Best Argentine movies / Mejores películas Argentinas
Lista con la mejor selección de películas y series argentinas de todos los tiempos por relevancia histórica. Abarca cine real, subreal y documental. La selección es bastante subjetiva, ya que me fijé en colocar aquellas películas muy originales, reveladoras y reinvindicativas fuera de lo "mainstream".
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- DirectorDamián SzifronStarsDarío GrandinettiMaría MarullMónica VillaSix short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
- DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínSoledad VillamilPablo RagoA retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
- DirectorFabián BielinskyStarsRicardo DarínGastón PaulsGraciela TenenbaumTwo con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
- DirectorTristán BauerStarsGastón PaulsPablo RibbaCésar AlbarracínThe suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man.
- DirectorAlejandro DoriaStarsLuis BrandoniChina ZorrillaAntonio GasallaEach member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.
- DirectorAriel WinogradStarsGuillermo FrancellaDiego PerettiLuis LuqueIn 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina when they rob the Banco Río branch in Acassuso.
- DirectorRaymundo GleyzerStarsVíctor ProncetRaúl FraireSusana LanteriFilm originally intended for revolutionary working class and leftist intellectuals. About the life of a union activist who began his struggle in the Peronist ranks during the '60s and corrupted in his rise to power.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsRicardo DarínFederico SilvaCristian De AsísAn ambulance chaser/carancho falls for an ER/ambulance doctor, he meets one night "at work" in Buenos Aires.
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsAlejo García PintosVita EscardóPablo NovakThis films tells the true story of seven teenagers who agitated for reduced student bus fares under two different regimes in Argentina, with tragic results. At first succeeding under the government of Isabel Peron, their protests draw hostile attention from the military regime that overthrows Peron. The ensuing crackdown on student social activists is demonstrated when police break up a school dance wielding swords on horseback. Later, six students are kidnapped in the middle of the night, and the police deceitfully claim ignorance about their whereabouts. Pablo (Alejo Garcia Pintos), a seventh member of the group is later arrested and learns that they have been brutally tortured by authorities. He survives to tell their story, but the six are never found, numbering among the hundreds of students who were kidnapped and are still missing.
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsPedro AleandroHéctor AlterioLuis BrandoniIn 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsFederico LuppiHaydée PadillaJulio De GraziaTwo coworkers fake an accident to blackmail the company they work for for a sum of money. However, the plan goes awry and one of them dies. The surviving employee demands a compensation, but the company refuses to pay him.
- DirectorFernando AyalaStarsFederico LuppiJulio De GraziaGianni LunadeiA man meets a former teammate of military service that offers a sweet deal. The money starts coming in abundance, but things change from one day to the other.
- DirectorIsrael Adrián CaetanoStarsRodrigo de la SernaPablo EcharriNazareno CaseroThe goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsJorge RománMimí ArdúDarío LevyA young locksmith is forced to leave his home and family to join the Buenos Aires police force.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsGuillermo FrancellaGastón CocchiaralePeter LanzaniThe true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioAfter committing a fraud in the company where he works, a man meets a strange character who will introduce you to a group a terrorist attack plot.
- StarsRodrigo de la SernaDiego Alonso GómezAriel Staltari4 young men with different backgrounds merge in the same house and have to face new experiences living in a stolen house, being prosecuted by the police and other gangs.
- DirectorJuan José JusidStarsPepe SorianoMiguel Ángel SoláOscar MartínezIn the Argentine of 1930s, Senator Lisandro de la Torre investigated a case of corruption in the export of meat, discovering a fraudulent plot between the national government and the British Empire, which will endanger his life.
- DirectorGustavo CovaStarsPablo EcharriJesús OchoaNancy DupláaBoogie is a violent and ruthless hit man who follows his own rules. Women love him, criminals fear him.
- DirectorRicardo WullicherStarsHéctor AlterioOsvaldo BonetJuan Carlos GenéSet in 1910 in the Chaco. It shows the situation of the woodcutters of Quebracho, cruelly exploited by English entrepreneurs, with the support of the authorities, local police and a paramilitary body created by the employers themselves.
- DirectorJuan AntinStarsGraciela BorgesRoberto CarnaghiFabio AlbertiWhen his pet is killed by a probe from earth, Mercano, a Martian, travels to earth angered. Landing in Buenos Aires, at first no one takes any notice of him.
- DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioChunchuna VillafañeDuring the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsMick JaggerKeith RichardsFernando E. SolanasAfter 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. The film highlights numerous political, financial, social and judicial aspects that mark out Argentina's road to ruin.
- DirectorSantiago Bou GrassoPatricio PlazaA man prepares and goes to work in a bizarre world, where the meaning of human workforce is taken to another level.
- DirectorMarco BechisStarsAntonella CostaCarlos EchevarríaEnrique PiñeyroIn the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One of the tenants, Felix, has a non-corresponded crush on Maria. When the teenager is abducted in her house by the Argentinean army accused of subversion, her mother seeks her out in the 23rd Precinct where one of the military without uniform tells her that they are heading with Maria. While Diane desperately tries to find information about her daughter, Maria is submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo.
- DirectorDon NapyStarsJuan Manuel FangioJaime Font SaraviaJuan Domingo PerónFirst Argentine film in 3D, it includes several aerial and panoramic shots, where you can glimpse a city in expansion of the era. Presenting Buenos Aires as "the Capital of a Great Nation", the film invites you to take a walk through the most iconic neighborhoods and emblematic monuments currently familiar to the porteños.
- DirectorEnrique PiñeyroPablo TesoriereStarsEnrique PiñeyroGermán CantoreAgustin Negrussi"The Police Horror Show" is a documentary portraying the dramatic story of Fernando Ariel Carrera, an ordinary man unjustly convicted to 30 years of prison due systemic corruption.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsRodolfo BebánPablo CumoOsvaldo de CandiaIn the late-19th century, mule-driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by those in power: landowners of the police.
- DirectorOctavio GetinoFernando E. SolanasStarsJuan Domingo PerónGeneral Juan Perón is interviewed in his exile in Madrid, where he explains the doctrine and history of the Justicialist movement in Argentina. It's divided into two parts: "Before the Government and In government" and "In the resistance", and was exhibited in unions and meetings of militants without being released commercially.
- DirectorMarcelo PiñeyroStarsFernán MirásCecilia DopazoImanol AriasA 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.
- DirectorJorge CedronStarsMarta AlbaneseNorma AleandroEnrique AlonsoIn 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.