Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Movies

Aspects of the life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo who for many years ruled the province of La Rioja in Argentina and was assassinated in 1835.

The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the...

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

The relationship between a suffered gauchito and a foal.

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...

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, at the age of 22, made his directorial debut with this little-known auteur short film, based on one of his short stories,...

Documentary about the life of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, one of Argentina's most influential directors. Narrated by his son and director of the film,...

In this drama, a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness. The woman knows that the son has fallen in...

A bitter postcard of the town of the Buenos Aires countryside that Argentinean writer Manuel Puig (1932-90) portrayed with singular mastery, based on...

A series of confusions involve an unfaithful woman and a man on his wedding day.

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

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.

The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.

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

A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline.

A humble woman breaks her relationship with her boyfriend and dedicates herself to taking care of her siblings, as they grow up she is left alone.

A workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner.

The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.

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...