Argentine movies - Películas argentinas
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1. Nine Queens (2000)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
Director: Fabián Bielinsky | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Graciela Tenenbaum, María Mercedes Villagra
Votes: 57,065 | Gross: $1.22M
2. Lost Embrace (2004)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy
In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Burman | Stars: Daniel Hendler, Adriana Aizemberg, Jorge D'Elía, Sergio Boris
Votes: 3,063 | Gross: $0.19M
3. A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
TV-MA | 122 min | Adventure, Biography, Crime
1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."
Director: Álvaro Brechner | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort, César Troncoso
Votes: 10,968
4. Wild Tales (2014)
R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
Director: Damián Szifron | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa, Diego Starosta
Votes: 215,991 | Gross: $3.11M
5. Son of the Bride (2001)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A dissatisfied 40-year-old, separated and without time for his own daughter and girlfriend must rethink his life when his father decides to marry his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, by church.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Eduardo Blanco
Votes: 16,500 | Gross: $0.62M
6. The Official Story (1985)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, History
During 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.
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana
Votes: 10,851 | Gross: $0.03M
7. El dependiente (1969)
87 min | Drama
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams...and her family.
Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Walter Vidarte, Graciela Borges, Nora Cullen, Fernando Iglesias 'Tacholas'
Votes: 559
8. Somewhere in the Night (2000)
90 min | Drama
This drama explores the relationship between two brothers, separated by life and reunited again by destiny.
Director: Martin Rodriguez | Stars: Ana María Acevedo, Sandra Alzugaray, María José Contreras, Luciano Cruz-Coke
Votes: 48
9. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
R | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.
Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán
Votes: 104,740 | Gross: $16.78M
10. Querida voy a comprar cigarrillos y vuelvo (2011)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The film takes places in different time periods and countries. It narrates the story of a common man, who after entering into a deal with a strange character with superpowers, has the ... See full summary »
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Emilio Disi, Eusebio Poncela, Darío Lopilato, Alberto Laiseca
Votes: 699
11. Chinese Take-Away (2011)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A well-ordered hardware store owner in Buenos Aires will see his life turn upside down when he helps a stranded Chinese man who doesn't speak a word of Spanish find his uncle in the bustling city. But can this coexistence bear fruit?
Director: Sebastián Borensztein | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Ignacio Huang, Carolina Hsu, Muriel Santa Ana
Votes: 19,521
12. Valentin (I) (2002)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An 8-year-old boy, raised by his grandmother, is surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving.
Director: Alejandro Agresti | Stars: Rodrigo Noya, Alejandro Agresti, Julieta Cardinali, Carmen Maura
Votes: 4,466 | Gross: $0.28M
13. El hombre de al lado (2009)
103 min | Thriller
A small incident over two neighbors common wall sparks a conflict which affects the intimacy of the view over the chimney; the protagonist sparks a conflict and with paranoiac obsession destroys everyday life.
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Teófilo Mendoza, Rafael Spregelburd, Eugenia Alonso, Inés Budassi
Votes: 3,730
14. Sidewalls (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
Martín and Mariana are slightly damaged people who live in buildings just opposite one another. While they often don't notice each other, separation might be the very thing that brings them together.
Director: Gustavo Taretto | Stars: Javier Drolas, Miguel Dedovich, Pilar López de Ayala, Miguel Alvarez
Votes: 15,958 | Gross: $0.00M
15. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A 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.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo
Votes: 222,176 | Gross: $6.39M
16. The Journey (1992)
R | 150 min | Adventure, Drama
Follows 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.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Walter Quiroz, Soledad Alfaro, Ricardo Bartis, Christina Becerra
Votes: 829
17. Kamchatka (2002)
106 min | Drama
The film is seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Harry (Matías del Pozo), who does not know that Argentina's 1976 coup d'état is impacting his life. After witnessing the "... See full summary »
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Cecilia Roth, Héctor Alterio, Fernanda Mistral
Votes: 3,708
18. El empleo (2008)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A man prepares and goes to work in a bizarre world, where the meaning of human workforce is taken to another level.
Directors: Santiago Bou Grasso, Patricio Plaza
Votes: 3,983
19. The Two Popes (2019)
PG-13 | 125 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.
Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 132,870
Very smart dialogs and good acting in a beautifully filmed movie that is more symbolic on the political struggle between realistic progressive reformists and conservatives/reactionaries than an accurate story-telling. Argentine-Italian-British-USA production.
