Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Movies

A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand....

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...

The film narrates the encounter between "La Tigra", a woman known by that nickname in the cafes of the port area for her character and her sharp...

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

The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", an authentic Argentine gangster in the '30.

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.

A man pretends to be dead and his dying wish causes his wife to marry a drifter and lose her inheritance.

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 young man pretends to be his friends' aunt to solve certain problems.

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

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.

Directed by Nicolás Sarquís.

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

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

A waiter who uses gambling to help others.

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

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...