Astor Piazzolla

Astor Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires Grand Théâtre de Genève (2023)

Astor Piazzolla's only opera tells the story of María, born in the working-class districts of Buenos Aires. Between intoxicating tango and incantatory lyricism, this stunning work celebrates the vibrant spirit of the Argentine capital through the tumultuo ...

María de Buenos Aires (2019)

Young María, the embodiment of tango, leaves the outskirts of Buenos Aires and tries her luck in the chaotic downtown, where she triumphs in dark places ruled by crime and debauchery, unaware that a menacing presence stalks her, seeking her doom and death ...

Tres Desinteresados y un Amante (2017)

Los Amantes del Tigre (2017)

Mind in the Wilderness: Khatia Buniatishvili (2013)

Framed by the tranquil beauty of a forest near Berlin, Khatia Buniatishvili gives a recital of pianistic masterpieces dappled by the shade of verdant ferns and leafy canopies. As a special treat, her older sister Gvantsa joins her for four-handed works by ...

Microscopías (2003)

Various objects are observed using a high-resolution electron microscope: some paint pigments from a supposed 19th-century painting, a dollar bill, and a piece of old film celluloid in the process of decomposition. Microscopic observation will reveal the m ...

Quereme así (Piantao) (1997)

The Lion with the White Beard (1995)

An animated film based on the tale of Tonino Guerra, telling the story of the once famous circus duet - the lion and its owner, the story of how the famous lion Amadeo performed in the traveling circus of Signor Peretti. ...

The Color of Love (1994)

Peggy Ahwesh re-edits and optically prints a Super 8 stag loop, rarifying the degraded images into an abstract stained-glass mosaic. From a clumsy and heavy-handed pornographic film of the seventies that bad storage conditions have deteriorated over time, ...

Ett sommarspel (1994)

A woman named Agnes who emigrated to the USA returns to her home village with her new husband Algot. When Agnes' childhood friend David turns up it's the start of a love triangle. ...

Eggshells (1992)

A woman sells tickets in an art-decó cinema, as voices from a passionate melodrama float through the foyer, disembodied. The proyection's assistant, reflected and distorted in a mirror, becomes the focus of her romantic dreams. When the mirror shatters, t ...

The Journey (1992)

A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence. ...

Enligt beslut (1988)

About the refugee Carlos who has just been told he can't stay in Sweden, and about the civil servants handling his case. ...

The South (1988)

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and re ...

Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985)

Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star. ...

Tango (1985)

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th cent ...

Cuarteles de invierno (1984)

A boxer and a singer are hired by the Armed Forces to entertain the people of a small town. When their personalities and principles get them in trouble with the authorities, they support each other as they face their destiny. ...

Henry IV (1984)

Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie. ...

Ein Bett mit Passagieren (1984)

Short film by Dagmar Knöpfel. Based on a story by Italo Calvino. ...

Are We? (1982)

In three corners of the Buenos Aires neighborhood known as Recoleta, life and death pursue parallel paths. One of silence, death, rebellion and drugs. Lecube is staying in a hotel with his lover Celia and his son Marcelo with whom his friend Toto is trying ...

To Return (1982)

An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns to the country to close a factory. There he meets with his exgirlfriend and his best friend before the exile. The film presents an interpretation of the political and social situation in Argentina during th ...

Le Pont du Nord (1982)

Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotte ...

Neon City (1982)

Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s. ...

Paris s'en va (1981)

Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical team on both films. Henry Chapier who produced the short: "At the beginning of the '80s nobody was interested ...

El infierno tan temido (1980)

A journalist begins to receive envelopes containing erotic pictures, which he connects to a relationship he once had with an actress. ...

The Intruder (1980)

The parallel lives of two brothers of the "Pampas" of the Brazilian area, which much share everything they have. A woman, "the intruder", will change everything. ...

What's Autumn? (1977)

An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life. ...

Armageddon (1977)

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten ...

Lumière (1976)

Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. ...

Rain over Santiago (1975)

A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearance ...

When the City Awakes (1975)

An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard. ...

All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973)

A rich man encounters a prostitute and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her. He can't decide between attraction and repulsion. ...

La ñata contra el vidrio (1972)

Several short films from the first class of graduates of the National School of Experimentation and Film Production (ENERC), from 1965. 55 years telling stories. ...

Con alma y vida (1970)

El principio del fin (1970)

Kuma-Ching (1969)

A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer. ...

Brief Heaven (1969)

A young middle-class man and a young girl who has left the slums to work as a prostitute meet by chance on the Plaza de los Ingleses, opposite the emblematic Retiro station in Buenos Aires. ...

The Slowness (1969)

A typical office employee decides one day rebelling against its routine and not going to work because it has a "lazy". His family, friends and colleagues are trying to dissuade him unsuccessfully at the beginning. But as time passed his situation complicat ...

Impasse (1969)

Short film by Jorge Acha filmed in 16mm, about two young men who share the memory of a woman. ...

