Javier Torre

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Javier Torre

Born August 6, 1950 · Buenos Aires, Argentina. (age 76)

Javier Torre (Buenos Aires, August 6, 1950) is an Argentine film director, producer and scriptwriter who has developed an extensive artistic career. He is the son of the film director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and the grandson of the also director Leopoldo Torres Ríos. He has a degree in Letters from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. He was Director of the Gener…

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ImpunidadImpunidad · 2008
Impunidad
2008
MovieDrama
Gastón (Carlos Echeverría) arrives in Necochea. There he meets Julia (Leticia Bredice), a young veterinarian who, after discovering that the foot-and-mouth disease vaccines are adulterated, is found hanged in a shed. He will be blamed for the crime and will try to understand what happened, while avoiding being lynched.
El derrotadoEl derrotado · 2011
El derrotado
2011
MovieDrama
Julio works for an accounting firm, at the beginning of the '50s. Celina, his wife, married him without knowing that he was addicted to gambling. This problem leads him to increasingly denigrating situations. Celina, who has lost contact with her upper-class world, meets a friend from the past again and meets Alberto, who seduces her. Little by little, Julio enters into an irreversible debacle.
Fiebre amarillaFiebre amarilla · 1982
Fiebre amarilla
★ 7.01982
MovieDrama
During the yellow fever epidemic of 1870, a fugitive enters the mansion where three women had locked themselves in.
The MafiaThe Mafia · 1972
The Mafia
★ 6.31972
MovieCrime
The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.
The TombsThe Tombs · 1991
The Tombs
★ 6.01991
MovieDrama
"El Pollo," a 13-year-old child in reform school, witnesses and experiences the brutalization of the guards and the other inmates.
Un amor de BorgesUn amor de Borges · 2000
Un amor de Borges
★ 7.02000
MovieDrama
Estela Canto and Jorge Luis Borges meet in 1944. She is an intelligent and beautiful woman. He, still an unknown writer, is shy and very attached to his mother. They fall in love, or at least Borges does.
Tropic PathwayTropic Pathway · 2005
Tropic Pathway
★ 6.42005
MovieDrama
Follow the adventures of Kiss of the Spider Woman scribe Manuel Puig portrayed by Fabio Aste, who left Argentina after being persecuted for his homosexuality and settled in exile in Rio de Janiero in this intimate drama from filmmaker Javier Torre. Though life in Rio was full of romance and adventure for Manuel, the controversy surrounding him grew ever more intense, until the only way out was a trip back to his native Argentina. In the years that followed, Puig eventually made the painful decision to move to Mexico, where he spent his final days until death caught up with him at the age of fifty-eight.
Lola MoraLola Mora · 1996
Lola Mora
★ 10.01996
MovieDramaHistory
The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

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