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A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and boldly seductive dance film ever made.
A documentary about the fans of "Waiting for the Carriage", the Argentine film classic directed by Alejandro Doria, and which investigates the obvious and hidden reasons for this phenomenon.
A story of authoritarianism, fears, frustrations and love, which revolves around a simple can of paint that unleashes many conflicts, plunging members of a family from a humble neighborhood of Buenos Aires into permanent disagreements.
Ernesto Pérez Roble is a tycoon, owner of a multimedia group, who when he dies leaves everything in the hands of his daughter Juana. But Camila Lamónica appears, his other daughter -unrecognized-, who owns a dancehall and wants half of her father's fortune.
Vicente Duarte commits his first crime. The victim is a young, attractive woman whom the criminal had never met. From his initial foray into the world of crime, Duarte feels a kind of inner serenity, which will drive him to continue committing more crimes.
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Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?
In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.
Tony is a Cuban-American Metals trader. One sunny morning, while fishing off Key West-Florida, he finds the wreck of a makeshift raft floating close to the beach. The rafters names were carved on the wood of the boat (Pablo and Mariana). Tony travels to Cuba to find the Family of the rafters to tell them what he had found. This journey also becomes a discovery of his own Cuban roots. Tony finds the family and, shocked and surprised, finds the beautiful Mariana whom he presumed had died at sea, and she awakens in him his true destiny.
The documentary reveals the narcotic effect the '78 World Cup had on Argentine society, when Kempes' goals masked the horrors of the dictatorship. Recalling the attitudes of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and Benito Mussolini during the 1934 World Cup in Italy, the film argues that the 1978 World Cup was "one of the most blatant political exploitations in the history of sport." Through previously unseen testimonies, survivors' accounts, and previously unreleased archival footage, the film portrays the contradictory duality between the euphoria of a people passionate about football and the simultaneous horror suffered by the victims of a bloody dictatorship.
A 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.
The life of a young man since his childhood to his manhood
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.
A young man works in the port of Buenos Aires translating the love letters that prostitutes receive and seeks inspiration for his works in them.
Four friends, one of whom dies, and another, who discovers that he was killed, gets involved in a crime network.
This is the story of an optimistic and amnesiac people who, at the slightest glimmer of light, are prone to forget the pain caused by repeating their mistakes at the polls or by knocking on the doors of the barracks, and rush into hopeful celebration: a dubious World Cup, a war with England, the coming of democracy, etc. And so, between pain and celebration, they await that promised future of abundance.
Vidal (Darín) is about to be bankrupt, so he sets up a fake car robbery with a small-time mobster to collect insurance and split the money. But his perfect plan becomes entangled by his increasingly dangerous ties to the mob and the meddling of a rogue insurance investigator (Pinti), who eventually strikes a deal with Vidal and decides to team up with him and his wife (Papaleo) to bring down the mob and expose the corruption that links a high-ranking executive to the mafia.
A portrait of the life of Niní Marshall, one of the greatest Argentine actresses and comedians. The film includes an enormous amount of excerpts from her films, interviews, documents, radio appearances and live shows.
The story revolves around the life of Leopold, a middle-class father; his wife Isabel working for a decadent comedian; Beto, the son, a taxi driver; and Martita, the daughter, a divorced and unemployed hairdresser. All live in 'harmony' in a 40 square-meter apartment. One day Leopoldo takes it upon himself to donate blood. The next day, he is summoned once more to the hospital. His life is about to change, and radically so.
A review of fiction about the life of Florencio Parravicini.
Following his mother`s death, wise son Sebastian attempts to organise dad Nestor to cope with basic household chores. Sebastian shows Nestor how to light the oven. Later Nestor can't fix a broken lamp, but his son soon sorts it out. Nestor wants to act and invent money raising schemes whereas Sebastian yearns for a dad with a steady job. Nestor gets a role in an ad and pursues acting work. He seeks backing to market ping pong balls with world cup logos though the event has passed. The essence of the story revolves around how these conflicting aspirations can be reconciled.
Enrique Pinti reviews Argentine History through music and humor
Documentary on State terrorism during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, made in its aftermath. Invited by the Goethe-Institut to hold a workshop with young film students, Schroeter contrasts the official statements of the regime with the testimony of victims, dissidents and relatives of the disappeared. And trust that their faces and words will resonate much more than a mere representation of violence.