20. Ni un hombre más (2012)
90 min | Comedy
Charly was abandoned right after birth in a convent. He is not aware of who the couple who are about to arrive and dine at the inn, actually are. Karla is about to show up with a dead man and one hundred dollars in the trunk of her car.
Director: Martín Salinas | Stars: Valeria Bertuccelli, Juan Minujín, Martín Piroyansky, Luis Ziembrowski
Votes: 195
21. Memoria del saqueo (2004)
120 min | Documentary
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... See full summary »
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Fernando E. Solanas, Ronnie Wood
Votes: 1,052
22. Avellaneda's Moon (2004)
143 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The story of a social and sports club in a Buenos Aires neighborhood and of those who try to save it from being closed.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Eduardo Blanco, Mercedes Morán, Valeria Bertuccelli
Votes: 5,646
23. Together Forever (2011)
101 min | Comedy
A script writer has an idea for a movie related to what he is actually living: his girlfriend just dumped him, his mother is driving him mad and he starts dating someone who is really dumb. A great comedy with outstanding performances.
Director: Pablo Solarz | Stars: Malena Solda, Peto Menahem, Florencia Peña, Mirta Busnelli
Votes: 208
24. The Last Elvis (2012)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Music
A tragic accident causes an Elvis impersonator to reassess his priorities.
Director: Armando Bo | Stars: John McInerny, Griselda Siciliani, Margarita López, Alberto Ajaka
Votes: 1,674
25. Common Ground (2002)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired ... See full summary »
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Federico Luppi, Mercedes Sampietro, Arturo Puig, Carlos Santamaría
Votes: 2,072
26. Kryptonite (2015)
80 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
An Argentinian adaptation of the Justice League series.
Director: Nicanor Loreti | Stars: Diego Velázquez, Juan Palomino, Susana Varela, Nicolás Vázquez
Votes: 731
27. Empty Nest (2008)
Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A chronicle of the emptiness felt when ones children have left home and there are no longer any barriers to exposing marital difficulties.
Director: Daniel Burman | Stars: Oscar Martínez, Cecilia Roth, Inés Efron, Arturo Goetz
Votes: 926
28. The Road to San Diego (2006)
98 min | Comedy
A young Argentine learns that soccer star Diego Maradona is ailing in a Buenos Aires hospital, and resolves to bring him a tree root he's discovered.
Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Ignacio Benítez, Carlos Wagner La Bella, Paola Rotela, Silvina Fontelles
Votes: 735
29. Boogie (2009)
Not Rated | 82 min | Animation, Action, Crime
Boogie is a violent and ruthless hit man who follows his own rules. Women love him, criminals fear him.
Director: Gustavo Cova | Stars: Pablo Echarri, Jesús Ochoa, Nancy Dupláa, Susana Zabaleta
Votes: 1,529
30. Bombón: El Perro (2004)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama
In Patagonia, a mechanic who dreams of a different life starts to think big after his adopted pup wins first prize at a local dog show.
Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Juan Villegas, Walter Donado, Rosa Valsecchi, Mariela Díaz
Votes: 4,446
31. The Innocents (2015)
98 min | Horror
In 19th century Argentina, when a man returns to his family's plantation after 15 years, it revives a violent past, slave abuses and evil spirits.
Director: Mauricio Brunetti | Stars: María Eugenia Arboleda, Lito Cruz, Stella Delphino, Ludovico Di Santo
Votes: 472
32. The Desert Bride (2017)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama
A journey through the vastness of the Argentine desert and what appeared to be the end of the road will become the beginning of a new life.
Directors: Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato | Stars: Paulina García, Claudio Rissi, María Cristina López, José Emilio Vera
Votes: 715 | Gross: $0.03M
Great acting, direction, cinematography! A delicate film on real people.
33. The German Doctor (2013)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time.
Director: Lucía Puenzo | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, Guillermo Pfening, Alan Daicz
Votes: 7,778 | Gross: $0.41M
34. Rojo (2018)
109 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In Argentina pre-coup d'etat, a successful lawyer starts to feel against the ropes when a secret of the past threatens his present.
Director: Benjamín Naishtat | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi
Votes: 2,776 | Gross: $0.08M
35. El Cinco (2014)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Argentinian soccer player leaves his club for a career outside sports. During his last five matches , he struggles with the question what he will do with his life.
