Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino
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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. Camila (1984)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance
In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Héctor Alterio, Elena Tasisto
Votes: 1,450
3. 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: 231
4. Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History, Western
In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.
Director: Héctor Olivera | Stars: Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Franklin Caicedo
Votes: 1,285
5. 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
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. 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: 286
8. The Truce (1974)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
Director: Sergio Renán | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Ana María Picchio, Marilina Ross
Votes: 699
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. 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: 10,856 | Gross: $0.03M
11. Juan Moreira (1973)
102 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In the late-19th century, mule-driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by those in power: landowners of the police.
Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Rodolfo Bebán, Pablo Cumo, Osvaldo De la Vega, Augusto Kretschmar
Votes: 528
12. Crane World (1999)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Luis Margani, Daniel Valenzuela, Adriana Aizemberg, Federico Esquerro
Votes: 1,192
13. 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: 1,312
14. 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
15. 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
16. Man Facing Southeast (1986)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?
Director: Eliseo Subiela | Stars: Lorenzo Quinteros, Hugo Soto, Inés Vernengo, Cristina Scaramuzza
Votes: 4,583 | Gross: $0.73M
17. Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama
A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they are being ripped off.
Directors: Israel Adrián Caetano, Bruno Stagnaro | Stars: Héctor Anglada, Jorge Sesán, Pamela Jordán, Adrián Yospe
Votes: 2,852
18. 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
19. Waiting for the Hearse (1985)
94 min | Comedy
Each member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.
Director: Alejandro Doria | Stars: Luis Brandoni, China Zorrilla, Antonio Gasalla, Julio De Grazia
Votes: 7,272
20. 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: 137
21. 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
22. 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: 277
23. A Place in the World (1992)
PG | 120 min | Drama
Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a... See full summary »
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto, Cecilia Roth
Votes: 2,792 | Gross: $0.10M
24. A King and His Movie (1986)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
Buenos Aires movie director, very fond of legend of King of Patagonia and Araucania, decides to make a movie about it.
Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Ulises Dumont, Julio Chávez, Villanueva Cosse, Roxana Berco
Votes: 490
25. Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Musical
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá, Marina Vlady
Votes: 692
26. Shunko (1960)
72 min | Drama, Family
A teacher (Lautaro Murua) arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must to educate children against the will of their parents.
Director: Lautaro Murúa | Stars: Lautaro Murúa, Raúl del Valle, Fanny Olivera, Orlando Sacha
Votes: 87
27. Hombre de la esquina rosada (1962)
70 min | Crime, Drama
In the year 1910, because of the first century of Independency in Argentina, the governor of Buenos Aires gives the pardon to some prisoners. One of the people who recovers his freedom is ... See full summary »
Director: René Múgica | Stars: Francisco Petrone, Susana Campos, Walter Vidarte, Berta Ortegosa
Votes: 98
28. 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: 261
29. 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: 93
30. La Raulito (1975)
95 min | Biography, Drama
True-life story of a girl of the streets of Buenos Aires who passed for a boy.
Director: Lautaro Murúa | Stars: Marilina Ross, Duilio Marzio, Jorge Martínez, María Vaner
Votes: 127
31. Alias Gardelito (1961)
90 min | Drama
A young man whose dream is to become the next Carlos Gardel turns to a life of crime.
Director: Lautaro Murúa | Stars: Alberto Argibay, Walter Vidarte, Tônia Carrero, Lautaro Murúa
Votes: 84
32. 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: 115
33. 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
34. Veronico Cruz (1988)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama, War
A rural teacher in Jujuy, establishes a friendly relationship with the inhabitants of Chorcán, a small Andean village. Circumstances in EEE Outbreak of War of the Malvinas and one of his ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Pereira | Stars: Leopoldo Aban, Juan José Camero, Guillermo Delgado, Ana María González
Votes: 222
35. 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
36. 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: 1,188
37. Last Days of the Victim (1982)
90 min | Crime, Mystery
The story of a hitman, a man who kills other people for money, and the dangers that come with the job.
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Federico Luppi, Soledad Silveyra, Ulises Dumont, Julio De Grazia
Votes: 571
38. 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
39. Gatica, the Monkey (1993)
136 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
An Argentina film, which narrates the life of Argentine boxer José María Gatica, from his childhood until his tragic death in Buenos Aires in 1963.
Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Edgardo Nieva, Horacio Taicher, Juan Costa, María Eva Gatica
Votes: 613
40. Pampa bárbara (1945)
98 min | Drama, History, Western
In a pillbox in the middle of the Pampa, its commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for not deserting soldiers.
Directors: Lucas Demare, Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Francisco Petrone, Luisa Vehil, Domingo Sapelli, Froilán Varela
Votes: 122
41. La vuelta al nido (1938)
77 min | Drama
Enrique, a gray office worker who lives a marriage already without passion begins to rethink his life when he receives an anonymous who says that his wife deceives him.
