15 Films & TV Shows Set In Argentina During The 1960s
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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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Private Fiction
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇮🇹 Italy The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sOver several days and nights, an actor and an actress read the correspondence between Torcuato and Kamala, the film director's parents, he from Argentina, and she from India. The letters, encompassing the decades from the 50s to the 70s, refer to love and idealism, record world travels, talk about socialism and psychoanalysis, about pain and broken dreams. Their reading reveals a relationship between the actors, with similarities and differences. Meanwhile, with his own daughter, the director sets about solving the puzzle of the family memory, an intimate twentieth-century tale.
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Lamb of God
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sA boarding school where they are all wicked, except the priests. — North Argentina, 1961. Only a few priests and interns remain in a secluded run-down boys religious boarding school. Arrives Father Martin, who's intentions are not as clear as he claims they are.
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Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field. The Documentary
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sTucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before Romero's “Night of the Living Dead” was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot “Zombies en el cañaveral,” which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.
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Operation Finale
🇮🇱 Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sAfter World War II, Hitler’s deadliest lieutenant escaped. — In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
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Desire
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sLucía and Ofelia, two sisters, finally meet after 7 years of cold relationships upon Lucia 's wedding. But when Juan, Lucia's husband, and Ofelia meet, they feel like a disruptive fantasy have enchanted their minds and bodies...
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Red Gringo
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile The 1950s The 1960sDocumentary concerning North American pop/rock musician Dean Reed who achieves fame in Latin America in the 50s and 60s
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The German Neighbor
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇮🇱 Israel The 1960s The 2010sIn 1960 Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial. In 2016, Renate -a young German translator who lives in Buenos Aires- is hired to translate it. Her work shows the unusual life and remarkable trial defense of Eichmann.
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Amapola
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960s The 1980sA romantic reimagining of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set against the turbulent backdrops of the 1962 Argentinian military coup and the 1982 war for the Falkland Islands.
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The German Doctor
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sNothing is more mysterious than the blood — Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinian family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodging house by the Nahuel Huapi lake. Unaware of his true identity, they accept him as their first guest.
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X-Men: First Class
Nevada Virginia District of Columbia Florida England 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇵🇱 Poland 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960s The 1940sWitness the moment that will change our world. — Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
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Valentin
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sCupid just turned eight. — Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive father.
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Burnt Money
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1960sBased on a true story that for 35 years was kept secret... — Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of crime history. After a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody, the two men must flee. It is not long before the police are surrounding the building they are in and they must confront their demons to survive.
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The Man Who Captured Eichmann
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sSet in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany to Argentina and took the name Ricardo Clement. He was wanted for the murders of both Europeans and Jews during the Holocaust. Learning of Eichmann's living in Argentina, the Mossad sends a team to capture him, led by agent Peter Malkin. The standing order: bring Eichmann back alive to Israel for trial.
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The House on Garibaldi Street
🇮🇱 Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sWhen Israeli officials learn than Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
