90s Argentinean Cinema
25 films that provide an overview of the decade. In chronological order. My criteria: Argentinean productions or co-productions, made during the 90s, in Spanish. The idea is to give an overview of different genres and styles. Hence the inclusion of films that may not be cinematic masterpieces, but which nevertheless represent a particular approach.
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- DirectorAlejandro DoriaStarsNorma AleandroLuis BrandoniAndrea Del BocaA middle class family needs to find the man who got their daughter pregnant and make him marry her.
- DirectorTristán BauerStarsJosé AndradaFranklin CaicedoPaola CardozoA married couple with two children living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires have economical troubles. The father returns to his rural birthplace, where he finds that his father and brother are out of work, so he decides to the city.
- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsDarío GrandinettiSandra BallesterosNacha GuevaraOliveiro 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?
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsJosé SacristánFederico LuppiLeonor BenedettoMario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsWalter QuirozSoledad AlfaroRicardo BartisFollows the journey taken by 17-year-old Martin through Latin America - by bicycle - from his snow-frozen school in Tierra del Fuego in search of his 'real' father, a cartoonist turned anthropologist believed to be in the Amazon jungle.
- DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsMarcello MastroianniLuisina BrandoAlejandra PodestaLeonor, a widow in a small South American town, gives birth to Charlotte, a dwarf. The mother not only provides a rich childhood for her daughter, she erases any clues her daughter might see that would lead her to think she is different (mother burns books such as "Snow White" and destroys lawn statues of gnomes). In short, she doesn't want to talk about it. The mother succeeds in creating a modern-day Rapunzel: Charlotte becomes an accomplished young woman who captures the heart of Ludovico. But then, the circus comes to town.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsEdgardo NievaHoracio TaicherJuan CostaAn Argentina film, which narrates the life of Argentine boxer José María Gatica, from his childhood until his tragic death in Buenos Aires in 1963.
- 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.
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsMiguel Ángel SoláPepe SorianoMartín CoriaA computer programmer who, after his train breaks down, takes to wandering aimlessly through remote regions of La Pampa, Viedma and Carhue. he meets a succession of equally lost souls, including a globe-trotting gambler, a circus owner whose performers left him "because the whole country was a circus: and a tarot card reader with large gaps in her knowledge of the future.
- DirectorMarcelo PiñeyroStarsHéctor AlterioLeonardo SbaragliaCecilia DopazoA road movie that begins when a man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they're running away, they meet a girl who becomes part of the team.
- DirectorJuan Bautista StagnaroStarsHarry HavilioJosé Luis AlfonzoMiguel Ángel SoláMovie based on the life of Dr. Salvador Mazza, who, with a group of professionals, conducts an investigation to discover the antidote to a mysterious illness of which the bearer is a nocturnal insect known as Vinchuca.
- DirectorJorge Zuhair JuryStarsAlberto SegadoFabián GianolaMartín AndradeNahuel Pan, a Mapuche, decides to go to Buenos Aires in oder to announce the needs of his community.
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsVera FogwillNicolás PaulsFernán MirásThis is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past. This is a story of contrasts, offered by a despair choir of characters: the old couple who hire a young woman to record city's present images, because they "don't get out much now", the boy who finds out the real story about his parents out of a coincidence... this and the others are all illustrations of actual Buenos Aires.
- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsJuan LeyradoDarío GrandinettiSoledad SilveyraErnesto is a journalist in his 40's who comes from a generation which encountered much political persecution and exile; between the memories and unhealed wounds of his past, stands Ernesto. When his good friend Ricardo calls him one day and proposes to get together after 25 years, they decide to gather all the members of the "old gang" in order to revive those old feelings the best way they know how, through some good old rock n' roll. Amongst one of Ernesto's encounters is Ana, an old love who will bring a twisting unexpected turn into his life. The old gang is comprised of Ricardo's depressive, hypochondriac wife Ana and her socially-conscious former lover Ernesto, a journalist who left Ana years ago to pursue his political ideologies in post-revolutionary Cuba.
- DirectorJuan Carlos DesanzoStarsEsther GorisVíctor LaplaceCristina BanegasDrama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33.
- DirectorJuan José JusidStarsMiguel Ángel SoláFederico LuppiOmero AntonuttiA Mayor has been sent to Patagonia to investigate the murder of a soldier. When the military seized power, he is forced to abandon the case. With the restoration of democracy, the case is reopened with a few consequences.
- DirectorJorge NiscoDaniel BaroneStarsCarlos CalvoAdrián SuarRodolfo RanniA federal agent and his partner team up to dismantle a powerful drug trafficking ring.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsFederico LuppiJuan Diego BottoEusebio Poncela19-year-old Argentina Martin has a nearly fatal drug overdose. After that his mother sends him to Madrid, where his film director father (also called Martin) lives with his new much younger lover Alicia and bisexual actor friend Dante.
- DirectorEduardo MignognaStarsIngrid RubioJimena BarónFlorencia BertottiTwo Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker, but they are actually very close. Memé flirts but has no luck with boys because of her injury... On their own now, Memé works as a waitress where she gets to know Andy. Returning to Montevideo, they meet Dolores, a friend of their late mother. Memé's affair with a man complicates her relationship with her sister. Then Andy invites the pair to his seaside retreat, a lighthouse...
- DirectorIsrael Adrián CaetanoBruno StagnaroStarsHéctor AngladaJorge SesánPamela JordánA couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they are being ripped off.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsMiguel Ángel SoláCecilia NarovaMía MaestroMario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.
- DirectorIsrael Adrián CaetanoStarsFreddy FloresRosa SánchezOscar BerteaA Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
- 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.
- DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínSoledad VillamilUlises DumontThe fascinating love story between Jorge and Laura from 1980 to 1999, within a context in which Argentine politics and history transits between the dictatorship, the Falklands war and the nascent democracy.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsLuis MarganiDaniel ValenzuelaAdriana AizembergThe portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.