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A very sensitive story about the friendship that developed between a teacher and a male student in a very remote town in the Province of Santiago del Estero (Argentina).

Based on a theatrical work, this is the story of a political leader and one of his bodyguards, exploring the their lives in the context of family problems and politics; set in Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 20th century.
Basada en una obra teatral muy difundida, es la historia de un líder político y uno de sus guardaespaldas, en el contexto de los problemas familiares y políticos de ambos, a comienzos de siglo en Buenos Aires.

A tango singer arrives in a village for a temporary engagement. While he is there, he experiences the brutal repression the people live with under the military rule.

Story about the friendship between the son of an important Argentine political figure and his father's bodyguard, with allusions to the time of the military coup of 1943.
La relacion de amistad entre el hijo de un personaje politico importante, y el guardaespaldas de su padre, con alusiones politicas a la epoca en Argentina (golpe militar de 1943).

In May of 1945, the news of the fall of Berlin spread to Buenos Aires. Clara is the daughter of a socialist leader named Boris who has died unexpectedly. As Clara learns more about a father she hardly knew, she finds out slowly about his political involvement during the war. There is some unrest in Argentina, and soon, not even Clara's life is free from danger.

A young lady nicknamed La Raulito is flown from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Madrid to be the actress in an interview type film. She has an interesting story having been a psychiatric patient for many years. The film is to be her answering questions and thus describing her life. She is accompanied by two other ladies who do not really care about her. At first all goes well, but soon Raulito starts feeling pressured by her new career.

Nazareno is a seventh son and cursed to turn into a werewolf when night arrives.

A film of love and passion, adaptated from the novel by Benedetti.

A dangerous criminal who is about to be freed from jail, is asked for help by a friend. He escapes but is tricked by a band to get hold of the loot he has hidden. With great skill he manages to deceive his captors and runs away with the band boss's lover. But as always, crime never pays. -- Digitalia Film Library website

A seventh son, Nazareno Cruz has a curse: if he falls in love, he will turn into a wolf when there is a full moon.

A young woman and her father come from the countryside to settle in Buenos Aires. They find a house lead a miserable life.

Two men, father and son, are confronted ideologically. The first one is a wealthy middle-class man with contacts on the political power. His son, weak and unpredictable, feels powerless to unmask his father and betray his own family. Based on the novel by Mario Benedetti.-- Digitalia Film Library website

"Invasion is the legend of a city, imaginary or real, besieged by powerful enemies and defended by a handful of men who may not be herroes. They will fight to the end without suspecting their battle is endless"--DVD 01, Synopsis.

In this allegorical drama, a city is invaded by very powerful but mysterious enemies, while a old man organizes the resistance with the help of a group of commandos. Based on an plot created by Argentinian writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.

A true story about the life of a woman in an insane asylum.

Nazareno is a seventh son and cursed to turn into a werewolf when night arrives.
Nazareno is the seventh son in a farmer's family and, sticking to the legend, he turns into a woolf every full moon night. He falls in love with the daughter of the richest man in town, Griselda, and their love will be stronger than the evil that tempts Nazareno. -- Digitalia Film Library website

"Relata la máxima epopeya sanmartiniana estableciendo un paralelo entre el hombre y el soldado, como también el deber a la patria y a la familia . . . Además la película logra trasladarnos, con bellas y patéticas imágenes, a los escenarios de las grandes batallas y victorias de nuestro héroe, a la vez que nos ofrece un documento único de la emancipación americana"--Container.
The story of "Argentine military hero General Jose de San Martin. He falls in love and marries the beautiful Remedios de Escalada who gives birth to the couple's daughter before her untimely demise. San Martin helps to liberate Argentina, Peru and Chile from Spanish control. . . .The general makes an adventurous and dangerous crossing of the Andes Mountains and engages in several military clashes that test the bravery of the freedom fighters"--Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide.

Shows the more sordid aspects of Buenos Aires in the 1960s -- the unemployment, the misery, the prostitution -- from the perspective of a young man who attempts to join the criminal world and who is willing to use and betray those around him.

This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.