Luis Pico Estrada
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A charming racecar driver is visited by his 20-year-old son who is nothing like his father. Solemn and introverted, the boy is shown the ways of sensual pleasure by his father's mistress, but he falls in love with another young woman. Intending to marry the girl, the young man takes the relationship very seriously. His father, however, believes the boy should have a more carefree lifestyle and decides to intervene by seducing his own son's fiance. This action proves to be a tremendous mistake.
Primero yo

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.
MartĂn Fierro

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impunity.
Diary of a Pig War

The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.
The Mafia

The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
The Knight of the Sword

After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.
The Seven Madmen

The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.
Painted Lips

The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", a real-life Argentine gangster in the '30s.
Kid Head

The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century.
GĂĽemes, la tierra en armas

A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.