Miguel Ángel SoláFilmography

La Puta y la Ballena

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Miguel Ángel Solá, Merce Llorens, Pepe Munne

Merry-Go-Round C. 1950

Actors: Alfredo Landa, Elsa Pataky, Carlos Hipolito, Fernando Guillen-Cuervo, Santiago Ramos

El Alquimista Impaciente

Actors: Ingrid Rubio, Roberto Enríquez, Chete Lera, Adriana Ozores, Miguel Ángel Solá

Synopsis: Directed by Patri Ferreira, Alquimista Impaciente ("The Impatient Alchemist") follows the efforts of two men and their investigation of a mysterious death. When Vila (Roberto Enriquez), a disillusioned pyschologist-turned-cop, accompanied by his partner Chamorro (Ingrid Rubio), find a Read More

La Playa De Los Galgos

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Claudia Gerini, Miguel Ángel Solá, Ingrid Rubio, Gustavo Salmerón

Synopsis: Veteran Spanish filmmaker Mario Camus directed La Playa De Los Galgos (The Beach of the Greyhounds) from his own script. Pablo (Gustavo Salmeron) tends to his elderly mother and is forever taking steps to find his missing brother. One day he meets Berta (Claudia Gerini), whom he becomes involved Read More

Octavia

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Margarita Lozano, Antonia San Juan, Menh Wai Trinh, Blanca Oteyza

Synopsis: Basilio Martin Patino's drama Octavia is about a man who is coming home after a long time away. Rodrigo (Blanca Oteyza) arrives in his hometown to take part in a University symposium on espionage. He and his wife Elsa (Blanca Oteyza), meet former friends of his like his cousin Dona (Margarita Read More

La Fuga

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Ricardo Darín, Alberto Jiménez, Gerardo Romano, Patricio Contreras

Synopsis: Six men escape from an Argentinean prison and meet wildly different fates in this episodic drama. One of the escapees never makes it into the outside world; Belisario Zacarias (Oscar Alegre) gets caught in the tunnel they've dug to make their way out of lockup, and his friend Omar Zajur (Vando Read More

Fausto 5.0

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Eduard Fernández, Najwa Nimri, Juan Fernandez, Raquel Gonzales

Synopsis: A doctor's past comes back to haunt him in an unexpected way in this modern variation on the classic tale of Faust. Dr. Fausto (Miguel Angel Sola) is a respected oncologist whose career has practically taken over his life; he has no wife or children, and he's barely aware of the fact his beautiful Read More

Plenilunio

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Adriana Ozores, Juan Diego Botto, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Chete Lera

Synopsis: Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest. A police inspector (Miguel Angel Sola) is sent in to investigate -- his first Read More

Se Quien Eres

Actors: Ana Fernandez, Manuel Manquina, Vicky Pena

Synopsis: In this thriller from Spain, Paloma (Ana Fernandez) is a psychiatrist at a mental hospital who has begun working with a patient named Mario (Miguel Angel Sola). Mario suffers from Korsakov Syndrome, a combination of short and long term memory loss that's made it impossible for him to recall Read More

El Amor y el Espanto

Synopsis: Juan Carlos de Sanzo's offbeat, fantasy-tinged drama El Amor y el Espanto constructs an apocryphal episode from the life of famed magic realist writer Jorge Luis Borges (Miguel Ángel Solá), in which the belletrist drifts into an imaginary realm populated by his own literary creations. Blanca Read More

Corazon Iluminado

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Maria Luiza Mendonca, Walter Quiroz, Xuxa Lopes, Norma Aleandro

Synopsis: Hector Babenco injected autobiographical details into this tale of an Argentine teen's first romance. Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan (Walter Quiroz) hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana (Maria Luisa Mendonca Read More

Tango

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova, Mía Maestro, Juan Carlos Copes, Julio Bocca, Juan Luis Galiardo

Synopsis: Combining fiction and documentary, 66-year-old Carlos Saura directed this Spanish-Argentine dance drama with masterful camerawork by acclaimed cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. After his wife (Cecilia Narova) leaves him, Argentine film director Mario Suarez (Miguel Angel Sola), moves to a Buenos Read More

Fotos del Alma

Synopsis: This humanistic melodrama purports to be the first film from Argentina to deal with the effects of AIDS in a straightforward manner as it examines the psychological effects of the disease upon a well-to do heterosexual couple preparing to wed. It is Pablo who is diagnosed HIV-positive. Although he Read More

