80 MEJORES PELICULAS DEL CINE ARGENTINO
Una lista de "mejores" películas siempre será subjetiva, pero estas listas son importantes para conocer todo un espectro, una historia cinematográfica (en este caso la Argentina) resumida. Por consenso de crítica y público, esta es la lista de las Mejores del Cine Nacional.
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- 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.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsDaniel Giménez CachoLola DueñasMatheus NachtergaeleBased on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
- 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.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMercedes MoránGraciela BorgesMartín AdjemiánThe life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
- DirectorSergio RenánStarsHéctor AlterioLuis BrandoniAna María PicchioA man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsDiego PuenteTino PascaliCacho EspíndolaCHRONICLE OF A BOY ALONE, is an indictment of a fascist regime running roughshod over its most vulnerable citizens, its children. Focusing on the bleak life of eleven-year-old bad boy Polin, who's been abandoned by his family and sent to live in a state-run orphanage, it's also a moving portrait of the human spirit imprisoned by the chains of well-intentioned fools. Inside the harsh confines of the supposedly beneficial institution, Polin and his fellow inmates must deal with constant physical and psychological abuse by the staff, as well as the natural emotional tensions brought on by their own burgeoning adolescence. But through it all, they manage to keep their hopes alive with optimistic talk of freedom and bold plans of escape. One day, when the opportunity finally arises, and Polin learns that freedom, too, has its price.
- DirectorOctavio GetinoFernando E. SolanasStarsMaría de la PazFernando E. SolanasEdgardo SuárezDivided into three segments, namely 1 Neocolonialism, 2 Act for liberation, 3 Violence and liberation, the documentary lasts more than 4 hours this deals with the defense of the revolution and the revolution of the third world such as the revolt of the students in the United States and Western Europe, Czech citizens protest against the Soviet Union's State bureaucracy and also the revolution that (probably) is unprecedented in Argentina.
- 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").
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsFederico LuppiElsa DanielMaría VanerAniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her true love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
- DirectorAlejandro DoriaStarsLuis BrandoniChina ZorrillaAntonio GasallaEach member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.
- DirectorMariano LlinásStarsElisa CarricajoValeria CorreaPilar GamboaA film in six episodes, connected by the same four actresses, full of various subplots that play with narrative and different cinematic genres , everything structured in an unusual way.
- 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.
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsSusú PecoraroMiguel Ángel SoláPhilippe LéotardThe 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 years in prison and especially discovering his wife has cheated on him soured their relation. He is not sure if he wants to go back to his old life and family. Wandering through the night his old friend "El-Negro" appears in the dark. He announces that he was assassinated during the military coup and he is a dead man now. But he has a special mission this night and he is back for this special occasion: To help Floreal catch up fast and face with his life and his time in prison. El-Negro helps him to watch through the important events happened in his absence. He confronts some people of importance to him as he wanders around through the night while his wife is waiting for him anxiously thinking he might never come back. During the long night El-Negro helps him to get past with his anger, makes him to understand the difficulties in such a controversial time and how military coup crushes people's lives and even killing a some of them relentlessly. Finally during the dawn, El-Negro announces that he is ready to go on with his life now and he must be back. Floreal figures that he must be strong and continue his life where he left off like his coup stricken country.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsJuan José CameroMarina MagaliAlfredo AlcónNazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon. Everyone in the village is relieved when this doesn't happen. The boy grows up and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Griselda. When he's 20 years old, he is visited by the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he will turn his back on his love for Griselda, and if he fails to do this, he will become a wolf.
- DirectorFabián BielinskyStarsRicardo DarínManuel RodalDolores FonziA deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsCarlos RofféSergio Poves CamposLorenzo QuinterosMiguel has the habit of stealing a used book every day. On one occasion he learns from them a magic trick with which he makes objects and people disappear. Thus he gets a trip to Europe, where the trick is very successful.
- 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?
- 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.
- DirectorMario SofficiStarsJuan VerdaguerSusana CamposMaría Luisa RobledoOut of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.
- DirectorMariano LlinásStarsMariano LlinásWalter JakobAgustín MendilaharzuIn this adventurous experiment in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals are only a few of the elements woven into a grand tapestry of mysteries.
- 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.
- DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínHéctor AlterioNorma AleandroA 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.
- DirectorHugo SantiagoStarsOlga ZubarryLautaro MurúaJuan Carlos PazA group of men led by an old man trying to stop an invasion of the city of Aquileia. The invaders are introducing a machinery for a mass invasion, but the invasion is absolute and impossible to define.
- 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.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsFederico LuppiSoledad SilveyraUlises DumontThe story of a hitman, a man who kills other people for money, and the dangers that come with the job.
