Items17The creator’s order
  1. 1Nine Queens (2000)Nine Queens (2000) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 31, 2000The gold standard for the Buenos Aires con. Fabián Bielinsky's debut pairs Ricardo Darín's fast-talking veteran with Gastón Pauls's nervous apprentice as they try to sell a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps to a wealthy foreign collector. What makes it endlessly rewatchable is how much of the humor…0
  2. 2Wild Tales (2014)Wild Tales (2014) 8.1/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 21, 2014Six standalone stories about ordinary people pushed one insult too far, from a road-rage duel between two motorists to a wedding reception that goes spectacularly off the rails. Damián Szifron writes revenge as slapstick with real teeth, so you laugh at the escalation and wince at how familiar the…0
  3. 3The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 13, 2009The most serious film here, and it still earns its place. A retired court investigator starts writing a novel about a murder case from the 1970s that never left him, and the past and present threads close on each other with a final turn that lands like a slap. What keeps it from solemnity is the…0
  4. 4The Heist of the Century (2020)The Heist of the Century (2020) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Jan 16, 2020The true story is so absurd it barely needed embellishing. In January 2006 a gang held up the Banco Río branch in Acassuso with replica weapons, took hostages and emptied safe deposit boxes, and Ariel Winograd turns their planning into a caper comedy with Diego Peretti as the dreamy mastermind and…0
  5. 5Son of the Bride (2001)Son of the Bride (2001) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 16, 2001The bittersweet heart of the list. Ricardo Darín plays a frazzled restaurant owner in Buenos Aires whose father decides to give his wife, now living with Alzheimer's, the church wedding she always wanted, much to his son's horror. Juan José Campanella finds comedy in the logistics of a midlife…0
  6. 6The Distinguished Citizen (2016)The Distinguished Citizen (2016) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 8, 2016A Nobel-winning novelist who has lived in Europe for decades finally accepts an invitation back to Salas, the small Argentine town that fed all his books. Every civic honor, old acquaintance and local favor-seeker is funnier and more uncomfortable than the last. Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat have…0
  7. 7Chinese Take-Away (2011)Chinese Take-Away (2011) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 24, 2011Ricardo Darín at his most gloriously grumpy, as a meticulous hardware store owner who collects newspaper stories about absurd deaths. When a Chinese man who speaks no Spanish is thrown out of a taxi in front of him, he reluctantly takes him in while they hunt for the man's uncle. Sebastián…0
  8. 8Heroic Losers (2019)Heroic Losers (2019) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 15, 2019Revenge for the 2001 bank freeze, staged as a small-town heist. Neighbors in rural Buenos Aires province pool their savings to revive a local business, lose everything when the government freezes dollar accounts and a banker diverts their money, and then discover exactly where it is being…0
  9. 9The Man Next Door (2009)The Man Next Door (2009) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 13, 2009A whole film about a window, and it is gripping. A smug, successful designer living in a Le Corbusier house in La Plata discovers that his crude, loud neighbor is building a window into the wall between their homes, and polite negotiation slowly turns into a class war. Rafael Spregelburd and…0
  10. 10My Masterpiece (2018)My Masterpiece (2018) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 14, 2018An art-world con with two old friends at its center. Guillermo Francella plays a smooth Buenos Aires gallery owner and Luis Brandoni a cantankerous painter whose work has fallen out of fashion, and when money runs out they hatch a scheme that gets wilder and riskier the further it goes. Gastón…0