Director: Adrián Biniez | Stars: Diego Mattioli, Néstor Guzzini, Esteban Lamothe, Patrick Mölleken
Votes: 385
36. Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama
A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they are being ripped off.
Directors: Israel Adrián Caetano, Bruno Stagnaro | Stars: Héctor Anglada, Jorge Sesán, Pamela Jordán, Adrián Yospe
Votes: 2,849
37. Gatica, the Monkey (1993)
136 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
An Argentina film, which narrates the life of Argentine boxer José María Gatica, from his childhood until his tragic death in Buenos Aires in 1963.
Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Edgardo Nieva, Horacio Taicher, Juan Costa, María Eva Gatica
Votes: 612
38. Esperando al mesías (2000)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a night shift surveillance camera monitor, ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Burman | Stars: Daniel Hendler, Héctor Alterio, Enrique Piñeyro, Melina Petriella
Votes: 708
39. Our Last Tango (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Musical
The life and love story of Argentina's famous tango dancers Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, who met as teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years until a painful separation tore them apart.
Director: German Kral | Stars: María Nieves Rego, Juan Carlos Copes, Johana Copes, Myriam Copes
Votes: 713 | Gross: $0.10M
40. Heroic Losers (2019)
TV-MA | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
In times of the infamous Argentinian Corralito, the neighbors of a little town trace a plan to recover the money they lost after learning that their bank manager and a corrupt lawyer have stolen it.
Director: Sebastián Borensztein | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Luis Brandoni, Verónica Llinás, Daniel Aráoz
Votes: 12,732
41. A Family Submerged (2018)
91 min | Drama
Marcela's world becomes strange and fragile after the death of her sister Rina. She feels lost in her own home and the connections with her close family environment are dislocated.
Director: María Alché | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Laura López Moyano, Federico Sack, Ia Arteta
Votes: 423
42. Carancho (2010)
Unrated | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An ambulance chaser/carancho falls for an ER/ambulance doctor, he meets one night "at work" in Buenos Aires.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Federico Silva, Cristian De Asís, Martina Gusmán
Votes: 8,771 | Gross: $0.09M
43. White Elephant (2012)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama
While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aires shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Jérémie Renier, Martina Gusmán, Federico Barga
Votes: 5,425 | Gross: $0.01M
44. The Student (2011)
110 min | Drama
Roque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates his time to one of the many groups ... See full summary »
Director: Santiago Mitre | Stars: Esteban Lamothe, Romina Paula, Ricardo Felix, Valeria Correa
Votes: 1,220
45. A Oeste do Fim do Mundo (2013)
102 min | Drama
An introspective man lives in an old gas station, lost in the immensity of the transcontinental road between Argentina and Chile. One day his peace is shaken with the arrival of Ana.
Director: Paulo Nascimento | Stars: César Troncoso, Fernanda Moro, Nélson Diniz, Alejandro Fiore
Votes: 267
A Brazilian-Argentine production.
46. Underdogs (2013)
PG | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A young man named Amadeo sets off on an unexpected adventure with the players of his beloved Foosball game.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Gabriel Almirón, Federico Cecere, Ezequiel Cipols, Luciana Falcón
Votes: 10,287
47. A Movie of Eggs (2005)
TV-PG | 90 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
A small egg named Toto decides that he doesn't want to become the breakfast and starts an adventure to become a chicken.
Directors: Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste, Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste | Stars: Bruno Bichir, Carlos Espejel, Angélica Vale, Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste
Votes: 1,379
Although being a Mexican movie, all the animation has geen made in Argentina.
48. San Martín: El cruce de Los Andes (2010)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The story follows a 15-year-old Manuel Corvalán, who decides to leave his upper-class family and be disinherited by his father to join the newly formed Army of the Andes, commanded by the General José de San Martín.
Director: Leandro Ipiña | Stars: Rodrigo de la Serna, Alireza Abbas Beygi, Víctor Hugo Carrizo, Alfredo Castellani
Votes: 590
49. Peter Capusotto y sus 3 dimensiones (2012)
93 min | Comedy
In times where the technology and formats of the show advance, where entertainment is most accessible at any time and place, Violencia Rivas, the singer who in the 60s anticipated the punk ... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Saborido | Stars: Diego Capusotto, Ivana Acosta, Cristian Arriaga, Jacquie Decibe
Votes: 467
50. Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Musical
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá, Marina Vlady
Votes: 691
51. The South (1988)
R | 127 min | Drama
The movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz
Votes: 1,065
52. Widows (2011)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A married man's death puts his widow and mistress in an unusual living arrangement.
