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Fiestapatria

Actors: Adela Secall, Marcela Osorio, Nelson Brodt, Tatiana Astengo, Patricio Contreras

Synopsis: Acclaimed Chilean director Luis R. Vera helms the allegorical period drama Fiestapatria. Set at the outset of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in the early 1970s, the film tells a bi-layered story. On the most immediate level, the picture dramatizes the gathering of two families - all but complete Read More

2007
Cachimba

Actors: Pablo Schwarz, Mariana Loyola, Julio Jung, Patricio Contreras, Jesus Guzman

2004
Sexo con Amor

Synopsis: A group of parents who have gathered to debate the sexual education schooling of their fourth grade children are forced to re-examine their own views of sex when three couples all make concerted efforts to reawaken their long-buried sensual side in this erotic, Spanish-language comedy directed by Read More

2003
La Fuga

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

2001
Asesinato a Distancia

Actors: Patricio Contreras, Laura Novoa, Héctor Alterio

Synopsis: In this Spanish-language crime thriller, an investigator from Buenos Aires, Argentina receives a summons from a South American businessman to spend several days in his beachside mansion. In mid-visit, the detective suddenly stumbles onto a heinous crime that prompted the entrepreneur's son to Read More

1998
Sotto Voce

Synopsis: Telma (Norma Pons) is concerned when her father Salerno dies of a heart attack in a movie theater while watching a film of two thugs beating another man. She believes that there is something more to it, and seeks the help of Deganis (Patricio Contreras), a forensic psychiatrist. Deganis, having Read More

1996
Fotos del Alma

Synopsis: This humanistic melodrama purports to be the first film from Argentina to deal with the effects of AIDS in a straightforward manner as it examines the psychological effects of the disease upon a well-to do heterosexual couple preparing to wed. It is Pablo who is diagnosed HIV-positive. Although he Read More

1995
Of Love and Shadows

Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Antonio Banderas, Stefania Sandrelli, Camilo Gallardo, Patricio Contreras

Synopsis: The Spanish/Argentinian Of Love and Shadows (De Amor y Sombras) is a fragmentary adaptation of the Isabel Allende novel of the same name. The scene is Chile, during the dictatorial Pinochet regime of the early 1970s. Journalist Jennifer Connelly, insulated from the truth and enjoying the romantic Read More

1994
Tirano Banderas

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Ana Belén, Juan Diego, Ignacio Tarso, Fernando Guillén

Synopsis: This historical drama, set in the '20s examines the strange, brief reign of a Latin American dictator. It was alternately shot in Havana and Mexico. The story is set in an unspecified Latin country and chronicles the daily life of the tyrannical dictator. One of his day's highlights is the signing Read More

1994
La Ultima Siembra

Actors: Patricio Contreras, Leonor Manso

Synopsis: In the northwest of modern-day Argentina, a new Indian ranch-worker has come to work on a cattle ranch. He left his old home after living through the accidental death of his son which, irrationally, he felt responsible for. At his new place of work, the chief gaucho (foreman or head cowboy) has an Read More

1992
La Frontera

Actors: Patricio Contreras, Héctor Noguera

Synopsis: High school math teacher Ramiro Orellana somehow managed to run afoul of the military government in Santiago, and he has been classified as politically unreliable. Rather than go to the expense of locking him up, since he's not considered to be a definite threat to their regime, the rulers have Read More

1991
Despues de la Tormenta

Actors: Lorenzs Quinteros, Patricio Contreras, Ana Maria Picchio, Jofre Soares

Synopsis: After Ramon (Lorenzo Quinteros) loses his job at a factory in Buenos Aires, his life and that of his family goes steadily downhill. At first, he moves them from their nice home to a slum of the city, but when his son gets into trouble for hanging out with drug dealers, he decides to return to his Read More

1990
The Old Gringo

Actors: Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras, Jenny Gago, Jim Metzler

Synopsis: In this historical drama based on Carlos Fuentes' novel, Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) is a naive woman who, hoping to broaden her horizons, accepts a job as a governess in Mexico in 1913. However, Harriet unknowingly finds herself thrown into the middle of the Mexican revolution, where she Read More

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Made in Argentina

Actors: Luis Brandoni, Marta Bianchi, Leonor Manso, Patricio Contreras, Alberto Busaid

Synopsis: This 1986 film portrays a couple from Argentina who move to New York City for political reasons, but later wish to journey back to their home. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Geronima

Actors: Luisa Calcumil, Mario Luciani, Ernesto Michel, Rufino Muoz

Synopsis: This is a compelling docudrama of a failed attempt to help Geronima (played by Luisa Calcumil), a Mapuche woman in the state of Patagonia in Argentina. Geronima and her four children were managing to survive until a snowstorm killed off their animals. Soon a representative from the Ministry of Read More

1986
The Official Story

Actors: Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chela Ruiz, Chunchuna Villafane, Hugo Arana

Synopsis: This is an emotionally gripping, fictional look at a couple torn apart by the infamous Argentine campaign of killings and torture that sent thousands of accused terrorists to unmarked graves in the mid-and late-'70s. Alicia (Norma Aleandro) and Roberto (Hector Alterio) adopted a little girl (Analia Castro Read More

1985
De La Misteriosa Buenos Aires

Actors: Eva Franco, Graciela Dufau, Julia Von Grolman, Aldo Barbero, Jose Maria Gutierrez

Synopsis: In this film that focuses on the history of Buenos Aires, three separate stories by Manuel Mujica Lainez are presented in sequence, directed by three different men and dealing with three different periods in the history of the city. The first story, "Hunger" (dir. Alberto Fischerman), is set in Read More

1981
La Parte Del Leon

Synopsis: Adolfo Aristarian, the stunning Argentinean director and master of the genre film, offers his take on the crime film with La Parte del Leon. Aristarian betrays his encyclopedic knowledge of the genre in the film's dedication, "To Warner Bros., 1930-1950." The film, like all great crime films, has Read More

1978