Marcela López Rey
Patito Feo is a comedy TV series for kids and teens from Argentina, starring Laura Natalia Esquivel, Brenda Asnicar, Juan Darthes, Griselda Siciliani and Gastón Soffritti produced by Ideas del Sur for Canal 13. The show is distributed worldwide by Televisa.
A young woman will seek to reunite with her family after being adopted. After finding out her whereabouts with a detective, she will travel inside to meet them waiting to be recognized. Her mother and brother have a roadside post on the Paraguayan border, but only in appearance, as they actually do macabre and terrifying work.
While searching for the theme for his new novel, a writer interacts with various characters with whom he interacts.
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
At the end of an unhappy romance, a Mexico City cabdriver decides he's fed up with big-city classism and hypocrisy, and goes home to his ranch. Soon, a group of city-folk are stranded on his property and dependent on him for help and sustenance.
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
A young man dreams of being a singer and become popular with crowds. Over time manages to have everything you want, but on the way he meets a person based envious intrigues that it manages to lose his girlfriend and even his own representative. To do this, he must work hard in order to get back their goals and desires.
Remake of Marihuana (1950), a film directed by León Klimovsky. A drama about the use of marihuana and the danger that it can bring to a group of young unconscious addicts.
A casual monitoring becomes an obsession when a young man finds a man who reminds him of something that happened in his childhood.
Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from director Enrique Carreras was the official entry for Argentina at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival.
Adapted from a story by Beatriz Guido. A group of young people from high society are enclosed, for fun, on a terrace in a charming building in Buenos Aires. His parents try to get them out, but young people threaten to jump into the void if adults enter the terrace.
The frustrations felt by certain middle class youth in Argentina, under the presidency of Arturo Frondizi during the sixties.
