Juan Carlos Macías

Abuelas (2020)

A film that tells the life story of women searching for their kidnapped and disappeared grandchildren, whom they never met and for whom they have been searching and searching for for more than 40 years. In the film, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo tell t ...

A Journey to the Fumigated Towns (2018)

A Journey to the Fumigated Towns is the final episode made by Fernando Solanas in a series of 8 films dedicated to the Argentinian's crisis in the 21st century. Based on testimonies, re-creations, archives and photos, this investigative documentary reveals ...

Fragmentos rebelados (2018)

The life of filmmaker Enrique Juárez, reviewed at the same time by family, friends, and fellow activists, is the excuse to address the 1960s and 1970s of the 20th century, when an entire generation awakened not only to the political struggle, but also to ...

Spider Thieves (2017)

Three teenage girls from a Santiago shanty town set in motion a plan to climb buildings and break into the apartments of the wealthy side of the town. ...

Don't Fall In Love With Me (2012)

Three interconnected stories explore the complicated relationships of young, attractive Argentinian adults searching for true love ...

La Cocina (En el medio hay una ley) (2011)

When President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced she would send the Audiovisual Communication Services Bill to Congress, filmmakers took to the streets to shoot, believing it to be a historic event. The entire ensuing debate is captured in the film ...

Land in Revolt: Black Gold (2011)

The epic of popular resistance to the privatization of oil in Argentina and its tragic consequences: thousands of layoffs, poverty and environmental pollution. It was one of the biggest scams and failures of national history: the country was self-sufficien ...

Mis días con Gloria (2010)

A hitman working for Lieutenant Crinal, a corrupt local police officer. The lives of these two characters become complicated when a famous '60s diva returns to the quiet town and mistakes Roberto for a chauffeur. Their lives become inexorably intertwined i ...

The Widows of Thursdays (2009)

The closed community of a private neighborhood of high-priced houses, is moved by the discovery of three corpses that appear floating in a pool and rushes to frame it as an accident. ...

Viva High School Musical: Mexico (2008)

Football captain Cristóbal discovers that his neighbor and classmate, Mariana, has changed a lot over the summer. Meanwhile, Luli is still as vain as ever and overshadows her poor brother, Fernando. As a new year begins at High School Mexico (HSM, initial ...

Cobrador: In God We Trust (2007)

Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored. ...

¿Quién soy yo? (2007)

The documentary directed by Estela Bravo collects the story of girls, boys and young people who were able to recover their true identity thanks to the struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. The documentary gives an account of the tireless task und ...

Fuga (2006)

Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental ho ...

Hacer patria (2006)

Accompanied by his mother, cousins, aunts and uncles, director David Blaustein retraces the steps of his Jewish ancestors, who fled Europe in the 1920s hoping to find in Argentina the land of their dreams. ...

Dignity of the Nobodies (2005)

The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers fight ...

Dos Ilusiones (2004)

Heriberto (Matías Santoiani) dreams of becoming an actor. He wins a contest to work on a film and leaves his small town for Buenos Aires. There he meets Cynthia (Claudia Albertario), the other winner, who will be his co-star in the film, and with whom he ...

Social Genocide (2004)

After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have lost ...

The Bottom of the Sea (2003)

An architecture student is obsessed by his girlfriend. When she is invited to go alone to a party sponsored by her company, he becomes paranoid. He arrives at their place unexpectedly and finds a man hidden under their bed. He follows the man trying to fin ...

A Day in Paradise (2003)

A cartoonist and painter who can not stand out and make a living, among other things, as a photographer of news magazines and a beautiful young woman who comes to Buenos Aires from inside the country to try to make it as a model and actress, living a love ...

Vivir intentando (2003)

Viri is a trendy bar waitress, Lissa works in a supermarket and sings hip-hop, Valeria veterinary studies, Yvonne tries to find a place in the world of music and Lourdes does tattoos on the premises of his brother Pogo. The idea of forming a pop group. Whe ...

Kamchatka (2002)

In 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecuted and kidnapped. This is the case of the parents of two children, who, knowing they are wanted, decide to hide. ...

Passionate People (2002)

Uma, tired of waiting for the man of her dreams to raise a family, decides that Nico, the boyfriend of her best friend Lucy, has all necessary features. So she asks her a favor: to lend her boyfriend once. In the middle of surprising situations, Uma convin ...

Chiquititas: Rincón de Luz (2001)

It tells the story of orphans forced to work on a farm run by Colonel Juan Ignacio de Cabreras and Marga. Belén, through the book recommended to her by Tok and the Wise Old Man, meets Alejo, who lived with a boy named Felipe. One of the girls, Camila, sec ...

The Dark Side of the Heart 2 (2001)

The sequel to the blockbuster Argentinean smash hit. After ten years, Oliverio is still intrigued by the works of great poets and continues to search for true love. When he meets the beautiful Miranda, she suggests that they both move in together and find ...

Tiger Head (2001)

In the aftermath of the May Revolution, which sparked the end of Spanish colonial rule and the establishment of the first independent government in Buenos Aires, revolutionary leader Juan José Castelli is given the order to oversee the execution of former ...

The Escape (2001)

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not t ...

Rodrigo: The Movie (2001)

A love between an admirer of Rodrigo and a young man who is shocked by his fanaticism with real images of recitals of Rodrigo ...

El astillero (2000)

After 5 years, a man returns to his hometown with the intention of taking revenge on those who drove him out and running a recovering shipyard. ...

Burnt Money (2000)

Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of crime history. After a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody, t ...

