Argentinain films in Cannes Competition
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1. La gata (1947)
Drama
History of a woman who lives clinging to her memories and to the mansion to which they are intimately linked.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Zully Moreno, Sabina Olmos, Nélida Bilbao, Enrique Diosdado
Votes: 17
2. Almafuerte (1949)
92 min | Drama
Biography of the Argentine poet Almafuerte.
Director: Luis César Amadori | Stars: Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Pola Alonso, Eva Caselli, Federico Mansilla
Votes: 38
3. La danza del fuego (1949)
100 min | Drama
Tale of Emilia (Amelia Bence), a famous concert pianist. As a child, Emilia was sexually assaulted by a circus clown (Enrique Diosdado) while the music of Manuel de Fallas' "Ritual Dance of... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Tinayre | Stars: Amelia Bence, Francisco de Paula, Enrique Diosdado, Alberto Closas
Votes: 35
4. The Marihuana Story (1950)
98 min | Crime, Drama
Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells... See full summary »
Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Pedro López Lagar, Fanny Navarro, Golde Flami, Nathán Pinzón
Votes: 53
5. Los isleros (1951)
112 min | Drama
Leandro 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... See full summary »
Director: Lucas Demare | Stars: Tita Merello, Arturo García Buhr, Alita Román, Roberto Fugazot
Votes: 133
6. Pasó en mi barrio (1951)
78 min | Drama, Musical
When her husband is imprisoned for manslaughter, a strong willed woman must work to provide for her family.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Tita Merello, Mario Fortuna, Alberto de Mendoza, Paride Grandi
Votes: 20
7. Sala de guardia (1952)
101 min | Drama
An intern experiences a very tough day at the hospital while trying to romance a nurse.
Director: Tulio Demicheli | Stars: Aída Alberti, Tito Alonso, Arturo Arcari, Margarita Corona
Votes: 7
8. El último perro (1956)
95 min | Drama, History
Men and women faced the Indians and their own loneliness in a post in the desert around 1875.
Director: Lucas Demare | Stars: Domingo Sapelli, Hugo del Carril, Rosa Catá, Nelly Panizza
Votes: 50
9. The House of the Angel (1957)
76 min | Drama
The 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.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Elsa Daniel, Lautaro Murúa, Berta Ortegosa, Bárbara Mujica
Votes: 470
10. Rosaura a las 10 (1958)
100 min | Drama, Mystery
Out 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.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Juan Verdaguer, Susana Campos, María Luisa Robledo, Alberto Dalbés
Votes: 529
11. Zafra (1959)
77 min | Drama, Romance
A young indigenous couple struggle to survive the oppression they endure while forced to work on a sugar plantation in the Andes.
Director: Lucas Demare | Stars: Alfredo Alcón, Graciela Borges, Enrique Fava, Atahualpa Yupanqui
Votes: 18
12. La procesión (1960)
96 min | Drama
People of different classes meet on a pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján.
Director: Francis Lauric | Stars: Guillermo Brizuela Méndez, Héctor Calcaño, Rafael Carret, Carlos Enríquez
13. The Hand in the Trap (1961)
90 min | Drama
A woman uncovers the secret of her aunt's withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Elsa Daniel, Francisco Rabal, Leonardo Favio, María Rosa Gallo
Votes: 262
14. El centroforward murió al amanecer (1961)
80 min | Drama
Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he believes he has reached the pinnacle of fame.
Director: René Múgica | Stars: Arturo Arcari, Didi Carli, Camilo Da Passano, Pierina Dealessi
Votes: 35
15. The Female: Seventy Times Seven (1962)
R | 92 min | Drama
Melodrama about a prostitute who remembers her ill-fated romances.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Isabel Sarli, Francisco Rabal, Jardel Filho, Hilda Suárez
Votes: 118
16. Los venerables todos (1963)
85 min | Drama
Ismael is a shy, awkward young man who belongs to a group of conspirators. The leader, Lucas, constantly abuses and ridicules him. Precariously held together by a romantic relationship, Ismael struggles to assert himself.
Director: Manuel Antin | Stars: Lautaro Murúa, Fernanda Mistral, Walter Vidarte, Leonardo Favio
Votes: 59
17. El reñidero (1965)
73 min | Drama
The Greek tragedy of Electra is transported to turn of the century Buenos Aires.
Director: René Múgica | Stars: Alfredo Alcón, Fina Basser, Milagros de la Vega, Francisco de Paula
Votes: 31
18. Primero yo (1964)
90 min | Drama
A race car driver tries to intervene in his son's engagement by seducing his fiancée.
Director: Fernando Ayala | Stars: Alberto de Mendoza, Ricardo Areco, Susana Freyre, Marilina Ross
Votes: 18
19. Monday's Child (1967)
78 min | Drama
A married couple uproot their entire family and move to Puerto Rico where the familial tree promptly dies in the face of relentless poverty and depression.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Geraldine Page, Deborah Reed, Graciela Borges
Votes: 98
20. Don Segundo Sombra (1969)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Western
The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentina pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the field, next to his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a solitary gaucho.
Director: Manuel Antin | Stars: Adolfo Güiraldes, Juan Carvalledo, Luis Manuel de la Cuesta, Luis Medina Castro
Votes: 64
21. 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: 10,869 | Gross: $0.03M
22. Poor Butterfly (1986)
120 min | Drama
In May of 1945, the news of the fall of Berlin spread to Buenos Aires. Clara is the daughter of a socialist leader named Boris who has died unexpectedly. As Clara learns more about a father... See full summary »
Director: Raúl de la Torre | Stars: Graciela Borges, Lautaro Murúa, Pepe Soriano, Víctor Laplace
Votes: 118
23. 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: 1,067
24. The Journey (1992)
R | 150 min | Adventure, Drama
Follows 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.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Walter Quiroz, Soledad Alfaro, Ricardo Bartis, Christina Becerra
Votes: 829
25. Foolish Heart (1998)
130 min | Drama
Juán returns to his native Buenos Aires after 20 years to visit his dying father and tries to find Ana, his old flame.
Director: Hector Babenco | Stars: Miguel Ángel Solá, Maria Luísa Mendonça, Walter Quiroz, Xuxa Lopes
Votes: 329
26. The Holy Girl (2004)
R | 106 min | Drama
16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, María Alché
Votes: 4,310 | Gross: $0.30M
27. 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: 3,703 | Gross: $0.00M
28. Leonera (2008)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama
An incarcerated woman struggles to raise her son from prison.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Martina Gusmán, Guadalupe Rébora, Francisco Marquez, Roberto Maciel
Votes: 3,313 | Gross: $0.01M
29. The Headless Woman (2008)
Unrated | 87 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After 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.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Daniel Genoud
Votes: 5,731 | Gross: $0.10M
30. Wild Tales (2014)
R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
Director: Damián Szifron | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa, Diego Starosta
Votes: 216,473 | Gross: $3.11M
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