Luis Medina Castro

El cóndor de oro (1996)

El caso María Soledad (1993)

The film is a fictional chronicle of a resonant police case that occurred in the city of Catamarca: the crime of the young María Soledad Morales, which had great public repercussion due to the links with the power of the culprits. ...

La virgen gaucha (1987)

The parallel accounts of the story of the Virgin of Luján in the seventeenth century and of a blind violinist who regains her vision during the Pope's visit to Argentina in 1982 ...

Mingo y Aníbal en la mansión embrujada (1986)

Las barras bravas (1985)

A widowed mother cannot prevent her child from dying from an overdose. ...

El caso Matías (1985)

In 1965, a man named Matías is taken to a psychiatric hospital, after being found at the streets, "in the company of homosexuals and in a state of intoxication by alcohol and drugs". His documentation says he's 41 years old and born in Poland. He says his ...

Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación (1980)

El Fausto criollo (1979)

An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role. ...

Furia en la isla (1978)

A beautiful woman who lives on an island is constantly harassed by men. ...

Patolandia nuclear (1978)

El Pato faces a gang of spies who use a stuntman to seize an atomic pile. ...

Difunta Correa (1975)

The Ragman (1974)

Edmund, a ragman that lives in the suburbs of the city with his wife, Berenice, suspects that their son, Bernard, an incurable alcoholic, is the responsible for the profanation of several tombs discovered in the local cemetery. ...

La Mary (1974)

A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying. ...

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. ...

Esta es mi Argentina (1974)

A geographical-musical walk through Argentina. Beautiful landscapes and the popular festivals of each region. ...

Si se calla el cantor (1973)

A man leaves his job working in the mining industry, falls in love with a girl and succeeds as a singer. ...

The Unforgettable Gang (1972)

The son of a businessman neglected by his father and orphaned by a mother, goes to a group of friends. A typical gang of humble neighborhood boys, led by Chirola. The history of this gang is ruled by two magical characters, El Hada de la Esperanza represen ...

Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá (1972)

Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman as his ...

Nosotros los monos (1971)

Following the life of Pampas boxer Mario Paladino, who died in the ring, this documentary delves into boxing as a job opportunity for men from the interior of the country. ...

Amalio Reyes, un hombre (1970)

Some years from the life of a neighborhood tough in Buenos Aires around 1915. ...

El principio del fin (1970)

Mal de chagas (1970)

Kuma-Ching (1969)

A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer. ...

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 ...

Soluna (1969)

A man goes to a sorcerer to hasten his reunion with a woman, and the sorcerer gives him a mask that accelerates time. ...

Maternidad sin hombres (1968)

The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions. ...

Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes (1965)

A young man loses a hand after being attacked by a gang. A police inspector will make sure to find them and bring justice, whatever it takes. ...

Los guerrilleros (1965)

A group of youngsters, encouraged by their teacher, starts with guerrilla actions. ...

Esquiú, una luz en el sendero (1965)

Viaje de una noche de verano (1965)

A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus. ...

Gotán (1965)

El hombre de la víbora (1965)

A car salesman recounts his professional journey, from a clumsy beginning marked by invasive treatment and failed demonstrations to a successful fluency. This film Martínez Suárez made on commission for the Argentine automobile factory IKA. ...

Los inconstantes (1963)

Stories about a group of young people who spend a week at a coastal resort. ...

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. ...

That Forward Center Dies at Dawn (1961)

Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the ...

Three Times Ana (1961)

Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air, ...

Los de la mesa 10 (1960)

The film refers to the romance between a young mechanic of humble working background and a university student from a well-to-do family of professionals who face the difficulties originated in their different social origins. ...

La patota (1960)

A philosophy teacher is raped by her night school students. ...

Zafra (1959)

A social drama centered on the miserable conditions experencied by cane cutters in Argentina's north. ...

Blessed be you (1956)

María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother. ...

El grito sagrado (1954)

El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American ...

Guacho (1954)

A handsome newcomer in a village marries a local girl. A year or so later an abandoned baby is left on the couple's doorstep, a baby the man had with another woman. They decide to raise the kid along with the one they had together. ...

Ellos nos hicieron así (1953)

The education received at home influences the future of some neighborhood boys of different economic status. ...

Pasó en mi barrio (1951)

An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family. ...