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The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
, 2h7Directed by Juan José Campanella
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Politique, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Guillermo Francella, Pablo Rago, Mariano Argento, Carla Quevedo
Retiree Benjamín Espósito is having trouble getting started on his first novel. He pays a visit to the offices of Judge Irene Menéndez-Hastings to tell her about his plans to recount the story of the Coloto case, the one they both worked on 25 years before, when she was his new department chief and he was the federal agent assigned to the case. She suggests he start at the beginning.
Wild Tales (2014)
, 2h2Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti, Nancy Dupláa, María Onetto, Érica Rivas
Two plane passengers discover that they know a man named Pasternak: the woman is his former girlfriend, and the man is a music critic who savagely reviewed his work. They discover that everybody on the flight is connected to Pasternak. An air stewardess reveals that Pasternak is the plane's pilot and has locked himself into the cockpit. Pasternak crashes the plane into his parents' house.
Waiting for the Hearse (1985)
, 1h27Directed by Alejandro Doria
Origin Argentine
Genres Comedy
Actors China Zorrilla, Antonio Gasalla, Betiana Blum, Mónica Villa, Enrique Pinti, Darío Grandinetti
Musicardi's octogenarian widow, Ana María de los Dolores Buscaroli, called Mamá Cora by everybody (Antonio Gasalla), has four children: Antonio (Luis Brandoni), Sergio (Juan Manuel Tenuta), Emilia (Lidia Catalano) and Jorge Musicardi (Julio De Grazia) with whom she lives and goes through financial troubles. This situation, plus lack of space and constant generational conflicts, makes Susana (Jorge's wife) ask desperately for the siblings to take their mother with any of them for a while.
Nine Queens (2000)
, 1h54Directed by Fabián Bielinsky
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Ricardo Darín, Leticia Brédice, Oscar Nuñez, Alejandro Awada, Claudio Rissi, Roberto Rey
The film opens at a convenience store early in the morning. Juan, a con artist, successfully scams the cashier, but later messes up by attempting the same scam again on the next shift. Marcos, who has been observing the whole time, steps in pretending to be a police officer and takes Juan away. As soon as they are far enough from the shop, Marcos tells Juan he is not actually a cop but a fellow con man. Juan asks Marcos to show him the ropes, because his father, also a con man, is in jail and he needs to raise money quickly to bribe a judge to reduce his father's sentence from 10 years to 6 months.
Social Genocide (2004)
, 2hDirected by Fernando Solanas
Origin Argentine
Genres Documentary
Themes Politique, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Fernando Solanas
After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have lost literally everything: major national companies have been sold well below value to foreign corporations; the proceeds of privatizations have been diverted into the pockets of corrupt officials; revised labour laws have taken away all rights from employees; in a country that is traditionally an important exporter of foodstuffs, malnutrition is widespread; millions of people are unemployed and sinking into poverty; and their savings have disappeared in a final banking collapse.
Deleting Dad (2014)
, 1h18Origin Argentine
Genres Documentary
Le film relate l'histoire de six papas exclus de la vie de leurs enfants à la suite de la séparation des parents.
Son of the Bride (2001)
, 2h3Directed by Juan José Campanella
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Natalia Verbeke, Juan José Campanella, Alfredo Alcón
The film tells of Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darín), a 42-year-old divorced restauranteur, with a young daughter named Vicky (Gimena Nóbile) of whom he has joint custody. Rafael lives a very hectic lifestyle.
Extraordinary Stories (2008)
, 4h5Directed by Mariano Llinás
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama
Actors Mariano Llinás, Rafael Spregelburd, Santiago Mitre, Daniel Hendler, Juan Minujín
X tue accidentellement un homme, H est chargé d'une mission qu'il ne comprend pas, Z est obsédé par la vie d'un mort. X, H et Z sont les protagonistes, sans nom ni passé, de trois histoires extraordinaires qui bifurquent à l'infini.
Time for Revenge (1981)
, 1h50Directed by Adolfo Aristarain
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Federico Luppi, Ulises Dumont, Aldo Barbero, Enrique Liporace, Arturo Maly, Joffre Soares
Pedro Bengoa, an ex-union organizing demolition worker and Bruno Di Toro, a coworker friend of his, decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for, setting up a fake accident in a copper pit. Di Toro was supposed to pretend to be Mute as a consequence of an explosion, and Pedro would corroborate his story. Things don't go as planned and Di Toro loses his life, leaving Pedro to continue the plan on his own, while pretending to be Mute. However, when the company finally agrees to an economical settlement, Pedro refuses to accept, searching justice primarily, and his case goes to the courts. This event changes Pedro's life for ever.
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
, 2h6Directed by Walter Salles
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Political films, Road movies
Actors Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mercedes Morán, Jean-Pierre Noher, Facundo Espinosa, Mía Maestro
"The Che of The Motorcycle Diaries is more akin to Jack Kerouac or Neal Cassady than Marx or Lenin."— Paul Webster, executive producer
The Official Story (1985)
, 1h52Directed by Luis Puenzo
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana, Guillermo Battaglia, Pablo Rago
The film is set in Argentina in the 1980s, in the last years of the country's last military dictatorship, during which a campaign of State sponsored terrorism produced thousands of killings and torture of accused political leftists and innocents alike, who were buried in unmarked graves or became desaparecidos.
A Place in the World (1992)
, 2hDirected by Adolfo Aristarain
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Federico Luppi, Cecilia Roth, José Sacristán, Rodolfo Ranni, Hugo Arana
The story is set in 1974, following the death of Argentine President Juan Perón. While they live their lives, the characters argue about the country's most controversial subjects at the time: religion, politics, and human rights.
Dignity of the Nobodies (2005)
, 2hDirected by Fernando Solanas
Origin Argentine
Genres Documentary
The film focuses on the life of several Argentine persons after the December 2001 riots in Argentina. It highlights the aims and wishes of the outcasts and their hopes.
Man Facing Southeast (1987)
, 1h45Directed by Eliseo Subiela
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Lorenzo Quinteros
The staff and patients go about their daily business at Buenos Aires' José Borda Psychiatric Hospital on a summer day in 1985. A staff psychiatrist, Dr. Julio Denis (Lorenzo Quinteros) is surprised to hear that his ward for non-violent delusional cases has one patient too many. Denis finds him in the chapel playing the organ like a virtuoso. Summoning him (Hugo Soto) to his office, Denis finds the man's speech is measured and articulate as he explains his presence there as a result of an image being projected from light years away. He introduces himself as "Rantés" (an exotic sounding name in Argentina). Dr. Denis is convinced that Rantés is a fugitive hoping to hide from the law in the hospital. He lets the patient stay however, after seeing how his caring touch helps the other patients. The doctor is amused by his extraterrestrial claims and he suspects that the man is a genius using his talents as a charade.
Martin (Hache) (1997)
, 2h5Directed by Adolfo Aristarain
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama
Actors Federico Luppi, Cecilia Roth, Sancho Gracia, Ana María Picchio, Enrique Liporace, Adolfo Aristarain
Martín, known as Hache, is a 19-year-old Argentinian boy who after his girlfriend leaves him has a nearly fatal drug overdose, thought by many to be an attempted suicide. Afterwards, his mother sends him to Madrid to live with his father, Martin.