368 Films & TV Shows Set In Argentina
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A Wall of Silence
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.
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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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Scream of Stone
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 ChileIn this battle, there can be no winners — A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.
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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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Apartment Zero
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThe owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.
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Eversmile, New Jersey
🇦🇷 ArgentinaTraveling dentist O'Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the 'Eversmile' foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against caries, but also against fear, ignorance, indifference - and established antediluvian dentists. During a stop at a lonesome garage he meets Estella, who is supposed to marry a few days later. However she'd rather come with him - to meet a former boyfriend in another town, she says. Expecting problems, he refuses to take her, but she tricks him into it and then tries hard to convince him of her qualities and let her stay with him.
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Two to Tango
🇦🇷 ArgentinaJim Conrad, a reluctant hitman, is ordered to Buenos Aires to complete one last contract. The task becomes complicated when the intended victim proves to be a well-protected man accompanied by a beautiful mistress who has caught Conrad's eye.
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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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El amor es una mujer gorda
🇦🇷 ArgentinaJosé is a young journalist who gets fired over refusing to write an article about an American film crew, overdramatizing the situation in Argentina. When he goes looking for his old girlfriend, he runs into the crew again.
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Man Facing Southeast
🇦🇷 ArgentinaSomewhere Between The Insane And The Unreal Lies The Mystery Of The Man Facing Southeast. — A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.
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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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Les longs manteaux
🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇦🇷 ArgentinaA reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.
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Waiting for the Hearse
🇦🇷 ArgentinaAn out of the ordinary weekend in the life of an Argentine family — Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?
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The Official Story
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sA truth too frightening to ignore — Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
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The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
🇦🇷 Argentina1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
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Camila
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1840s The 1820sLove against all odds — In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both the church and Camila's family are enraged, vowing to hunt down the lovers for a capital crime. Based on a true story.
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Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1930sHistorical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England.
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The Honorary Consul
🇦🇷 ArgentinaFirst they betrayed him. Then they gambled with his life. — Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
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Time for Revenge
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sAn honest man is something very dangerous nowadays. — A union organizing demolition worker and a friend of his decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for setting up a fake accident. Because of a miscalculation the friend dies, but he sticks with the plan and demands a big sum of money as indemnity. When the company refuses to pay, determined to prove the worker is lying, he is forced to make a tragic decision in order to win.
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The Power of Darkness
🇦🇷 ArgentinaCinema honored a great book! — A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people.
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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.
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