368 Films & TV Shows Set In Argentina
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The Bearer of Sorrows
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA man travels to the Argentine north following the leads of a mythical pre-Columbian entity in charge of the relatives’ sorrow. The roads at night, the inns and the large salina of Zelarayán’s poem reject anthropological shortcuts and build up a mystery that is perhaps as formidable as the very bearer of sorrow.
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Red Star
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1940sThe investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.
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New Year Blues
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇦🇷 ArgentinaThis film tells about the twists and turns of the lives of four lovers who must each overcome different fears and problems as they face the beginning of a new year. The four pairs consist of Ji Ho and Hyo Young, Jae Heon and Jin Ah, Yong Chan and Yao Lin, and Rae Hwan and Oh Wol.
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Bad Christmas
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA peaceful Christmas Eve is interrupted when a thief breaks into a villa. When the family’s little daughter mistakes him for Santa Claus and asks him to fulfill her Christmas wish, he will be forced to perform a miracle that will redeem secrets from the past.
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The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet
🇦🇷 ArgentinaSebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and he embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.
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A Common Crime
🇦🇷 ArgentinaCecilia is too afraid one night to let her housekeeper’s son into the house. The next day his dead body is found.
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The Intruder
🇦🇷 ArgentinaInés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. While on an idyllic trip she suffers a traumatic episode that she can’t recover from. She has trouble sleeping and experiences very vivid nightmares as strange sounds begin to emerge from inside her. Awake, Inés feels suddenly surrounded by people that seem to come from her dreams.
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The Longest Night
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2000sInspired by true events, the film recounts the story of the most notorious serial rapist in the history of Argentina, who lived in the college city of Córdoba, where he attacked more than 93 women between 1985 and 2004 while he held a parallel life as a dedicated husband and father.
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Implosión
🇦🇷 ArgentinaTwo friends embark on a investigation to find the classmate who, fifteen years ago, unleashed a massacre at their institute.
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The Inevitable
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA family takes refuge in an old country house the last hours before the announced final judgment. But the unexpected appearance of an intruder, who claims to be a savior, puts their faith and destiny at risk.
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A House Without Curtains
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sMaría Estela Martínez, better known as Isabel Perón, achieved what Evita Perón never could: From an unknown cabaret dancer she became the first female president of the Americas. But after surviving prison and exile under South America’s most brutal military dictatorship, Isabel was forgotten in popular memory. “Una casa sin cortinas” (A House Without Curtains) uncovers why Isabel still haunts Argentina today.
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Sex and Revolution
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sIn the early ‘70s, in Argentina, a group of homosexuals decided to confront the status quo. With testimonies from its survivors as its denouncement source, Sex and Revolution brings back the voices of those who thought in order to be recognized as political actors in a society that wasn’t prepared for them.
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The Attachment Diaries
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sArgentina, 1970s. A desperate young woman goes to a clinic to have a clandestine abortion. As her pregnancy is already through the fourth month, the doctor refuses. Instead, she proposes to sell the baby to one of her clients and offers to provide shelter in her house until the child is born. Their disturbed personalities will become intertwined in a strange and dangerous relationship.
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Dreaming Martin
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA group of artists and friends of the late painter Martín Santiago meet to make his home becoming in an art museum and cultural space. — A group of artists and friends of the late painter Martín Santiago meet to make his dream come true of his home becoming in an art museum and cultural space for the town of Deán Funes, Córdoba. The group is led by the artist's disciple, the painter Mario Sanzano, who heads the initiative. He is also accompanied by artists from the area and friends of Martín Santiago. Despite not having official resources, they carry out the feat of recovering the work and turning the space into a cultural center for the city.
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Copacabana Papers
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sSergio de Loof created the most relevant and groundbreaking night venues of the late 80s, 90s and early 00s. Places where everyone could find the more inner and cherished self. To be oneself, without fear or rejection. Then, Argentina got struck by a financial crisis and Sergio tackled his own personal breakdown through drug abuse and the consequences of being a politically incorrect character.
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El fulgor
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThe carnival is coming soon. We witness the ritual of “cleaning the meat” performed by the “gauchos” who unfold their knives. The bucolic landscape mixes with the city streets. Slowly, everything fills with colour, feathers and semi-naked men. Face masks begin to cover the faces and alcohol disinhibit the bodies.
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The Carnival
🇦🇷 ArgentinaUnleash your inner exhibitionist. — Since they were children, every summer they used to participate together in the traditional carnivals of their hometown. This magical celebration, transform men of the community into dionysiac figures with makeup, coloured costumes, glitter and feathers. Alcohol, friendship and parties out of control become the limelight. Boundaries get blurred with the heat of the sun at the edge of the imposing Paraná River.
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When the Olympus Collides With the Pampas
🇦🇷 Argentina EnglandA septuagenarian artist must face the passing of time in his works, his body and to confront his own fears. Naked Colossi, strong arms and big muscles struggle against oblivion. They fade into the blue and vanish like birds in the sky. A portrait of Ricardo Cinalli, shot between London and the Argentinian Pampas. An artist of the Renaissance amidst the 21st century.
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El universo de Clarita
🇦🇷 ArgentinaClarita is 13 years old and lives in Rosario with her parents and sisters. She has an unusual curiosity and a defining passion: astronomy.
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Parakultural: 1986-1990
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sThe Parakultural is a mark, a lost dream, a battlefield. Those who never attended the Parakultural, shelter of original artists, home of an orphan audience and a cursed monument of reconquered democracy, do not know what they missed. The film is the portrait of a generation that doesn’t forget.
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Yo no es otro
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA portrait of the everyday life of the great Argentinian painter Remo Bianchedi. We see him in his lonely house, spending time with a friend, always working in the most absolute of isolations—an author that perseveres in secret, like a monk, removed from the art world, its advantages and its whims.
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(upa) una pandemia argentina
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThe universe of Argentine independent cinema. The imposture. The unfulfilled dreams. Confinement—the capability for irony, the skill for comedy and the sagacity of UPA! Una película argentina (2007) are back, renovated, to explore the whims of a microworld still in turmoil.
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Channel 54
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sAn investigation about a transmission parallel to that of man’s arrival to the Moon, captured by a radio ham from Avellaneda, confronts the director of Channel 54 with a series of conspiracy theories and mysterious figures. Doing so also means questioning the nature of the images.
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A fines de agosto
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA group of friendly characters get tangled in the streets of Buenos Aires between jobs, infidelities, plays, books and musical instruments. A young director takes refuge in movie theaters and declares a sudden muteness. Despite his own and other people's pressures, he refuses to direct a script that he hates. In the end, he makes an unexpected decision.
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Antarctic bear
🇦🇷 ArgentinaConnection between a statue and the history of Cordoba — A man and a woman walk through the night of the city of Cordoba following clues left by an old man in a series of small wooden boxes. The clues reveal information about the city's statues and their mysterious links to local history.
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