Biography: Hector Olivera |
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,... more
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Cast: Hector Olivera Cecilia Roth
Length: 110min
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...
Length: 125min
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...
Una Sombra Ya Pronto Seras (1994)
Tags: Road Movie Adventure Drama Drama
Length: 105min
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...
Tags: Adult Thriller Erotic Thriller
Length: 80min
Set on the darker streets of Buenos Aires, this erotic thriller tells the story of a sax player who cannot resist the temptation offered by his former flame and ends up getting burned when she involves him with ruthless gangsters. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985)
Cast: Bo Svenson
Tags: Sword-and-Sorcery Adventure Family
Length: 76min
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...
Cast: Royal Dano Roger Corman
Length: 82min
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...
A Funny Dirty Little War (1983)
Cast: Federico Luppi
Tags: Farce Comedy Drama War
Length: 80min
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...
Cast: Don Stroud
Tags: Thriller
Length: 87min
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...
La Noche De Los Lapices (1986)
Length: 95min
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...
Cast: James Horner
Tags: Costume Adventure Fantasy Adventure Adventure
Length: 71min
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...
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