Good Tango movies
Movies that capture the beauty of dancing tango, in one way or another
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- DirectorLuis Moglia BarthStarsLibertad LamarquePepe AriasTita MerelloThis 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 tango singer leaves to Paris to perform, hoping that he will find her there.
- DirectorJohn AltonCésar José GuerricoLadislao KishStarsLuis ArataLuis SandriniLuisa VehilThe 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 the only one who is concerned is the father, who hopes for his fourth son, an architect, to save the situation.
- DirectorJohn ReinhardtStarsCarlos GardelRosita MorenoEnrique de RosasRicardo 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. On the ship he meets Laura Montalván (Rosita Moreno) who happens to be a thief working with a thief pal. Ricardo watches them robbing a lady's bracelet aboard but decides not to report them because he has fallen in love with Laura. Once in Barcelona, he opens the tango bar but Laura's partner tells him he sold the bracelet and now needs to recover it to avoid both Laura and him going to jail.
- DirectorManuel RomeroStarsFlorencio ParraviciniMecha OrtizSantiago ArrietaA 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.
- DirectorManuel RomeroStarsAlberto CastilloElvira RíosSevero FernándezObsessed 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.
- DirectorJulio SaraceniStarsAlberto CastilloMaría Concepción CésarJacinto HerreraA singer who reached world fame returns to his country and with his friends recalls episodes of his youth.
- DirectorLucas DemareStarsTita MerelloPepe AriasJuan José MiguezThe 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.
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsMarie LaforêtPhilippe LéotardMiguel Ángel SoláSome Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
- DirectorMarcos ZurinagaStarsRaul JuliaValeria LynchRubén JuárezA fled Tango show owner returns to Buenos Aires to join his partners after the oppressive government of Argentina has dissolved.
- DirectorLeonard SchraderStarsVincent D'OnofrioMathilda MayFernando ReyWhen a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
- DirectorSally PotterStarsSally PotterPablo VerónMorgane MaugranA scriptwriter comes to Paris to work on her film. There she takes up tango lessons and forms a relationship with the dancer.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsMiguel Ángel SoláCecilia NarovaMía MaestroMario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.
- DirectorRobert DuvallStarsRobert DuvallLuciana PedrazaRubén BladesAn 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.
- DirectorStéphane BrizéStarsPatrick ChesnaisAnne ConsignyGeorges WilsonThe (love) life of a man fed up with his work and life routine changes when he enlists into a tango dancing course.
- DirectorFrédéric FonteyneStarsFrançois DamiensSergi LópezJan HammeneckerA 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.
- DirectorHernán FindlingOliver KolkerStarsHéctor AlterioEsteban BortnikCarlos CopelloA patient expresses himself using the lyrics and titles of tango songs as a result of a post traumatic stress disorder discovered by a psychiatrist.
- DirectorGerman KralStarsMaría Nieves RegoJuan Carlos CopesJohana CopesThe 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.
- DirectorMaría Teresa CostantiniStarsMercedes FunesDamián de SantoEsther GorisA portrait of the life of famous Argentinian singer and actress Tita Merello.
- DirectorAlison MurrayStarsCristina BanegasRaphael Grosz-HarveyHeinz K. KrattigerA 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.