Uruguay Films 2000-2009
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- DirectorMichael MannStarsColin FarrellJamie FoxxGong LiBased on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.
- DirectorMarcelo PiñeyroStarsEduardo NoriegaLeonardo SbaragliaPablo EcharriNene & Angel and their accomplice Cuervo participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down.
- DirectorJuan Pablo RebellaPablo StollStarsAndrés PazosMirella PascualJorge BolaniWhen his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.
- DirectorJeff LewStarsVegas J. JenkinsBryan SessionMatthew TylerKiller Bean is sent on a mission in Beantown, but when he attacks one of the warehouses owned by the mafia boss, Cappuccino, he gets the attention of Detective Cromwell, a bean who's trying to put Cappuccino, and possibly Killer Bean, behind bars.
- DirectorCésar CharloneEnrique FernándezStarsCésar TroncosoVirginia MéndezMario SilvaA small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
- DirectorAdrián BiniezStarsHoracio CamanduleLeonor SvarcasNéstor GuzziniA chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.
- DirectorJuan Pablo RebellaPablo StollStarsDaniel HendlerJorge TemponiAlfonso Tort24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo.
- DirectorÁlvaro BrechnerStarsGary PiquerJouko AholaAntonella CostaA flamboyant impresario and an ageing ex-wrestling champion arrive in a small town, offering a hefty award to the local challenger. In fact, the promoter wants to rinse the spectators for every penny. But, is this a good day to go fishing?
- DirectorEnrique BuchichioStarsMartín RodríguezCecilia CóseroGerardo BegérezLeo, a young man coming to terms with his own sexuality, runs into Caro, a primary school friend he fancied when they were kids, who's now trying to ward off her own personal demons. This casual re-encounter will affect their personal conflicts without either truly grasping the other's problem.
- DirectorRodrigo MorenoStarsJulio ChávezOsmar NúñezMarcelo D'AndreaA bodyguard of a top politician is so dedicated that he's in danger of losing his own identity.
- DirectorDiego ArsuagaStarsHéctor AlterioFederico LuppiPepe SorianoThree old man, a little boy training to protect an old patrimony, La "33", the last train.
- DirectorElia SchneiderElia K. SchneiderStarsRoque ValeroEdgar RamírezRamiro Meneses"Punto y raya" is the story of a young Colombian recruit who, while patrolling his country's border, is befriended by a Venezuelan adversary, and the tragic consequences of their relationship.
- DirectorBeatriz Flores SilvaStarsMariana Santangelo GoldmanSilvestreJosep LinuesaMontevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and breaks up with Garcia, her boss and lover who has infuriated her by not wanting to get married. So, in the space of twenty-four hours, Elisa finds herself without a roof over her head, without a man, without a job and without money. Her best friend Loulou finds her a job - in the brothel run by Dona Jacqueline. And without really being aware of it, Elisa slides into prostitution, which leads her to Barcelona. She falls in love, she is exploited, she gets involved in transvestite gang wars, and meanwhile just dreams of earning enough money for her little beauty salon back home.
- DirectorFederico VeirojStarsAlejandro TocarAna Julia CataláGustavo MelnikRafa, a teenage boy who is just edging into his teens tries to unravel the mysteries of love and sex in this coming-of-age story. He is mired in the lower depths of adolescence; his skin is breaking out, he feels incredibly awkward, and he can't get women off his mind. While his older brother tries to help by arranging him to lose his virginity to a cooperative neighborhood woman, he is still mortified after the big seduction that he hasn't actually kissed a girl, and he and his pals Andy and Rony struggle to make sense of the fair sex. While they occasionally visit a neighborhood brothel where the working girls offer various forms of sympathy, they'd rather be spending time with the girls from their school, and Rafa sets his sights on Nicole, who is pretty enough that nearly everyone is convinced he doesn't stand a chance with her.
- DirectorGabriel DíazStarsSergio PereiraGabriel DíazGabriela Ers
- DirectorGuillermo CasanovaStarsHugo AranaJulio César CastroJulio CalcagnoA group of men travel across Uruguay to watch the sea.
- DirectorManolo NietoStarsPablo RieraMartín AdjemiánMaría Sofía DabarcaDavid, has just failed his university examinations and has one year to re-write them. Ruben, his father, a pragmatic and successful businessman, has been paying for David's education, the pursuit of which he considers a waste of time. Ruben wants David to work and make himself useful and he strikes a deal with him: David can stay and study for his exams at Ruben's house in La Perrera, a coastal resort town, while he builds a house for himself. And so, a year-long adventure starts for David, an urban intellectual, in the isolated La Perrera and among its off-season residents who include nearly as many dogs as men, where the only women are either pregnant or prostitutes, and where no one wants to work and things are done out of friendship more than anything else.
