Héctor Alterio
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1929-09-21
Place of Birth:Chacarita, Buenos Aires City, Argentina
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Also Known As:Héctor Benjamín Alterio Onorato

Por los senderos del libertador (1971)
Life and work of the Argentine hero José de San Martín, especially during the time he lived in Europe.

Wild Horses (1995)
A man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they're running away, they...

Flesh + Blood (1985)
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague...

November (2003)
Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the intention to create "a performance that is free,...

Kamchatka (2002)
In 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecuted and kidnapped. This is the case of the parents...

The Official Story (1985)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask...

Tiger Head (2001)
After the May Revolution, Juan José Castelli has instructions to order the execution of ex-viceroy Santiago de Liniers. That put you at a...

Intruders (2011)
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into...

The Last Train (2002)
Three old men and a little boy try to preserve what they consider to be National Patrimony in the form of a locomotive nicknamed the "33"

La Regenta (1995)
The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's...

Scarab (1984)
Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few...

Son of the Bride (2001)
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his...

Passionate People (2002)
Uma, tired of waiting for the man of her dreams to raise a family, decides that Nico, the boyfriend of her best friend Lucy, has all necessary...

Burnt Money (2000)
Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a...

Contar hasta diez (1985)
Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rather slow-paced story about Ramon (Oscar Martinez)...

Ashes of Paradise (1997)
A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that...

Fumata blanca (2002)
A priest and his father investigate the disappearance of a cardinal who has damning information about the Vatican.

The Detective and Death (1994)
In a European city agitated by racial unrest, a powerful tycoon must face the only thing he cannot deceive or corrupt: death. Meanwhile, a detective...

The Crime of Cuenca (1981)
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and...

I, the Worst of All (1990)
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In...

En ninguna parte (2004)
In the middle of nowhere, along a secondary road, a small old gas station interrupts the arid countryside. Its owner is José, a man of about...

The Mafia (1972)
The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians,...

Awaking from a Dream (2010)
Pascual is a seventy-year-old man who lives in a small town in Spain. He owns an old house and a little store. He earns just enough to live. He can't...

The Hidden Truth (1987)
After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns to his birthplace on the Mediterranean coast,...

The Truce (1974)
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

Waiting for the Messiah (2000)
In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a...

La piel del amor (1973)
A woman seduces a young man so her homosexual husband can satisfy his desires.

The Ugliest Woman in the World (1999)
Somebody has decided to celebrate New Year's Eve 2011 in a very twisted way - by dressing as a nun and brutally dismembering a little old lady. Lt....

Mi general (1987)
A group of generals of the army meet for a course about NATO and new weapons. In the beginning everything is normal but as the time passes they...

Blancheflower: The Devil's Daughter (1988)
A story about love which can defeat even the Devil itself.

The Nest (1980)
In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing...

To Return (1982)
An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets with his exgirlfriend and his best friend before...

La guerra de papá (1977)
Spain, March 1964: Quico is a very naughty child of three belonging to a wealthy middle-class family. Since Cristina's birth, he feels he has lost...

The Seven Madmen (1973)
After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.

The Knight of the Sword (1970)
The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.

Asignatura pendiente (1977)
Joseph and Helen, who had been boyfriends, there meeting some years later and fall madly in love again, but now the two are married. His hard and...

Summer of the Colt (1991)
This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a...

The Rosales (1984)
Film based on the real case of the sinking of the cazatorpedera "La Rosales", Navy Argentina, occurred in 1892 on the coast of Uruguay. In that event...

Fermín Glorias Of Tango (2014)
A patient expresses himself using the lyrics and titles of tango songs as a result of a post traumatic stress disorder discovered by a psychiatrist.

Nobel (2001)
A movie from the italian director Fabio Carpi.

Little Miracles (1997)
Rosalía is a cashier at a supermarket. She lives alone, loves reading fairy tales and hides in a magic fantasy world in order to survive...

Kamikaze (2014)
Slastan, a Karadjistan man, is willing to blow himself up aboard a Moscow plane bound for Madrid, but his plan is complicated when, due to a...

El Tren de la Bruja (2003)
A man volunteers to take part in an experiment that attempts to analyse human behaviour under extreme conditions of terror. His mission is to remain...

