Argentine movies

List of the best Argentine movies selected by visitors to our site: Wild Tales, At the End of the Tunnel, Jauja, Bachelor Games, LA Originals, The Bar, Just Like Me, Lost Embrace, Unknown Origins, Diablo.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, comedy, drama
CountryArgentina, Spain, France, United Kingdom
Duration02:02

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryArgentina, Spain
Duration01:13

A paraplegic computer engineer that moves in a wheelchair and works in his basement starts hearing noises and voices of bank-robbers.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantasy, drama, western
CountryArgentina, Denmark, France, Mexico, USA, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, Argentina

Five British friends head to the Andes for a stag weekend. Of course, they’re unprepared, get lost – and inevitably ignore all warnings about the sinister local legend of the ‘The Hunter’.

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: 6.3
Genrethriller, comedy
CountrySpain, Argentina

In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar.

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: 6.9
Genrecomedy
CountryArgentina, France, Italy, Spain

In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountrySpain, Argentina

In Madrid, Spain, a mysterious serial killer ruthlessly murders his victims by recreating the first appearance of several comic book superheroes. Cosme, a veteran police inspector who is about to retire, works on the case along with the tormented inspector David Valentín and his own son Jorge Elías, a nerdy young man who owns a comic book store.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, crime
CountryArgentina
Duration01:25

A depressed former champion awakes. He´s tired, a bit out of shape, and his conscience is drilling him. His career as a boxer ended abruptly when he killed his rival with one single punch. That´s why Marcos Wainsberg, the Inca of the Sinai, wants to quit fighting. But today is not the day to be thinking about that. Today his ex girlfriend will come, in peace. Today is a good day. But the doorbell rings and the person at the other side is his cousin, Huguito, the black sheep of the family. And Huguito always brings trouble. Family-sized trouble, of course. Today can be one of those days when everything changes. The only thing that is left to know is whether it will be for good or not… Diablo is an atypical film, to say the least. Regurgitated from the very insides of genre cinema, its furious and corrosive progression leaves you breathless, but also provokes a remarkable morbid pleasure with its accumulation of scenes featuring violence, black humor, and a pure, hardcore swagger.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantastic, drama, detective
CountryArgentina

A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
CountryArgentina
Duration01:28

Deep within Buenos Aires's labyrinthine subway system, a train mysteriously disappears along with its 30 passengers. The subway officials are greatly troubled and call in topographer Daniel Pratt to help them find it. Unfortunately, the tunnels are so vast and complex, that Pratt needs his mentor Hugo Mistein to help him. Unfortunately, he too has vanished.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, musical
CountrySpain, Argentina

A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and bodly seductive dance film ever made. 1998 Oscar Nominee Best Foreign Language Film.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryArgentina, Spain

Antonio Decoud is a conservative family man who is forced by destiny to face an unexpected situation that shakes him to the core, scrambling up his life and his priorities, pushing him to forget his beliefs and his way of understanding life and follow the most basic instinct: the animal instinct.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantasy, drama, detective
CountryArgentina
Duration02:31

Mona, a past student in child psychology, is keen to put her knowledge into practice. She attends an interview and is selected to become a full-time private tutor to two orphaned children, in some remote area of Northern Argentina.

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: 3.7
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
CountryCanada, Argentina, United Kingdom

Tov Matheson is a war veteran with PTSD who perceives that the apocalypse is coming. After starting a relationship with a dubious Messiah, he leaves his normal life and begins the construction of a shelter underground, training himself, in an extreme way, at the cost of losing everything and making people believe he is insane. When he also believes it, something extraordinary happens.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryArgentina

Two men meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together they realize that they have already met twenty years ago.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryArgentina, Spain, Italy
Duration01:46

The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, crime
CountryArgentina, Chile, France, Netherlands

Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. The work is quite slow, and hours seem to pass slowly. Polaco, the owner of the shop, sends him on a job that consists of opening a safe at an office. The next day, Zapa is imprisoned for being responsible of robbing the place. Ismael, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and sends him to Buenos Aires. Zapa becomes an aspiring officer in the Buenos Aires Police. He gets to his new home city, takes the instructional course, works at a precinct, has a love affair with a teacher and starts to see his life turn into a strange fiction.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryArgentina

Luciana, a young woman immersed in a circle of mysterious deaths of relatives and the growing suspicion that the person responsible is an enigmatic writer, her former boss.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryColombia, Germany, Norway, Argentina, Cuba

Two pensioners, a video camera and an indecent proposal.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountrySpain, Argentina

Lucía, an active little girl, looses a tooth. Santiago, her father, is an out-of-work boss, and her mother, Pilar, is a successful but overworked architect, reassure Lucía, by telling her that the Hairy Tooth Fairy (a mouse named Pérez) will come to her bedroom to collect her tooth, leaving some money in its place. A mouse who had been monitoring the situation tells another mouse, who in turn tells another mouse until finally the news reaches Pérez, The Hairy Tooth Fairy, who lives in a boat in the port along with hundreds of other mice. They receive the teeth that he collects, and then clean, shape and polish them so that they can be transformed into shiny round pearls. These pearls are then carried through the citys sewers until finally they reach the jewellers owned by Morientes, where an old friend exchanges them for their weight in gold.

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

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreadventure, family, cartoon
CountryUruguay, Argentina, Chile

Selkirk, an unruly, selfish pirate, is the sailing master of the Esperanza, an English galley sailing the South Seas in search of treasures. When Captain Bullock decides to abandon him on an uninhabited island, he discovers a new outlook on the world and learns to survive alone, becoming the real Robinson Crusoe.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
CountryUSA, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany, France
Duration02:06

"The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySpain, Argentina

Like every day, Marcelo gathers her children on the floor of his ex-wife. As each day play "to see who gets there first" them down the stairs, him in the elevator, a diversion that your ex-partner does not like. But when one day Marcelo plays the downstairs children are not. They are not anywhere. The fear begins to emerge when a phone call will catapult the horror: a kidnapper puts a price for the release of their children

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, history
CountryArgentina, Spain

In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, crime
CountryArgentina

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy
CountryArgentina
Duration02:00

A 36-year-old meek woman realizes that there’s younger people trying to outpace her doing much less, so she makes a risky change by removing her filter.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountryArgentina, Spain, Brazil
Duration01:52

Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror
CountryArgentina
Duration01:24

Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror
CountryArgentina, New Zealand

Epecuén was one of the most important touristic villages of Argentina. Thousands of people concurred, attracted by the healing properties of its thermal waters. On November 10th 1985, a huge volume of water broke the protecting embankment and the village was submerged under ten meters of salt water. Epecuén disappeared. Thirty years later, the waters receded and the ruins of Epecuén emerged exposing a bleak and deserted landscape. The residents never returned. The plot revolves around a group of young people that take a trip to the ruins in order to film a documentary about Epecuén. Ignoring the warnings, and after a brief tour, they get stranded in the abandoned village. Contrary to what they thought, they begin to realize that they are really not alone…

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySpain, Argentina
Duration01:44

A thriller centered on a man who is accused of a crime he didn't commit.

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: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryArgentina, Uruguay, Spain, France

Cetarti is drowning in nothingness. With no job or purpose, he spends his days inside watching documentaries on television, until one day he is informed that his mother and brother were gunned down. He travels from Buenos Aires to Lapachito, a decrepit town in the province of Chaco in northern Argentina to deal with their bodies and to get the life insurance money. There he meets Duarte, a sort of boss in the town and a friend of his mother's murderer who also kidnaps people for money. Cetarti's path will lead him to committing illegal acts to get his hands on the insurance money and to his involvement in Duarte's dark dealings, leading to an absurd and unexpected outcome.

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: 6.9
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryArgentina, Spain
Duration01:54

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

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: 2.1
Genrefantastic, action, thriller
CountryItaly, USA, Argentina

A government agent stumbles upon an alien conspiracy to conquer Earth. Using a blue liquid created by the aliens to make soldiers stronger, he becomes The Prototype-the only hope for mankind.

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