Director: Marcos Carnevale | Stars: Graciela Borges, Valeria Bertuccelli, Rita Cortese, Martín Bossi
Votes: 613
53. Iluminados por el fuego (2005)
100 min | Action, Drama, History
The suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man.
Director: Tristán Bauer | Stars: Gastón Pauls, Pablo Ribba, César Albarracín, Víctor Hugo Carrizo
Votes: 1,945
54. The Aura (2005)
Not Rated | 134 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.
Director: Fabián Bielinsky | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Manuel Rodal, Dolores Fonzi, Mariana Malamud
Votes: 14,725 | Gross: $0.06M
55. Intimate Stories (2002)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedicti, Javiera Bravo, Mariela Díaz
Votes: 5,389 | Gross: $0.10M
56. El Golpe (crónica de una conspiración) (2006)
96 min | Documentary
The return of the democracy in the Argentina in 1973 marks the beginning of the countdown towards the following "coup d'état". On March 24 1976 the worst dictatorship of the history of this... See full summary »
Director: Matías Gueilburt | Star: Gastón Pauls
Votes: 32
Important and informative political documentary on dire events.
57. Cocalero (2007)
86 min | Documentary
A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's effort (urged by the U.S.) to eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales.
Director: Alejandro Landes | Stars: Alex Contreras, Javier Escalas, Álvaro García Linera, Adriana Gil
Votes: 283
An Argentine-Bolivian production.
58. Historias Breves I: Rey muerto (1995)
12 min | Short, Drama
A wife tries to leave her village to get away from her abusive husband.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Roly Serrano, Sandra Ceballos, Carlos Aldana, Marcelo Machuca
Votes: 272
59. La Paz (2013)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, Romance
Liso, an upper middle class young man, has just finished a stay at a psychiatric institute. He goes to live at his parent's house where he is treated as if he were a child. He begins a ... See full summary »
Director: Santiago Loza | Stars: Lisandro Rodríguez, Eugenia Alonso, Fidelia Batallanos Michel, Ivonne Maricel Batallanos
Votes: 192
It is about an idle class and its immigrant domestic servants. It is also about how it is not money what brings happiness or make life meaningful.
60. Tiger, Blood in the Mouth (2016)
97 min | Drama, Sport
Ramón Alvia is a professional boxer who, although he has won several international championships, is old and is at the end of his career. He resists. In the gym, Ramon discovers among the young boxers Deborah, a beautiful girl.
Director: Hernán Belón | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eva De Dominici, Erica Banchi, Osmar Núñez
Votes: 1,072
61. Top Cat (2011)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Top Cat and the gang face a new police chief, who is not at all happy with the poor Officer Dibble's performance trying to prevent Top Cat's scams.
Director: Alberto Mar | Stars: Jason Harris, Chris Edgerly, Bill Lobley, Ben Diskin
Votes: 1,943
This animation movie is surprisingly Argentine-Mexican, although the popular character is not Latin American.
62. Los Marziano (2011)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
Los Marziano reconstructs the opportunity for a reunion of two brothers after a long period of separation. It is a story that - with deep intelligence and a comedic sensibility - deals with the universe of family relations.
Director: Ana Katz | Stars: Arturo Puig, Guillermo Francella, María José Caracci, Giuliana Carvo
Votes: 435
63. El bonaerense (2002)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A young locksmith is forced to leave his home and family to join the Buenos Aires police force.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Jorge Román, Mimí Ardú, Darío Levy, Hugo Anganuzzi
Votes: 2,140
64. Butch Cassidy (2003 Video)
58 min | Documentary
The history of Rober LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, one of the most wanted fugitives of the ancient Far West, and his passage for the Argentine Patagonia. A man who flees to the grounds... See full summary »
Director: Matías Gueilburt | Stars: Guillermo Alvarez, Alejandro Baamonde, Bautista Bonansea, Cecilia Saeb Bonansea
65. La chica más rara del mundo (2014)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A girl who is constantly bullied by her classmates is about to discover what lies behind the door in the school's attic.
