After years away, Ariel (Alan Sabbagh) returns to Buenos Aires seeking to reconnect with his father Usher, who founded a charity foundation in Once, the city’s bustling Jewish district where Ariel spent his youth.
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Tag Archives: Argentina
Tapas (2005) José Corbacho, Juan Cruz, Ángel de Andrés López, María Galiana, Elvira Mínguez, Comedy, Drama
The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar.
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Hombre mirando al sudeste / Man Facing Southeast (1986) Eliseo Subiela, Lorenzo Quinteros, Hugo Soto, Inés Vernengo, Drama, Sci-Fi
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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Despabílate amor / Wake Up Love (1996) Eliseo Subiela, Juan Leyrado, Darío Grandinetti, Soledad Silveyra, Comedy, Romance
Ricardo is contacting friends that he knew 25 years ago when rock n’ roll was flourishing, and Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship. His best buddy from those days, Ernesto, is glad to hear from Ricardo but astounded to learn that he has married Ana, the great love of Ernesto’s life.
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Desnuda en la arena (1969) Armando Bo, Isabel Sarli, Victor Bo, Jorge Porcel, Comedy, Erotic
Sarli plays the role of Alicia who is left behind with a young son when her husband goes to Panama to work. She has affairs with various men, which lead to extortion.
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Tensión sexual, Volumen 1: Volátil / Sexual Tension Volatile (2012) Marco Berger, Marcelo Mónaco, Lucas Lagré, Mario Verón, Javier De Pietro, Drama
Have you ever met someone who made your body heat up, get a little nervous and sweaty, and made your crotch stir a bit? Sexual Tension: Volatile will reignite those lustful feelings as it weaves six scintillating experiences of men in various stages of nudity and many forms of erotic male bonding. A pulsating, sexually-charged thrill ride, the film begins as a young man feels the adrenaline rush of his sexy tattooist’s needle in “Ari” while in “The Cousin,” a geeky, cute boy finds a hot Summer afternoon triggering his taboo desire for his Speedo-clad cousin. Two straight buddies literally show each other how to make love to a woman in “The Other One,” while a man with ‘Broken Arms’ receives a sensual sponge bath from a male nurse. “Love” is questionable when a broken shower brings a married man and a hairy, innkeeper together when they least expect it and in “Workout” two muscular men, ‘sexting’ pictures to some hot chicks, begin to shed their clothes and inhibitions.
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Il richiamo / The Call (2009) Stefano Pasetto, Sandra Ceccarelli, Francesca Inaudi, César Bordón, Drama, Romance
Stefano Pasetto’s finely balanced tale of two women from different generations and very different sensibilities provides a surprising answer. Frustrated in each of their relationships, the two women get together and leave town, boldly striking out on their own and forming an indelible bond despite their many differences. This is only the beginning of a wonderfully liberating experience that defies narrative expectations.
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El tercero / The Third One (2014) Rodrigo Guerrero, Carlos Echevarría, Emiliano Dionisi, Nicolás Armengol, Drama, Romance
After meeting in a chat room, Fede (22) arrives at a downtown building to have an intimate encounter with a gay couple older than him. As the night unfolds, Fede has an intense and telling experience. The next morning finds him different, as if suddenly he had found a new possible way to love.
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Sin hijos / No Kids (2015) Ariel Winograd, Diego Peretti, Maribel Verdú, Guadalupe Manent, Comedy, Romance
Gabriel has been separated for four years now. Since then his 8 year old daughter is the center of his life. Completely avoiding getting involved in a new romantic relationship, Gabriel focus all his energy in his daughter and work. This plan gets spoiled when Vicky, a platonic love from his adolescence, now a beautiful and independent woman appears in his life. When romance is about to start, she puts one condition: She would never get involved with a man with children. She just does not want children in her life. When Gabriel is confronted with this, he says he has no children. From that moment on his life becomes a torment, playing every trick at hand in order to hide his child and belongings from Vicky in every date.
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Embrace of the Serpent / El abrazo de la serpiente (2016) Ciro Guerra, Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Adventure, Biography, Drama
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
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Los suicidas (2005) Juan Villegas, Laura Agorreca, Eugenia Alonso, Leonora Balcarce, Drama
Daniel es un periodista al que le encargan un artículo a partir de la fotografía de un presunto suicida. Al iniciar la investigación, conoce a Marcela, la enigmática fotógrafa que le asignan como compañera, con la que no ha mantenido antes ninguna relación, y de la que comienza lentamente a enamorarse.
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La mosca en la ceniza / A Fly in the Ashes (2009) Gabriela David, Luis Machín, Luciano Cáceres, Cecilia Rossetto, Drama
Two rural Argentinean girls head for the capital with horrifying consequences in “A Fly in the Ashes,” a punchy drama about human trafficking that neatly balances grim social realism with a good story, an urgent message and a memorable perf from a Maria Laura Caccamo as an urban street saint. Helmer Gabriela David has wisely larded her joyless little tale with strong characterizations and suspense, and the result has generated decent fest play on the Spanish circuit. Further exposure is warranted for an item that, while local in treatment, carries universal resonance.
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Noche / Night (2013) Leonardo Brzezicki, Flavia Noguera, Jair Toledo, María Soldi, Drama
The six friends of suicide victim Miguel gather to clear out his things, guess his motives and celebrate his life. Uneasy and sultry atmosphere in this psychological drama whose soundtrack surrealistically erases the boundaries between past and present.
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La Patagonia rebelde / Rebellion in Patagonia (1974) Héctor Olivera, Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Drama, History
In 1920, workmen of Patagonia (Argentina), grouped into anarchist and socialist societies, decide to strike demanding better working conditions. Among the workers there are numerous European immigrants acting as ideological ferment of their peers. The situation is unsustainable and Yrigoyen government sent from Buenos Aires, Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order …
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Nacido y criado / Born and Bred (2006) Pablo Trapero, Fernanda de Almeida, Federico Esquerro, Martina Gusman, Drama
In Patagonia, a successful interior designer’s life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.
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