Las pirañas (1967)

Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts ...

Las locas del conventillo (1966)

The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent people live under the tutelage of Magdalena, in the other, Manuel,ir responsible of a nightclub. Among decent people live Manolo, the milkman, awaiting the arrival ...

Con gusto a rabia (1965)

A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital. ...

Extraña ternura (1964)

The young and inexperienced godson of a millionaire falls for a singer who is married. The millionaire opposes the relationship because he feels a "strange tenderness" for the boy. ...

Paula Cautiva (1963)

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. ...

La fin del mundo (1963)

A con man who lives with his three aunts in a mansion takes refuge in a slum when he is wanted by the police. ...

Those who will see God (1963)

A young married couple chooses to abort due to lack of financial resources. ...

El nacimiento de un libro (1963)

Documentary short about the moment of creation and birth of the characters of the book "Sobre Héroes y Tumbas" by Ernesto Sabato. ...

Detrás de la mentira (1962)

An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party. ...

Last year of Nacional High School (1961)

The adventures and misfortunes of high school seniors. ...

The Furies (1960)

Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion. ...

Saturday Night, Cinema (1960)

The attitudes of different people to the fact of going to the movies. ...

El crack (1960)

Osvaldo, a football player on the rise, begins to be targeted by private interests who want to elevate him to the status of a sports star. ...

Dos basuras (1958)

A prostitute and a sewer worker try to rebuild their lives, but his ex-wife complicates the relationship. ...

Historia de una carta (1957)

In a moment of despair, a man sends a letter to her girlfriend announcing his suicide. He then regrets it and tries to recover the letter. ...

Operación Antartida (1957)

Two sailors traveling to Antarctica, delude themselves with meeting to the same woman on their return. Totally natural scenes filmed in Antarctica. ...

A Difficult Widow (1957)

In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite. ...

Violencia en la ciudad (1957)

How crime is manifested in Buenos Aires city. ...

The Bitter Stems (1956)

Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school. ...

Marta Ferrari (1956)

A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful. ...

Sucedió en Buenos Aires (1954)

A provincial woman who arrives in the city is helped by a taxi driver to look for a criminal ...

Stella Maris (1953)

Aspects of the life of a group of fishermen. ...

El cielo en las manos (1950)

Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world. ...

Steel racing cars (1950)

A shy and humble young man overcomes his fears and becomes a racing champion. ...

Con los mismos colores (1949)

Three boys from the slums become well-known football players. ...

Milva, diva per sempre (2024)

Piazzolla: The Years of the Shark (2018)

A cinematic portrait of the world-wide legendary Argentinian composer who changed tango. For the first time ever, the hidden archives of bandoneón player Astor Piazzolla are opened by his son Daniel. ...

Tango in Paris: Memories of Astor Piazzolla (2017)

The story of two friends who met on the eve of their fiftieth birthday: musician Astor Piazzolla and architect José Pons. They never imagined that their friendship would change their lives forever. ...

Astor Piazzolla: tango nuevo (2017)

Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the tango. By breaking with the codes of traditional tango, he brought this popular Argentine music from dance floors to concert halls around the world and is now recognized as a major composer of the 20th century. From numer ...

Tango under the Stars - Gustavo Dudamel (2017)

Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic accentuate the colors, rhythms and passion of the music of Argentina's leading composers on this invigorating evening at the Hollywood Bowl: Astor Piazzolla, the master of the New Tango, whose four tangos the Tango B ...

Astor Piazzolla - Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival (2008)

Astor Piazzolla performs an evocative set of tangos at the 1984 Montreal Jazz Festival. Lovingly restored by Piazzolla's former student Richard Galliano, this footage captures seven songs by the renowned accordionist. Born in Argentina in 1921, Piazzolla p ...

Astor Piazzolla: The Next Tango (2007)

Piazzolla and his Quintet perform with the Cologne Rundfunk Orchestra conducted by Pinches Steinberg in this film by Jose-Montes Baquer. Piazzolla is also featured in conversation. ...

Quereme así (Piantao) (1997)

Astor Piazzolla in Portrait (1990)

Concert and Interview with Astor Piazzolla and his sextet by the BBC-Bristol. ...

Astor Piazzolla en Shams (1985)

Argentinísima (1972)

Consists of musical performances, mostly Argentine folklore, many of which are accompanied by dancing. Several sequences were filmed in scenic locations throughout the country. ...

Tango argentino (1969)

The life of the city of Buenos Aires and the history of its music from its origins, with musicians and dancers. ...

Fuelle querido (1967)

Prisioneros de una noche (1962)

A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires. ...

El cielo en las manos (1950)

Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world. ...

El hombre del sábado (1947)

The Day You Love Me (1935)

Carlos Argüelles is the son of a wealthy man whose only interests in life are business and making money. While trying to succeed in show business he falls in love with a dancer and they elope to marry. But success is not easy to obtain. ...