Juan Carlos Gené

The Crossing of the Andes (2011)

Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 1 ...

Martin Fierro: The Movie (2007)

At late 19th Century, the Argentinean Pampa is changing. Martin Fierro is a renegade that fights against the power and corruption that try to subordinate him and to take away his most precious value: freedom. With his strength and courage, Martin Fierro re ...

Ángel, la diva y yo (2000)

Buenos Aires at the end of the millennium a young filmmaker hopeless about their future decides to film his last act. ...

Knocks at My Door (1994)

A fugitive bursts into the home of two Catholic nuns. In an attempt to save his life, they hide him from the marauding military patrols, despite the danger they face if they are caught. ...

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. ...

Quebracho (1974)

Set around 1910 in the Chaco region, the film depicts the plight of quebracho woodcutters, cruelly exploited by English businessmen with the support of the authorities, local police, and a paramilitary force established by the employers themselves. ...

Paula contra la mitad más uno (1971)

Shortly before a match against River Plate, members of the Boca Juniors football team are kidnapped. ...

Coup de Grace (1969)

During the day, a non-conformist young man and his friends try to make a living by doing odd jobs; at night, they sink at the Moderno Bar. ...

Don Segundo Sombra (1969)

The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he w ...

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 ...

Tute Cabrero (1968)

Three colleagues must decide which one of them will be fired when the company they work for starts a downsizing process. ...

Los días de Julián Bisbal (1966)

La pluma del arcángel (2002)

In a tiny town in an unnamed Latin American country in the 1930s, a young telegraph operator helps link the small, repressed community to the outside world, against the will of the powerful colonel who rules the village like a dictator. ...

Knocks at My Door (1994)

A fugitive bursts into the home of two Catholic nuns. In an attempt to save his life, they hide him from the marauding military patrols, despite the danger they face if they are caught. ...

Thanks for the Fire (1984)

The failure of Budiño Ramon, who plans first murder of his father and is recognized after unable to carry it out, is due largely to the general attitude of a society that tolerates no dramatic gestures. However, the inadequacies of radical class, beliefs, ...

Crab (1982)

Commissioner Leon (Miguel Angel Landa) of the Technical Judicial Police is assigned to the kidnapping of a child of the upper class of Caracas. The details of the kidnapping the attention of Leon, as there is no evidence of violence in the child's home, or ...

La Raulito (1975)

The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires. The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a re ...