Writing
Julio Cortázar
Born August 26, 1914 · Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Died February 12, 1984 · aged 69
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe. He is considered one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a mas…
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Blow-Up · 1966Blow-Up
★ 7.31966
MovieDramaMystery
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell · 1965Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell
★ 9.71965
MovieDocumentary
Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.
El perseguidor · 1965El perseguidor
★ 6.31965
MovieDrama
The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by means of alcohol, drugs and sex. A story by Cortázar inspired by the life of Charlie Parker, it shows a fragmented narration and remarkable formal aspects.
Weekend · 1967Weekend
★ 6.91967
MovieComedy
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Casa tomada · 1970Casa tomada
1970
MovieDrama
Two elderly people live in a large house, following a dull and predictable routine. They are stalked by another elderly man—tall, dressed in a black coat, and with a ghostly presence—who eventually takes up residence in one of the rooms of the house. Based on Julio Cortázar’s short story of the same name, *Casa tomada* was one of the most important short films produced within the film department of the National University of La Plata between the 1960s and the early 1970s.
Tinikling · 2023Tinikling
★ 5.52023
MovieComedyDrama
Cherie, a Filipino maid, goes to a wealthy family's reception to do some extra work. But when she arrives, she discovers that her job is to look after the dogs. She then meets Milo, the family's young son.
La Puerta Condenada · 2017La Puerta Condenada
2017
MovieThrillerMystery
Serán Legión · 2024Ser án Legión
2024
MovieHorrorMystery
When a woman dies of an inexplicable disease, her widower, a greedy landlord and her sister, obsessed with her house, must survive a sinister psychic and supernatural force that sickens everyone who lives in the house.
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La Resenha Tomada · 2026La Resenha Tomada
2026
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