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1. Dark River (1952)
Unrated | 82 min | Drama
The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Parana. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
Director: Hugo del Carril | Stars: Hugo del Carril, Adriana Benetti, Raúl del Valle, Pedro Laxalt
Votes: 234
2. Asesinato en el senado de la nación (1984)
105 min | Crime, Drama, History
In the Argentine of 1930s, Senator Lisandro de la Torre investigated a case of corruption in the export of meat, discovering a fraudulent plot between the national government and the British Empire, which will endanger his life.
Director: Juan José Jusid | Stars: Pepe Soriano, Miguel Ángel Solá, Oscar Martínez, Alberto Segado
Votes: 185
3. La quintrala (1954)
105 min | Biography, Drama
Chile in the seventeenth century a woman kills her lover because he wants to conquer a priest. A slave commit the murder; when he is hanged religious, discover the truth.
Director: Hugo del Carril | Stars: Antonio Vilar, Ana María Lynch, Francisco de Paula, Milagros de la Vega
Votes: 73
4. Esta tierra es mía (1961)
100 min | Drama
The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
Director: Hugo del Carril | Stars: Hugo del Carril, Mario Soffici, Nelly Meden, Ricardo Castro Ríos
Votes: 27
5. 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
6. Prisioneros de la tierra (1939)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
By 1915, a contractor traveling to Posadas looking for new staff. Among the music and drinks in a bar and shipped to the mill. He is accompanied by a drunken doctor and his daughter. In the mill, injustices and cruelties are accentuated.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña, Roberto Fugazot, Homero Cárpena
Votes: 287
7. Guacho (1954)
97 min | Drama
Out of fear of her husband abandoning her, the protagonist changes two children's identities: one is their biological son with a debilitating affliction, and the other is the son of her husband and his ex-lover.
Director: Lucas Demare | Stars: Tita Merello, Carlos Cores, Julia Sandoval, Enrique Chaico
Votes: 13
8. 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
9. The Gaucho War (1942)
90 min | Drama, History, Western
The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
Director: Lucas Demare | Stars: Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña, Sebastián Chiola
Votes: 193
10. La sed (1961)
91 min | Drama, War
Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay.
Director: Lucas Demare | Stars: Francisco Rabal, Olga Zubarry, Carlos Estrada, Jacinto Herrera
Votes: 54
11. El jefe (1958)
90 min | Crime, Drama
It is the story of a gang of juvenile petty criminals who find their "boss" to one capable of solving their problems and realize their wishes.
Director: Fernando Ayala | Stars: Alberto de Mendoza, Duilio Marzio, Orestes Caviglia, Leonardo Favio
Votes: 116
12. 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
13. 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
14. Martín (Hache) (1997)
123 min | Drama
19-year-old Argentina Martin has a nearly fatal drug overdose. After that his mother sends him to Madrid, where his film director father (also called Martin) lives with his new much younger lover Alicia and bisexual actor friend Dante.
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth
Votes: 4,758
15. Common Ground (2002)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired ... See full summary »
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Federico Luppi, Mercedes Sampietro, Arturo Puig, Carlos Santamaría
Votes: 2,073
16. 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: 1,315
17. Roma (2004)
Not Rated | 155 min | Drama
Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Juan Diego Botto, Susú Pecoraro, José Sacristán, Vando Villamil
Votes: 1,344
18. Son of the Bride (2001)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A dissatisfied 40-year-old, separated and without time for his own daughter and girlfriend must rethink his life when his father decides to marry his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, by church.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Eduardo Blanco
Votes: 16,515 | Gross: $0.62M
19. Avellaneda's Moon (2004)
143 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The story of a social and sports club in a Buenos Aires neighborhood and of those who try to save it from being closed.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Eduardo Blanco, Mercedes Morán, Valeria Bertuccelli
Votes: 5,652
20. Autumn Sun (1996)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Clara Goldstein is a Jewish woman who, because of a visit from her brother, is forced to create a contrived relationship with a man of her own faith.
