Captain
Buenos Aires at the end of the millennium a young filmmaker hopeless about their future decides to film his last act.
Monseñor Tardini
Salgado
A criminal escapes from a court, with help of three miscreants, to find his lifelong friend, who is terminally ill. The police officer catch knows there is a hidden loot involved.
Laureano
Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expecting to inherit a large sum of money, but instead, he receives from his father a treasure map, with the promise that the map will make him rich. After the father dies, Pablo decides to go to an adventure and seek the treasure, aided by the men his father choose as companionship, and by one woman faith choose for him.
Three stories based on tales of the book by Manuel Mujica Lainez, ("El hambre", "La pulsera de cascabeles" y "El salón dorado".).) On scripts for the directors themselves and the collaboration of Ernesto Schoo.
Benjamin Ortalora is a young man who leaves Buenos Aires after murdering a rival. He goes to Montevideo where his cool boldness draws the attention of gang leader Azevedo Bandeira. When the old bandit becomes ill, Ortalora makes a determined play to take his place.
Gabino
In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.
A man leaves his job working in the mining industry, falls in love with a girl and succeeds as a singer.
Set in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, it showed the formation, rise and fall of a criminal gang.
Manolo, El Gallego
A thinly disguised account of the story of the Galiffi mafia family of Rosario, Argentina, their decadent loves and brutal crimes.
Facundo Quiroga
The political career of Juan Manuel de Rosas, twice Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires (1829-1832 and 1835-1852), who also ruled the Argentine Confederation during his second term in office.
Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance.
A beautiful woman is married to a film director. Despite the apparent happiness of the marriage, she has an affair with a young womanizer, and flirts with a screenwriter. During the filming of a film directed by her husband, two actresses are mysteriously murdered.
When a group of terrorists hijack a train, the various passengers relive their memories.
This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.
Pablo
A young man regains his eyesight after a life of blindness and rejects his best friend Marianela for her ugliness.
A young woman passionate about music leaves everything for it, putting aside her family and a lover.
A prostitute helps a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.
During the colonial period, a man buys a small piece of land in Mendoza and marries a slave woman. The dry and arid climate harms the yield of the land from it. In need of money to buy the freedom of his spouse, he decides to undertake the task of building with his own hands a kilometric ditch that carries water from the river to his fields.
A shipyard owner rapes the daughter of a blind worker, unaware that she is his own son's girlfriend.
A woman dreams of being a great classical dancer and that the public cheers her on, which gives rise to the most absurd situations.
Rodolfo Leiva
Aging father watches his adult children grow into independence and leave the roost.
Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.
Isaac Albéniz was a child prodigy, and the victim of a tyrannical father. He flees from his house, to America. He returns to his country years later, where he achieves international fame and the attention of many women.