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsVinícius D'BlackMonique SoaresRafael MarianoFree adaptation of the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet translated to the harsh life in Favela da Maré, one of largest and most violent slums in Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorPablo StollStarsJuan Andrés StollMario StollGuillermo StollA young man in Uruguay has trouble expressing himself verbally. As the lead singer in a band, he interacts with the world through his music.
- DirectorEsteban SchroederStarsRoxana BlancoJorge BolaniPatricio ContrerasChilean chemist Eugenio Berríos, wanted for his relationship to crimes during the military dictatorship in his country, is kidnapped. Lawyer Julia Gudari is investigating her disappearance and fears that General Gudari, her father, is involved in the case.
- DirectorAna DíezStarsMauricio DayubViviana SacconeEmilio Gutiérrez CabaAs children, Xavi and Rosana had sworn eternal love. Now, years later and in Spain, Xavi is hired by Osasuna. There he meets Rosana again, who is exiled. The reunion raises questions and revelations.
- DirectorCarlos AmeglioStarsJuan AlariCarlos AmeglioJorge BolaniAn advertising creative dies unexpectedly while working on an idea for the launch of an anti-cold pill. From then on Pedro, one of his old colleagues, begins an intricate search in order to discover the departed's idea, taking over his place and making use of his original notes and thoughts. Along the way Pedro comes across an orphan, a street child that will unconsciously and eventually lead him to a new and singular idea.
- DirectorMarcelo PavanStarsManuel CallauClaudio CorbelliLautaro DelgadoA surgeon from Buenos Aires, wearied by personal problems and the endless cycle of work, leaves for a week's skiing vacation in the south. Instead, on impulse, he follows a young hitchhiker to a small fishing village, Devil's Point, in the north, on the coast of Uruguay. He makes fleeting acquaintance with some of the villagers, and learns that "the only thing to do in winter is to wait for summer".
- DirectorGustavo PostiglioneStarsDarío GrandinettiNorman BriskiCarlos RestaDiego Simonney is a lonely man living by the sea, once a famed film director, thence fallen into decadence and oblivion, having lost control of his movie and, subsequently, his life. Through flashbacks we're shown Simonney's crescent indifference towards the movie he is trying to make, with camera-shy, third-rate actors "Calandra and Stuart" and an even a worse script. He finds redemption in the love for Ana "Campo", an Uruguayan who used to be his student. But passion is extinguished, and obsession takes place as Simonney follows Ana around with his camera, stalking her and her newfound lover, a deputy. Simonney changes shapes, abandoning the film and being taken for dead "he is portrayed by Briski and Resta according to his mood and attitudes". Solitude overtakes him, and he exiles himself to a bar by the sea, retconning with the beginning of the story. The final scene has Ana stepping into Simonney's bar, and after a lengthy tale of lovers lost and passion dead, they recognize each other. The ending finds Simonney abandoning his camera and being forgiven by Ana.
- DirectorÁlvaro BuelaStarsRoxana BlancoNicolás BecerraWalter Reyno34-year-old Pamela is a small and shy woman. She works at the cash register of a supermarket. She attends a religious temple led by a Brazilian minister. She periodically visits her autistic mother. She is an anonymous character, leading a meaningless life. Suddenly, a miracle occurs. Messages of a marvelous destiny start to reach Pamela in unusual ways: a client, a gentle and charismatic transvestite, her own mother, dreams, bar codes, real and imaginary signals. The Savior of the Next Millennium is apparently on his way and everything indicates that she, being a virgin, is carrying him on her entrails. Impelled to face herself, Pamela undertakes an inner voyage. A paradoxical voyage: the more mystic she grows to be, the more human she becomes.
- DirectorLeonardo RicagniStarsMathias AcuñaJorge EsmorisWashington LunaWith a poetic nod to Fellini, Leonardo Ricagni uses the carnival atmosphere to transport the viewer to a magical place where realism and surrealism live side by side in Uruguay - and what a wonderful place to be.
- DirectorEsteban SchroederStarsDanilo Rodríguez BarilariLiliana GarcíaFernando KlicheA Montevideo journalist discovers that the murder of a boy from the slums near the vineyards had political reasons, and was not an isolated incident. Developing a friendship with the victim's older brother, and then the entire family, the journalist tries to get to the bottom of this case. It is not the only case of summary executions of young poor boys in this vineyard, but nevertheless few people really want to challenge the powerful owner of the vineyards.
- DirectorAldo GarayStarsVerónica PerrottaElena ZuastiWalter ReynoIn Montevideo, Sonja cares for her invalid mother, works in a garment factory, and has little going for her. Her neighbor Modesto, an older man who lives alone, types anonymous letters to her. Her mother is difficult -- demanding and miserable, afraid of death. Sonja meets Ernesto, a nurseryman, and finally there may be some possibilities in her life. Does freedom beckon?
