Good Tango movies
by Intrepid-Antelope | created - 1 week ago | updated - 1 week ago | PublicMovies that capture the beauty of dancing tango, in one way or another
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1. ¡Tango! (1933)
80 min | Musical, Romance
This is the story of a love triangle between a tango singer, a dishonest man and a poor woman. She runs away with the bad man, knowing that she actually is with the wrong one. Rejected, the... See full summary »
Director: Luis Moglia Barth | Stars: Libertad Lamarque, Pepe Arias, Tita Merello, Alberto Gómez
Votes: 66
2. The Three Amateurs (1933)
65 min | Comedy
The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies -'berretines' in Buenos Aires slang- that keep them apart of their duties. Because of that, the family business is going down, and ... See full summary »
Directors: John Alton, César José Guerrico, Ladislao Kish, Luis Romero Carranza, Enrique Susini | Stars: Luis Arata, Luis Sandrini, Luisa Vehil, Florindo Ferrario
Votes: 95
3. Tango Bar (1935)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Musical
Ricardo Fuentes (Carlos Gardel) leaves Buenos Aires after loosing in horse races to go to Barcelona, where he plans to open a tango bar, a new concept of tango dance show and dance saloon. ... See full summary »
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Carlos Gardel, Rosita Moreno, Enrique de Rosas, Tito Lusiardo
Votes: 132
4. Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina (1937)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A man lets his mistress down (Mireya) and marries a high society woman. He will not be happy. Over the years, he will meet Mireya, who is now old and ill and is mistreated by his own son.
Director: Manuel Romero | Stars: Florencio Parravicini, Mecha Ortiz, Santiago Arrieta, Irma Córdoba
Votes: 74
5. El tango vuelve a París (1948)
85 min | Drama, Musical
Obsessed by a Mexican singer, an Argentine doctor arrives in Paris; Far from his land he begins to find his true identity transforming into a singer of tangos.
Director: Manuel Romero | Stars: Alberto Castillo, Elvira Ríos, Severo Fernández, Lilian Valmar
Votes: 21
6. La barra de la esquina (1950)
84 min
A singer who reached world fame returns to his country and with his friends recalls episodes of his youth.
Director: Julio Saraceni | Stars: Alberto Castillo, María Concepción César, Jacinto Herrera, Iván Grondona
Votes: 46
7. 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
8. 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
9. Tango Bar (1987)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A fled Tango show owner returns to Buenos Aires to join his partners after the oppressive government of Argentina has dissolved.
Director: Marcos Zurinaga | Stars: Raul Julia, Valeria Lynch, Rubén Juárez, Nélida Rodríguez
Votes: 210
10. Naked Tango (1990)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
Director: Leonard Schrader | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May, Fernando Rey, Tony Payne
Votes: 718
11. The Tango Lesson (1997)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A scriptwriter comes to Paris to work on her film. There she takes up tango lessons and forms a relationship with the dancer.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Sally Potter, Pablo Verón, Morgane Maugran, Géraldine Maillet
Votes: 2,470 | Gross: $1.30M
12. Tango (1998)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Musical
Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova, Mía Maestro, Juan Carlos Copes
Votes: 3,070 | Gross: $1.69M
13. Assassination Tango (2002)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An aging hitman gets a contract to kill a General in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But when his mark becomes unavailable, he becomes involved in Argentinian tango culture.
Director: Robert Duvall | Stars: Robert Duvall, Luciana Pedraza, Rubén Blades, Kathy Baker
Votes: 3,384 | Gross: $0.97M
14. Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé (2005)
93 min | Drama, Romance
The (love) life of a man fed up with his work and life routine changes when he enlists into a tango dancing course.
Director: Stéphane Brizé | Stars: Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny, Georges Wilson, Lionel Abelanski
Votes: 1,670
15. 12 Tangos - Adios Buenos Aires (2005)
90 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Arne Birkenstock | Stars: Roberto Tonet, Marcela Maiola, Yolanda Zubieta, Mariana Zubieta
Votes: 52
16. Tango libre (2012)
98 min | Drama, Romance
A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works and he is drawn into her complicated romantic life. Meanwhile the prisoners are learning the tango.
Director: Frédéric Fonteyne | Stars: François Damiens, Sergi López, Jan Hammenecker, Anne Paulicevich
Votes: 1,152
17. Fermín, glorias del tango (2014)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A patient expresses himself using the lyrics and titles of tango songs as a result of a post traumatic stress disorder discovered by a psychiatrist.
Directors: Hernán Findling, Oliver Kolker | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Esteban Bortnik, Carlos Copello, Antonella Costa
Votes: 150
18. Our Last Tango (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Musical
The life and love story of Argentina's famous tango dancers Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, who met as teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years until a painful separation tore them apart.
Director: German Kral | Stars: María Nieves Rego, Juan Carlos Copes, Johana Copes, Myriam Copes
Votes: 713 | Gross: $0.10M
19. Yo soy así, Tita de Buenos Aires (2017)
124 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A portrait of the life of famous Argentinian singer and actress Tita Merello.
Director: María Teresa Costantini | Stars: Mercedes Funes, Damián de Santo, Esther Goris, Mario Pasik
Votes: 99
20. Ariel: Back to Buenos Aires (2022)
96 min | Drama
A brother and sister return to the country of their birth, Argentina, for the first time in their adult lives they fall in love with tango and uncover dark family secrets.
Director: Alison Murray | Stars: Cristina Banegas, Raphael Grosz-Harvey, Heinz K. Krattiger, Gerardo Romano
Votes: 739
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