Jorge de la Riestra

The Endless Film (2018)

Based on the remains of never-completed Argentine features from the archives of the film museum in Buenos Aires. The film is, as it were, a parallel film history: an essay like a cinematographic Frankenstein, that blows new life into images that once seeme ...

Paraíso Relax (Casa de Masajes) (1988)

The Power of Darkness (1979)

A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people. ...

La fiesta de todos (1979)

Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country during its last dictatorship. ...

The Children of Fierro (1978)

Peronist view of its history between the fall in 1955 and the electoral triumph of 1973 using a metaphor of the poem Martin Fierro. ...

That's life (1977)

Tells the story, in the key of comedy of customs, of a typical bourgeois home in Buenos Aires for three decades. ...

Los chantas (1975)

Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score. ...

Papá Corazón se quiere casar (1974)

An orphan girl tries by all means that her father does not marry with an ambitious woman. ...

Operación Masacre (1973)

In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story. ...

Yo gané al prode… ¿Y usted? (1973)

Joven, viuda y estanciera (1970)

The foreman of a ranch, secretly in love with the owner, tries to protect her from the gold diggers. ...

El salame (1969)

A submissive and unhappy man is mistaken for a famous assailant and people who despised him begin to respect him. ...

Flor de piolas (1969)

A gang of blackmailers travels from town to town choosing their victims. ...

Yesterday's Boys Didn't Use Hair Fixers (1969)

The romance between a young man from a wealthy family and the dancer from a place of fun. ...

La casa de Madame Lulú (1968)

In the 1930s a young revolutionary falls in love with a young woman of innocent appearance but who really works in a brothel. ...

Lo prohibido está de moda (1968)

Different porteño arquetypes and their views on sex. ...

En mi casa mando yo (1968)

Tormented by the messy and frivolous life of his family, a father is forced to move away from home. ...

Coche cama, alojamiento (1968)

A magazine company and some in-love couples board a night train where a gang of bandits is traveling. ...

El andador (1967)

A late pregnancy disrupts the routine of a mature marriage. ...

Esto es alegría (1967)

Three stories where optimism triumphs: a television director finds a new mother for his children, an old couple of artists deal with a sentimental crisis and an illustrator whose father is an alcoholic fights to educate his brother. ...

Dos quijotes sobre ruedas (1966)

The adventures of two truckers (one Argentine and the other Mexican) carrying different people and a suspicious trunk ...

Psique y Sexo (1965)

A movie in four parts. A frustrated woman finds love with a painter ("La estrella del destino"). A woman tries to seduce her subordinate when she takes him to her apartment ("La buscona"). A woman who killed her husband falls in love with the gravedigger ...

Canuto Cañete, detective privado (1965)

A detective is sent to uncover the perpetrators of a series of robberies at an electronics factory. ...

La calesita (1963)

When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood. ...

La murga (1963)

The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned. ...

Lindor Covas, el cimarrón (1963)

Man on Pink Corner (1962)

During a local festival, a mysterious stranger appears in town, heading towards a violent confrontation. ...

Plaza Huincul (Pozo uno) (1960)

The difficult, dangerous, and selfless work of an expedition that set out for the harsh and deserted Plaza Wincul Valley in search of oil. ...

Marta Ferrari (1956)

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

El satélite chiflado (1956)

While on tour through Latin America, los Grandes del Buen Humor are confused with volunteers for a space travel and get tangled with spies. ...

El grito sagrado (1954)

El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American ...

Faithful Love (1954)

A gang of criminals takes advantage of a dog's intelligence to commit their misdeeds. ...

La verdadera victoria (1944)

The romance between a Spanish correspondent and an Argentine daughter of Poles during the Nazi invasion of Poland. ...