Movies: Jorge Luis Borges

Soviet film based on Borges' "Garden of Forking Paths." The film tells about the events that occurred on the eve of the British offensive in Saint-Montauban on July 24, 1916. A screen version of the short story of the famous Argentine classic Jorge L...

The script is based on Borges's story "The Gospel according to St. Mark"....

Baltasar Espinosa, a medical student, accepts an invitation from his cousin to spend the summer at his estate. However, a torrential downpour floods the fields, leaving him stranded with the Gutre family, a group of laborers. During their isolation, ...

The Aleph is the point where diachronic and synchronic times meet, and each second represents a moment in life, from birth to death....

This documentary examines Borges' extraordinary life and work, using dramatizations of his most memorable stories and rare interview footage with the author at his Buenos Aires home....

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Documentary about the life and work of Jorge Luis Borges, from his own memories and reflections....

The life and work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, a long interview, fragments of some of his most significant verses and dramatizations of some of his stories. Borges for everyone....

A rabbi is murdered. Detective Llonrot is called in on the case and looks for a 'rabbinical explanation' for the murder. Other murders are committed and deliberate clues left in chosen locations. Llonrot, convinced he is on the trail of a 'mystical i...

A tour for Buenos Aires with Jorge Luis Borges, who reflects on different topics....

A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal, who establishes a bold parallelism between Borges' work and opinions and his own creations,...

Loosely based on the tale “La Espera” by Jorge Luis Borges....

A group of young people meet for dinner. After an argument, two of the guests engage in a parody of a knife fight. The end of that fight is the beginning of another tragedy, older and deeper, that is deposited in those knives....

A man wearing a mask of King Kong walks through a maze unrolling a ball of thread. Franco Brocani renewes his interest in the dens of perdition providing a free vision of the classic myth of the Minotaur. Shot in an art gallery in Rome and adapted fr...

Based on the story by Jorge Luis Borges "La casa de Asterión"...

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Based on “Emma Zunz,” a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the film moves through the internal voices of Emma’s character, whose evolution between crime, revenge and justice assumes—read from the context of the social struggles of the 60s and 70s—a de...