Director: Leopoldo Torres Ríos | Stars: José Gola, Amelia Bence, Cielito, Julio Renato
Votes: 64
42. Casas de fuego (1995)
115 min | Biography, Drama
Movie based on the life of Dr. Salvador Mazza, who, with a group of professionals, conducts an investigation to discover the antidote to a mysterious illness of which the bearer is a nocturnal insect known as Vinchuca.
Director: Juan Bautista Stagnaro | Stars: Harry Havilio, José Luis Alfonzo, Miguel Ángel Solá, Maria Lorenzutti
Votes: 174
43. Quebracho (1974)
95 min | Drama
Set in 1910 in the Chaco. It shows the situation of the woodcutters of Quebracho, cruelly exploited by English entrepreneurs, with the support of the authorities, local police and a paramilitary body created by the employers themselves.
Director: Ricardo Wullicher | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Osvaldo Bonet, Juan Carlos Gené, Cipe Lincovsky
Votes: 116
44. I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Leonor, a widow in a small South American town, gives birth to Charlotte, a dwarf. The mother not only provides a rich childhood for her daughter, she erases any clues her daughter might ... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Luisina Brando, Alejandra Podesta, Betiana Blum
Votes: 397 | Gross: $0.25M
45. 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: 344
46. On Tuesdays, Orchids (1941)
84 min | Comedy
Elenita, the youngest of four sisters, is shy and romantic. To boost her confidence and create an illusion, her father sends her an orchids bouquet every week to make her believe she has a secret admirer.
Director: Francisco Múgica | Stars: Enrique Serrano, Juan Carlos Thorry, Nuri Montsé, Felisa Mary
Votes: 101
47. Miss Mary (1986)
R | 100 min | Drama
A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a popular movement is preparing to install itself in power.
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Julie Christie, Nacha Guevara, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Gerardo Romano
Votes: 348 | Gross: $0.27M
48. Pajarito Gómez (1965)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
A chronicle of the life and career of a popular singer: his humble origins, his rise to fame, and his exploitation by the media.
Director: Rodolfo Kuhn | Stars: Héctor Pellegrini, María Cristina Laurenz, Nelly Beltrán, Lautaro Murúa
Votes: 212
49. 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
50. 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
51. Moebius (1996)
88 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A train on the Buenos Aires subway system suddenly vanishes.
Director: Gustavo Mosquera R. | Stars: Guillermo Angelelli, Roberto Carnaghi, Annabella Levy, Jorge Petraglia
Votes: 2,173
52. 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
53. El crimen de Oribe (1950)
85 min | Drama, Fantasy
A journalist José Luis Villafane travels to a little town. A problem with your car forced him to stay in a hotel, where they share the room with Carlos Oribe, a copycat poet.
Directors: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Leopoldo Torres Ríos | Stars: Roberto Escalada, Carlos Thompson, Raúl De Lange, María Concepción César
Votes: 67
54. Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (1975)
92 min | Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon. Everyone in the village is ... See full summary »
Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Juan José Camero, Marina Magali, Alfredo Alcón, Lautaro Murúa
Votes: 726
55. La parte del león (1978)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man who dreams of striking it rich stumbles upon the loot of a heist.
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Julio De Grazia, Luisina Brando, Fernanda Mistral, Beba Bidart
Votes: 370
56. Tres veces Ana (1961)
115 min | Drama
Three independent stories about three different women, all named Ana and played by the same actress.
Director: David José Kohon | Stars: María Vaner, Luis Medina Castro, Alberto Argibay, Walter Vidarte
Votes: 84
57. The Party Is Over (1960)
104 min | Drama
During the infamous decade, the grandson of a conservative leader of the Province of Buenos Aires will get into the affairs of his grandfather and discover a world of corruption.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Arturo García Buhr, Lautaro Murúa, Graciela Borges, Leonardo Favio
Votes: 89
58. Funny Dirty Little War (1983)
Unrated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ... See full summary »
Director: Héctor Olivera | Stars: Federico Luppi, Víctor Laplace, Héctor Bidonde, Rodolfo Ranni
Votes: 564
59. La fuga (1937)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Daniel, a smuggler is chased by a policeman. In his escape are helped by the messages that his lover transmits to him in code by means of the tangos that sings in a radio program. To hide ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Saslavsky | Stars: Santiago Arrieta, Tita Merello, Francisco Petrone, Niní Gambier
Votes: 40
60. 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
61. 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: 4,751
62. Un muro de silencio (1993)
105 min | Drama
A film director decides to make a movie about Silvia, a woman who lost her husband during a particularly violent war. But will making a movie about it force Silvia to remember her traumatic past?
