Leonardo Favio

Once Upon a Time there was a Wizard (2024)

Leonardo Favio's final years are captured through the eyes of his daughter in an intimate and revealing journey. As Favio recreates his masterpiece, Aniceto, remake of Este es el romance del Aniceto y la Francisca… Interviews between father and daughter ...

Gente querible (2010)

Toby and the Magic Book (2001)

A boy who lives and works with his grandfather whom he helps put together cardboard finds a magical book that tells stories and turns them into reality. With the characters in his stories, he will share adventures that bring him closer to fulfilling his gr ...

Gatica multitudes (1993)

A documentary short about the making of Gatica, el mono by argentine director Leonardo Favio. This film focuses on the particular way of directing that Favio had in big set pieces with huge crowds. ...

Simplemente una rosa (1971)

Leonardo is a singer with huge success in Argentina and abroad. He is happy, but his tranquility is not enough as he can't find love and is possessed by sadness. ...

Fuiste mía un verano (1969)

The life of a young artist from his childhood to his triumph. ...

The Dependent (1969)

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family. ...

Martín Fierro (1968)

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem. ...

The Eavesdropper (1966)

When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners - immigrants and zarzuela players - plan an attack on the president, he reports them to the police. In his adventure, he leaves behind a girlfriend and a lover, and ends up sharing his ...

Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)

The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina. ...

El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres (1964)

A woman tries to prove his son's innocence, a taxi driver who is accused of murder. ...

Paula Cautiva (1963)

An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a traditional but poor family, and he finds himself falling in love with her. ...

The Venerable Ones (1963)

Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader, Lucas, and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love b ...

The Terrace (1963)

A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace. ...

Racconto (1963)

The romantic encounter and misunderstanding between an aristocratic model and an actor. ...

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. ...

El bruto (1962)

A woman realizes her husband's brutality while he's away and other men are after her. ...

The Hand in the Trap (1961)

This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic. ...

The Party Is Over (1960)

This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both case ...

Todo el año es Navidad (1960)

A celestial envoy comes to Earth to help solve some small conflicts between humans, related to their attitude and relationships. ...

In Burning Darkness (1959)

In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in tu ...

The Boss (1958)

The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him. ...

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. ...

El ángel de España (1957)

A Spanish immigrant goes from delivery guy to successful singer. ...

Gente querible (2010)

Aniceto (2008)

Love, passion, disappointment, pain and sadness shape this love triangle between Aniceto, Francisca and Lucía, played by dancers Hernán Piquín, Natalia Pelayo and Alejandra Baldón. ...

Monobloc (2005)

The godmother and Perla are the world to "the little girl," a world defined by the four walls of a studio apartment with one window looking nowhere. Only space and alter the monotony, the blood transfusion sessions to which must be submitted Pearl and almo ...

Campo de sangre (2001)

This is the story of a Navy captain, a provincial government official during the Onganía dictatorship. Despite being married, he falls in love with the young receptionist at the municipal office. The soldier cannot divorce her because it would ruin his mi ...

Perón, Symphony of Feeling (2000)

The documentary deals on the life and achievements of Juan Domingo Perón and his governments, the key political facts and figures and also about Argentine History in the 20th century. ...

La carta (1998)

A woman tries to write a nice goodbye letter to her husband. ...

Historias Breves II: Vete de mí (1996)

Short tribute to Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández, better known by his stage name "Bola de Nieve", a successful Cuban singer, composer and pianist. ...

Gatica, the Monkey (1993)

The story of Jose Maria Gatica, better known as Gatica el Mono, Argentina's main boxing star during the 1940s and 50s. ...

El fantástico mundo de la María Montiel (1978)

A girl and her fantasy universe in the brick ovens. ...

Soñar, soñar (1976)

Mario, "el Rulo," is a wanderer who travels the country giving artistic performances. One day he passes through the town of Carlos, a municipal employee who dreams of being an artist. A friendship is born between the two of them, and Carlos leaves it all b ...

Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (1975)

The Mighty One offers Nazareno Cruz all the wealth in the world if he agrees to abandon his beloved; otherwise, the curse that supposedly weighs on him will be fulfilled. ...

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. ...

Fuiste mía un verano (1969)

The life of a young artist from his childhood to his triumph. ...

The Dependent (1969)

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family. ...

The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca (1967)

Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise. ...

Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)

The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina. ...

The Friend (1960)

This short features an unnamed shoeshine boy who works near a carnival. He dreams he befriends a middle-class boy one evening and gets a chance to spend time inside the carnival gate. ...