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1. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A 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.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo
Votes: 222,414 | Gross: $6.39M
2. The Official Story (1985)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, History
During 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.
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana
Votes: 10,863 | Gross: $0.03M
3. The House of the Spirits (1993)
R | 145 min | Drama, Romance
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife, and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.
Director: Bille August | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Maria Conchita Alonso, António Assunção
Votes: 24,957 | Gross: $6.27M
4. A Place in the World (1992)
PG | 120 min | Drama
Mario 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... See full summary »
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto, Cecilia Roth
Votes: 2,794 | Gross: $0.10M
5. Kamchatka (2002)
106 min | Drama
The 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 "... See full summary »
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Cecilia Roth, Héctor Alterio, Fernanda Mistral
Votes: 3,715
6. Machuca (2004)
Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two 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.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim
Votes: 12,658
7. Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamín Ávila | Stars: Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Oreiro, César Troncoso, Teo Gutiérrez Moreno
Votes: 2,689 | Gross: $0.01M
8. Pasajeros de una pesadilla (1984)
96 min | Drama
Film 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.
Director: Fernando Ayala | Stars: Federico Luppi, Alicia Bruzzo, Nelly Prono, Dalma Milevos
Votes: 84
9. Waiting for the Hearse (1985)
94 min | Comedy
Each member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.
Director: Alejandro Doria | Stars: Luis Brandoni, China Zorrilla, Antonio Gasalla, Julio De Grazia
Votes: 7,280
10. Pasaje de vida (2015)
100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Mario 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Diego Corsini | Stars: Chino Darín, Miguel Ángel Solá, Carla Quevedo, Javier Godino
Votes: 283
11. The Night of the Pencils (1986)
105 min | Crime, Drama, History
This 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Héctor Olivera | Stars: Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó, Pablo Novak, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Votes: 2,279
12. Imagining Argentina (2003)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A man has the power to see the fate of missing people - with the exception of his own beloved wife.
Director: Christopher Hampton | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Rubén Blades, Irene Escolar
Votes: 3,547
13. Mi mejor enemigo (2005)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
The 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.
Director: Alex Bowen | Stars: Nicolás Saavedra, Erto Pantoja, Miguel Dedovich, Jorge Román
Votes: 1,100
14. The Clan (2015)
R | 108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Guillermo Francella, Gastón Cocchiarale, Peter Lanzani, Stefanía Koessl
Votes: 14,307 | Gross: $0.19M
15. Garage Olimpo (1999)
R | 98 min | Drama
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bechis | Stars: Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Razuk
Votes: 2,872
16. State of Siege (1972)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Using 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.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber
Votes: 6,062 | Gross: $1.13M
17. Missing (1982)
PG | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea
Votes: 23,366 | Gross: $14.00M
18. Iluminados por el fuego (2005)
100 min | Action, Drama, History
The suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man.
Director: Tristán Bauer | Stars: Gastón Pauls, Pablo Ribba, César Albarracín, Víctor Hugo Carrizo
Votes: 1,947
19. The Children of the War (1984)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, War
Based 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.
Director: Bebe Kamin | Stars: Gustavo Belatti, Gabriel Rovito, Leandro Regúnaga, Tina Serrano
Votes: 145
20. El círculo (2008)
92 min | Documentary
Directors: José Pedro Charlo, Aldo Garay | Star: Henry Engler
Votes: 30
21. The Invisible Eye (2010)
97 min | Drama
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Director: Diego Lerman | Stars: Diego Vegezzi, Julieta Zylberberg, Ailín Salas, Osmar Núñez
Votes: 862
22. El Angel (2018)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The angelic face of Carlos, a 17-year-old teenager, hides a dark facet of robberies, lies and murders.
Director: Luis Ortega | Stars: Lorenzo Ferro, Cecilia Roth, Luis Gnecco, Malena Villa
Votes: 11,553 | Gross: $0.09M
23. A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
TV-MA | 122 min | Adventure, Biography, Crime
1973. 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."
Director: Álvaro Brechner | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort, César Troncoso
Votes: 10,982
24. Plata dulce (1982)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A 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.
Director: Fernando Ayala | Stars: Federico Luppi, Julio De Grazia, Gianni Lunadei, Nora Cullen
Votes: 584
25. Alive (1993)
R | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
After crash-landing in the snowswept Andes, a Uruguayan rugby team has no choice but to turn to desperate measures in order to survive.
Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay
Votes: 64,437 | Gross: $36.73M
26. The Truce (1974)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
Director: Sergio Renán | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Ana María Picchio, Marilina Ross
Votes: 700
27. Un muro de silencio (1993)
105 min | Drama
A 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?
Director: Lita Stantic | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Ofelia Medina, Lautaro Murúa, Lorenzo Quinteros
Votes: 271
28. Sisters (2005)
100 min | Drama
Argentinian sisters Elena and Natalia, who were separated, meet again in Texas in 1984.
Director: Julia Solomonoff | Stars: Valeria Bertuccelli, Ingrid Rubio, Adrián Navarro, Nicolás Pauls
Votes: 328
29. Of Love and Shadows (1994)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Chile 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.
Director: Betty Kaplan | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Connelly, Stefania Sandrelli, Diego Wallraff
Votes: 2,395 | Gross: $0.02M
30. Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller
The 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.