- DirectorRodolfo KuhnStarsHéctor PellegriniMaría Cristina LaurenzNelly BeltránA chronicle of the life and career of a popular singer: his humble origins, his rise to fame, and his exploitation by the media.
- DirectorDamián SzifronStarsDarío GrandinettiMaría MarullMónica VillaSix short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
- DirectorCarlos SorinStarsJavier LombardoAntonio BenedictiJaviera BravoThree 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.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónEvangelina SalazarLautaro MurúaThe life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielLautaro MurúaBerta OrtegosaThe House of the Angel focuses on the ruling class in 1920s Argentina, a deeply repressive society where political arguments were often settled by duels, and young women were expected to be totally ignorant of sex.
- DirectorLuis César AmadoriStarsArturo de CórdovaZully MorenoFlorindo FerrarioA player wife, Nancy, who holds elegance to disguise their poverty while waiting for a wealthy man appears and deal with it, talk to the old man begging at the door of a casino. Soon after, a mysterious suitor offers a life of luxury.
- DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsSusú PecoraroImanol AriasHéctor AlterioIn 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children's school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple's identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from both Camila's family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege.
- 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.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsLuis MarganiDaniel ValenzuelaAdriana AizembergThe portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
- DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínEduardo BlancoMercedes MoránThe story of a social and sports club in a Buenos Aires neighborhood and of those who try to save it from being closed.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsWalter VidarteGraciela BorgesNora CullenFernandez 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.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsViggo MortensenViilbjørk Malling AggerGhita NørbyA father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
- 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.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMaría OnettoClaudia CanteroCésar BordónAfter 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.
- DirectorJosé A. Martínez SuárezStarsLeonardo FavioLautaro MurúaNuria TorrayAfter completing the military service, three young friends (a cyclist, a filmmaker, and a student) try to carve their own paths.
- DirectorDamián SzifronStarsDiego PerettiLuis LuqueÓscar FerreiroMariano Is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support to Alfredo, a policeman depressed over his wife cheating on him. Mariano is then accidentally involved in a double homicide investigation being conducted by Alfredo.
- 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.
- DirectorLucía PuenzoStarsRicardo DarínValeria BertuccelliGermán PalaciosThe story of an intersex fifteen-year-old. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsMarie LaforêtPhilippe LéotardMiguel Ángel SoláSome Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsJorge RománMimí ArdúDarío LevyA young locksmith is forced to leave his home and family to join the Buenos Aires police force.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMercedes MoránCarlos BellosoAlejandro Urdapilleta16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.
- 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.
- DirectorEsteban SapirStarsAlejandro UrdapilletaValeria BertuccelliJulieta CardinaliThis near-silent black and white film from Argentina tells the story of a city that has lost its voice, stolen by Mr. TV, and the attempts of a small family to win the voice back. Similar in design to early German expressionist films.
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenStarsÁngel MagañaRenée DumasNicolás FreguesTwo separate episodes that have in common the door which separates good from evil. In the first segment, "Alguien al teléfono", Ángel Magaña tries to avenge the death of his sister, a girl who commits suicide over gambling debts. In the second, "El pájaro cantor vuelve al hogar", Roberto Escalada is a former inmate who whistles when commits crimes, and returns home where he is expected by his blind mother, who believes he has regenerated.
- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsLorenzo QuinterosHugo SotoInés VernengoA patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?
- DirectorMarcos CarnevaleStarsManuel AlexandreChina ZorrillaBlanca PortilloA love story about two elders who decide to enjoy the little time they have left.
- DirectorSantiago MitreStarsDolores FonziOscar MartínezEsteban LamotheAn intellectual young law student who renounces a promising career to become a schoolteacher in a remote poor village is forced to make a puzzling decision, in the aftermath of her rape.
- DirectorMartín RejtmanStarsRosario BléfariValeria BertuccelliVicenticoA woman in her late-twenties called Silvia Prieto wants to improve herself. Her discovery of a second person also called Silvia Prieto will change her life forever. Maybe not the changes she hoped for.
- DirectorMartín RejtmanStarsSusana PampínRafael FedermanBenjamín Coehlo17-year-old Mariano finds a gun in his house and, in a thoughtless impulse, shoots himself twice. But he survives.
- 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.