Wiped-Out Footprints (1999)
Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns...

A Tram in SP (2008)
In a small town in the Basque country, Lucas and Maria are an elderly brother and sister. They share a house with their memories and the ghosts of...

Sagitario (2001)
A woman finds herself going from having no man in her life to having more suitors than she can handle in this offbeat romantic drama. Rosa is an...

To an Unknown God (1977)
José, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he spent his childhood, perhaps to embrace...

Camila (1984)
In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.

Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working...

Un cine como tú en un país como éste (2010)
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba,...

¡Arriba Hazaña! (1978)
Several inconformities begin to develop at a catholic boys school in the transitional Spain of the seventies. After three students are expelled, a...

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite (2023)
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with...

Cria! (1976)
Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.

What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1978)
Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape

Continental (1989)
At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old...

Love Deal (1995)
Joaquín goes to Russia for business. There he falls in love with Tatiana, a young and beautiful interpreter who asks her to accompany him on...

Trout (1978)
In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to...

What Max Said (1978)
A mature man tries to ease his loneliness with fleeting encounters with friends, his lover, old acquaintances and his teenage daughter.

The Basileus Quartet (1983)
The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30...

Pascual Duarte (1976)
In Extremadura, Spain, Pascual Duarte, a humble, simple and ignorant peasant, condemned to a boring and humiliating existence with no future, commits...

A Sweet Scent of Death (1999)
Ramón is secretly in love with Adela. One morning, he discovers her corpse among the oat fields

Todo sol es amargo (1966)
When a group of terrorists hijack a train, the various passengers relive their memories.

The National Shotgun (1978)
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to...

The Judge's Wife (1984)
The wife of a judge feels lonely because her husband works too much. Therefore she seeks another love and finds it in the person of a young man.

País cerrado, teatro abierto (1990)
The history of the Teatro Abierto, which was initiated on July 28, 1981 as a cultural reaction against the last Argentine civic-military...

Don Juan in Hell (1991)
While the last remnants of the Empire are extinguishing and King Philip II (1559-1598) is dying in the shadow of lost splendor, a man, defying the...

Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez (1973)
When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.

The Children of the War (1984)
Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political...

The Voyeur (1977)
Despite being unhappy about it, a middle-aged man, allows his wife to carry on affairs in order to keep his marriage together.

Murder in the Central Committee (1982)
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the...

A la pálida luz de la luna (1985)
Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to...

En mil pedazos (1980)
Jorge Sueiro is a private detective who seeks revenge on Da Costa, a criminal who is fault his daughter died. Jorge accepts the proposal to follow a...

Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac) (1982)
A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to...

Diary for a Tale (1998)
A young man works in the port of Buenos Aires translating the love letters that prostitutes receive and seeks inspiration for his works in them.

Semen, a History of Love (2005)
A biologist in an insemination clinic unexpectedly falls in love with a free-spirited trapeze artist and the idea of fathering her child. A hilarious...

Life, Love and Death (1982)
Divided into three grotesque stories of absurd humor that, as the title suggests, are based on life, love and death.

Paper Heart (1982)
Ups and downs of a news agency led by Antonio Borja, a veteran journalist formed during the Franco regime, with the help of his godson and...

Nudos (2003)
Barcelona, 2002. A coffin is carried to the cemetery of Montjuïc in a chariot drawn by horses. The lifeless is Pep Grau, an old fisherman found...

Unpredictable Guy (1980)
Following his mother`s death, wise son Sebastian attempts to organise dad Nestor to cope with basic household chores. Sebastian shows Nestor how to...

Kargus (1981)
A series of vignettes is woven into a larger story in this first film to be written and directed by Juan Minon and Miguel A. Trujillo. A writer who...

F. E. N. (1980)
Two former students of a strict religious school decide to return there during the summer holidays to make those who were their teachers experience...

Adiós, Roberto (1985)
Roberto separates from his wife and needs a place to stay. When he moves in with gay Marcelo, he is clueless about Marcello's sexuality and the two...

The Other Trade (1967)
In their search for work, a group of workers face familiar frustrations. Cedrón raises his own conflicts and tries to understand their cause....

