally on the seat of a bicycle. A man tries to overcome the onslaught of verbal abuse and degradation from his Read More

1968
No Exit

Crew: Producer

Actors: Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam, Morgan Sterne, Ben Piazza, Susana Mayo

Synopsis: Perhaps the most stunning moment in this interesting adaptation of the famous play by Jean-Paul Sartre is the last scene itself when the finality of three antagonist people being doomed to spend an eternity together hits home hard. The three are a journalist who betrayed members of the resistance Read More

1962
El Jefe

Crew: Director

Actors: Alberto de Mendoza, Duilio Marzio, Leonardo Favio, Graciela Borges

Synopsis: Alberto de Mendoza plays the unsavory title role in El Jefe (The Chief). Holding his suburban neighborhood in thrall with a cotillion of muscular henchman, crime boss Mendoza is as crafty as he is brutal. Reporter Duilio Marizio hopes to bring down Mendoza's reign of terror, but instead ends up as Read More

1958

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