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenStarsNéstor ZavarceBlanca del PradoFloren DelbeneThe plot centers on Lucio Santana, a lovable prankster and class clown whose dad happens to be a detective working on the serial killings of local children. When Lucho makes friends with a girl in his class, she divulges to him that a man who lives in the woods near the park has been giving her free lollipops, and plans to take her to his candy house. But she makes Lucho vow never to tell anyone. When the girl winds up murdered, Lucho is torn between honoring his word to his slain friend, or telling his father that he knows who the man is.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsArgentino VargasFrancisco DornezYolanda GalarzaVargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the prvince of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. To get there, he must cross great distances in a small boat on the rivers, scoring deep into the jungle. Vargas is a quiet and self-contained man. He possesses the restraint of those living close to nature. A deep mystery surrounds him, the people he encounters and the places he goes through, all that taking in the unalterable world he finds almost unchanged after his long years of incarceration.
- DirectorLucía PuenzoStarsInés EfronMariela VitalePep MunnéA desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenStarsOlga ZubarryGuillermo BattagliaCarlos CoresBankrupt due to gambling debts, a man sends his beautiful adolescent daughter to ask a sculptor for money. The artist accepts to lend the money - but in exchange for seeing the girl nude.
- DirectorLucas DemareStarsEnrique MuiñoFrancisco PetroneÁngel MagañaThe story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
- 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.
- DirectorHugo del CarrilStarsHugo del CarrilAdriana BenettiRaúl del ValleThe Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Parana. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielFrancisco RabalLeonardo FavioA woman uncovers the secret of her aunt's withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.
- 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.
- DirectorRomán Viñoly BarretoStarsNarciso Ibáñez MentaGuillermo BattagliaMilagros de la VegaWhen his child is hit by a car, a writer of thrillers is desperate to avenge his death and goes in search of the murderer.
- DirectorFernando AyalaStarsCarlos CoresJulia SandovalVassili LambrinosA washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school.
- DirectorCarlos SchlieperStarsMirtha LegrandJuan Carlos ThorryHéctor CalcañoA repressed woman, unable to give love, is possessed by the spirit of his lewd grandmother.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsMaría VanerLeonardo FavioLautaro MurúaA group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.
- DirectorMario SofficiStarsFrancisco PetroneÁngel MagañaRoberto FugazotBy 1915, a contractor traveling to Posadas looking for new staff. Among the music and drinks in a bar and shipped to the mill. He is accompanied by a drunken doctor and his daughter. In the mill, injustices and cruelties are accentuated.
- DirectorLucas DemareStarsTita MerelloArturo García BuhrAlita RománLeandro and the Carancha are inhabitants of the islands of the Parana Delta and agree a pair. They are rough persons done to the hard fight for the life in these places. They have a son who takes to the house a girl; the presence of her provokes the jealousies of the Carancha and his attitude leads dramatists moments.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsGian Franco PagliaroCarlos MonzónNora CullenMario "el Rulo" ("Curly", Gianfranco Pagliaro) is a globetrotter who travels the inner country offering artistic performances. One day, he happens to come to the hometown of Carlos (Carlos Monzon), a townhall employee who wishes to be an artist. The men become friends and Carlos leaves his small-town life to follow Mario Together they will try the adventure of being famous.
- DirectorLucas DemareHugo FregoneseStarsFrancisco PetroneLuisa VehilDomingo SapelliIn a pillbox in the middle of the Pampa, its commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for not deserting soldiers.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsJorge SalcedoSebastián ChiolaTito AlonsoA bank employee utilizes a legal loophole to conduct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement following a six-year prison sentence.
- DirectorMarcelo PiñeyroStarsHéctor AlterioCecilia RothLeonardo SbaragliaA judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsMisael SaavedraHumberto EstradaRafael EstradaA man chop down trees, organizes the trunks, clean them, stops to defecate, lunch, nap and continues to sell its timber.
- DirectorSantiago MitreStarsEsteban LamotheRomina PaulaRicardo FelixRoque 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 vying for control of the university, motivated less by grand political ideals than by a wish to get close to Paula, an attractive young teacher heavily involved in internal university politics.
- DirectorJorge CosciaGuillermo SauraStarsEmilia MazerNorberto DíazMaría VanerIn 1976, an apolitical student leaves her native Argentina, following her activist boyfriend. Life takes her to Stockholm and eventually to Istanbul.
- DirectorCarlos SorinStarsUlises DumontJulio ChávezVillanueva CosseBuenos Aires movie director, very fond of legend of King of Patagonia and Araucania, decides to make a movie about it.
- DirectorLuis SaslavskyStarsSantiago ArrietaSabina OlmosSebastián ChiolaA man returns to his village after a long time and meets his ex-girlfriend, now married to a husband in desperate economic situation. Based on the play "Mañana es vacaciones" by Leo Perutz.
- DirectorDaniel BurmanStarsJosé Luis AlfonzoPastora VegaMartin KalwillYears after a civil war, Erasmo's must face violence once more: His foster mother was murdered. On his way to find the murderer he makes friends with the Jew Saul.