Director: Israel Adrián Caetano | Stars: Rodrigo de la Serna, Pablo Echarri, Nazareno Casero, Lautaro Delgado
Votes: 3,704 | Gross: $0.00M
31. Cautiva (2003)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama
Cristina'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 ... See full summary »
Director: Gaston Biraben | Stars: Bárbara Lombardo, Susana Campos, Hugo Arana, Osvaldo Santoro
Votes: 724
32. The Angel Face (1998)
92 min | Drama
Director: Pablo Torre | Stars: Virginia Innocenti, Mario Pasik, Enrique Pinti, Florencia Bergallo
Votes: 14
33. Funny Dirty Little War (1983)
Unrated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Héctor Olivera | Stars: Federico Luppi, Víctor Laplace, Héctor Bidonde, Rodolfo Ranni
Votes: 565
34. Veronico Cruz (1988)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama, War
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Pereira | Stars: Leopoldo Aban, Juan José Camero, Guillermo Delgado, Ana María González
Votes: 222
35. The Girlfriend (1988)
R | 110 min | Drama
María 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.
Director: Jeanine Meerapfel | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Cipe Lincovsky, Federico Luppi, Lito Cruz
Votes: 130
36. Il pleut sur Santiago (1975)
112 min | Drama, Thriller
A depiction of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: John Abbey, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bibi Andersson, Annie Girardot
Votes: 343
37. Noch nad Chili (1977)
97 min | Drama
A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftist Chilean government of Salvador Allende in September 1973.
Directors: Sebastián Alarcón, Aleksandr Kosarev | Stars: Grigore Grigoriu, Bakhram Akramov, Nartay Begalin, Giuli Chokhonelidze
Votes: 87
38. The Color of Destiny (1986)
104 min | Drama
Teenager 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Durán | Stars: Norma Bengell, Franklin Caicedo, Guilherme Fontes, Júlia Lemmertz
Votes: 82
39. Death and the Maiden (1994)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Krystia Mova
Votes: 26,815 | Gross: $2.10M
40. The Black Pimpernel (2007)
R | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance
Harald 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.
Directors: Åsa Faringer, Ulf Hultberg | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Lumi Cavazos, Kate del Castillo, Lisa Werlinder
Votes: 830
41. Tony Manero (2008)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama, Music
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales, Paola Lattus
Votes: 4,558
42. Dawson Isla 10 (2008)
117 min | Drama
The ex-members of Chile's cabinet survive the prison on Dawson Island.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Benjamín Vicuña, Bertrand Duarte, Pablo Krögh, Cristián de la Fuente
Votes: 381
43. Post Mortem (II) (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
In 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.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Amparo Noguera
Votes: 2,639
44. No (I) (2012)
R | 118 min | Drama, History
An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 26,220 | Gross: $2.34M
45. Sweet Country (1987)
R | 150 min | Drama, History
A U.S. woman joins the underground in 1973 Chile against the horrors of its military regime.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Jane Alexander, John Cullum, Carole Laure, Franco Nero
Votes: 232
46. Time for Revenge (1981)
R | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
Two 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.
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Federico Luppi, Haydée Padilla, Julio De Grazia, Ulises Dumont
Votes: 1,314
47. El arreglo (I) (1983)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
Luis 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".
Director: Fernando Ayala | Stars: Federico Luppi, Julio De Grazia, Rodolfo Ranni, Haydée Padilla
Votes: 255
48. State of Reality (1984)
106 min | Drama
The 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.
Director: Alejandro Doria | Stars: Luis Brandoni, Dora Baret, Luisina Brando, Lito Cruz
Votes: 346
49. En retirada (1984)
87 min | Action, Thriller
An 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).
Director: Juan Carlos Desanzo | Stars: Rodolfo Ranni, María Vaner, Julio De Grazia, Osvaldo Terranova
Votes: 95
50. Made in Argentina (1987)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
Osvaldo 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, ... See full summary »
Director: Juan José Jusid | Stars: Luis Brandoni, Marta Bianchi, Leonor Manso, Patricio Contreras
Votes: 393
51. The South (1988)
R | 127 min | Drama
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz
Votes: 1,066
52. Otra historia de amor (1986)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Dynamic young man falls in love with his own boss, a married businessman, with two children.
Director: Américo Ortiz de Zárate | Stars: Arturo Bonín, Mario Pasik, Carlos Muñoz, María José Demare
Votes: 195
53. La Mary (1974)
107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.
Director: Daniel Tinayre | Stars: Susana Giménez, Carlos Monzón, Alberto Argibay, Dora Baret
Votes: 212
54. La parte del león (1978)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man who dreams of striking it rich stumbles upon the loot of a heist.
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Julio De Grazia, Luisina Brando, Fernanda Mistral, Beba Bidart
Votes: 370
55. Una mujer (1975)
98 min | Drama
A woman returns home after a long absence. Details of her past emerge as she interacts with her husband and family.
Director: Juan José Stagnaro | Stars: Cipe Lincovsky, Federico Luppi, María Rosa Gallo, Víctor Laplace
Votes: 25
56. Crecer de golpe (1977)
80 min | Drama
It 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.
Director: Sergio Renán | Stars: Ubaldo Martínez, Julio César Ludueña, Cecilia Roth, Olga Zubarry
Votes: 41
57. ¿Qué es el otoño? (1977)
115 min | Drama
An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.
Directors: David José Kohon, Daniel Portela | Stars: Alfredo Alcón, Dora Baret, Fernanda Mistral, Alberto Argibay
Votes: 24
58. Man Facing Southeast (1986)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?
Director: Eliseo Subiela | Stars: Lorenzo Quinteros, Hugo Soto, Inés Vernengo, Cristina Scaramuzza
Votes: 4,588 | Gross: $0.73M
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