Ricardo Piglia
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Los siete locos y los lanzallamas

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.
Burnt Money

Two men from completely different backgrounds confront a gang of swindlers. Norberto Lorenzi and Guillermo Parodi are the two "jokers" who meet and relate with the usual initial distrust. Lorenzo is impelled by the necessity to clear the name of Pérez, his best friend. Parodi, on the other hand, has been called to disperse a ring of "narcos"...
Cops

In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them.
Sleepwalker

A film adaptation of the TV series "Los siete locos y los lanzallamas" by Roberto Arlt.
Erdosain

After 5 years, a man returns to his hometown with the intention of taking revenge on those who drove him out and running a recovering shipyard.
El astillero

Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite the knowledge that she spent two years at a clinic because she was "crazy." Juan sees Ana when he can and trains as a door-to-door salesman, but when the German photographer on the soul project gives him a viewfinder, it changes his life, putting him on the path to his later success as a Hollywood director.
Foolish Heart

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Macedonio Fernández
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Ricardo Piglia en Alphaville
Portrait of the persecution of various intellectuals in the period from the overthrow of MarĂa Estela MartĂnez de PerĂłn to the Falklands War.
Forbidden

Underground and gay writer Carlos Correas left a number of questions after his suicide. A few manuscripts, a diary, letters, and the traumatic screen version of a short story promise to be the parts of a puzzle that pieces together the experience of an intellectual life painfully argentinian.
Before the Law

Those who were closest to him give us a different Rodolfo Walsh: brave, womanizer, talented, whiskey-loving, obsessive, militant, full of doubts... but fundamentally human.