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Drama
Un gallo para Esculapio
Bruno Stagnaro · 2017
Nelson, un muchacho humilde, viaja desde el interior trayéndole un gallo de riña a su hermano. Al no poder encontrarse con él, emprende su búsqueda por el difícil escenario del conurbano bonaerense. Siguiendo las pistas sobre su paradero, se vincula con Chelo, gallero y jefe de una banda de piratas del asfalto. Pronto comenzará a sospechar que este personaje está vinculado con la desaparición. Decidido a descubrir qué pasó con su hermano, el joven se infiltra en la banda de Chelo y en el entorno del desaparecido. El estallido de una violenta guerra entre bandas rivales modificará todo el panorama para Nelson, y así su camino de descubrimiento se convertirá en el principio de un nuevo viaje que lo cambiará para siempre.
Nueve reinas
Fabián Bielinsky · 2000
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
La odisea de los giles
Sebastián Borensztein · 2019
In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.
El amor después del amor
Juan Matias Carballo · 2023
Nadie puede ni debe vivir sin amor. Esta serie biográfica relata la vida y la carrera del icónico y apasionado rockero argentino Fito Páez.
Carancho
Pablo Trapero · 2010
Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Luján, he tries to leave this dark business but the shady law firm that he works for won’t let him off that easily.
Tango feroz: La leyenda de Tanguito
Marcelo Piñeyro · 1993
A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.
Alemania
María Zanetti · 2024
Sixteen-year-old Lola is studying for her resits when the possibility of a semester in Germany comes up. Lola wants to go, but her family, bogged down by her elder sister's psychiatric problems, don't want her to make the trip. The lack of stability and exhaustion in the ties with her family prompt Lola to go ahead with her idea and set out to find new experiences that make her see both herself and the circumstances that surround her with different eyes.
Pizza, birra, faso
Adrián Caetano · 1998
A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.
El ciudadano ilustre
Gastón Duprat · 2016
After refusing big and prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, Literature Nobel Prize winner, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration for all of his books. It turns out that accepting this invitation is the worst idea of his life. Expect the unexpected when you have used real people as characters in your novels!
Relatos salvajes
Damián Szifron · 2014
Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.
History
La Noche de los Lápices
Héctor Olivera · 1986
The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.
Argentina 1985
Santiago Mitre · 2022
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.
La historia oficial
Luis Puenzo · 1985
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.
Comedy
Mi obra maestra
Gastón Duprat · 2018
Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.
Crime
Tesis sobre un homicidio
Hernán Goldfrid · 2013
Roberto is a Law professor whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that one of his best students has committed a brutal murder. Determined to uncover the truth, he begins a personal investigation…
To Watch
El hijo de la novia
Juan José Campanella · 2001
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos, a childhood friend, who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past.
Movies
El clan
Pablo Trapero · 2015
In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.
El secreto de sus ojos
Juan José Campanella · 2009
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
