Acting
In South America, Artemio, a young knife sharpener, joins a revolutionary movement whose members include Bragueton, an unemployed soldier; Domingo Acevedo, a compulsive gambler; Don Bachetta, a retired anarchist; and Eva, a young French woman with whom Artemio falls madly in love. This small group secretly plans to launch a terrorist attack. Love and friendship sustain the illusion, but passions soon run high in the closed environment of their cohabitation, giving way to the worst of human baseness and proving the ineffectiveness of collective action.
Two hustlers on a journey from the suburbs to the capital. Tarta and Paragua are two street vendors who spend their unfortunate lives, with more sorrow than glory, working in the poorest neighborhoods of Greater Buenos Aires. Times are tough, and the crisis is hitting hard.
Paco knows that his mother died of a terminal illness when he was barely two years old, that his father, Alvaro, has remarried after a long period of mourning, and that his newborn sister will be with him for life. He has a strange tattoo on his forearm, and he knows it was his mother's last message before she left for the first time, because now he knows that death was a step after abandonment.
After being fired from his job, Guillermo and his wife Silvana decide to move to the countryside with their daughter Romina. Along the way, they stop at a farm where they are welcomed by Bjorn, an eccentric Swede. The host's lifestyle awakens a certain "flower power" nostalgia in the couple, evoking fond memories of their youth. What they don't know is that they are being "captured" by a cult.
Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.
It tells of the troubled and difficult relationship between Beatriz, a single mother, and her 11-year-old son Mario. The action takes place in a post-industrial neighborhood of San MartĂn, where Beatriz tries to earn a living as an embroiderer. When he brings shrouds to his house to embroider, the story gains tension and suspense since, according to Mario, the house is full of the dead.
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.
Nora and Javier have been hired to transport a shipment of cocaine in an ambulance. With the help of Wendy, Javier's transvestite brother, they rob a part of the shipment and escape from the police. Moulded by loneliness, indifference and a lack of communication, Nora, Javier and Wendy are three youths with no future who move on the outer rim of society and are helpless in the face of a corrupt power. They hide in El Marquesado, a seaside resort built by the military on dynamited cliffs where Rodolfo and Mercedes, Javier and Wendy's parents, survive by rustling pigs and cows from neighbouring farms. The conflicts and tensions in this marginal family resurface as they are reunited in this remote place with a sinister past.
When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with his favorite adult movie star, Sabrina Love. However, getting there will be half the trouble of meeting Sabrina.
A young man is scammed by an engineer and an ex-hippie who promise to sell a glue that binds any surface he had invented and goes on a journey to the planet of the hippies
The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis family, reduced to a widow and son, tries to hold out against the young, despotic mayor. No less effective then actions are anonymous rumors and accusations, which often stir the inhabitants' moves.
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This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past
A young cameraman of erotic films and an old and forgotten inventor get together to carry on a strange and complex experiment, moved by the theory that the TV antennas could capture different kinds of energies, even ghost magnetic energies.
After their humble dwelling is destroyed by a fire, a marginalized family occupies an abandoned house. From there, they dig a hole to the vault of a neighboring bank.
Friends get together in a country house and reminisce about the "good old times." Some now have grown-up children who accompany them and life is different... or is it? The story unravels quite well with good dialog and superior acting from the entire cast. The movie is philosophical without being bogged down by the some times heavy content. A very refreshing look at life, getting old, being free and always finding ways to share, appreciate and enjoy.
Documentary about José Ber Gelbard, Argentina's Minister of Economy from 1973 to 1974, during the governments of Héctor Cámpora, Juan Domingo Perón, and Isabel Perón.
