Screenplay: Aida Bortnik

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Aida Bortnik. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Official Story

1985 · Movie · 110 min. · Argentina

Direction Luis Puenzo

Cast Héctor Alterio · Norma Aleandro · Hugo Arana · Chunchuna Villafañe

Synopsis Alicia Marnet de Ibañez is happily married to her husband Roberto. They have an adopted daughter named Gaby. Alicia is blissfully ignorant about what happened in the military coup until one of her history students asks her if she only...

7.8

8K votes

7.8

8K votes

Vientos de agua (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 975 min. · Argentina

Direction Juan José Campanella · Sebastián Pivotto · Bruno Stagnaro · Paula Hernández

Cast Héctor Alterio · Ernesto Alterio · Eduardo Blanco · Silvia Abascal

Synopsis Vientos de agua (Winds of Water) is a 2006 cult Argentine- Spanish mini TV series created by Juan José Campanella. The drama traces a Spaniard's emigration to Argentina in the 1930s, and, years later, his son's return to modern-day Spain.

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

The Truce

1974 · Movie · 108 min. · Argentina

Direction Sergio Renán

Cast Héctor Alterio · Ana María Picchio · Luis Brandoni · Marilina Ross

Synopsis The film opens on Martín Santomé's (Héctor Alterio) 49th birthday, a widower and the father of three children: the eldest, the embittered Esteban (Luis Brandoni); the caring middle-child Blanca (Marilina Ross) and Jaime (Oscar Martínez), a closeted homosexual. He goes...

7.3

793 votes

7.3

793 votes

Paradise Ashes

1997 · Movie · 116 min. · Argentina

Direction Marcelo Piñeyro

Cast Héctor Alterio · Leonardo Sbaraglia · Cecilia Roth · Daniel Kuzniecka

Synopsis Judge Costa Makantasis dies when falling mysteriously from the terrace of the Court's House Buildings and Ana Muro, a 22 year-ld girl is found dead that same night with 15 stabs. The three sons of the Judge will plead guilty...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

The Island

1979 · Movie · 106 min. · Argentina

6.7

40 votes

6.7

40 votes

Tanguito

1993 · Movie · 125 min. · Argentina

Direction Marcelo Piñeyro

Cast Fernán Mirás · Cecilia Dopazo · Imanol Arias · Leonardo Sbaraglia

Synopsis Rock singer Jose Alberto Cruz, nicknamed Tango, is the young man whose music and rebelliousness inspire a generation during the late 1960s in Buenos Aires. Charismatic and sexy, Tango draws hoards of young people to steamy underground nightclubs by singing...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

Growing Up Suddenly

1977 · Movie · 80 min. · Argentina

Direction Sergio Renán

Cast Ubaldo Martínez · Julio César Ludueña · Cecilia Roth · Olga Zubarry

Synopsis The small events that make up the daily life of a 13-year-old boy and the elderly carousel-operator he lives with are the basis for this touching story based on the novel ´Alrededor de la Jaula´.

5.9

50 votes

5.9

50 votes

This Was Solitude

2002 · Movie · 86 min. · Spain

4.9

273 votes

4.9

273 votes

To Return (Volver)

1982 · Movie · 85 min. · Argentina

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Una mujer

1975 · Movie · 98 min. · Argentina

Direction Juan José Stagnaro

Cast Cipe Lincovsky · Federico Luppi · María Rosa Gallo · Víctor Laplace

Synopsis A woman returns home after a long absence. Details of her past emerge as she interacts with her husband and family.

Not rated

Not rated

Poor Butterfly

1986 · Movie · 120 min. · Argentina

Direction Raúl de la Torre

Cast Graciela Borges · Lautaro Murúa · Pepe Soriano · Víctor Laplace

Synopsis In May of 1945, the news of the fall of Berlin spread to Buenos Aires. Clara is the daughter of a socialist leader named Boris who has died unexpectedly. As Clara learns more about a father she hardly knew, she...

Not rated

Not rated