The Whore and the Whale 2004

A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for answers brings Vera to the Argentine Patagonia.

Pasajeros de una pesadilla 1984

A family consisting of parents, two sons and a teenage daughter falls apart morally.

In Retirement 1984

A former Triple A (Argentine anti-communist alliance) is abandoned by his former colleagues after the Argentine dictatorship falls, in the course of his solitude he slowly becomes more insane and falls further into dementia, at the same time as one of the parents of the many children that he murdered and tortured during the dictatorship persecute him for revenge.

Bodas de cristal 1975

Disputas en la cama 1972

A series of sketches with the themes of infidelity, sexuality and divorce.

El ayudante 1971

A bond develops between a truck driver and his newly-assigned helper, a young man who happens to be deaf.

The Slowness 1969

A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicated emotional and economically. These circumstances thwart his rebelliousness.

En mi casa mando yo 1968

Tormented by the messy and frivolous life of his family, a father is forced to move away from home.

Voy a hablar de la esperanza 1966

A young writer wants to make a different cinema and a director presents a plot divided into 3 episodes.

El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres 1964

Circe 1964

Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others.

El romance de un gaucho 1961

Un guapo del 900 1960

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

Fin de fiesta 1960

This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.

La caída 1959

A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for the student, but the couple experiences problems when she declines to leave what he refers to as "that lunatic asylum."

Alas de mi Patria 1939

Semi-documentary film in which a fictional plot is narrated linked to events that really occurred in the history of Argentine aviation between 1908 and 1938.