86 Films & TV Shows Set In Argentina During The 20th Century
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The German Friend
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950sIt’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a friendship with her next-door neighbour Friedrich over the whereabouts of her family dog. She is the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants to Argentina, he is the son of a senior SS officer, a tragic political legacy from whose shadow both characters struggle to escape over the next three decades. Following the teenaged Friedrich to Germany, Sulamit finds him caught up in the radical politics of late-1960s student life; and she’s forced to make important decisions about her attitude to her homeland when Friedrich returns to Argentina to join the fight against the military junta.
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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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Clandestine Childhood
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sJuan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.
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The Secret in Their Eyes
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 1990sA retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
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From Beginning to End
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sTwo brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
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Alien Autopsy
Ohio California Florida England 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1990s The 2000sPrepare To Be Stitched Up! — Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
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Chronicle of a Escape
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sAn Inside View of Political Detainees — The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.
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Blessed by Fire
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sArgentine film about the experiences of conscripts in the Falklands War.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile 🇵🇪 Peru 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1950sBased on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
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Whisky Romeo Zulú
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1990sWhisky Romeo Zulu tells the story prior to the crash of LAPA Boeing 737 that on August 31, 1999, caught fire after hitting an embankment in the center of Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. The disaster changed the history of civil and commercial aviation in Argentina, and the film recounts, from the standpoint of the director, a former airline pilot-how in some countries the safety of the flight is incredibly precarious.
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18-j
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1990sA collection of 10 short films made by known Argentine directors on the AMIA bombing of July 18, 1994.
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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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Kamchatka
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sThe movie shows us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
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The Escape
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1920sFreedom is an irresistible instinct. — In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.
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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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Anarchists
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1910s The 1920s The 1930sArmed based on photography, period films, archival materials and testimonies of survivors, family members and historians, the documentary accurately and exquisitely reconstructs the course of the “expropriating anarchists” in the Río de la Plata and specifically in Montevideo del First third of the 20th century.
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Mars Attacks!
Kansas Kentucky Nevada New York District of Columbia Mars 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1990sNice planet. We'll take it! — 'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy homage to science fiction films of the '50s and '60s.
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Evita
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThe Most Anticipated Motion Picture Event of The Year. — The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
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Eva Perón
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950s The 1940sDrama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33.
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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 Journey
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1990sA young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.
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Naked Tango
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1920sWhen a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
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The Girlfriend
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sSince childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.
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Sur
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sAfter the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.
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Miss Mary
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1930sA young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power.
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