La Nave de Los Locos

Synopsis: When a respected Native American chief is taken to trial for burning down a large multiplex adjacent to an ancient Mapuche burial ground, a seasoned lawyer comes to his defense in the courtroom. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Una Sombra Ya Pronto Seras

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

The Dark Side of the Heart

Actors: Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara, Andre Melancon, Jean Pierre Reguerraz

Synopsis: In this cheerfully surrealistic romance, a poet named Oliverio (Darío Grandinetti) lives by his wits in Buenos Aires, winning dollars by reciting his poems to passing motorists who stop at red lights or by occasionally trading a poem for a steak from a sympathetic restaurateur. His friends include Read More

Luna Llena

Actors: Roberto Moll

Synopsis: Despite regulations that prohibit male and female inmates from communicating, the dangerous mental patient Pedro and his beloved Esperanza, a woman who is prone to setting houses on fire, somehow manage to communicate their love for one another. Difficult and tragic conditions in Venezuela's Read More

Blauaugig

Actors: Götz George, Miguel Ángel Solá, Julio de Grazia, Emilia Mazer

Synopsis: In this suspense story, the main character, Johann Neudorff (Gotz George), immigrated to Argentina from Germany after World War Two, and has become a successful businessman there. He is unconcerned with the nature of the government there, which at the time of this film (1978) is a military Read More

Sur

Actors: Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz, Ulises Dumont

Synopsis: Like Solanas' previous film Tangos (1985), South is a film about a forced exile (in the form of imprisonment) and a painful reunion in the midst of political turmoil. It is also a story about the healing power of nostalgia. The story is set in 1983 just after the fall of the military dictatorship Read More

A Dos Aguas

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Barbara Mugica, Cipe Lincovsky, Aldo Braga

Synopsis: When Rey left Argentina after it fell under a military dictatorship in the late 1970s, he also left behind a very controlling and authoritarian father. Now he has returned to the country from exile for the funeral of his father. Though he left the man behind physically, their relationship still Read More

Mayalunta

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

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

Tangos

Actors: Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: Using a collage of individual Argentine exiles in Paris as well as pulsating tango music and talented dancers, director Fernando E. Solanas has patched together a diverse picture of humanity trying to cope with political and social tensions. This disparate group is in the process of mounting a Read More

Tacos Altos

Actors: Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Ana Maria Picchio, Arturo Maly, Willie Lemos

Synopsis: The abuse endured by an indomitable prostitute does not kill her spirit in this drama based on short stories by Bernardo Kordon. Luisa (Susu Pecoraro) and her older sister Herminda (Ana Maria Picchio) are streetwalkers in Buenos Aires, but very different in their attitudes. Where Herminda is Read More

Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación

Actors: Pepe Soriano, Miguel Ángel Solá, Marta Bianchi, Arturo Bonín, Oscar Martinez

Synopsis: Based on a true incident that happened in 1935 in the Argentine Senate, this fictionalized account of the murder of a senator avoids the main issue of the killing: those accused of complicity in the murder were acquitted by the senators of the ruling Conservative Party. This film focuses on the 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 Grito de Celina

Actors: Maria Rosa Gallo, Selva Aleman, Pablo Alarcon, Miguel Ángel Solá

Synopsis: In this morbid, unbelievable story about a tyrannical mater familias who forces her two sons to kill one of their wives because she is rebelling against the mother-in-law's iron fist, death by poisonous snake bite in the middle of Buenos Aires is just as unlikely as the rest of the plot. ~ Eleanor Read More

Los Miedos

Actors: Tita Merello, Soledad Silveyra, Miguel Ángel Solá

Synopsis: This horror film concerns a group of very motley people escaping a plague. When an obviously pregnant woman in a disco notices that one of the dancers is marked by ugly boils, she takes off, loads up on food, and starts to escape the city. It is clear that "the plague" has hit. Others who join her Read More

Momentos

Actors: Graciela Dufau, Miguel Ángel Solá, Hector Bidonde

Synopsis: While touring Israel, Anne, a Frenchwoman, meets Yola, a female Israeli film director. The two become friends, and decide to spend some time at a resort together. Despite the fact that both also have boyfriends, their attraction becomes sensual in nature. Yola's boyfriend visits them at this time Read More

Crecer De Golpe

Actors: Ubaldo Martinez, Olga Zubarry, Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecelia Toth, Tincho Zabala

Synopsis: The small events that make up the daily life of a 13-year-old boy and the elderly carousel-operator he lives with are the basis for this touching story based on the novel Alrededor de la Jaula by Jaroldo Conti. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More