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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.
- 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.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsJeremy IronsMeryl StreepMaria Conchita AlonsoA rancher, his clairvoyant wife, and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.
- 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.
- DirectorMarcelo PiñeyroStarsRicardo DarínCecilia RothHéctor AlterioThe 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 "disappearance" of dissident friends, a human rights lawyer (Ricardo Darín) and his research scientist wife (Cecilia Roth) flee the city and hide from the military police in a vacant summer house. With them are their two kids: Harry, who is fascinated with the escape artistry of Harry Houdini, and El Enano, his little brother. (Translated as "Little Guy" in the English subtitles, played by Milton de la Canal. The actual translation is "dwarf".) The family adopts new identities and attempts to lead a normal life. Later, they are joined by a student who is using the alias Lucas (Tomás Fonzi). Their new life is difficult, but a visit with their estranged grandparents (Fernanda Mistral and Héctor Alterio) reveals that they are still a close-knit family. Subtly hinted, however, and used as a metaphor, is the mother's constant smoking and El Enano's renewed bed-wetting. Both serve to show how stressful and precarious their situation is.
- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsMatías QuerAriel MatelunaManuela MartelliTwo 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.
- DirectorBenjamín ÁvilaStarsErnesto AlterioNatalia OreiroCésar TroncosoJuan 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 facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is "one about love".
- DirectorFernando AyalaStarsFederico LuppiAlicia BruzzoNelly PronoFilm focused on the murder of a marriage of Argentina's high bourgeoisie, crime of which the two sons of the couple were accused. It is based on the so-called Schoklender Case, which occurred in May 1981.
- DirectorAlejandro DoriaStarsLuis BrandoniChina ZorrillaAntonio GasallaEach member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.
- DirectorDiego CorsiniStarsChino DarínMiguel Ángel SoláCarla QuevedoMario must go urgently to see Miguel, his father, since he was hospitalized for a serious neuronal disease. Miguel's brain now lives cloistered in the past and can not differentiate the present from the memory. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Who is Diana? This question prompts Mario to investigate the story of his father, of whom he knows only the headlines. As Miguel's illness intensifies, the unknowns and clues that Mario discovers about his parents' history become more complex and mysterious. A couple whose love is crossed by their ideals, has to decide whether to move from political activism to armed struggle. Despite the pain and losses, The passion and intensity of those years make Miguel in the present is stuck in a past where he felt he could change the world together with the love of his life. A story of love, passion and risk of life, of flight and survival at the highest cost, in a dark time in Argentina.
- 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.
- DirectorChristopher HamptonStarsAntonio BanderasEmma ThompsonRubén BladesA man has the power to see the fate of missing people - with the exception of his own beloved wife.
- DirectorAlex BowenStarsNicolás SaavedraErto PantojaMiguel DedovichThe days of tense guard of a Chilean military that in the middle of the solitude will interact and forming circles of friendship with their Argentine rivals.
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsGuillermo FrancellaGastón CocchiaralePeter LanzaniThe true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.
- 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.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsYves MontandRenato SalvatoriO.E. HasseUsing the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJack LemmonSissy SpacekMelanie MayronWhen an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
- DirectorTristán BauerStarsGastón PaulsPablo RibbaCésar AlbarracínThe suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man.
- DirectorBebe KaminStarsGustavo BelattiGabriel RovitoLeandro RegúnagaBased on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Falklands War.
- DirectorJosé Pedro CharloAldo GarayStarsHenry Engler
- DirectorDiego LermanStarsDiego VegezziJulieta ZylberbergAilín SalasSpying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
- DirectorLuis OrtegaStarsLorenzo FerroCecilia RothLuis GneccoThe angelic face of Carlos, a 17-year-old teenager, hides a dark facet of robberies, lies and murders.
- DirectorÁlvaro BrechnerStarsAntonio de la TorreChino DarínAlfonso Tort1973. 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."
- 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.
- DirectorFrank MarshallStarsEthan HawkeVincent SpanoJosh HamiltonAfter crash-landing in the snowswept Andes, a Uruguayan rugby team has no choice but to turn to desperate measures in order to survive.
- DirectorSergio RenánStarsHéctor AlterioLuis BrandoniAna María PicchioA man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
- DirectorLita StanticStarsVanessa RedgraveOfelia MedinaLautaro MurúaA film director decides to make a movie about Silvia, a woman who lost her husband during a particularly violent war. But will making a movie about it force Silvia to remember her traumatic past?
- DirectorJulia SolomonoffStarsValeria BertuccelliIngrid RubioAdrián NavarroArgentinian sisters Elena and Natalia, who were separated, meet again in Texas in 1984.
