Classic Argentine Movies
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1. Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)
79 min | Drama
CHRONICLE OF A BOY ALONE, is an indictment of a fascist regime running roughshod over its most vulnerable citizens, its children. Focusing on the bleak life of eleven-year-old bad boy Polin... See full summary »
Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Diego Puente, Tino Pascali, Cacho Espíndola, Victoriano Moreira
Votes: 813
2. El dependiente (1969)
87 min | Drama
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams...and her family.
Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Walter Vidarte, Graciela Borges, Nora Cullen, Fernando Iglesias 'Tacholas'
Votes: 560
3. The Bitter Stems (1956)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school.
Director: Fernando Ayala | Stars: Carlos Cores, Julia Sandoval, Vassili Lambrinos, Gilda Lousek
Votes: 676
4. 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: 528
5. 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: 469
6. El romance del Aniceto y la Francisca (1967)
63 min | Drama
Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her true love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Federico Luppi, Elsa Daniel, María Vaner, Edgardo Suárez
Votes: 433
7. 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: 548
8. God Bless You (1948)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama
A player wife, Nancy, who holds elegance to disguise their poverty while waiting for a wealthy man appears and deal with it, talk to the old man begging at the door of a casino. Soon after, a mysterious suitor offers a life of luxury.
Director: Luis César Amadori | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Zully Moreno, Florindo Ferrario, Enrique Chaico
Votes: 278
9. Más allá del olvido (1956)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man who deeply loves his wife, tears before his death by disease . After falling into despair, she embarks on a journey trying to forget but, in Paris, he meets a look-alike of his beloved.
Director: Hugo del Carril | Stars: Laura Hidalgo, Hugo del Carril, Pedro Laxalt, Eduardo Rudy
Votes: 298
10. Largo viaje (1967)
83 min | Drama
A young boy, lost in the big city, tries to find his way home. Along the way, he encounters a cross-section of society that he has never known.
Director: Patricio Kaulen | Stars: Enrique Kaulen, Eliana Vidal, Fabio Zerpa, Rubén Ubeira
Votes: 252
11. La fiaca (1969)
95 min | Comedy
A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Ayala | Stars: Norman Briski, Norma Aleandro, Jorge Rivera López, Lydia Lamaison
Votes: 248
12. 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
13. 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: 232
14. If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
73 min | Thriller
The plot centers on Lucio Santana, a lovable prankster and class clown whose dad happens to be a detective working on the serial killings of local children. When Lucho makes friends with a ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren Delbene, Homero Cárpena
Votes: 267
15. 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
16. Women Who Work (1938)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Ana Maria del Solar is a rich lady who suddenly lands in the street. After a while she lives in the pension where her driver lives.
Director: Manuel Romero | Stars: Mecha Ortiz, Tito Lusiardo, Niní Marshall, Pepita Serrador
Votes: 96
17. Hay que educar a Niní (1940)
95 min | Comedy
Niní is an unemployed actress hired by two lawyers to pretend to be the daughter of a man of money. Lawyers try to blackmail him by inventing him an unrecognized daughter of a past affair. ... See full summary »
Director: Luis César Amadori | Stars: Niní Marshall, Francisco Álvarez, Pablo Palitos, Nuri Montsé
Votes: 83
18. Cándida (1939)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Cándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Bayón Herrera | Stars: Niní Marshall, Augusto Codecá, Juan Carlos Thorry, Tulia Ciámpoli
Votes: 28
19. Los árboles mueren de pie (1951)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
Based on the play by Alejandro Casona. Mr. Balboa, without his wife's knowledge, one day throws his soulless grandson out of his house. Since then he himself sends letters that the grandson supposedly sent to his grandmother.
Director: Carlos Schlieper | Stars: Arturo García Buhr, Amalia Sánchez Ariño, Zoe Ducos, Francisco López Silva
Votes: 60
20. Pelota de trapo (1949)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.
Director: Leopoldo Torres Ríos | Stars: Armando Bo, Santiago Arrieta, Floren Delbene, Orestes Caviglia
Votes: 94
21. 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
22. Breve cielo (1969)
84 min | Drama
Young and correct Paquito meets a girl on the streets of Buenos Aires. They spend some time around the city, while discovering the outgoing and enigmatic character of Delia.
Director: David José Kohon | Stars: Alberto Fernández de Rosa, Ana María Picchio, Gloria Raines, Zelmar Gueñol
Votes: 108
23. Hardly a Criminal (1949)
88 min | Crime, Drama
A bank employee utilizes a legal loophole to conduct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement following a six-year prison sentence.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Jorge Salcedo, Sebastián Chiola, Tito Alonso, Josefa Goldar
Votes: 263
24. Tute Cabrero (1968)
70 min | Drama
When a corporation announces that it will lay off one of its three designers, the boss asks the employees themselves to decide which of them will be the one to leave.
Director: Juan José Jusid | Stars: Luis Brandoni, Juan Carlos Gené, Alejandro Marcial, Hugo Midón
Votes: 67
25. La vida es un tango (1939)
87 min | Musical
Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.
Director: Manuel Romero | Stars: Florencio Parravicini, Tito Lusiardo, Hugo del Carril, Sabina Olmos
Votes: 48
26. El apóstol (1917)
70 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Argentinian President Yrigoyen burns Buenos Aires using Jupiter's thunderbolts.
Director: Quirino Cristiani
Votes: 70
27. Such Is Life (1939)
107 min
About the paternalistic computer sense that the family unit had at that time.
Director: Francisco Múgica | Stars: Enrique Muiño, Elías Alippi, Enrique Serrano, Sabina Olmos
Votes: 53
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