Spoils of War (2000)

Botín de guerra focuses on the history of the birth and growth of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo association, along with the frightening socio-political phenomenon that gave them raison d'être: the systematic appropriation of the children of detainees disa ...

The Angry Toy (1998)

A 16-year-old young man, is fond of weapons and the manufacture of explosives. He participates in robberies and is persecuted by the Police, so his group of friends dissolves and he goes to live in another neighborhood and starts working in a bookstore. ...

Dibu 2: La venganza de Nasty (1998)

The evil Nasty comes to our world with two objectives -- kidnap Buji, and carry as much candy as possible back to his world. He has the ability to 'shape-shift', and using the appearance of Dibu, he holds up a bank so that he can get enough money to buy th ...

The Lighthouse (1998)

Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker, but they are actually very close. ...

Anahy de las Misiones (1997)

Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead. ...

Cenizas del paraíso (1997)

A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth. ...

The Impostor (1997)

This drama is based on a novel and incomplete screenplay by the late Maria Luis Bemberg. In 1930s Argentina, wealthy Sebastian (Antonio Birabent) leaves his Buenos Aires home for the family estate on the pampas. His family, concerned for his physical and m ...

Besos en la frente (1996)

Mercedes, a widow of eighty and fearful of loneliness, falls in love with Sebastian, a writer sixty years younger than her. Mercedes will feel trapped in her wrinkled and slow body that which prevents her from living their love as it should be lived. ...

Autumn Sun (1996)

Clara Goldstein is a lovely, middle-aged Jewish woman who, because of an impending visit from her American brother, is forced to create a contrived relationship with a man of her own faith. She places an ad in a personals column and meets Raul, a well-spok ...

Wild Horses (1995)

Jose is an elderly rebel who, after being refused a withdrawal at a bank, returns with a gun and threatens to shoot himself if he doesn't get his cash. Pedro, a young teller, is disillusioned with his life and sees Jose's stunt as a way out when he pretend ...

A Wall of Silence (1993)

A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government. ...

I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993)

In an Argentine village in the 1930s, the willful Leonor discovers that her beloved daughter, Charlotte, has dwarfism. Attempting to let her have as normal a childhood as possible, Leonor never discusses Charlotte's lack of stature, nor lets anyone else in ...

The Plague (1992)

In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city, an idealistic doctor decides to stay and help the sick. In the ever-changing circumstances, he puts up a brave fight, being helped by ...

The Tombs (1991)

"El Pollo," a 13-year-old child in reform school, witnesses and experiences the brutalization of the guards and the other inmates. ...

I, the Worst of All (1990)

A 17th-century Mexican nun defies expectations by becoming a renowned intellectual and writer during the Spanish Inquisition. ...

Fútbol argentino (1990)

A history of Argentine football, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the victory of the Argentine national team in the 1986 World Cup. The film uses valuable archival footage. ...

Old Gringo (1989)

A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run. ...

Abierto de 18 a 24 (1988)

The owner of a tango academy finds the possibility of love after the arrival of a charming character. ...

Color escondido (1988)

Dreams and reality mix-up in the life of a middle class woman in his 20s who is depressed and distressed. ...

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 ...

Made in Argentina (1987)

Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the pos ...

The Official Story (1985)

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter. ...

Los enemigos (1983)

The film depicts an eccentric Argentine family consisting of an elderly woman, her son, and the maid. Their relationships with each other and the outside world are closely linked to the dictatorship that grips the country they live in. ...

Pubis angelical (1982)

It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men. ...

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. ...

Borges para millones (1978)

The life and work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, a long interview, fragments of some of his most significant verses and dramatizations of some of his stories. Borges for everyone. ...

Saverio, el cruel (1977)

Saverio is an insurance broker who arrives in a small town after receiving a letter from a potential client requesting insurance for "special affections." Upon arriving at the mansion, Saverio is captivated by the beauty of Susana, the granddaughter and he ...

Las sorpresas (1975)

"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there ...

Los pocillos (1974)

Navidad (1972)

Al grito de este pueblo (1972)

Directed by Bolivian-born filmmaker Humberto Ríos (working from Argentina, where he was based), this 65-minute color documentary chronicles the struggle of Bolivian miners and peasants in the period leading up to the de facto government of dictator Hugo B ...

Los Velázquez (1972)

Viejo Reales' Long Journey to Death (1971)

Documentary with staged events about a poor rural family in Argentina. ...

Mosaico (La vida de una modelo) (1970)

The life of an advertising model, since she is discovered by a producer, until she decides to move away from the advertising environment. ...

Vestigios (1970)

Documentary about pre-Columbian art whose aesthetic and utilitarian values are intimately related to its myths and history. ...

The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)

An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence is a historical, geographic, and ...

Tute Cabrero (1968)

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

Hachero nomás (1966)

The living and working conditions and the exploitation to which the "axemen" workers are subjected in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in what was one of the most powerful companies of imperialism. ...

Dar la cara (1962)

Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina. ...

Flooded Out (1962)

Tells the story of a poor family, inhabitants of the southern province of Santa Fe, who is forced to move into an abandoned railroad until waters recede Salado river wagon. ...

El televisor (1962)

With the expansion of television in Argentina people changed their customs and schedules. This is the story of a family father who refuses to change his own, but who suffers after having acquired a television set. ...

Libertad bajo palabra (1961)

For good behavior, four prisoners are released for 24 hours. ...

A Beautiful Dream (2020)

"For her next movie, De eso no se habla, María Luisa Bemberg needs a dwarf". That was an ad on local media during preproduction of the movie that would become the last od the director. Among the peoplewho responded the ad was Alejandra Podestá, who ended ...