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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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El derrotado · 2011El 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.
Impunidad · 2008Impunidad
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.
Fiebre amarilla · 1982Fiebre amarilla
★ 7.01982
MovieDrama
During the yellow fever epidemic of 1870, a fugitive enters the mansion where three women had locked themselves in.
Un amor de Borges · 2000Un 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.
El camino de los sueños · 1993El camino de los sueños
★ 8.01993
MovieDrama
Ignacio Silva returns to his hometown, a small port in southern Argentina. There he reunites with his memories and with a friend, and meets three women who lead him to see life differently.
The Mafia · 1972The 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.
Lola Mora · 1996Lola Mora
★ 10.01996
MovieDramaHistory
The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.
El almuerzo · 2015El almuerzo
2015
MovieDrama
On May 5, 1976, writer Haroldo Conti was kidnapped by the military dictatorship, which had taken over Argentina that same year. Two weeks later, the newly elected de facto president, Jorge Rafael Videla, invited several figures of national culture to a private luncheon at the Government House: Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato, Horacio Ratti, Father Castellani, and the President's General, General Villarreal. The film narrates the historic event shared by these figures during one of the most disastrous moments in our history.
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