Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

El derrotado (2011)

Julio works for an accounting firm, at the beginning of the '50s. Celina, his wife, married him without knowing that he was addicted to gambling. This problem leads him to increasingly denigrating situations. Celina, who has lost contact with her upper-cla ...

Fiebre amarilla (1982)

During the yellow fever epidemic of 1870, a fugitive enters the mansion where three women had locked themselves in. ...

Piedra libre (1976)

Eugenia's parents die. She goes to live with Amalita, her close friend. Her grandmother Amalia Pradere a wealth landlady, takes the orphan under her protection. After a chain of events, disappearing her grandchild, Eugenia will take Amalita's place. She wi ...

Farewell, Sui Géneris (1976)

Documentary of the phenomenonal band Sui Géneris in its farewell tour at Luna Park on September 5, 1975. ...

Diary of a Pig War (1975)

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impuni ...

Jewish Gauchos (1975)

The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina. ...

Kid Head (1975)

The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", a real-life Argentine gangster in the '30s. ...

Painted Lips (1974)

The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town. ...

La muerte de Sebastián Arache y su pobre entierro (1974)

A legend of curses and death in an austere and dry desert where rain will not fall. The story focuses on the experiences and misery of an indigenous man who meets his death in the middle of the film. The dead time and the morosity of the story operate as t ...

The Seven Madmen (1973)

After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack. ...

The Mafia (1972)

The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of t ...

Güemes, la tierra en armas (1971)

The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century. ...

The Knight of the Sword (1970)

The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin. ...

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. ...

Los traidores de San Ángel (1967)

Henchmen of the dictator from a South American country blackmail Nick Thomas into being a government spy. The former smuggler is to pose as a priest and enter a monastery thought to be sympathetic with rebel guerrillas. The release of the film coincided wi ...

Monday's Child (1967)

The daughter of an American marriage in Puerto Rico forces her parents to find a doll that her father mistakenly sent in a box of aid during a flood. ...

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 ...

Once Upon a Tractor (1965)

Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NYC and the UN as their destination. A short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. ...

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. ...

The Female: Seventy Times Seven (1962)

Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how she got to where she is; she hooked up with a gringo and got involved in digging a well. A horse thief giv ...

Homage at Siesta Time (1962)

The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungle to pay homage to them. ...

Summerskin (1961)

In this drama, a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness. The woman knows that the son has fallen in love with her granddaughter, but the granddaughter does not reciprocate his feelings. Convinced she should do ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

La caída (1959)

A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for the student, but the couple experiences problems when she declines to leave ...

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. ...

The House of the Angel (1957)

A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forcibly kept innocent of the sexual nuances of some adult relationships, she is not too clear on her rights, ...

The trees of Buenos Aires (1957)

El protegido (1956)

A film producer, his wife (an actress) and her lover (a young scriptwriter) are part of a love triangle that will lead to a crime. It is set during the decay of Argentinian cinema studios. ...

Graciela (1956)

A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline. ...

Para vestir santos (1955)

A humble woman breaks her relationship with her boyfriend and dedicates herself to taking care of her siblings, as they grow up she is left alone. ...

La Tigra (1954)

The film narrates the encounter between "La Tigra", a woman known by that nickname in the cafes of the port area for her character and her sharp claws, and Luis, a student of Fine Arts. There will be born a strong, passionate and necessarily brief relation ...

Days of Hate (1954)

Emma Zunz, who is planning a crime, intends to get away with it by presenting an audacious alibi. ...

El hijo del crack (1953)

A famous football player faces retirement, but his son is still his most faithful fan. ...

Facundo, el tigre de los llanos (1952)

Aspects of the life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo who for many years ruled the province of La Rioja in Argentina and was assassinated in 1835. ...

The Crime of Oribe (1950)

The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters. ...

El nieto de Congreve (1949)

The relationship between a suffered gauchito and a foal. ...

Pantalones Cortos (1949)

After learning that his widowed father will remarry, a boy escapes home. ...

El hombre de las sorpresas (1949)

A man pretends to be dead and his dying wish causes his wife to marry a drifter and lose her inheritance. ...

El hijo de la calle (1949)

Romance sin palabras (1948)

A famous pianist, invited by a girl, becomes interested in her sister, who pretends to be mute to hide a pronunciation defect. ...

Pelota de trapo (1948)

This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups. ...

El hombre del sábado (1947)

Santos Vega vuelve (1947)

A singer takes possession of a ranch and receives the mission to avenge his ancestor Santos Vega, that legendary payador, and defeat Juan Sin Ropa. ...

Tres millones... y el amor (1946)

A thief going to rob an unscrupulous industrialist falls in love with a young woman and turns himself in to the police to save a thief friend. ...

La tía de Carlos (1946)

A young man pretends to be his friends' aunt to solve certain problems. ...

Un modelo de París (1946)

A series of confusions involve an unfaithful woman and a man on his wedding day. ...

El comisario de Tranco Largo (1942)

A workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner. ...

Orca (1942)

A gaucho flees from justice for murdering a man with whom his girlfriend was betraying him. He settles in a place where he falls in love with a woman, also desired by the local commissioner. ...

El mozo número 13 (1941)

A waiter who uses gambling to help others. ...

Sinvergüenza (1940)

A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path. ...

La luz de un fósforo (1940)

A shy man invents in front of his friends a love affair with a singer but circumstances will lead him to conquer her. ...

Mi padre y yo (2024)

Documentary about the life of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, one of Argentina's most influential directors. Narrated by his son and director of the film, Pablo Torre. ...

Regreso a Coronel Vallejos (2018)

A bitter postcard of the town of the Buenos Aires countryside that Argentinean writer Manuel Puig (1932-90) portrayed with singular mastery, based on his own land, a town named General Villegas. Its inhabitants never forgave him. However, a woman, owner of ...

Güemes, la tierra en armas (1971)

The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century. ...

La Tigra (1954)

The film narrates the encounter between "La Tigra", a woman known by that nickname in the cafes of the port area for her character and her sharp claws, and Luis, a student of Fine Arts. There will be born a strong, passionate and necessarily brief relation ...