Jorge Villalba

Las travesuras de Cepillo (1981)

The encounter of a puppeteer with an orphan child and the subsequent relationship. ...

La fiesta de todos (1979)

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

Cuatro pícaros bomberos (1979)

Four friends, who are volunteer firefighters, get into a series of problems when they discover a fraud. ...

La aventura explosiva (1977)

Super agents must protect a scientist inventor of a new type of synthetic fuel that works if a certain speed is not exceeded. ...

Los orilleros (1975)

The life, customs and death of an authoritarian man. ...

Difunta Correa (1975)

The Dead Man (1975)

Benjamin Ortalora is a young man who leaves Buenos Aires after murdering a rival. He goes to Montevideo where his cool boldness draws the attention of gang leader Azevedo Bandeira. When the old bandit becomes ill, Ortalora makes a determined play to take h ...

Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)

In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose ...

La vuelta de Martín Fierro (1974)

Based on the work of Jose Hernandez, the film tells aspects of the life of the gaucho Martin Fierro. ...

Juan Moreira (1973)

In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners. ...

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. ...

¿De quiénes son las mujeres? (1972)

Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá (1972)

Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman as his ...

Un guapo del 900 (1971)

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century. ...

Un gaucho con plata (1970)

A lucky provincial in business arrives in Buenos Aires and is scammed. A lawyer who is also provincial will help you get your money back. ...

Chao amor (1968)

A young man falls in love with a girl who wants to be an actress, but when she succeeds, his feelings towards her change. ...

Un lugar al sol (1965)

The love story in Buenos Aires of a young provincial couple. ...

Operación "G" (1962)

The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná. ...

Hijo de hombre (1961)

Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay. ...

Un guapo del 900 (1960)

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century. ...

Virgin field (1959)

Pobres habrá siempre (1958)

"Pobres habrá siempre" is a rarity within Argentine cinema for many reasons. Its theme is the rebellion of a group of meatpacking workers around 1935 and the several reasons that justified it, but the film was shot at a time when workers and union struggl ...

The Kidnapper (1958)

A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive. ...