- DirectorJuan PittalugaStarsAurélien RecoingElina LöwensohnHéctor GuidoOrlando Vargas has lived with his wife, Alice, and son, Thomas, in Uruguay for years now, subject to a great deal of pressure from the Uruguayan government. His assistant Gaspar is concerned for him, and others praise him for his courage. Orlando's steps are always controlled by a policeman, but he seems indifferent to the danger ahead. Only son Thomas is witness to the anger his father tries to drown out with alcohol. Orlando surprises his family when he decides to leave with Alice and Thomas for Josefina, a remote village on the shore just prior to the Brazilian border. In Josefina, he is apparently awaited. On the day the family arrives, Orlando goes to the desolate town bar, does not come home. It seems Alice will finally have to face the truth about hr husband.
- DirectorMarcelo BertalmíoStarsLorena EtcheverryJavier BaliosiánJorge ViscaFive youths spend all their time together. When Anna announces that she's going away, the group has to decide if to make her change her mind or just enjoy their last days together.
- DirectorGustavo CamelotStarsGustavo CamelotDanielle JamesMariela SantosThrough seven bottles of cursed wine, we follow the journey of Valentina, a beautiful artist living in Berlin. With a sordid history of sexual and physical abuse, and having been caught in the arms of her female lover by her wealthy, overbearing mother, Val is forced to make a choice: to live a "normal" life, or be forever cut off - financially and emotionally. She concedes to her mother's ultimatum, and pursues a heterosexual relationship to appease her, only to catch her new boyfriend in bed with another man. Her inability to cope with her life triggers her repressed male alter-ego to emerge and take over.
- DirectorPablo RodríguezStarsOsvaldo LaportJuan Manuel TenutaElizabeth BradleyA father searches for the drug dealers responsible for his daughter's murder and abducts a beautiful woman who he believes is the girlfriend of one of the goons. The woman turns out to be an undercover DEA agent who assists him carry out his vengeance.
- DirectorGustavo CamelotStarsGustavo CamelotMariela SantosDanielle JamesThrough seven bottles of magical wine, we follow the journey of Valentina, a beautiful artist living in Berlin. With a sordid history of sexual and physical abuse, and having been caught in the arms of her female lover by her wealthy, overbearing mother, Val is forced to make a choice: to live a "normal" life, or be forever cut off - financially and emotionally. She concedes to her mother's ultimatum, and pursues a heterosexual relationship to appease her, only to catch her new boyfriend in bed with another man. Her inability to cope with her life triggers her repressed male alter-ego to emerge and take over.
- DirectorLuis NietoStarsJean Pierre NoherMargarita MustoRoger CasamajorGregorio Gamboa is back in Uruguay after leaving years before because of political problems. He returns with his wife, Mercedes, an argentinean he met in Spain, and his two adolescent children, Mateo and Cayetana, born in the same country and forced into a land they know only throught the biased tales of their parents. Together, they plan to build their definite house over land that belonged to Gregorio's grandfather, but little does the rest of the family suspect that beneath the terrain there is a huge number of weapons buried by Gregorio during his youth. One day, in a moment of reconciling, the father tells Mateo his secret, unleashing a wave of events that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorMaximiliano ContentiStarsManuel FacalBruno ContentiJoaquín TomeBruno is a normal teen except for one thing, something about his past torments him, a very weird experience that only happens in summer. When his parents leave him alone, some bizarre events unfold.
- DirectorDaniela SperanzaStarsWalter SperanzaLydia ChipasRoberto SuárezFour stories are told by a man in the Casino. This four stories have only one thing in common, the bad luck.
- DirectorLeonardo RicagniStarsMarlene FortePaul CalderonRobert LuPoneIndocumentados presents a visually expressive and emotionally driven journey into the lives of the undocumented immigrants in the streets of NY in the aftermath of September 11th.
- DirectorAliki Danezi-KnutsenStarsStella FyrogeniAhilleas GrammatikopoulosMichael McKellTwo stories unfold simultaneously with Lea at the center of both. One story takes place in Lefkosia, Cyprus, the other in Montevideo, Uruguay. Lea's disappeared brother is the catalyst for both: while in Lefkosia a group of DNA scientists is trying to reveal the identities of persons missing, in Montevideo, Lea sees her brother in a photograph together with an older tango singer. Are the two stories a game of parallel times? Does one of them belong to a different dimension? Or is Lea's character stolen from a J.L.Borges novel where his heroes are able to make more than one choice. The answer is securely hidden until the end of the film since between the two cities, the two stories there is...a BAR.
- DirectorMateo GutiérrezStarsLuis Pedro MicheliniMatilde RodriguezJulio María SanguinettiDocumentary by Mateo Gutiérrez about the life of his father, Héctor "Toba" Gutiérrez Ruiz (1934-1976).