Movies: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

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 bot...

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 coinci...

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....

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....

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

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...

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

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

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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 upp...

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....

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....

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

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 operat...

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 ...

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....

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....

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

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