Leonardo Favio

Love, passion, disappointment, pain and sadness shape this love triangle between Aniceto, Francisca and Lucía, played by dancers Hernán Piquín, Natalia Pelayo and Alejandra Baldón.

Love, passion, disappointment, pain and sadness shape this love triangle between Aniceto, Francisca and Lucía, played by dancers Hernán Piquín, Natalia Pelayo and Alejandra Baldón.

A boy who lives and works with his grandfather whom he helps put together cardboard finds a magical book that tells stories and turns them into reality. With the characters in his stories, he will share adventures that bring him closer to fulfilling his greatest desire, which is to have a mother.

The documentary deals on the life and achievements of Juan Domingo Perón and his governments, the key political facts and figures and also about Argentine History in the 20th century.

The documentary deals on the life and achievements of Juan Domingo Perón and his governments, the key political facts and figures and also about Argentine History in the 20th century.

A documentary short about the making of Gatica, el mono by argentine director Leonardo Favio. This film focuses on the particular way of directing that Favio had in big set pieces with huge crowds.

The story of Jose Maria Gatica, better known as Gatica el Mono, Argentina's main boxing star during the 1940s and 50s.

The story of Jose Maria Gatica, better known as Gatica el Mono, Argentina's main boxing star during the 1940s and 50s.

A girl and her fantasy universe in the brick ovens.

Mario, “el Rulo,” is a wanderer who travels the country giving artistic performances. One day he passes through the town of Carlos, a municipal employee who dreams of being an artist. A friendship is born between the two of them, and Carlos leaves it all behind to follow Mario.

Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.

Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.

Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.

In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.

In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.

In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family.

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.

Um jovem extremista nacionalista de direita suspeita que há um complô em andamento, no hotel onde ele está hospedado com alguns estrangeiros e atores, para atacar o presidente, e decide denunciar os conspiradores às autoridades.

Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.

Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.

Garoto foge de um orfanato e volta à favela onde vive, na periferia de Buenos Aires, onde comete pequenos furtos e briga com outros meninos. Trata-se de um pungente retrato do imenso cinturão de miséria que começava a rodear a capital na década de 60, um fenômeno que, aparentemente, se repetiu em toda a América Latina. A direção e o texto magistrais de Leonardo Favio tornaram possível esta verdadeira obra-prima do cinema novo argentino.

Garoto foge de um orfanato e volta à favela onde vive, na periferia de Buenos Aires, onde comete pequenos furtos e briga com outros meninos. Trata-se de um pungente retrato do imenso cinturão de miséria que começava a rodear a capital na década de 60, um fenômeno que, aparentemente, se repetiu em toda a América Latina. A direção e o texto magistrais de Leonardo Favio tornaram possível esta verdadeira obra-prima do cinema novo argentino.

Garoto foge de um orfanato e volta à favela onde vive, na periferia de Buenos Aires, onde comete pequenos furtos e briga com outros meninos. Trata-se de um pungente retrato do imenso cinturão de miséria que começava a rodear a capital na década de 60, um fenômeno que, aparentemente, se repetiu em toda a América Latina. A direção e o texto magistrais de Leonardo Favio tornaram possível esta verdadeira obra-prima do cinema novo argentino.

Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.

A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace.

An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a traditional but poor family, and he finds himself falling in love with her.

Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.

A woman realizes her husband's brutality while he's away and other men are after her.

Se relata la historia de Laura (Elsa Daniel), desde su salida del colegio interno de monjas, pura y virginal (impactante la primera escena de Laura personificando a la Virgen María en un acto de fin de año de la escuela) hasta su regreso a la ciudad (ya como amante de Francisco Rabal). Laura llega a su casa donde viven su madre y su tía, en un ambiente oscuro y riesgoso. Sabe que en el altillo, está el opa de la familia, un ser que avergüenza a todos, pero que se mantiene oculto. Laura, en complicidad con su novio (Leonardo Favio) descubrirá quién habita realmente ese altillo y qué secreto encierran todos. La película fue una coproducción con España y contó además de Elsa Daniel, Francisco Rabal y Leonardo Favio en el elenco, con María Rosa Gallo, Berta Ortegosa, entre otros.

This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.

Film composed of different short stories, in which an envoy of God to the Earth (Raul Rossi) must help solving some small conflicts referring to human attitudes and relationships, such as solidarity, love and companionship.

This short features an unnamed boy who works as a shoeblack near a carnival. He befriends a middle-class boy one evening and gets a chance to spend time inside the carnival gate.

In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.

The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.

A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.