Movies: Lorenzo Quinteros

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnapp...

Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive father....

A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himsel...

A movie director from Argentine travels to Prague to make a film about Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská....

A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government....

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A man and a woman find themselves trapped inside what appears to be a dream that takes place in the labyrinthine corridors and mysterious rooms of a large hotel located by the sea....

In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them....

Drama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33....

Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War....

A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various aspects of his thought and his life....

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Roberto is an insurance salesman who dreams of writing his own novel. When he meets Estela, a young woman about to commit suicide, it serves him as material to make this work....

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Miguel steals a trick from a magic book and becomes a world-renowned magician. However, the idea of ​​the public discovering that this great trick is plagiarized from a book eats at his mind more and more....

A 60 year old medic tries to reconstruct a traumatic fact that changed his life while he is in the subway: the lost of his ten years old daughter....

A manager of a Santa Fe bank, who apparently leads a normal life with his wife, actually has a lover in Paraná, as well as a terrible relationship with his father, a retired military man who became an executive of a multinational in Buenos Aires....

Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rather slow-paced story about Ramon (Oscar Martinez) and his search for his brother Pedro in the capital city of Buenos Aires. Pedro has disappeared at a...

This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past...

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