Argentine films about forbidden love

List of the best Argentine films about forbidden love according to visitors: The Blonde One, A Boyfriend for My Wife, Rojo, The Lighthouse of the Orcas, Death in Buenos Aires, The Mystery of Happiness, Zama, The Crime of Padre Amaro, The Clan, Everybody Has a Plan.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryArgentina

Gabriel rents a room in Juan’s House. They work together in a Woodwork place. Gabriel is a very quiet guy and has a little daughter. Juan is a party boy who has a lots of girls around. Inadvertently the sexual tension starts to grow between them. It opens a new hidden forbidden world they have to deal with.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryArgentina

El Tenso does not know how to face his ill-tempered wife, Tana, to tell her that he wants to separate. Carlos, a friend of Tenso, suggests him to invert the situation and cause Tana to leave him by hiring Cuervo Flores, an irresistible seducer, to try and charm his wife until she falls in love with him.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryArgentina, France, Netherlands, Brazil, Germany

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountrySpain, Argentina

A mother travels to Patagonia with her autistic son with the hope that a ranger and a pod of wild orcas can help him find an emotional connection.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryArgentina
Duration01:30

Buenos Aires in the 1980s. Detective Chavez, a family man and a tough cop, once again must solve a mysterious crime. To reveal the identity of the murderer, Chavez must clarify the enigma waiting in ambush to capture his own heart. Passion surprises even the most astute detective. What will triumph: law or desire?

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryArgentina, Brazil
Duration01:32

Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio suddenly vanishes, Santiago and Eugenio’s wife, join forces to look for him. What they discover is not what they set out to find, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, history
CountryArgentina, Portugal, USA, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, France, Dominican Republic, Spain, Brazil, Lebanon
Duration01:56

In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryMexico, Spain, Argentina, France
Duration01:58

The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must soon choose between the holy or the sinful life.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryArgentina, Spain
Duration02:45

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryArgentina, Spain, Germany, USA

Pedro, a humble beekeeper who lives in the mysterious Argentinian region of the Delta del Tigre, travels to Buenos Aires to visit his twin brother Agustín, a successful but troubled pediatrician with marital issues, to give him bad news and ask him for a favor hard to fulfill, a unexpected arrival which will change Agustín's life forever.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, thriller
CountryArgentina
Duration01:35

Inside a quarantined apartment building a man must protect his pregnant wife from his new neighbors.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryArgentina, USA, France
Duration01:25

Have you ever met someone who made your body heat up, get a little nervous and sweaty, and made your crotch stir a bit? Sexual Tension: Volatile will reignite those lustful feelings as it weaves six scintillating experiences of men in various stages of nudity and many forms of erotic male bonding. A pulsating, sexually-charged thrill ride.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryGermany, Argentina
Duration01:34

During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown off course, she decides to interrupt her journey and wander through the unfamiliar city.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryArgentina, Mexico
Duration01:30

A young man searching for his missing girlfriend. An unconditional friend willing to do anything to uncover the truth. An investigation that culminates in an old house. Inside await two brutal murderers, armed with twenty-five boxes of explosives that were lost since the last military dictatorship.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySpain, Argentina
Duration01:32

Buenos Aires screenwriter Pablo is hired to write a new romantic comedy. As he begins his story, he visualizes his characters living in Madrid. Pablo creates a meet-cute between Marina and Víctor, a cute couple in Madrid who are soon totally in love. Yet as Pablo gets more and more into the script, he finds it difficult to separate his movie characters from what is happening in his own real life – specifically, his own love life.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA, Argentina

Photographer Estevan Oriol and artist Mister Cartoon turned their Chicano roots into gritty art, impacting street culture, hip hop and beyond.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremusical, documentary, music
CountryArgentina, France, Spain

Argentina continues Saura’s lyrical exploration of the essence, talent and patrimony of popular dance and song in both fiction and documentary

Markimdb: 7
Genreshort
CountryArgentina

Matias and Jeronimo know each other since childhood. Their friendship takes a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both experience their sexual awakening.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, adventure, military
CountryArgentina, Spain

Argentine film about the experiences of conscripts in the Falklands War.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryItaly, Argentina

Doctor Bianca Valentino is hired to cover the night shift in the ward of a pediatric hospital. She finds herself immersed in an environment that, behind its reassuring image, hides a terrifying secret linked to its past as a children's asylum. The ghost of a child wanders the corridors tormenting her and transforming her nights in the clinic into an endless nightmare that day after day is about to become reality.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryArgentina, Spain

Gabriel has been separated for four years now. Since then his 8 year old daughter is the center of his life. Completely avoiding getting involved in a new romantic relationship, Gabriel focus all his energy in his daughter and work. This plan gets spoiled when Vicky, a platonic love from his adolescence, now a beautiful and independent woman appears in his life. When romance is about to start, she puts one condition: She would never get involved with a man with children. She just does not want children in her life. When Gabriel is confronted with this, he says he has no children. From that moment on his life becomes a torment, playing every trick at hand in order to hide his child and belongings from Vicky in every date.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, USA

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, crime, biography, history
CountryUruguay, Spain, Argentina, France, Germany

Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryArgentina, France, Spain

A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountryVenezuela, Peru, Argentina, Germany

