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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world-until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma's curiosity about her father's past,...
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
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Description
An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, she begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political prisoner. When she attempts to unearth the truth, her investigation reveals levels of political corruption so abhorrent that the illusions of her past life are irrevocably shattered.
Publisher
Distributed by Studio Latino
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Mamá tiene ochenta y dos años y su hijo Jaime, cincuenta. Jaime tiene mujer, dos hijos, una hermosa casa, dos autos y una suegra que atender. Un día Jaime se queda sin empleo por razones de ajuste. Jaime y su mujer son los dueños del departamento donde vive Mamá. Tendrán que pedirle a mama que deje el departamento para poderlo vender, solo que cuando Jaime llega a darle las malas noticias a su madre esta le tiene e el una sorpresa mas grande.
Jaime...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin, decides to write a novel based on an unresolved rape and murder case, which still haunts him. Ben shares his plans with Irene, a judge and former colleague he has secretly been in love with for years. But Benjamin's search for the truth puts him at the center of a judicial nightmare, as the mystery of the heinous crime continues to unfold in the present, and tests the limits of a man who seeks...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Teresa, a former maid, embarks on a journey through the desert. During her first stop, in the land of the miraculous "Saint Correa", she loses her bag with all her belongings. This unexpected incident leads her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman and the only person who can help Teresa find her bag. What seemed like the end of her world will ultimately prove to be her salvation. Nominated for a Golden Camera Award and a Un Certain...
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything returns to normal. That is until a gruesome discovery is...
8) Cautiva
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed...
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
After Ramón loses his job as a restaurant cook during Argentina's economic crisis, his wife Lili suffers a nervous breakdown. They will lose their house unless something drastic is done. Desperate, Ramón accepts a job in Lili's name - and clothes - to serve as a maid to a rich family.
Publisher
Distributed by Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
A man goes to unusual lengths to get out of his unhappy marriage as he lacks the courage to ask his wife for a divorce. He hires a womanizer to romance her and woo her away. He hopes she will be the one who asks for a divorce once she realizes that she no longer loves him.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them on along desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva, Enzo and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilth, to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring "the German doctor"...
Publisher
Distributed by Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Four sophisticated and charismatic thieves plot to steal $12 million and flee to Argentina. The plan goes off without a hitch, with one exception. When they try to convert the money into Argentinean pesos, masked bandits suddenly appear and rob them of their loot. Now the four thieves will have to find out where their plan went wrong and who betrayed them.
13) Lion's den
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Julia gives birth to a son after she is sent to the penitentiary for the murder of her lover. Fellow inmate Marta becomes her ally, while her mother Sofia is her opponent. As Marta attempts to teach Julia how to be a mother in the least appropriate place, her mother attempts to gain custody so the child can grow up outside of prison. The duel between Julia and her mother expresses the dilemma of what is better for the child, life with his mother in...
14) Valentin
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
Valentin is a nine-year-old boy whose feuding parents have left him to be raised by his eccentric grandmother. With his father visiting only occasionally, Valentin is left to look to the other men in the neighborhood for father figures, and to replace his absent mother, he warms to Leticia, one of his father's many short-term girlfriends. When he tells her personal secrets about his father, however, Valentin jeopardizes their relationship. One of...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Español
Description
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is "one about love".
17) Operation finale
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thrilling true story of the secret mission led by Israeli intelligence agent Peter Malkin to infiltrate Argentina and capture Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the plans that sent millions of innocent Jews to their deaths during World War II, and bring him to justice.
Publisher
Cinemateca--Condor Media Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Español
Description
Recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila O'Gorman, who falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez, in 1847. Eventually they are found and executed by the repressive government. The film also makes a statement about the affect of dictatorship on personal and political freedom.
Publisher
Wolfe Video LLC
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
Lala, a teenager from the most exclusive suburban neighborhood in Argentina, is in love with Guayi, the family's 20-year-old maid. They hatch a plan to rob Lala's family to fund their dream of living together in Paraguay at the shores of Lake Ypoa. Unexpectedly, however, Guayi is arrested and put in a minors institute near Buenos Aires for a crime she committed long ago. Desperate to be with her girlfriend, Lala hatches a dangerous rescue plan to...
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