Mario Luciani

El gordo de América

To celebrate his promotion, a manager (Javier Portales) decides to summon his brother from the field, but as he did not stop making disasters he sends him back. His brother (Jorge Porcel) is not convinced and dazzled by an advertisement decides to set up an investigation office.

Kid Head

The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", a real-life Argentine gangster in the '30s.

El bulín

Employees of an office use for love dating the apartment of a single co-worker.

I want to kiss you sir!

A mechanic and an ad creator meet the daughter of an industrialist and her friend when they travel to Mar del Plata.

The flower of the mafia

An influential mob boss and a cabaret star team up to increase his power.

Alone

A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals.

Los insomnes

Small stories linked by a group of children who at night in Buenos Aires wander through the city and mingle with their families in an abandoned building

Pinocchio

An old man named Geppetto creates a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life

El prontuario de un argentino

An honest worker is forced to commit a crime for social reasons and unpleasant personal circumstances. After serving a prison sentence, he tries to rebuild his life.

Flores robadas en los jardines de Quilmes

After a chance meeting, two former lovers look back on their relationship.

The Knight is Here

A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.

The Mafia

The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.

The Arrangement

Luis is a righteous man who begins a struggle and a moral debate with his family, neighbors and close friends when a corrupt municipal official offers a very convenient "arrangement".

Made in Argentina

Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.

Las locas

Those interned in a psychiatric establishment are involved in a police issue.

Cantaniño cuenta un cuento

Two men, a woman, a chimpanzee and a talking horse travel around Argentina to put together a movie.

Love Is a Fat Woman

José is a young journalist who gets fired over refusing to write an article about an American film crew, overdramatizing the situation in Argentina. When he goes looking for his old girlfriend, he runs into the crew again.

The Underground Man

Set in 1930, a tormented man and his butler live in an old house in Adrogué, where pornographic films are filmed in the basement following the grandfather’s testament.

La Raulito

The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires. The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a reformatory for juvenile offenders, prison and psychiatric hospital. Raulito manages to escape, and finds work at Constitución railway station in Barrio Constitución. Raulito meets up with another street child and they become close friends. They both eventually manage to escape to Mar del Plata.

The Bad Life

Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.

Así es la vida

Tells the story, in the key of comedy of customs, of a typical bourgeois home in Buenos Aires for three decades.

Gerónima

Gerónima was a real "Mapuche" Indian woman that lived in Argentinian Patagonia. She lived with her four sons in a poor little house in the dry lands her family had owned for generations. In 1976, during the military dictatorial government that disappeared 30.000 people, she and her four sons were visited by social workers. Worried about Geronima's poor conditions of existence, including health, they took the whole family to the hospital "to help them", with unexpected tragic consequences. The film that reconstruct Geronima's story is based in a interview realized by a physician while she was at the hospital. The main actress, Luisa Calcumil is also a real "Mapuche" woman, as well as Aimé Painé, the singer that interprets the authentic "Mapuche" songs the film includes.

I Did Kill Facundo

The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.

Il mago per forza

In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.

Los tigres de la memoria

Looking for news of his ex-guerrilla sons, a man agrees to collaborate with his restaurant in a network of drug dealers.

Momentos

A married woman with a traumatic past embarks on an affair with a younger married man.

Los enemigos

The film depicts an eccentric Argentine family consisting of an elderly woman, her son, and the maid. Their relationships with each other and the outside world are closely linked to the dictatorship that grips the country they live in.

El poder de la censura

It tells the story of three friends - two filmmakers and a producer - who embark on the filming of a film during the time of the Argentine military process and expose the operation of censorship, powerful instrument of the time, about the project. The protagonists must choose between allowing military impositions or self-censorship.

Keep Waiting for Me

Juan remembers his childhood spent during the fifties in Argentina, when he lived doubts, fears and conflicts typical of the passage towards adolescence, surrounded by his family and the neighbors of the neighborhood

Todo o nada

A street vendor and an unemployed person start working in a drug trafficking company.

Los amores de Laurita

Laurita, a 40-year-old woman, accepts taboos of all kinds. In the search for an identity, she goes from one man to another, from the present to the past, from fantasy to reality. However, there is a tension that grows and grows, until it culminates in a surprise. Her memory goes back to review her loves and the different stages of her life: adolescence, her transgressing role and her fight against her own prejudices.

Los superagentes y la gran aventura del oro

The daughter of an archaeologist believes she has found an Inca treasure and is protected by the superagents.

La piel del amor

A woman seduces a young man so her homosexual husband can satisfy his desires.

Toto Paniagua (rey de la chatarra)

Toto is a scrap metal dealer who became rich by a stroke of luck. Having fallen in love with a woman from a higher social class, he decides to take etiquette classes so he can get closer to her.