A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genredrama, military, biography
CountrySpain, USA, Argentina
Duration02:02

Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryArgentina, Spain
Duration01:55

Accused of killing his brother during adolescence, Salvador lives alone in the middle of Patagonia. Several decades later, his brother Marcos and his sister-in-law Laura, come to convince him to sell the lands they share by inheritance.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy
CountryArgentina
Duration01:48

Refused to face his adulthood, a Casanova must deal with the fact that he has a young pregnant daughter from an earlier relationship.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, detective
CountryArgentina, Spain

A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryArgentina, France, Spain

At a Latin American Presidents’ Summit in Chile where the region’s alliances and geopolitical strategies are shaped, Hernán Blanco, the president of Argentina, lives a political and family drama. Through his son in law, he’s implicated in a corruption case. On her father’s call, Marina Blanco, attends the Summit to find protection, to earn time and to negotiate a way out. That past once calm and domestic, becomes a menacing element, almost fantastic, seen from the top of public life, seen from the Summit.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryArgentina
Duration01:58

Lorenzo is a teenager who lives in Patagonia. One day his family receives in his house to Caíto, the son of some friends who are going through a serious family situation and can not take care of him. He is a complicated kid and has difficulty adapting to the new home. Despite the differences, a unique friendship arises between them. Each has much to learn from the other. Caito, still with his things, has that share of rebellion that Lorenzo needs to break the strict molds in his head and to let his most repressed instincts and passions flow. Home life becomes chaotic but vital and engaging. Caíto is much more than a troublesome boy: he is someone who forces Lorenzo's parents to reopen a dark chapter of their past that they would rather not remember.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryChile, Argentina, Brazil

A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryArgentina

Rico illegally emigrated with his mother to escape the dangerous drug world, but when his mother contracts cancer, he must dive back into that world to pay for her treatment.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryArgentina
Duration01:23

Shy teenager Andrés lives in the Argentine city of La Plata and cycles between school, work and home listening to punk rock. One night he finds out that his idol, the lead singer of his favorite band, has committed suicide. His religious mother is worried about him and takes him to the local evangelic church, where he, without putting up much resistance, joins a youth group. Here he meets Alex, the cool guitarist of a band practicing upstairs, and is instantly drawn to him.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryArgentina

Mariano Is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support to Alfredo, a policeman depressed over his wife cheating on him. Mariano is then accidentally involved in a double homicide investigation being conducted by Alfredo.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantasy, adventure, cartoon, short
CountrySpain, Argentina
Duration00:09

Lila is a dreamy girl who can't resign to accept reality as flat as she perceives it, hence she uses her imagination and her skills to modify it.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrethriller
CountryUSA, Argentina, France
Duration01:31

When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryArgentina, USA

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama
CountryArgentina
Duration01:30

Luis has just returned home after spending time in a neuropsychiatric, and Beatrice, his wife, he fears a relapse. The disappearance of the house cat and certain behaviors Beatriz Luis begins to grow increasingly suspicious of his behavior.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryArgentina, Spain, Uruguay
Duration02:05

Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of crime history. After a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody, the two men must flee. It is not long before the police are surrounding the building they are in and they must confront their demons to survive.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryBrazil, Argentina

Beatriz is a famous psychoanalyst who teaches others to be happy, but isn't able to be happy herself. Things take a turn when her mother's death takes her traveling with her sister to Buenos Aires to comply with the unusual directives she left in her will.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryColombia, Argentina, Spain
Duration01:43

The air is thick with tension as a military squad proceeds to the foot of a mountain base, where they're ordered to wait for backup and hold their position. The mountain is shrouded in fog and the men are exhausted. They've been fighting guerrillas on enemy turf for some time, and they're worn down by the stress and anxiety of battle. The men don't want to wait; they want to charge up the hill, fearing that their comrades in the base have been overrun by the guerrillas. The squad's leader tries futilely to keep his men in line while dealing with his insolent second-in-command.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, detective
CountryArgentina, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Rod leads a radio show dedicated to horror. Until suddenly the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first thinks that it is a bad joke until he discovers that this is not the case. These calls hide a dark secret…

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryArgentina, Spain
Duration02:21

After refusing big and prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, Literature Nobel Prize winner, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration for all of his books. It turns out that accepting this invitation is the worse idea of his life. Expect the unexpected when you have used real people as characters in your novels!

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrecomedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryArgentina, USA

"It's an everyday universe that exists 7 feet over our heads. They are city birds that you can find in every tree or every corner." Juan: a sparrow that feels ordinary and underestimates his own race. Accidentally, he changes the way he looks, and the same reason that will make him feel unique is what is going to put his life in danger. Feifi: a beautiful canary that manages to escape from the cage of a network tycoon (Mr. Puertas), and starts trying a new life in freedom, as a common bird. Both of them will need to be something that they aren't and will face danger and adventures with their friends (Libia, the Pidgeon; Pipo, the Humming Bird; Clarita, the Bat; and some more). A clumsy cat, some psyco Southern Lapwings and Mr. Puertas will make everything even harder for them. Juan and Feifi will try to shape their destiny to feel truly free. Written by Anonymous




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