Director: Mariano Cattaneo | Stars: Maru Bolten, Ricardo Darín, José Pizzulo, Juan Manuel Da Quintas
Votes: 34
66. The Headless Woman (2008)
Unrated | 87 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Daniel Genoud
Votes: 5,723 | Gross: $0.10M
The movie starts much better than what it offers afterwards, as it loses intensity. Indeed, it is easy to start to think about anything else while sitting in front of the big screen during a session of this film. Anyway, that does not mean that it is bad. Its qualities worth to be mentioned: it is a nice sensorial experience, as the sounds and frames are amazing, the footage of rain, the images through frosted glasses and small mirrors, the way situations are shown whithout really showing them but just by a different camera movement or by a sequence of scenes with little but enough information. Besides that, at least there is more story here than in the most famous film from the director, "La ciénaga".
67. La educación prohibida (2012)
121 min | Documentary
The forbidden education (Spanish title La Educación Prohibida) is an independent film released in 2012. It describes a variety of alternative education practices and unconventional schools ... See full summary »
Director: German Doin | Stars: Santiago Magariños, Amira Adre, Nicolás Valenzuela, Gastón Pauls
Votes: 449
68. Samy y yo (2002)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Samy Goldstein, a writer for a television program, is surrounded by an oppressive female environment. Then decides to resume his passion for literature. Meet Mary, a beauty in crisis. From there a series of misunderstandings will happen.
Director: Eduardo Milewicz | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Angie Cepeda, Cristina Banegas, Alejandra Flechner
Votes: 567
69. Historias Breves VIII: De como Hipólito Vázquez encontró magia donde no buscaba (2013)
15 min | Short
Hipólito Vázquez is an old talent's scout, that, among his loyal partner Cholo, is looking for a little child whose supposed to "do magic with the football". Therefore they go on a long ... See full summary »
Director: Matías Rubio | Stars: Javier Lombardo, Sergio Podelei, Víctor Hugo Morales, Coco Sily
Votes: 5
70. I Want It! (2014)
8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Juancito finds a little horse and wants to keep it. But the horse is waiting for someone.
Director: Nicolás Conte
Votes: 17
71. Pin Boy (2004)
90 min | Drama
A young man finds a job as a "parapalos" in a bowling alley. His curiosity makes him listen to stories and thoughts of his older colleagues. They might be marginalized and indifferent to society, but they do care about others.
Director: Ana Poliak | Stars: Adrián Suárez, Roque Chappay, Armando Quiroga, José Luis Seytón Guzmán
Votes: 142
I cannot say this is a good movie, but it is at least interesting and does have good moments.
72. The Summit (2017)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons.
Director: Santiago Mitre | Stars: Walter Andrade, Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, José María Marcos
Votes: 4,274
73. En la boca (2016)
26 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
In Buenos Aires, the Molina family lives and works in the shadows of the legendary Boca Juniors stadium. Selling fake tickets to the soccer games, they constantly get in conflict with the ... See full summary »
Director: Matteo Gariglio
Votes: 28
74. El marginal (2016–2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Pastor, an undercover cop sets on a mission to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a judge by infiltrating the prison where she's suspected to be at. Once inside he will have to learn to live by the prison's and the inmates' rules.
Stars: Nicolás Furtado, Martina Gusmán, Claudio Rissi, Gerardo Romano
Votes: 4,648
Honorable mention: great TV series!
75. Todos contra Juan (2008–2010)
Comedy
Juan Perugia, who was very famous during his adolescence take part for soap opera in the most successful in the 1990s. Fifteen years later, will try to resume his successful career, with the help of friends and celebrities.
Stars: Gastón Pauls, Sebastián De Caro, Mercedes Oviedo, Oscar Nuñez
Votes: 350
Another Honorable mention: hilarious TV series! I cannot say which one I prefer.
76. A Family Submerged (2018)
91 min | Drama
Marcela's world becomes strange and fragile after the death of her sister Rina. She feels lost in her own home and the connections with her close family environment are dislocated.
Director: María Alché | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Laura López Moyano, Federico Sack, Ia Arteta
Votes: 423
77. Rojo (2018)
109 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In Argentina pre-coup d'etat, a successful lawyer starts to feel against the ropes when a secret of the past threatens his present.
