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Actors: Ines Flores, Ricardo Darín, Inés Efron, Martin Piroyanski, German Palacios, Carolina Peleritti, Valeria Bertuccelli
Synopsis: Lucia Puenzo's drama XXY probes the psychological aftereffects that adolescent transsexuality can yield. With a name easily applicable to either gender, young teenager Alex's (Ines Efron) hermaphroditic physiology causes a massive identity crisis and severe emotional withdrawal. The problems Read More
Actors: Daniel Hendler, Julieta Diaz, Arturo Goetz, Adriana Aizenberg, Eloy Burman
Synopsis: Director Daniel Burman's "Fatherhood Trilogy" draws to a close with this follow-up to Lost Embrace detailing the efforts of a devoted lawyer and teacher to live up to the lofty standards set by his hard working father. Ariel Perelman, Jr. (Daniel Hendler) is a teacher whose widowed father Ariel Read More
Actors: Jorge Marrale, Graciela Borges
Synopsis: A man of God discovers his supernatural talents run counter to the tenants of his chosen faith in this drama from filmmaker Alejandreo Doria. Father Mario Pantaleo (Jorge Marrale) is a Catholic priest who looks after his congregation in a small town in Argentina. When Father Mario discovers he has Read More
Actors: Jesus Aranda, Tula Rodriguez, Pablo Brichta, Jean Pierre Reguerraz
Synopsis: Director Gianfranco Quattrini takes a closer look at the frantic lives of Latin-American suburbanites in this drama about a father who discovers that his teenage daughter is pregnant, and becomes determined to change his destiny. Julio Cesar's daughter is going to have a baby. Realizing that by Read More
Actors: Luciano Caceres, Jean Pierre Reguerraz, Jorge Sesan, Paola Machado, Franco Tirri
Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Ricardo Darín, Alberto Jiménez, Gerardo Romano, Patricio Contreras
Synopsis: Six men escape from an Argentinean prison and meet wildly different fates in this episodic drama. One of the escapees never makes it into the outside world; Belisario Zacarias (Oscar Alegre) gets caught in the tunnel they've dug to make their way out of lockup, and his friend Omar Zajur (Vando Read More
Actors: Gustavo Garzon, Laura Melillo, Jean Pierre Reguerraz
Actors: Antonella Costa, Carlos Echeverria, Dominique Sanda, Chiara Caselli, Enrique Pineyro
Synopsis: Chili-born Italian director Marco Bechis's second feature is a political drama based on his experiences with the military regime of Argentina (1976-1980) when he lived there. Maria (Antonella Costa) is a militant activist in an organization that is fighting the oppressive dictatorship. She teaches Read More
Synopsis: Argentina's own Eva Peron gets an Argentine film biography in this production. For a woman who conducted her life with the bold strokes of grand opera, this effort to depict her human dimension rather than her mythical qualities might not have won her personal approval, but it offers a useful Read More
Actors: Robert Duvall, Arliss Howard, Jeffrey Tambor, Jack Laufer, Nicholas Surovy
Synopsis: In the spirit of such earlier efforts as Operation Eichmann and House on Garibaldi Street, this meticulously crafted cable movie recounts the 1960 mission by the Israeli secret service to kidnap Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from his hiding place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although Israel will Read More
Synopsis: Those in tune with the complexities of Argentine politics will have the best understanding of the subversive, satirical points made in this off-beat low-budget parable. Those unfamiliar with the country's history and problems, but who have a taste for intellectual and academic filmmaking, will Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Luisina Brando, Alejandra Podesta, Betiana Blum, Alberto Segado
Synopsis: In this oddball comedy, the village Grande Dame tries to find a suitable husband so she can take good care of her daughter, a dwarf. The story is set in an Argentine village during the 1940's. Though her daughter, Charlotte, is a little person, the highly respected Leonor wants her to have a Read More
Actors: Sam Neill, Talisa Soto, James Fox, Art Malik, Cristina Higueras
Synopsis: This direct-to-video thriller stars Sam Neill as a British secret agent who wants to retire--much to the dismay of his superiors, who decide instead to have him killed. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara, Andre Melancon, Jean Pierre Reguerraz
Synopsis: In this cheerfully surrealistic romance, a poet named Oliverio (Darío Grandinetti) lives by his wits in Buenos Aires, winning dollars by reciting his poems to passing motorists who stop at red lights or by occasionally trading a poem for a steak from a sympathetic restaurateur. His friends include Read More
Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May, Esai Morales, Fernando Rey, Cipe Lincovsky
Synopsis: A woman desperate to change her life takes a wrong turn into danger and degradation in this drama. In 1924, Stephanie (Mathilda May) is travelling to Buenos Aires with her husband, who is considerably older than her and in poor health. Stephanie is not happy with her life, so when a young woman Read More
Actors: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Lautaro Murúa
Synopsis: Sister Juana (Assumpta Serna) is a gentle poet and a none-too-pious nun, living in seventeenth-century Mexico. She is protected by the Governor and his wife from a ferociously misogynistic Archbishop, who some believe is using his hatred of women to hide from his very powerful lust for them. Read More
Actors: Lorenzs Quinteros, Hugo Soto, Ines Vernengo
Synopsis: This Argentine film freshens up an old cinematic device: juxtaposing science fiction and religion. A Buenos Aires mental hospital is thrown into an uproar when a mysterious male patient appears out of nowhere. As the psychiatrists grill the stranger, he sticks to a story that suggests that his Read More
Actors: Julio de Grazia, Cipe Lincovsky, Osvaldo Terranova, Pablo Cedron
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Roberto Arit, this classic tale of one man's continual frustration in trying to work his way up through an unsympathetic system has all the usual elements but is still quite effective. Silvio Astier (Julio de Grazia) comes from hard-working Italian immigrant stock, but his Read More
Actors: Susú Pecoraro, Héctor Alterio, Mona Maris
Synopsis: Camila O'Gorman (Susan Peccaro) is the daughter of an influential 19th century Argentine diplomat (Hector Alterio). Ladislao Gutierez (Imanol Arias) is a Jesuit priest, also living in Argentina. Tortured by her so-called impure thoughts, Camila confesses these to Gutierez. Flouting tradition Read More
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