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Javier Torre

Javier Torre

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Biography

Javier Torre (Buenos Aires, August 6, 1950) is an Argentine film director, producer and scriptwriter who has developed an extensive artistic career. He is the son of the film director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and the grandson of the also director Leopoldo Torres Ríos. He has a degree in Letters from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. He was Director of the General San Martín Cultural Center from 1983 to 1988, a period in which he had a great development, and later a civil servant in the Argentine Cinema Foundation of the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (better known as INCAA).

Known For

El derrotado
N/A

Julio works for an accounting firm, at the beginning of the '50s. Celina, his wife, married him without knowing that he was addicted to gambling. This problem leads him to increasingly denigrating situations. Celina, who has lost contact with her upper-class world, meets a friend from the past again and meets Alberto, who seduces her. Little by little, Julio enters into an irreversible debacle.

El derrotado

2011
The Tombs
6.0

"El Pollo," a 13-year-old child in reform school, witnesses and experiences the brutalization of the guards and the other inmates.

The Tombs

1991
Historias de terror
5.5

No description available.

Historias de terror

2004
Un amor de Borges
7.0

Estela Canto and Jorge Luis Borges meet in 1944. She is an intelligent and beautiful woman. He, still an unknown writer, is shy and very attached to his mother. They fall in love, or at least Borges does.

Un amor de Borges

2000
Fiebre amarilla
7.0

During the yellow fever epidemic of 1870, a fugitive enters the mansion where three women had locked themselves in.

Fiebre amarilla

1982
Tropic Pathway
6.4

Follow the adventures of Kiss of the Spider Woman scribe Manuel Puig portrayed by Fabio Aste, who left Argentina after being persecuted for his homosexuality and settled in exile in Rio de Janiero in this intimate drama from filmmaker Javier Torre. Though life in Rio was full of romance and adventure for Manuel, the controversy surrounding him grew ever more intense, until the only way out was a trip back to his native Argentina. In the years that followed, Puig eventually made the painful decision to move to Mexico, where he spent his final days until death caught up with him at the age of fifty-eight.

Tropic Pathway

2005
The Mafia
6.3

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

1972
Lola Mora
10.0

The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

Lola Mora

1996
El almuerzo
N/A

On May 5, 1976, writer Haroldo Conti was kidnapped by the military dictatorship, which had taken over Argentina that same year. Two weeks later, the newly elected de facto president, Jorge Rafael Videla, invited several figures of national culture to a private luncheon at the Government House: Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato, Horacio Ratti, Father Castellani, and the President's General, General Villarreal. The film narrates the historic event shared by these figures during one of the most disastrous moments in our history.

El almuerzo

2015
El camino de los sueños
8.0

Ignacio Silva returns to his hometown, a small port in southern Argentina. There he reunites with his memories and with a friend, and meets three women who lead him to see life differently.

El camino de los sueños

1993
Impunidad
N/A

Gastón (Carlos Echeverría) arrives in Necochea. There he meets Julia (Leticia Bredice), a young veterinarian who, after discovering that the foot-and-mouth disease vaccines are adulterated, is found hanged in a shed. He will be blamed for the crime and will try to understand what happened, while avoiding being lynched.

Impunidad

2008
The Angry Toy
9.0

A 16-year-old young man, is fond of weapons and the manufacture of explosives. He participates in robberies and is persecuted by the Police, so his group of friends dissolves and he goes to live in another neighborhood and starts working in a bookstore. Dissatisfied, without expectations and full of resentment, Silvio tries to set the place on fire and flees through the city

The Angry Toy

1998
Gombrowicz or seduction (Represented by his disciples)
8.5

Gombrowicz or seduction rebuilds, from the margins of the official film, the figure of Witold Gombrowicz. Peripheral par excellence, at the end of the 30's the renowned author of Ferdydurke and transatlantic came to stop the Argentina and stayed here for thirty years. Inevitably fragmentary, given the personality on the run of the own Gombrowicz (and the own Fischerman, In short)

Gombrowicz or seduction (Represented by his disciples)

1986