Director: Benjamín Naishtat | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi
Votes: 2,776 | Gross: $0.08M
78. A Window to Rosália (2017)
87 min | Drama
Rosalia is a 65-year-old worker who dedicated her life to work in a reactor factory on the outskirts of São Paulo. One day, she is fired, and comforted by her brother José. He decides to take her on a car trip to Buenos Aires.
Director: Caroline Leone | Stars: Magali Biff, Cacá Amaral, Mayara Constantino, Paloma Contreras
Votes: 168
79. Happy Hour (V) (2018)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An accident radically changes Horácio's life, who ends up giving in to his most primitive impulses. He confesses to his wife that, even though he still wishes to remain married, he no ... See full summary »
Director: Eduardo Albergaria | Stars: Pablo Echarri, Raoni Seixas, Letícia Sabatella, Aline Jones
Votes: 62
80. Seré Millones (2013)
103 min | Documentary
Directors: Fernando Krichmar, Omar Neri, Mónica Simoncini | Stars: Angel Abuz, Gonzalo Alfonsin, Rocío Domínguez, Walter Hernández
Votes: 32
81. Las AAA son las tres armas: Carta abierta de Rodolfo Walsh a la junta militar (1979)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Short about the disappearance of the body of the political Argentinean writer Rodolfo Walsh after he was shot in an ambush by a special military group in Argentinia on March 25 1977.
Director: Jorge Denti
Votes: 29
82. The Heist of the Century (2020)
18+ | 114 min | Action, Biography, Comedy
In 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.
Director: Ariel Winograd | Stars: Guillermo Francella, Diego Peretti, Luis Luque, Pablo Rago
Votes: 10,326
83. Florianópolis Dream (2018)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A recently separated Argentinian couple, along with their two teenage children, go on a family vacation to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.
Director: Ana Katz | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Gustavo Garzón, Manuela Martínez Morán, Joaquín Garzón
Votes: 569
84. Planta permanente (2019)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
Lila and Marcela have always worked on the cleaning staff of a state office. They know its nooks and crannies better than anyone, and have found a way to support themselves - and a dream - ... See full summary »
Director: Ezequiel Radusky | Stars: Liliana Juárez, Rosario Bléfari, Verónica Perrotta, Nina Vera Suárez Bléfari
Votes: 237
85. The Distinguished Citizen (2016)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive another award. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio, Nora Navas
Votes: 13,325
86. Bewitched (1976)
79 min | Drama, Horror
Ansise is a former Indian whose only dream is to become a mother. The idea of motherhood gradually turns into an obsession for her. Unfortunately, she has married an impotent man. But she ... See full summary »
Director: Armando Bo | Stars: Isabel Sarli, Victor Bo, Daniel de Alvarado, C. Adolpho Chadler
Votes: 191
87. El otro Maradona (2013)
78 min | Documentary
Goyo Carrizo was born in a slum in Buenos Aires. Nine days later Diego Maradona, the world's best soccer player, was born. At the Age of seven, a soccer field brought the two boys together.... See full summary »
Directors: Gabriel Amiel, Ezequiel Luka
Votes: 22
88. Dark Buenos Aires (2009)
TV-14 | 90 min | Thriller
In the middle of the 'Corralito', Argentina's bank freeze, Jordi travels to Buenos Aires in pursuit of a government contract. To enter into the high spheres of political power, he will have... See full summary »
Director: Ramon Térmens | Stars: Francesc Garrido, Daniel Faraldo, Natasha Yarovenko, Julieta Díaz
Votes: 158
89. Macho Killers (1977)
95 min | Western
El Macho is forced to impersonate a dead outlaw killed while stealing a gold shipment. With the help of Kelly he's able to locate Hidalgo and his outlaw gang.
Director: Marcello Andrei | Stars: Carlos Monzón, Malisa Longo, Susana Giménez, Benito Stefanelli
Votes: 71
90. Jauja (2014)
Not Rated | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Director: Lisandro Alonso | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Viilbjørk Malling Agger, Ghita Nørby, Adrián Fondari
Votes: 4,540
91. Ardor (2014)
R | 101 min | Drama, Western
A mysterious man emerges from the Argentinean rainforest to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of mercenaries hired to force them to sell their land.
Director: Pablo Fendrik | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alice Braga, Claudio Tolcachir, Chico Díaz
Votes: 908
92. Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamín Ávila | Stars: Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Oreiro, César Troncoso, Teo Gutiérrez Moreno
Votes: 2,683 | Gross: $0.01M
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