Julio Cortázar

Serán Legión (2024)

When a woman dies of an inexplicable disease, her widower, a greedy landlord and her sister, obsessed with her house, must survive a sinister psychic and supernatural force that sickens everyone who lives in the house. ...

Tinikling (2023)

Cherie, a Filipino maid, goes to a wealthy family's reception to do some extra work. But when she arrives, she discovers that her job is to look after the dogs. She then meets Milo, the family's young son. ...

Save Twilight (2020)

In the long nights of the city, Julia remembers her love story with Lucia, a girl who, after traveling the world and living in Paris, ended up staying in her heart. However, when the relationship begins to wither, a tragic accident ends Lucía's life, plun ...

La Puerta Condenada (2017)

Historias de Cronopios y de Famas (2014)

Tensions between classes and genres, national and international, popular and formal, color and black and white, figurative and abstract revive the eternal discussion between opposites that the imaginary cronopios and famas represent. ...

La Noche Boca Arriba (2012)

A man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short f ...

Made Up Memories (2009)

The story of an Argentine family entangled in a web of lies, all of which relate to the fabricated adventures of a lost son who sends gifts from foreign lands. What begins as a liberating game becomes a trap from which none in the family can escape. ...

La inmiscusión terrupta (2006)

Short film based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar. ...

Continuidad (2001)

Last audiovisual student project from Juan José Namnún's days as a cinematography student at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). ...

Furia (1999)

In a desert town, sometime in the future, a repressive government regime restricts all forms of artistic expression. At night, Theo breaks the law, risking torture and death, to paint his work on public spaces. But when his lover Elia is arrested for commi ...

A Hora Mágica (1998)

In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot. ...

Monsieur Bébé (1974)

In this extreme yet devastating testament to the loneliness of human existence, an older domestic woman, heartbreakingly rendered by Gence, is approached in the kitchen after a party by a young, gay man seeking affection. She is later offered money to act ...

Omnibus (1972)

A lonely woman enters a bus and gets closely observed by all the passengers in a strange and intriguing manner. She doesn't understand anything about those stares and doesn't know how to react to them. What could possibly be wrong with her? ...

Casa tomada (1970)

Two elderly people live in a large house, following a dull and predictable routine. They are stalked by another elderly man—tall, dressed in a black coat, and with a ghostly presence—who eventually takes up residence in one of the rooms of the house. ...

Weekend (1967)

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations. ...

Blow-Up (1966)

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film. ...

El perseguidor (1965)

The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by means of alcohol, drugs and sex. A story by Cortázar inspired by the life of Charlie Parker, it shows a fragmented narration and remarkable formal aspects ...

Intimidad de los parques (1965)

Two men and a beautiful woman are involved in a three-way relationship during a trip to Machu Picchu. ...

Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell (1965)

Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares. ...

Circe (1964)

Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others. ...

Odd Number (1962)

Two brothers quarrel for the love of a woman. One of them falls ill and dies; the other one marries her. The couple's relationship falters in Paris due to the involvement of a reproaching mother, who still acts as if the dead brother were alive and living ...

The Padilla Affair (2023)

Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations of co ...

Cortázar: instrucciones de montaje (I) (2020)

Cortázar: Instrucciones de montaje (I) Collects the writer's underlines and notes, challenging concepts such as reading, personal library or reader. ...

Mario y los perros (2019)

An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he lived during these formative years led him to write and publish his first major work when he was only 26 ye ...

Amargo era el postre (2019)

Cortázar (1994)

A portrait which explores the legacy and impact of novelist Julio Cortazar's art, perceptively examining it within the context of shifting tides of Argentine culture and politics. The author reads his own texts in this poetic documentary. ...

Blow-Up (1966)

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film. ...