Norma AleandroFilmography

Born:: Argentina
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Latin American actress Norma Aleandro is best known in the U.S. for her distinguished (she won the Best Actress award at Cannes) performance in the Oscar-winning 1985 film, The Official Story. Prior to that, Aleandro was a distinguished performer, playwright and director on the South American...Read More

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Anita

Actors: Norma Aleandro, Marcela Guerty, Luis Luque

2009
Live-In Maid

Actors: Norma Aleandro, Norma Argentina, Marco Mundstock, Raul Panguinao, Susana Lanteri

Synopsis: A once-wealthy Buenos Aires socialite who has fallen on hard times finds the roles between herself and her longtime live-in maid suddenly reversed in director Jorge Gaggero's class-conscious drama. Mrs. Beba is a 58-year-old woman whose days as a well-to-do socialite have long since passed, and Read More

7/20/07
Only Human

Actors: Norma Aleandro, Guillermo Toledo, María Botto

Synopsis: A mismatched couple discovers that whatever can go wrong will go wrong during a family visit in this comedy. Leni (Marian Aguilera) is a television reporter from a Jewish family in Spain. One weekend, Leni drops by her family's home for a visit, with her new boyfriend, college professor Rafi (Guillermo Toledo Read More

6/16/06
Young Blood

Synopsis: A fateful attempt to reconcile an estranged family relationship offers a moving portrait of love blunted by tragedy in this affecting family drama from director Leo Ricciardi. Little Santiago is traveling into the countryside with his parents when a sudden tragedy prevents the trio from extending Read More

2006
Cleopatra

Actors: Norma Aleandro, Natalia Oreiro, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Héctor Alterio, Victor of Aquitaine

Synopsis: Eduardo Mignogna's comedy drama Cleopatra tells the tale of friendship between two women who need to reevaluate their lives. Cleo (Norma Aleandro) is having a mid-life crisis. Her nearly four-decades-old marriage is wilting as her husband is becoming an alcoholic after being out of work for two Read More

2003
The Son of the Bride

Actors: Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Eduardo Blanco, Natalia Verbeke, Claudia Fontan

Synopsis: A family wedding brings out the best and the worst in the various parties involved in this warm but pointed comedy-drama. Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darin) makes his living running the restaurant ran by his father, Nino (Hector Alterio), and the combination of a stressful job and familial tensions Read More

3/22/02
Todas las Azafatas Van al Cielo

Actors: Alfredo Casero, Ingrid Rubio, Emilio Disi, Norma Aleandro, Valentina Bassi

Synopsis: Distraught over the unexpected suicide of his flight-attendant wife, portly dentist Julian (Alfredo Casero) makes the decision to travel to the Falkland Islands in a despondent bid to end his own life by freezing to death. It seems that fate has other things in store for Julian however, when Read More

2002
Deseo

Actors: Leonor Watling, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth, Ernesto Alterio, Maria Vazquez

Synopsis: Madrid in the wake of the Spanish Civil War serves as the setting for this epic period romance, starring Leonor Watling of Talk to Her fame. Watling is cast as Elvira, a young woman still reeling from the execution of her father and the imprisonment of her politically outspoken husband, Julio (Ernesto Alterio Read More

2002
Una Noche Con Sabrina Love

Actors: Cecilia Roth, Fabian Vena, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: A teenager hits the road for a crash course in the ways of the world in this amiable comedy-drama. Daniel (Tomas Fonzi) is a 17-year-old orphan growing up in a sleepy village in rural Argentina. Daniel feels trapped in his town, has grown tired of living with his grandparents, and hates his job; Read More

2001
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

2001
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

11/13/98
El Faro Del Sur

Actors: Ingrid Rubio, Ricardo Darín, Jimena Baron, Florencia Bertotti, Mariano Martinez

Synopsis: Eduardo Mignogna wrote and directed this Argentine-Spanish drama told in flashback. After an auto accident, ten-year-old Aneta (Jimena Baron) and her teen sister Meme (Ingrid Rubio) are orphaned and sent off to their two aunts in Uruguay, eventually running away to Buenos Aires, where Meme gets a Read More

1998
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

1998
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

1991
Vital Signs

Actors: Adrian Pasdar, Diane Lane, Jimmy Smits, Norma Aleandro, Jack Gwaltney

Synopsis: Marisa Silver helmed this tightly directed hospital drama reminiscent of David Swift's 1962 The Interns. Jimmy Smits plays Dr. David Redding, who guides seven student doctors through their third year of residency at Los Angeles Central's medical school. The cast includes Laura San Giacomo as Read More

3/16/90
One Man's War

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Norma Aleandro, Rubén Blades

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable docudrama, Anthony Hopkins stars as Joel Filartiga, a Paraguayan doctor battling against human rights abuses and political corruption in his native land. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Cien veces no debo

Actors: Norma Aleandro, Luis Brandoni, Andrea del Boca

Synopsis: In this comedy, the spoiled daughter (Andrea del Boca) of this outwardly respectable Argentine family has a problem. To quote her outraged father (Luis Brandoni), "she's inflated," "she has a cake in the oven." Though she has had many suitors and boyfriends, she has no idea who got her pregnant. Read More

1990
Cousins

Actors: Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William L. Petersen, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two people brought together by marriage are brought even closer by their mates. Maria Hardy (Isabella Rossellini) and Larry Konzinski (Ted Danson) first meet at a wedding, where Maria's mother and Larry's uncle are tying the knot. However, the new cousins also have Read More

2/10/89
Dark Holiday

Synopsis: This drama, based on a true story, chronicles the terrifying experiences of an American divorcee who went on vacation to Turkey. As she tried to leave she found herself wrongfully accused of smuggling antiques. To her horror, she is sent to a dreaded Turkish prison. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

1989
Gaby: A True Story

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Norma Aleandro, Rachel Levin, Robert Loggia, Lawrence Monoson

Synopsis: Gaby: A True Story is about a young woman -- the child of rich European refugees living in Mexico -- who was stricken with cerebral palsy at birth. Though her body is completely paralyzed, her mind is unaffected, and she is able to become a college graduate and an acclaimed author. Rachel Levin Read More

10/30/87
The Official Story

Actors: Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chela Ruiz, Chunchuna Villafane, Hugo Arana

Synopsis: This is an emotionally gripping, fictional look at a couple torn apart by the infamous Argentine campaign of killings and torture that sent thousands of accused terrorists to unmarked graves in the mid-and late-'70s. Alicia (Norma Aleandro) and Roberto (Hector Alterio) adopted a little girl (Analia Castro Read More

1985
Tobi

Actors: Maria Casanova, Antonio Ferrandis, Francisco Vidal, Silvia Tortosa

Synopsis: In this absurdist comedy, Tobi is a perfectly ordinary boy who just happens to have sprouted a functioning pair of wings. His distraught parents have them surgically removed, but they grow back again. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
La Tregua

Synopsis: Life has lost its savor for the middle-aged widower in this drama. He keeps on at his job, but his grown children are a puzzle to him. One of his sons treats him with surly indifference when he sees him, which isn't often. The other son, it is increasingly clear, is a homosexual. However, when he Read More

1974
Los Herederos

Crew: Screenwriter

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

1970
La Fiaca

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