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Natalia Smirnoff
Born May 14, 1972 · Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina (age 54)
Is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. Her 2010 film Rompecabezas was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
Known For
The Headless Woman · 2008The Headless Woman
★ 6.22008
MovieDramaMystery
After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.
Puzzle · 2018Puzzle
★ 6.42018
MovieDrama
After years of caring exclusively for the needs of her husband and children, Agnes, a devoted housewife living in a small town near New York, has found something she really enjoys doing: solving puzzles.
Zama · 2017Zama
★ 6.52017
MovieDramaHistory
In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
The Holy Girl · 2004The Holy Girl
★ 6.62004
MovieDrama
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.
The Last Man · 2018The Last Man
★ 5.52018
MovieScience FictionAction
Tov Matheson is a war veteran with PTSD who perceives that the apocalypse is coming. After starting a relationship with a dubious Messiah, he leaves his normal life and begins the construction of a shelter underground, training himself, in an extreme way, at the cost of losing everything and making people believe he is insane. When he also believes it, something extraordinary happens.
A Less Bad World · 2004A Less Bad World
★ 6.32004
MovieDrama
A woman reunites with her husband, who vanished on her years ago.
Garage Olimpo · 1999Garage Olimpo
★ 6.91999
MovieDrama
María is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds herself accused of subversion and submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo, while her mother desperately tries to find her.
La Ciénaga · 2001La Ciénaga
★ 6.82001
MovieDrama
Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.