- DirectorBetty KaplanStarsAntonio BanderasJennifer ConnellyStefania SandrelliChile 1973 is ruled by the dictator Pinochet. The wealthy don't see the violence, terror, executions etc. including Irene. She's engaged to an officer in the fascist military. She meets Francisco who opens her eyes to truth and love.
- 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.
- DirectorGaston BirabenStarsBárbara LombardoSusana CamposHugo AranaCristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the country's "dirty war."
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsFederico LuppiVíctor LaplaceHéctor BidondeA small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.
- DirectorMiguel PereiraStarsLeopoldo AbanJuan José CameroGuillermo DelgadoA rural teacher in Jujuy, establishes a friendly relationship with the inhabitants of Chorcán, a small Andean village. Circumstances in EEE Outbreak of War of the Malvinas and one of his students, Verónico Cruz, is called for a Fight, running a Join the crew of the ARA General Belgrano, sunk on May 2, 1982.
- DirectorJeanine MeerapfelStarsLiv UllmannCipe LincovskyFederico LuppiMaría and Pancho are a happily married couple in a quiet, working-class suburb south of Buenos Aires, circa 1978. They share the grief over the disappearance of their eldest son Carlos.
- DirectorHelvio SotoStarsJohn AbbeyJean-Louis TrintignantBibi AnderssonA depiction of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat.
- DirectorSebastián AlarcónAleksandr KosarevStarsGrigore GrigoriuBakhram AkramovNartay BegalinA Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftist Chilean government of Salvador Allende in September 1973.
- DirectorJorge DuránStarsNorma BengellFranklin CaicedoGuilherme FontesTeenager and his Chilean parents live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exile, after his brother is killed by the military government in Chile. Years later, still haunted by the past, he undergoes a crisis when he learns his cousin had been arrested in Santiago, and quarrels with his family when he decides to know his country and the details of his past.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsSigourney WeaverBen KingsleyStuart WilsonA political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
- DirectorÅsa FaringerUlf HultbergStarsMichael NyqvistLumi CavazosKate del CastilloHarald Edelstam uses his position as Sweden's ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsAlfredo CastroAmparo NogueraHéctor MoralesA man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsBenjamín VicuñaBertrand DuartePablo KröghThe ex-members of Chile's cabinet survive the prison on Dawson Island.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsAlfredo CastroAntonia ZegersJaime VadellIn Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalAlfredo CastroAntonia ZegersAn advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsJane AlexanderJohn CullumCarole LaureA U.S. woman joins the underground in 1973 Chile against the horrors of its military regime.
- 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 GraziaRodolfo RanniLuis is a righteous man who begins a struggle and a moral debate with his family, neighbors and close friends when a corrupt municipal official offers a very convenient "arrangement".
- DirectorAlejandro DoriaStarsLuis BrandoniDora BaretLuisina BrandoThe film centers on a unsuccessful doctor and his patient, whom everyone believes has no hope of ever recovering from a recent accident, and the daily events of a public hospital in Argentina.
- DirectorJuan Carlos DesanzoStarsRodolfo RanniMaría VanerJulio De GraziaAn action film about the aftermath of the last military regime of Argentina, which was responsible for State terrorism and the cruel violence and oppression against the population, particularly in the case of the "Desaparecidos" ("missing" people).
- DirectorJuan José JusidStarsLuis BrandoniMarta BianchiLeonor MansoOsvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including "el Negro", Mabel's brother, and his wife, " the Yoli ». Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York with the aim of improving their economic situation, but his wife is opposed.
- 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.
- DirectorAmérico Ortiz de ZárateStarsArturo BonínMario PasikCarlos MuñozDynamic young man falls in love with his own boss, a married businessman, with two children.
- DirectorDaniel TinayreStarsSusana GiménezCarlos MonzónAlberto ArgibayA sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsJulio De GraziaLuisina BrandoFernanda MistralA man who dreams of striking it rich stumbles upon the loot of a heist.
- DirectorJuan José StagnaroStarsCipe LincovskyFederico LuppiMaría Rosa GalloA woman returns home after a long absence. Details of her past emerge as she interacts with her husband and family.
- DirectorSergio RenánStarsUbaldo MartínezJulio César LudueñaCecilia RothIt tells the complex relationship of Milo, a teenager, and his old protector. Adaptation of "Around the cage", work of the writer Haroldo Conti, disappeared in 1976 by Argentine dictatorship.
- DirectorDavid José KohonDaniel PortelaStarsAlfredo AlcónDora BaretFernanda MistralAn award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.
- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsLorenzo QuinterosHugo SotoInés VernengoA patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?