La muerte de Sebastián Arache y su pobre entierro
A legend of curses and death in an austere and dry desert where rain will not fall. The story focuses on the experiences and misery of an indigenous man who meets his death in the middle of the film. The dead time and the morosity of the story operate as the stylistic foundation of this indispensable national film that was shot in Patquía, La Rioja.
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The harsh trials faced by an adolescent without a family.
Sin familia
Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...
Arrabalera
A teacher arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must educate children against the will of their parents.
Shunko
A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price.
Diez segundos
The film narrates the encounter between "La Tigra", a woman known by that nickname in the cafes of the port area for her character and her sharp claws, and Luis, a student of Fine Arts. There will be born a strong, passionate and necessarily brief relationship during which each of them will peek into the world of the other, until then unknown, unable to overcome the hostility of the same. Luis is unwilling or unable to leave his bourgeois stability and "La Tigra" is unable to leave an environment in which the malevo Olivera is the dominant figure.
La Tigra
Film about the biography of the musician Franz Schubert.
Inspiración
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires to prevent deserting soldiers.
Savage Pampas
After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.
A Woman...
A woman becomes an unwitting accessory to a company robbery. Out of love, she finds herself involved in a surprising plot trying to get out of the event unscathed.
La cómplice
In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.
Juan Moreira
Juan Libonatti, a seller of fine wines, like up in the company where he works. His car, a brand new Citroen, will be an essential tool to sell more wine in less time and be able to move up. But one day it is stolen and he had not paid the insurance fee. That will be the beginning of a tragedy that will lead to self-destruction.
Juan que reía
This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.
El hombre señalado
Navidad
The dwarfs of the Carnaval Catamarqueño party (La Chaya) and their actions over the muleteers.
Guanaco Hill
An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role.
El Fausto criollo
In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.
In Burning Darkness
The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.
Grandma
Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance.
Argentinian Until Death
Three stories based on tales of the book by Manuel Mujica Lainez, ("El hambre", "La pulsera de cascabeles" y "El salón dorado".).) On scripts for the directors themselves and the collaboration of Ernesto Schoo.
De la misteriosa Buenos Aires
A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.
Isla brava
A man's terminal illness disrupts the happiness of his marriage.
Los pasajeros del jardín
A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.
The Island
An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets with his exgirlfriend and his best friend before the exile. The film presents an interpretation of the political and social situation in Argentina during the last years of the military government.
To Return
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Until the End of the World
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Prayers for the Stolen
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Vanya on 42nd Street
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Navidad
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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 has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.
Clandestine Childhood
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A Father's Miracle
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