Leonardo Favio Movies

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.

A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and...

A woman realizes her husband's brutality while he's away and other men are after her.

Mario, “el Rulo,” is a wanderer who travels the country giving artistic performances. One day he passes through the town of Carlos, a...

The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.

In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation...

Love, passion, disappointment, pain and sadness shape this love triangle between Aniceto, Francisca and Lucía, played by dancers Hernán...

An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a...

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl...

A Spanish immigrant goes from delivery guy to successful singer.

A documentary short featuring quotes from Argentine national heroes set against footage from Leonardo Favio's films.

This short features an unnamed shoeshine boy who works near a carnival. He dreams he befriends a middle-class boy one evening and gets a chance to...

A documentary short about the making of Gatica, el mono by argentine director Leonardo Favio. This film focuses on the particular way of directing...

This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt...

The story of José María Gatica, better known as Gatica el Mono, Argentina's main boxing star during the 1940s and 50s. The film follows...

The Mighty One offers Nazareno Cruz all the wealth in the world if he agrees to abandon his beloved; otherwise, the curse that supposedly weighs on...

Leonardo Favio’s final years are captured through the eyes of his daughter in an intimate and revealing journey. As Favio recreates his...

Short tribute to Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández, better known by his stage name "Bola de Nieve", a successful Cuban singer, composer and...

The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina.

A boy who lives and works with his grandfather whom he helps put together cardboard finds a magical book that tells stories and turns them into...