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Series
Publisher
Global Film Initiative
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Ramo?n loses his job as a restaurant cook during Argentina's economic crisis, his wife Lili suffers a nervous breakdown. They will lose their house unless something drastic is done. Desperate, Ramo?n accepts a job in Lili's name - and clothes - to serve as a maid to a rich family.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything returns to normal. That is until a gruesome discovery is...
3) Marilyn
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of a young gay man growing up in a prejudiced and hostile environment in Argentina.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110, 25 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Argentina, 1979. After years of exile, 12-year-old Juan and his family return to Argentina under fake identities. Juan's parents are Montoneros guerrillas who are being tracked down relentlessly by the Military Junta that rules the country. However, Juan's daily life is also full of warmth and humor. His friends at school and the girl he has a big crush on, Maria, know him as Ernesto, a name he must not forget, since his family's survival is at stake....
Publisher
Distributed by Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Cuatro sofisticados y carismáticos ladrones, Leo, Mónica, Sánchez y Leserio, planean robar 12 millones de dólares y huir a Argentina. El plan transcurre sin problemas, salvo por una excepción: cuando intentan cambiar el dinero a pesos argentinos, de repente son robados por bandidos enmascarados que se adueñan de su botín. Ahora los cuatro ladrones tendrán que averiguar en qué momento su plan fue mal y quién les traicionó"--Container.
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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
352 pages 24 cm.
Description
"New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world-until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma's curiosity about her father's past,...
9) Rojo
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Argentina during the Dirty War of the mid-seventies, on the eve of the nation's descent into a military dictatorship, Benjamín Naishtat's hypnotic neo-noir drama follows Claudio, a renowned lawyer living a seemingly picture-perfect life in a deceptively quiet provincial city. One night, a stranger starts insulting Claudio in a restaurant for no apparent reason. Later that night, the stranger intercepts Claudio and his wife Susana.
10) Carancho
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sosa is an ambulance-chasing attorney with questionable ethics. Lujan is a young, idealistic doctor, susceptible to corruption. After Lujan and Sosa's paths repeatedly cross, the two form an unlikely romance that is threatened by Sosa's turbulent past.
Publisher
Tartan Video USA
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rafael is very charming salesman to the ladies in the deluxe department store he works in, but when he doesn't get the position of manager, he changes his whole attitude. When his rival goes missing, Rafael becomes the prime suspect.
12) The last Elvis
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Carlos Gutiérrez, an Elvis Presley impersonator in Buenos Aires, is injured in a car accident and he begins to reassess his estranged relationship with his daughter.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A crime-thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina, told through flashbacks. A retired criminal court investigator in Argentina writes a novel about a twenty-five-year-old, unresolved rape case that continues to haunt him.
14) Anita
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a young woman with Down syndrome who lives a happy, routine life in Buenos Aires, being meticulously cared for by her mother Dora. One tragic morning in 1994, everything changes when Anita is left alone, confused and helpless after the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association is bombed. As Anita wanders through the city, she learns not only to care for herself, but touches the lives of those around her, from an alcoholic to a family...
16) The last suit
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Polish-born Holocaust survivor travels from Argentina to Poland to find a man who saved him from death during World War II.
17) Liverpool
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Farrel asks the captain of the freighter he works on to go ashore once they reach the port of Ushuaia, a town in southern Argentina. He wants to return to his birthplace and see if his mother is still alive. For the past twenty years he has worked as a seaman. Having reached the cluster of houses where he grew up, Farrel discovers his mother is indeed still alive, but someone else has become part of the family....
18) Tetro
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Naive, 17-year-old Bennie goes to Buenos Aires to search for his older brother whom he has not seen for ten years. With the success of their father Carlo, a renowned symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, Tetro, he is surprised to find that he is not the person he remembered. While staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their...
19) La boyita
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A unique and powerful coming of age story. Her parents separated and her older sister at the cusp of adolescence, Jorgelina is facing a vacation at the beach where she knows she'll be painfully left aside. Instead, she decides to go to the country with her father and Mario, the son of the farmhands and her 'country' playmate. In this bucolic setting, a secret is accidentally revealed when Jorgelina notices on Mario's pants the bloodstains he can't...
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marcelo and Alicia have an on and off romance that is set against some of the biggest events in Argentina's history. Their paths cross at the final concert of Argentine rock band Sui Generis, the 1982 World Cup, and the political unrest of 1989.
Puede un amor adolescente durar para toda la vida? Puede el destino ser tan furete que puede unir a dos personas que andan por caminos diferentes? Asi? son las prequentas de Alicia y Marcelo. A trave?s de...
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