Juan Bautista Stagnaro
Directing
Known For

Alina is a movie sound engineer. One day she receives an offer to do the direct sound for an erotic film featuring Maria Black, a famous star of the genre who had already retired. When Maria has a heart attack and dies in the middle of the shoot, and the producers decide not to call the police, a series of sinister and unexpected events are unleashed that will endanger everyone's lives.
Mar.IA

On the outskirts of a provincial town, Pajaro is determined to enter the Guinness Book of Records by breaking the longest bike-ride record. He rides around the fountain in the square with the help of his friend, Lopecito. He is willing to face many challenges, in attaining this new record. Will this race open the path to love for him, and for his redemption?
The Amateur

A drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife, but falls in love with her.
The Perfect Husband

In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.
Camila

When the Germans invade Poland during World War II, a family of Jews seeks refuge in a well. Based on real events, the three survivors moved to Buenos Aires in 1952.
Under the Earth

A 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.
Miss Mary

A thirty year old man returns from South America to his native village, in the mountains of Yugoslavia, to find his spouse and take her along. He chooses the youngest daughter of self-supporting Jewish woman. The deceit gets discovered on the way to South America. Seven poor girls, among whom is his future wife, are imprisoned in ship's deck. He took them, promising rich marriage, and his real intention is to employ them in bordello houses of Buenos Aires, where the girls, not knowing the language, would be left to his mercy.
The Way South

The life of federal judge Raúl Lombardi and his journalist son, Marcos, changes forever when they become entangled in a web of corruption and drug trafficking involving law enforcement officers, judges, and other high-ranking officials.
The Fury

A cartoonist and painter who can not stand out and make a living, among other things, as a photographer of news magazines and a beautiful young woman who comes to Buenos Aires from inside the country to try to make it as a model and actress, living a love as passionate as fraught with disagreements.
A Day in Paradise

Film based on the life of Dr. Salvador Mazza, who, with a group of professionals, conducts an investigation to discover the antidote to a mysterious illness whose carrier is a nocturnal insect. A Mazza was regarded as the first doctor who fought the deadly Chagas disease in Argentina.
Casas de fuego

A collection of 10 short films made by known Argentine directors on the AMIA bombing of July 18, 1994.
18-j

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Il morso del ramarro

The spiritual journey of a man with a debt that cannot be paid. In a Korean supermarket not too important, a small embezzlement is discovered. Luciano, a young man who works there, is pressured by the Koreans to return the money he stole in less than twenty-four hours.
No Escape

In the aftermath of the May Revolution, which sparked the end of Spanish colonial rule and the establishment of the first independent government in Buenos Aires, revolutionary leader Juan José Castelli is given the order to oversee the execution of former viceroy Santiago de Liniers. This pushes Castelli into a deep moral conflict, forcing him to confront the tension between revolutionary justice and personal conscience, as well as the human cost of political change.
Tiger Head

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El agujero

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Mi mejor escena

Silvia Monteferrante, a young literature professor, suddenly finds herself embroiled in the investigation into the death of her ex-husband, a police sub-inspector. His disappearance also leads to the loss of funds belonging to an organization embedded within the police force itself, of which her ex-husband was a member. She must retrace his last movements, unaware that she is being used as bait and the only way to find the location where the organization's funds are physically hidden. But nothing, not even death, is what it seems.
Natalia Natalia

Argentina, 1880. A group of exhausted soldiers sails down the Pilcomayo River. A man at the head of the group hesitates. It's Colonel Luis Jorge Fontana. The lives of many men depend on his decision, and he knows it very well. The territory of a country isn't something that falls from the sky: the borders drawn on maps are the product, at some point in history, of the will and determination of a few men; and Fontana was one of those men.
Fontana, la frontera interior

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El Espia

Several short films from the first class of graduates of the National School of Experimentation and Film Production (ENERC), from 1965. 55 years telling stories.