86 Films & TV Shows Set In Argentina During The 20th Century
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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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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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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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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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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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Nosotras también estuvimos
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sDuring the Malvinas war, more than a thousand Argentine soldiers were wounded. Many were cared for by 14 nurses in a mobile hospital located in Comodoro Rivadavia. After 37 years of silence, three of them return to the place to tell their stories.
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Dos Gringos
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sThe photographer and filmmaker Guillermo Cantón premiered “Dos Gringos”, a one-hour documentary on the history of the last 100% Argentine automaker: Industrias Eduardo Sal-Lari (IES). Based on Citroën products, IES manufactured low-cost vehicles in the Buenos Aires town of Mercedes, between 1983 and 1990.
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The House in Argüello
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 1980sAfter the appearance her uncle’s remains, disappeared in Argentina military dictatorship, Valentina (documentary’s director, born in jail) explores the stories of her grandmother-Mother of Plaza de Mayo and her mother-political prisoner- to find those memories that her mind does not seem to find.
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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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Condor Operation
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sOperation Condor recounts the multinational scheme for the elimination of leaders of the South American left devised and executed by the dictatorships of the Southern Cone of America with the support and ideological inspiration of the CIA, which reached its climax in the 1970s. The Latin American military that They seized power and imposed on their peoples a regime of terror based on the disappearance of people, torture, murder and psychological warfare.
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Algo con una mujer
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950sIt’s 1955. Rosa a skillful seamstress becomes the only witness of a murder. In a time of political tension in Argentina, the crime’s investigation will trigger the final resolution of the conflict and sealed Rosa’s destiny for good. A typical crime film with the exception that the detective is a housewife.
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The Rabbits' House
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sArgentina, 1975. Laura is only eight years old, but she knows that to survive you have to keep quiet. She shares her days with her mother and the other activists in a house where the clandestine printing of the Evita Montonera is hidden.
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Madre Baile
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950s The 1940sThe story of Leonor Marzano, creator of the cuarteto — After composing the theme that gives its name to her second solo album, “Madre baile”, Vivi Pozzebón becomes interested in the ethno-musical origins of the cuarteto and the figure of Leonor Marzano, who knew how to mix the tarantella and the paso doble on her piano to give rise to the characteristic rhythm of Córdoba: the cuartero. From here comes this record about the origin of the cuarteto from the 1940s to the present.
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Splinters
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1990sOn 3 November 1995, the Rio Tercero Military Factory exploded in Cordoba, prompting thousands of projectiles to fire and spread in the surrounding villages, in a tragedy that would leave seven dead and hundreds injured and affected. At the time, Natalia Garayalde was a twelve-year-old girl who lived with her family near the place, and he was still playing filming with the video camera her father had bought, when she recorded the immediate moments of the burst, while her family escaped the explosions, as well as the daily activities of the village in the days and weeks that follow. Twenty-five years later, that material captured from a girl's candid and surprised gaze it becomes a thoughtful and painful testimony about the family, the destruction of a city, the traces of horror, the sinister truth about the case.
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Peregrino
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 2020sRicardo Soulé, 67 years old, Argentine musician from the mythical band Vox Dei who released "La Biblia" in the 70s, a conceptual work in the key of progressive rock, achieving immediate recognition. At present, Soulé records an album with his new band, goes on tour invited by a very convincing band, practices the training of falcons, plays the violin every day. Still, 4 of her 5 children live in Europe and their place in the world is still debated.
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The Two Popes
🇻🇦 Holy See 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 1950s The 2000s The 2010sFrustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
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Buenos Aires al Pacífico
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sThere was once, in 1910, a train able to cross the wild territories between Argentina and Chile, making possible a mythical journey, joining two oceans with a single ticket, from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso. The last trip of the BAP was in 1979; in the nineties, its various branches were permanently abandoned. Since then, travelers have been inhabiting the railway landscape as they dream, desire, remember or yearn: as part of their own being and national history.
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Héroxs del 88
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sIn the year 1988, Chuchu Fasanelli and Walter Kolm, two 24- and 20-year-old young men, founders of the Radio Trípoli label, released Invasión 88, the first punk and hardcore compilation in Argentina. This documentary tells that story, that of the birth of a cry of freedom in the shape of translucent vinyl.
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Killing the Dead
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sParaguay 1978, during Stroessner’s dictatorship, Pastor and Dionisio work burying bodies illicitly. In Argentina, the World Cup is being held. One morning, among the bodies, they find Mario, who is still alive. They know they must kill him but the problem is: in spite of what they are doing, they have never killed anyone before. A storm indicates that the winter is coming while the destiny of the three men is determined during the World Cup final. Both Pastor and Dionisio are the last link of a chain in the terrible system that has as a result in all the missing people.
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Pasco, avanzar más allá de la muerte
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sOn March 21, 1975, Triple A kidnaps, tortures, shoots and dynamite eight popular militants in the San José de Temperley neighborhood. This traumatic event is known as the Pasco Massacre and is part of a terrifying rehearsal room that pre-announces the so-called State Terrorism.
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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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