Chela Ruiz

Acting

Chela Ruiz

Born May 6, 1921 · Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina (age 105)

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Known For

The Official StoryThe Official Story · 1985
The Official Story
7.51985
MovieDramaHistory
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
The Dark Side of the HeartThe Dark Side of the Heart · 1992
The Dark Side of the Heart
7.31992
MovieComedyDrama
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
Cenizas del paraísoCenizas del paraíso · 1997
Cenizas del paraíso
6.91997
MovieCrimeDrama
A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth.
Tangos Are for TwoTangos Are for Two · 1998
Tangos Are for Two
5.91998
MovieDramaMusic
A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over. Written by
Mamá queridaMamá querida · 1988
Mamá querida
9.01988
MovieDrama
An older woman who is caring for her youngest daughter, with physical pain, loneliness, and the support of her hobby of painting.
The IslandThe Island · 1979
The Island
5.51979
MovieDrama
A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.
The Loves of KafkaThe Loves of Kafka · 1988
The Loves of Kafka
7.01988
MovieDrama
A movie director from Argentine travels to Prague to make a film about Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská.
The Conquest of ParadiseThe Conquest of Paradise · 1981
The Conquest of Paradise
5.81981
MovieDrama
Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expecting to inherit a large sum of money, but instead, he receives from his father a treasure map, with the promise that the map will make him rich. After the father dies, Pablo decides to go to an adventure and seek the treasure, aided by the men his father choose as companionship, and by one woman faith choose for him.

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