Director: Eduardo Mignogna | Stars: Norma Aleandro, Federico Luppi, Jorge Luz, Cecilia Rossetto
Votes: 510
21. La fuga (2001)
117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - ... See full summary »
Director: Eduardo Mignogna | Stars: Miguel Ángel Solá, Ricardo Darín, Gerardo Romano, Patricio Contreras
Votes: 841
22. Los siete locos (1973)
118 min | Drama
After committing a fraud in the company where he works, a man meets a strange character who will introduce you to a group a terrorist attack plot.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Alfredo Alcón, Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Thelma Biral
Votes: 202
23. The Eavesdropper (1966)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
A young right wing nationalist extremist suspects there is a plot afoot, in the hotel where he is staying with some foreigners and actors, to attack the President, and decides to report the conspirators to the authorities.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Stathis Giallelis, Janet Margolin, Jacques Arndt, Óscar Caballero
Votes: 43
24. Boquitas pintadas (1974)
R | 120 min | Drama
The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Alfredo Alcón, Marta González, Luisina Brando, Raúl Lavié
Votes: 286
25. La caída (1959)
84 min | Drama
Albertina, a pretty but wet university student, is hired by a bedridden widow to take care of her and her four children. Helping out around the house she soon discovers the kids live a life... See full summary »
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Elsa Daniel, Duilio Marzio, Lautaro Murúa, Lydia Lamaison
Votes: 115
26. 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: 347
27. La isla (1979)
106 min | Drama
The lives of several patients at an isolated psychiatric ward. A relationship develops between a young man who comes out of a catatonic state and a young woman who is terrified of the outside world.
Director: Alejandro Doria | Stars: Selva Alemán, Hugo Arana, Aldo Barbero, Héctor Bidonde
Votes: 51
28. Buenos Aires Vice Verse (1996)
122 min | Comedy, Drama
This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the ... See full summary »
Director: Alejandro Agresti | Stars: Vera Fogwill, Nicolás Pauls, Fernán Mirás, Mirta Busnelli
Votes: 500
29. The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
Unrated | 260 min | Documentary, History, War
Divided into three segments, namely 1 Neocolonialism, 2 Act for liberation, 3 Violence and liberation, the documentary lasts more than 4 hours this deals with the defense of the revolution ... See full summary »
Directors: Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: María de la Paz, Fernando E. Solanas, Edgardo Suárez, Julio Troxler
Votes: 1,189
30. Toss Me a Dime (1958)
33 min | Documentary, Short
Everyday the children of the neighborhood known as "Tire Dié", in the city of Santa Fe, wait for the train to ask for money, shouting "Tire dié!" (toss me a dime!) to the passengers. Considered the first survey-on-film in Latin America.
Director: Fernando Birri | Stars: Guillermo Cervantes Luro, María Rosa Gallo, Francisco Petrone
Votes: 306
31. Mi hijo el Che - Un retrato de familia de don Ernesto Guevara (1985)
70 min | Documentary
Director: Fernando Birri
Votes: 15
32. Los inundados (1962)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Due to the flood of the river Salado, the Gaitáns, a poor family living in the North of Argentina, have lost their house. Forced to make multiple train rides in order to escape the rising ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Birri | Stars: Pirucho Gómez, Lola Palombo, María Vera, Hector Palavecino
Votes: 138
33. La primera fundación de Buenos Aires (1959)
41 min | Animation, Short
Director: Fernando Birri | Star: Raúl De Lange
Votes: 16
34. Vanishing Landscapes (2012)
75 min | Drama, Mystery
A fictional documentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental hospital. In their visits to the ... See full summary »
Director: Eliseo Subiela | Stars: María Luz Subiela, Juan Manuel López Baio, Araceli Sangronis, Fernando Birri
Votes: 62
35. El hombre que debía una muerte (1955)
80 min | Drama, Thriller
A young woman receives a stranger in her home who has an accident, they both get married and she inherits a fortune due to the death of her uncle. Later, she will discover that there is a connection between the events.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Amelia Bence, Carlos Cores, Nelly Panizza, Héctor Méndez
Votes: 33
36. Celos (1947)
95 min | Drama
It treats the double moral present in the marriage and the estrangement in the pair.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Pedro López Lagar, Zully Moreno, Juan José Miguez, Adela Adamova
Votes: 15
37. 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
38. The Beast Must Die (1952)
95 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
When his child is hit by a car, a writer of thrillers is desperate to avenge his death and goes in search of the murderer.
Director: Román Viñoly Barreto | Stars: Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Guillermo Battaglia, Milagros de la Vega, Nathán Pinzón
Votes: 550
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