Director: Lita Stantic | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Ofelia Medina, Lautaro Murúa, Lorenzo Quinteros
Votes: 271
63. 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
64. Dar la cara (1962)
110 min | Drama
After completing the military service, three young friends (a cyclist, a filmmaker, and a student) try to carve their own paths.
Director: José A. Martínez Suárez | Stars: Leonardo Favio, Lautaro Murúa, Nuria Torray, Luis Medina Castro
Votes: 81
65. Kilómetro 111 (1938)
103 min | Drama
Ceferino is the train station chief o a remote town. A group of planters ask him to legit them the wagons to send the harvest to Buenos Aires, he agrees, but he gets fired.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Pepe Arias, Delia Garcés, José Olarra, Ángel Magaña
Votes: 70
66. 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: 1,065
67. El amor es una mujer gorda (1987)
82 min | Drama
José is a young journalist who gets fired over refusing to write an article about an American film crew, overdramatizing the situation in Argentina. When he goes looking for his old girlfriend, he runs into the crew again.
Director: Alejandro Agresti | Stars: Elio Marchi, Sergio Poves Campos, Carlos Roffé, Mario Luciani
Votes: 166
68. Cortázar (1994)
PG | 80 min | Documentary
This documentary explores the most important events in the life of the acclaimed writer Julio Cortázar. His childhood accompanied by books, his career as a teacher, his life in Paris and the mass publication of his novels and stories.
Director: Tristán Bauer | Stars: Alfredo Alcón, Hugo Carrizo, Julio Cortázar, Aguston Goldschmidt
Votes: 103 | Gross: $0.37M
69. The Naked Angel (1946)
85 min | Drama
Bankrupt due to gambling debts, a man sends his beautiful adolescent daughter to ask a sculptor for money. The artist accepts to lend the money - but in exchange for seeing the girl nude.
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Olga Zubarry, Guillermo Battaglia, Carlos Cores, Eduardo Cuitiño
Votes: 92
70. Barrio Gris (1954)
95 min | Drama
The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods" in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Luis Arata, Vicente Ariño, Ana Arneodo, María Esther Corán
Votes: 35
71. La muerte camina en la lluvia (1948)
73 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A murderer terrorizes a city by attacking on the streets on rainy days and always leaving a card with the name "S. López".
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Olga Zubarry, Guillermo Battaglia, Eduardo Cuitiño, Nicolás Fregues
Votes: 149
72. La cifra impar (1962)
85 min | Drama, Mystery
An Argentinean couple living in Paris receive a letter from the man's mother, in which she gives them regards from his brother. Confusion arises, as the couple know the brother to have died from an illness.
Director: Manuel Antin | Stars: Lautaro Murúa, María Rosa Gallo, Sergio Renán, Milagros de la Vega
Votes: 158
73. The Night of the Pencils (1986)
105 min | Crime, Drama, History
This films tells the true story of seven teenagers who agitated for reduced student bus fares under two different regimes in Argentina, with tragic results. At first succeeding under the ... See full summary »
Director: Héctor Olivera | Stars: Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó, Pablo Novak, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Votes: 2,278
74. A Bully in 1900 (1960)
84 min | Drama
The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Alfredo Alcón, Arturo García Buhr, Elida Gay Palmer, Lydia Lamaison
Votes: 60
75. The Dark Side of the Heart (1992)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets... See full summary »
Director: Eliseo Subiela | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara, André Melançon
Votes: 4,126
76. 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
77. La dama duende (1945)
101 min | Drama, Romance
Doña Ángelica - a young widow recently 18 years old - falls in love and wants to marry an army officer named Don Manuel, but to do so she must evade the vigilance of her sister-in-law who ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Saslavsky | Stars: Manuel Collado, Helena Cortesina, Alberto de Mendoza, Enrique Diosdado
Votes: 57
78. Los hijos de Fierro (1978)
134 min | Drama
Peronist view of its history between the fall in 1955 and the electoral triumph of 1973 using a metaphor of the poem Martin Fierro.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Julio Troxler, Tito Ameijeiras, Juan Carlos Gené, Martiniano Martínez
Votes: 94
79. Invasion (1969)
123 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A group of men led by an old man trying to stop an invasion of the city of Aquileia. The invaders are introducing a machinery for a mass invasion, but the invasion is absolute and impossible to define.
Director: Hugo Santiago | Stars: Olga Zubarry, Lautaro Murúa, Juan Carlos Paz, Martín Adjemián
Votes: 966
80. Los jóvenes viejos (1962)
106 min | Drama
The frustrations felt by certain middle class youth in 1960s Argentina under the new presidency of Arturo Frondizi, one of whom works in the media, a criticism of the false moral values of that time.
