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Luis Machín is an Argentine actor.
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A fictionalized drama film based on one of the most shocking crimes in Argentina's history. In 1992, Ricardo Barreda was an unassuming dentist, brutally murdered his wife, mother-in-law, and two adult daughters in their family home. Branding himself as a victim, Ricardo Barreda ignited a media storm and fueled a national scandal.
In the conservative northwestern region of Argentina, Julieta finds herself accused of infanticide after a medical emergency. With support from her attorney and women's rights advocates, she fights for justice in a landmark case that could change lives.
Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.
A young man is struck and killed in a traffic accident, and the wrong man is accused of the homicide.
The film "Los Últimos" takes us into post-apocalyptic not-so-distant future in which there is war over water. This war reaches Latin America and the story follows a young couple trying to escape refugee camp in Bolivia and find better life in the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.
Bernardo is an undertaker. He runs his mortuary business in the same house where he resides. In the front, he has his clients. And in the back, his dysfunctional family lives amongst coffins, wreaths, and the mischievous but nonviolent ghosts that visit on a daily basis. But when a malevolent entity enters the scene, it wreaks havoc on the already fractured household.
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A renowned sommelier finds a way to communicate with her past self in an attempt to correct the mistakes that have shaped her life. However, each message sent triggers unexpected consequences, altering not only her present but also the fates of those around her. What begins as an opportunity to make amends for the past becomes a race against time to prevent everything from spiraling out of control.
Gato lives on a remote farm with his teenage daughter Emma where without even basic communications tools they’re entirely cut off from the outside world. But once Emma comes into possession of a phone, she’s contacted by a party claiming to be working on behalf of her mother, who her father claimed abandoned her at birth. Infuriated, Emma heads off on a journey of self-discovery to reconnect with her mother, all the while Gato and his best pal Sombra (Danny Trejo) race to rescue her from the grim fate she’s unknowingly heading towards.
A mentally fragile man must conquer his fear of death in order to stave off a killer’s advances.
Dramatizing of the many shocking highs and lows of Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona, an extraordinary athlete and arguably the greatest player in the history of the sport.
In a Buenos Aires Airbnb, an Italian woman and a stranger share wine and pasta in an unexpected encounter. A visual homage to the 1950s, where tango, Italian roots, desire, and infidelity intersect in an intimate story amidst the magical Buenos Aires nightlife.
At fourteen years of age, Tomás is entering adolescence, that time in your life in which not only do you have to face physical and emotional changes, but in which there are also memories that start taking more traumatic forms. That is why he continuously visits a psychiatrist, why he acts a bit weird. He is a bit of a hermit, bearing, as much as he can, the extreme normalcy of his family, who are dying for summer to arrive so they can go to a time share at the beach, while Tomás wants to escape… to the moon.
Lucio Bordenave carries on the Grey lifestyle of an unemployed worker, dedicated to the trade of watchmaking, until in a somewhat mysterious way, his wife is admitted to a Frenopatic Institute. From this point on, the story enters a territory without parameters where reality is confused with the imaginary, sleep with wakefulness, and insanity with lucidity.
The nightmarish tale of two siblings cruelly separated as kids. The youngest, Elena, is confined to the world of darkness, where she leads a miserable life. The eldest, Facundo, remains in paradise, where he lives a peaceful life as a doctor with his wife and two daughters. 25 years later, the two are reunited to face the family tragedy that separated them.
In the wake of a carnival parade the river washes a corpse onto the shore. A crime has been committed, a mystery blossoms to life, and the legend of mythical cursed diamond is tantalizingly revived.
1977, Argentina. Gina (37) is obsessively trying to conceive a child with her husband Carlos (58), with whom she previously lost a baby before birth. Carlos is a powerful businessman involved in shady deals with the military during the dictatorship. A former equestrian champion, Gina finds solace in horseback riding to escape the anguish of not becoming a mother. One afternoon, she gives in to the attraction she feels for the stable boy at her riding club. They become lovers, but she soon realizes that love alone cannot heal her wounds. Later, she finds out the army has kidnapped her best friend. In search of help, she turns to a captain from her husband's inner circle – unaware that she's walking into a trap.
The Cenacle, a unique restaurant offers single-table work. In a ruined temple every night there is a last supper. Diners sitting at the table, define something important in their lives. Four stories plus the secret that bond the owners. Superb music.
Federico León crosses the path of the cinema to tell in Everything together the endless, torn struggles of a couple that never stops separating.
Two close girlfriends come to Buenos Aires from the Northwest looking for a better future, but they are victims of a hoax and should work in a brothel. There, one of them will adapt to survive and the other will try to flee.
Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of the money and reunite with his family, or at least avenge the damage done.
Laura Garland lost her husband on the war while she’s pregnant. She lives in a big house which is divided in two. Government pursuits her claiming she must occupy the whole house, if she doesn’t, they will take it from her. Laura leases the house to Ricky, an outlaw that will bring new trouble in her life. At least she has another plan.
Ariel, a transmedia screenwriter, returns from Spain to Rosario, his hometown, to investigate the strange case of dog suicides in a park by the river. Upon his return, he reconnects with his past, where he encounters, among others, Laura, the woman he loved, and José María, his best friend and Laura's husband. These will be intense days, filled with contradictions, misunderstandings, and tensions that will push everyone to the brink of irrationality.
Two friends driven by a perverse hacker are guided in the search of a missing friend from a few years ago.
