Classic Argentine Movies
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- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsDiego PuenteTino PascaliCacho EspíndolaCHRONICLE 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, who's been abandoned by his family and sent to live in a state-run orphanage, it's also a moving portrait of the human spirit imprisoned by the chains of well-intentioned fools. Inside the harsh confines of the supposedly beneficial institution, Polin and his fellow inmates must deal with constant physical and psychological abuse by the staff, as well as the natural emotional tensions brought on by their own burgeoning adolescence. But through it all, they manage to keep their hopes alive with optimistic talk of freedom and bold plans of escape. One day, when the opportunity finally arises, and Polin learns that freedom, too, has its price.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsWalter VidarteGraciela BorgesNora CullenFernandez 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.
- DirectorFernando AyalaStarsCarlos CoresJulia SandovalVassili LambrinosA washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school.
- DirectorMario SofficiStarsJuan VerdaguerSusana CamposMaría Luisa RobledoOut 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.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielLautaro MurúaBerta OrtegosaThe 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.
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsFederico LuppiElsa DanielMaría VanerAniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her true love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
- DirectorRomán Viñoly BarretoStarsNarciso Ibáñez MentaGuillermo BattagliaMilagros de la VegaWhen his child is hit by a car, a writer of thrillers is desperate to avenge his death and goes in search of the murderer.
- DirectorLuis César AmadoriStarsArturo de CórdovaZully MorenoFlorindo FerrarioA 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.
- DirectorHugo del CarrilStarsLaura HidalgoHugo del CarrilPedro LaxaltA 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.
- DirectorPatricio KaulenStarsEnrique KaulenEliana VidalFabio ZerpaA young boy, lost in the big city, tries to find his way home. Along the way, he encounters a cross-section of society that he has never known.
- DirectorFernando AyalaStarsNorman BriskiNorma AleandroJorge Rivera LópezA typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicated emotional and economically. These circumstances thwart his rebelliousness.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielFrancisco RabalLeonardo FavioA woman uncovers the secret of her aunt's withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.
- DirectorHugo del CarrilStarsHugo del CarrilAdriana BenettiRaúl del ValleThe 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.
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenStarsNéstor ZavarceBlanca del PradoFloren DelbeneThe 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 girl in his class, she divulges to him that a man who lives in the woods near the park has been giving her free lollipops, and plans to take her to his candy house. But she makes Lucho vow never to tell anyone. When the girl winds up murdered, Lucho is torn between honoring his word to his slain friend, or telling his father that he knows who the man is.
- DirectorLucas DemareStarsEnrique MuiñoFrancisco PetroneÁngel MagañaThe story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
- DirectorManuel RomeroStarsMecha OrtizTito LusiardoNiní MarshallAna Maria del Solar is a rich lady who suddenly lands in the street. After a while she lives in the pension where her driver lives.
- DirectorLuis César AmadoriStarsNiní MarshallFrancisco ÁlvarezPablo PalitosNiní is an unemployed actress hired by two lawyers to pretend to be the daughter of a man of money. Lawyers try to blackmail him by inventing him an unrecognized daughter of a past affair. Without realizing it, Niní finishes in a boarding school of girls having to fulfill its role twenty-four hours to the day.
- DirectorLuis Bayón HerreraStarsNiní MarshallAugusto CodecáJuan Carlos ThorryCándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes the most lucky woman of the word because she met a hilarious gallery of character in an art gallery.
- DirectorCarlos SchlieperStarsArturo García BuhrAmalia Sánchez AriñoZoe DucosBased on the play by Alejandro Casona. Mr. Balboa, without his wife's knowledge, one day throws his soulless grandson out of his house. Since then he himself sends letters that the grandson supposedly sent to his grandmother.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torres RíosStarsArmando BoSantiago ArrietaFloren DelbeneThis 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.
- DirectorHugo del CarrilStarsAntonio VilarAna María LynchFrancisco de PaulaChile in the seventeenth century a woman kills her lover because he wants to conquer a priest. A slave commit the murder; when he is hanged religious, discover the truth.
- DirectorDavid José KohonStarsAlberto Fernández de RosaAna María PicchioGloria RainesYoung 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.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsJorge SalcedoSebastián ChiolaTito AlonsoA 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.
- DirectorJuan José JusidStarsLuis BrandoniJuan Carlos GenéAlejandro MarcialWhen 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.
- DirectorManuel RomeroStarsFlorencio ParraviciniTito LusiardoHugo del CarrilRomance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.