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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alejandro Agresti (born June 2, 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director and producer. He has become increasingly influential in the United States and directed The Lake House with top Hollywood actors Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia Alejandro Agresti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
June 2, 1961 (age 65)
Birthplace
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Filmography
55 films


What We Wanted to Be
2024 · 1h 24m
country: Argentina
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.


Surviving the 70's
2015 · 1h 30m
country: Argentina
A disgruntled book editor is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by a woman, who threatens to do the same if he does not read her book.


We're No Animals
2013 · 1h 34m
country: Argentina
A Hollywood actor grows tired of making the same corporate movies, so he moves to Argentina to find more experimental and meaningful work.


The Lake House
2006 · 1h 39m
country: United States
When architect Alex Wyler moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster. Their correspondence, only through the 'magical' mailbox, turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.


A Less Bad World
2004 · 1h 30m
country: Argentina
A woman reunites with her husband, who vanished on her years ago.


Valentin
2002 · 1h 23m
country: Argentina
Valentin, an 8-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, is surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving.


A Night with Sabrina Love
2000 · 1h 40m
country: Argentina
When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with his favorite adult movie star, Sabrina Love. However, getting there will be half the trouble of meeting Sabrina.


Wind with the Gone
1998 · 1h 30m
country: Argentina
Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.


La cruz
1998 · 1h 30m
country: Argentina
Alfredo loses his job as a film critic after twenty years working for the same newspaper. His work mates have been trying to help him for a year because he is always drunk and angry, and his reviews have become sloppy. The cause: his wife and daughters have abandoned him and she is now living with Pablo, a famous artist. Alfredo wants to get his family back at any cost and tries to find out some terrible secrets about his new enemy to discredit him before Claudia...


Buenos Aires viceversa
1996 · 2h 2m
country: Argentina
This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past


The Act in Question
1994 · 1h 51m
country: Argentina
Miguel steals a trick from a magic book and becomes a world-renowned magician. However, the idea of the public discovering that this great trick is plagiarized from a book eats at his mind more and more.


Hexagon
1994 · 1h
country: Netherlands
A compilation of six standalone short films, each inspired by a contemporary Dutch music composition and created as part of a collaboration between Nederlandse film directors and composers for a Holland Festival presentation.


Figaro Story
1993 · 1h 38m
country: Netherlands
An anthology film centering around the worldwide adventures of the Nissan Figaro.


Modern Crimes
1992 · 1h 22m
country: Argentina
One day, Tim (Roy Ward) stops to speak with one of those men with no apparent income and no apparent place of residence who can be seen on the streets of Amsterdam and who are ready to speak of profundities and mock-profundities at the drop of a hat. This particular man tells him that "people don't die, they get killed." For some reason, this strikes the lonely television repairman as profound. He has been building a ham radio at home out of spare parts so that he will have someone to talk to. Shortly after talking to the street person, his circle of friends is diminished by one when his friend Alex is reported to have killed himself. This in itself is a bit of a mystery, and Tim attempts to make sense of it by talking to a lawyer, Alex's girlfriend, and others.
Everybody Wants to Help Ernest
Everybody Wants to Help Ernest
1992 · 1h 28m
country: Argentina
Ernst, a man in his thirties has lost his memory after an accident. His parents see this situation as another chance to raise Ernst into a perfect son, and enlist the help of a psychiatrist, a priest and an ideal daughter-in-law to be.


City Life
1990 · 4h 11m
country: Argentina
A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.


Luba
1990 · 1h 18m
country: Argentina
American agents intent on wiping out Bolsheviks are after Roberto--an Argentine expatriate writer, inventor and Communist in Rotterdam in 1941. He runs from them with his briefcase full of his invention-- non-running silk stockings--and money he has received from the Japanese for his invention.


Secret Wedding
1989 · 1h 36m
country: Netherlands
As an anonymous man, Fermin leaves his underground hideout in the subway. The dictatorship in the country is followed by democracy, but the bright light of it blinds Fermin: he is displaced. At the police station, his anonymity is complete and he doesn't remember his own name. He is fitted with a past of 13 years of illegal political opposition from the police archives. When he keeps silent about the crimes of the dictator regime, he will be a free man. The woman he promised to marry, doesn't recognize him anymore, and thinks he is dead.


Love Is a Fat Woman
1987 · 1h 22m
country: Netherlands
José is a young journalist who gets fired over refusing to write an article about an American film crew, overdramatizing the situation in Argentina. When he goes looking for his old girlfriend, he runs into the crew again.
The Man Who Looked for Reason
The Man Who Looked for Reason
1986 · 1h 8m
country: Argentina
While searching for the theme for his new novel, a writer interacts with various characters with whom he interacts.