Pablo Nazareno is a 26-year-old guy who works at a science laboratory in a low work. After the mysterious death of one of the employees, weird things start to happen in the laboratory, and Pablo finds out that the lab may close. The arrival of Lucía Navarro, a beautiful computing expert, makes Pablo feel that he MUST discover what is going on in the lab... but this may put him in danger. There is only one thing that can give strength to Pablo: the love he starts to feel by Lucía.
In a secondary school where classes have not been taught for the last five years, teachers must resume their "usual" task, given the arrival of a new director.
Juan José Castelli's fall into disgrace after a hard campaign in the argentine war of independence
"It's an everyday universe that exists 7 feet over our heads. They are city birds that you can find in every tree or every corner." Juan: a sparrow that feels ordinary and underestimates his own race. Accidentally, he changes the way he looks, and the same reason that will make him feel unique is what is going to put his life in danger. Feifi: a beautiful canary that manages to escape from the cage of a network tycoon (Mr. Puertas), and starts trying a new life in freedom, as a common bird. Both of them will need to be something that they aren't and will face danger and adventures with their friends (Libia, the Pidgeon; Pipo, the Humming Bird; Clarita, the Bat; and some more). A clumsy cat, some psyco Southern Lapwings and Mr. Puertas will make everything even harder for them. Juan and Feifi will try to shape their destiny to feel truly free. Written by Anonymous
A murder in a house in Tigre triggers an investigation in the sphere of a political weekly. Crimes follow one another and the police can't solve the puzzle. A magazine journalist will try to get to the truth without knowing that more than one surprise awaits her.
A fiction based on the feelings and emotional states that a group of people experience in a small in-country town.
Joaco's infidelity breaks up the couple with Vanesa. Trying to maintain a friendly relationship is a possibility that Vanesa accepts because she cannot think without him. The acceptance of the separation will be a painful path but one of personal growth.
Tells the irruption of a John Lennon impersonator, whom a stunt manager presents as the real idol, deceiving a famous television host who plans fearsome revenge.
Roque Waterfall leads, at age 30, an unproductive life living off a small family inheritance that leaves him enough free time to wander around in the nights of Buenos Aires. One day he meets Hans, a German intellectual who will try to make a documentary about Roque and people like him, people who do nothing.
Three stories of ordinary people intersect on Christmas Eve: a dentist desperate to find his son's toy; a writer who is not happy and decides to look for the woman of his dreams; and a doctor who intends to flirt with a Spanish woman.
A girl comes to town to work as a dancer, an entrepreneur of the night becomes his manager. A journalist in decline, looking for the news that catapults him. All three converge in the VIP Sector, where human trafficking, fake news and transgressions of power coexist.
Shy corporate employee Jorge Rizzi's life takes an uproarious turn when he participates in a hypnosis session that rips off his inhibitions and releases a hilarious alter ego.
Argentina, 1976. With the beginning of the military dictatorship, a young police officer is accused of belonging to the ERP guerrilla group. He is tortured by his former colleagues and held as a political prisoner for two years. He survives the brutal prison conditions and is released on parole, but a few months later decides to escape the country. Denmark grants him asylum, and he lives in Copenhagen for fifteen years. When he returns, now a democratic country, he discovers that some of those who tortured him were not only still police officers but high-ranking officials.
Pablo Rouviot is a renowned psychoanalyst. His life changes completely when Paula arrives to his office and asks him to prove that his brother, a man with serious psychological problems and accused for the murder of his father, is in no able condition to be judged.
David Alfaro Siqueiros, recognized Mexican muralist, travels to Argentina in the thirties with the purpose of giving a few conferences and paint a mural of revolutionary subject matter, which faces local political rejection. The press mogul head of the newspaper Critica, Natalio Botana, personal friend to the President of the Nation Agustín P. Justo, propose Siqueiros to collaborate in the cultural supplement of the diary and paint a mural in the basement of his Villa Los Granados. Siqueiros accepts and does that his wife the poet Blanca Luz Brum meets him, his arrival to Los Granados and his romance with Botana provokes the jealousies of his powerful anarchist wife Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Siqueiros himself, which turns the Villa almost in one of the scenes of the Ejercicio Plástico, how Siqueiros named his work.
Ariel is a middle-class young man, a father of a family, who surprisingly loses his job in the context of a wave of layoffs. Altered and hiding from his family what happened, he escapes his father-in-law's birthday to go to a nightclub, where an old acquaintance offers to be part of a narco business. Ariel accepts, trusting that his participation will be limited, but things go out of control.
A wave of anonymous attacks will capriciously unite the stories, leading them towards an inexorable end.
A 60 year old medic tries to reconstruct a traumatic fact that changed his life while he is in the subway: the lost of his ten years old daughter.
A lonely guy who lives with seven dogs get a complaint from his neighbors. Will he come up with a creative solution to overcome this?
After 5 years, a man returns to his hometown with the intention of taking revenge on those who drove him out and running a recovering shipyard.
Each love story in the film takes us to a different past, from a different present. The hope for a bright future is an illusion that keeps us expecting, as it unleashes the anguish of waiting for something extraordinary to happen. In this strange time, shaped by memory pieces and by what could have happened but didn’t, is where the characters of the film inhabit, awaiting the arrival of the future. The storyteller in “In the Future” is a ghost. My ghost. The film explores several love stories, both heterosexual and homosexual, in different pasts and presents, focusing on memory and what might have happened.
A dive bar, a tango environment, a card game of truco, a pregnant waitress mistreated by a boss, who later ends up leaving her in the street with her newborn son. The son, named Faxman after an old illusionist, grows up and becomes an illusionist himself, traveling through different Argentine cities with his show. During one of his performances, Faxman meets Candelaria, who becomes his assistant as well as the love of his life.
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.