Memorias de Leticia Valle (1980)
A fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction and scandal that forced her to leave Spain in the 1910s,...

Argentinian Until Death (1971)
Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance.

Dreams from the Middle of the World (1999)
A bus called Sueños (Dreams) links three modern-day tales set in exotic Ecuador - the equator-straddling country that calls itself "The Middle...

Sofía (1987)
Set amidst a backdrop of political unrest and oppression in Argentina following the coup of the late 1980s, this impressive drama dwells upon a...

Y que patatín, y que patatán (1971)
Five parts that reflect a critical look on the universe of children. An ironic metaphor about the training of children and how they respond to...

Wild Tango (1993)
A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace,...

Gentille Alouette (1970)
Gentille Alouette is a 1990 French-Chilean film written and directed by Sergio Castillo. Geraldine Chaplin stars as an actress in Paris that is...

The Books and the Night (2000)
A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various...

Paño verde (1973)
Set in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, it showed the formation, rise and fall of a criminal gang.

Héroes y demonios (1999)
Gabriel and Sergio meet at the psychiatric hospital where they are interned. Gabriel is a rebellious and violent young man marginalized by society....

Manuel and Clemente (1986)
Manuel and Clemente, couple in the shower and in various scheming, try to do business with miraculous apparitions. Near the Sevillian town of El...

Cómo seducir a una mujer (1967)
A shy young man has trouble relating to women and asks an extravagant relationship counselor for help.

El amor infiel (1974)
Infidelities that begin when a couple relates to another for commercial reasons.

Noche de reyes (2001)
Miguel Bardem's Christmas comedy Noche de Reyes (Twelfth Night) intercuts a variety of story lines. Ernesto Cuspineda (Joaquin Climent) is a...

El habilitado (1971)
Five employees submerged in the basement of a large store in Mar del Plata are grotesquely linked to each other, each trying to feel better than the...

El hombre de la deuda externa (1987)
A middle-class man earns a millionaire fortune that he decides to use to pay Argentina's foreign debt.

Cleopatra (2003)
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.

Don Segundo Sombra (1969)
The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth...

Memorias del ángel caído (1997)
A group of parishioners die poisoned upon receiving communion, during the investigation of the event the priests of the parish begin to have visions....

Frontier (1984)
Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are...

El Cepa Returns (2019)
Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar...

After All It's Only Life (1993)
Three women ridiculed by their husbands plan to take revenge with the intention of showing them that they are not as they say. "Las boludas" was...

Nora (2020)
Nora is 30 years old; she lives with her Argentinian grandfather Nicolás and regularly takes care of her friend Meri's children. She writes...

Puzzle (1986)
A bank robbery goes wrong. The robbers, two of them unemployed family men, take two hostages, one of them needing heart medication, and leave them in...

El señor Galíndez (1984)
El senor Galindez is a Spanish movie starring Antonio Banderas

Like Shooting Stars (2017)
An Italian composer in crisis takes a break in Valencia, where he takes a shine to a famous singer.

King of the River (1995)
An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has...

The Fridays of Eternity (1981)
A prostitute tries to communicate with one of her lovers who died in a duel, but who appears to him is his other lover, greater than the previous...

The Consequences (2021)
Since Fabiola saw her husband die in a diving accident, nothing has been the same again. Tired of not getting better, she decides to self-prescribe...

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: La Zampa del Gatto (1987)
Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and...

Private Lives (2001)
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related...

Te rompo el rating (1981)
A television network infiltrates an inept employee (Porcel) in the competition and he begins to ruin all the programs but, instead of subtracting...

Barbablù, Barbablù (1989)
An old patriarch at the gates of death, who has been married five times, reunites his family and indulges in a sadistic game with them.

Vientos de agua (2006)
Vientos de agua is a 2006 cult Argentine- Spanish mini TV series created by Juan José Campanella. The drama traces a Spaniard's emigration to...

Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001)
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of...

Teresa de Jesús (1984)
An account of the life of Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582), from her spiritual awakening to her final days, as she struggles to reform the Order of...

The Boat (2011)
A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva (Switzerland) during the implementation of the particle accelerator will lead to the crew...