Director: Rodolfo Kuhn | Stars: María Vaner, Alberto Argibay, Marcela López Rey, Jorge Rivera López
Votes: 108
81. Mercado de abasto (1955)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The action occurs in Abasto Market in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A grown up single woman marries a mafia man who promised her he would change. After they've married, the past come to ruin the wife's life.
Director: Lucas Demare | Stars: Tita Merello, Pepe Arias, Juan José Miguez, Pepita Muñoz
Votes: 121
82. Su mejor alumno (1944)
114 min | Biography, Drama
The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.
Director: Lucas Demare | Stars: Enrique Muiño, Ángel Magaña, Orestes Caviglia, Norma Castillo
Votes: 61
83. The Black Vampire (1953)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
This "feminist" reworking of Fritz Lang's classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile.
Director: Román Viñoly Barreto | Stars: Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nelly Panizza, Mariano Vidal Molina
Votes: 567
84. North Wind (1937)
92 min | Drama, Western
At the end of the 19th century, an army detachment arrives to confront the rebels. The commander-in-command recognizes Malena, an old love, who now lives on a ranch with her husband and son.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Camila Quiroga, Enrique Muiño, Elías Alippi, Ángel Magaña
Votes: 43
85. I, the Worst of All (1990)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Lautaro Murúa
Votes: 719 | Gross: $0.05M
86. Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic (1976)
110 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Mara Ordaz, a former diva who lives in a mansion away from the city and sorrounded by memories together with her husband, her doctor and the person in charge of the administration of her ... See full summary »
Director: José A. Martínez Suárez | Stars: Mecha Ortiz, Arturo García Buhr, Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Mario Soffici
Votes: 221
87. 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
88. Aquello que amamos (1959)
71 min
After hard work, a writer achieves fame, but receives a serious blow in his family.
Director: Leopoldo Torres Ríos | Stars: Lautaro Murúa, Aída Luz, Ana Casares, Luis María Galó
Votes: 12
89. Edad difícil (1956)
78 min | Drama, Romance
The love between two teenagers awakens.
Director: Leopoldo Torres Ríos | Stars: Carlos Benso, Enrique Colombo, Margarita Corona, Julia Dalmas
Votes: 34
90. The Jewish Gauchos (1975)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Musical, Drama
The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia established the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
Director: Juan José Jusid | Stars: Pepe Soriano, Dora Baret, Víctor Laplace, Jorge Barreiro
Votes: 84
91. Los de la mesa 10 (1960)
Drama, Romance
The film refers to the romance between a young mechanic of humble working background and a university student from a well-to-do family of professionals who face the difficulties originated in their different social origins.
Director: Simón Feldman | Stars: María Aurelia Bisutti, Emilio Alfaro, Carlos Boris, Pedro Buchardo
Votes: 33
92. 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: 297
93. Never Open That Door (1952)
85 min | Mystery, Thriller
Two separate episodes that have in common the door which separates good from evil. In the first segment, "Alguien al teléfono", Ángel Magaña tries to avenge the death of his sister, a girl ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Ángel Magaña, Renée Dumas, Nicolás Fregues, Diana de Córdoba
Votes: 279
94. 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
95. Ayer fue primavera (1955)
85 min | Drama
A man suspects that his late wife had an extramarital relationship, so he decides to face the alleged lover.
Director: Fernando Ayala | Stars: Roberto Escalada, Analía Gadé, Duilio Marzio, Orestes Soriani
Votes: 33
96. Where Words Fail (1946)
76 min | Drama
The film recounts the life and work of famed concert pianist Dario Garzay.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Enrique Muiño, Dario Garzay, Héctor Méndez, Italo Bertini
Votes: 57
97. Eva Peron: The True Story (1996)
PG | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Drama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33.
Director: Juan Carlos Desanzo | Stars: Esther Goris, Víctor Laplace, Cristina Banegas, Pepe Novoa
Votes: 522
98. Gerónima (1986)
96 min | Drama
A Mapuche descendant facing the misunderstanding of the white man and the loss of identity.
Director: Raúl Alberto Tosso | Stars: Luisa Calcumil, Patricio Contreras, Mario Luciani, Ernesto Michel
Votes: 40
99. Historia de una noche (1941)
92 min | Drama
A man returns to his village after a long time and meets his ex-girlfriend, now married to a husband in desperate economic situation. Based on the play "Mañana es vacaciones" by Leo Perutz.
Director: Luis Saslavsky | Stars: Santiago Arrieta, Sabina Olmos, Sebastián Chiola, Felisa Mary
Votes: 55
100. Safo: A Passion Story (1943)
98 min | Drama
The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Mecha Ortiz, Roberto Escalada, Miguel Gómez Bao, Nicolás Fregues
Votes: 81
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