| The Good Intentions (2019) | 6.9 | |
| Wild Tales (2014) | 8.1 | |
| Epitafios (2004) | 7.8 | |
| Evita (1996) | 6.3 | |
| The Official Story (1985) | 7.7 |
Movies and TV shows set in argentina
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in argentina ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, serious and touching films and TV shows about / with love and romance, female nudity, couples, friendship, couple relations, sex scene, society, family relations, husband wife relationship and bittersweet plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in Argentina, Spain, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as argentina: Silencios de familia (2016), The Invisible Eye (2010), A Decent Woman (2016), XXY (2007), The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), The Good Intentions (2019), And Soon the Darkness (2010), Abzurdah (2015), Olympia (2011), Sex Stories of Ordinary People (2004).
Best films
New films
| Blondi (2023) | 6.7 | |
| The Blue Star (2023) | 7.3 | |
| Zorras (2023) | 5.6 | |
| The Astronaut Lovers (2024) | 7.1 | |
| Plastic Guns (2024) | 6.2 |
List of movies set in argentina
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
TV show
Story:
The Diamantes are a clasic mid class family from Buenos Aires. There's Miguel (Suiar), his wife Elisa (Diaz) and their three children: Lara (19yo), Tobi (18) and Mia (15).
Their lives are quiet and peaceful, however everything is going to ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
relationships, family secret, family conflict, family drama, male female relationship, problem, affair, husband wife relationship, love interest, secret, family problems, marital problem ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
rebellion, high school life, political unrest, youth, society, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, South Korea, Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Buenos Aires cleaning woman enters the strange world of upper-class nudism, in this wry, deadpan satire from Austro-Argentine writer-director Lukas Valenta Rinner.
Style:
erotic, psychological, disturbing, captivating, weird
Plot:
nudist camp, nudism, nudist colony, maid, erotica, swinger, master and servant, master servant relationship, swinger couple, secret society, high society, secret ...
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, lgbt cinema, sexual, hispanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
transsexual, teenage life, homosexuality, gender, sexual exploration, gender bending, intersex, lgbt teen, transsexuality, lgbtq, sexual abuse, hermaphrodite ...
Place:
uruguay, latin america, argentina, south america
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Style:
suspense, clever, touching, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, investigation, rape, murder, murder mystery, murderer, lawyer, writers, justice, passion, investigator, homicide ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, y2k, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
latin america, argentina, south america, harvard university, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.
Style:
melancholic, sincere, romantic, poignant, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, father daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorced couple, children, love and romance, couple relations, parent child relationship, family drama, fatherhood, husband wife relationship, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina, paraguay
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized.
Style:
scary, disturbing, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, missing friend, friendship, woman in danger, expedition, bicycle, murder, torture, kidnapped, survival horror, rescue, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america, somalia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.
Style:
touching, melancholic, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sex, anorexia, fall in love, teenage protagonist, love, older man teenage girl relationship, obsessive love, older man younger woman relationship, biopic, internet culture, sex with a minor, eating disorder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The story revolves around Olympia, an 18-year-old looking to become famous by entering the world of online pornography.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, psychological, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ambition, actor's life, adolescence vs adulthood, life is a bitch, female protagonist, lesbian sex, girl, nudity, blind ambition, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Story:
Historias de sexo de gente común is a television show about common people's live revolving around sex in Argentina, produced by Endemol and aired by Telefé.
Style:
satirical, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
sexual desire, longing, affair, husband wife relationship, family problems, couples, adultery, marital infidelity, male female relationship, relationship problems, marital problem, marriage crisis ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.
Style:
erotic, tense, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
sister sister incest, sex with sister in law, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, masturbation, lawyer, pregnancy, dark secret, family relations, mother, extramarital affair, death ...
Place:
argentina
Is relevant?
911
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Marcia (Tatiana Saphir), a frumpy and overweight salesgirl who seems to lead a banal and dreary existence, goes to work one day. As she walks she catches the eye of a feisty butch punk woman named Mao (Carla Crespo) who tells Marcia she wants to ...
Style:
road movie, touching, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
gender, lesbian, self discovery, punk, kidnapping, love and romance, human nature, unlikely couple, on the road, dull life, lgbt, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."
Style:
non-linear, realistic, serious, postmodern, talky ...
Plot:
theater, actor's life, lesbian relationship, strong female presence, twentysomething life, actress, shakespeare, mistaken identity, cross dressing, adaptation, intrigue, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the ...
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, artsy ...
Plot:
virginity, perversion, teenage girl, sin, doctor, love and romance, youth, couple relations, society, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004
Place:
argentina, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Buenos Aires screenwriter Pablo is hired to write a new romantic comedy. As he begins his story, he visualizes his characters living in Madrid. Pablo creates a meet-cute between Marina and Víctor, a cute couple in Madrid who are soon totally in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, romantic comedy
Plot:
couples, bittersweet, filmmaking, introspection, unfulfilled love, love affair, love and romance, unfulfillment, singleness, writer's life, artists and showbiz, creative process ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, spain, buenos aires argentina
Is relevant?
Genre: Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fabian (Dario Grandinetti) works as a bank executive. After one of his colleagues in the bank dies, he falls into crisis. His wife, Mariela (Carolina Peleritti), is a psychologist and has Olga (Mabel Rivera) , an embittered woman who tries to take ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, tense, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
love and romance, love affair, hopes, introspection, dealing with death, road not taken, unfulfillment, midlife crisis, existential crisis, character study, loss, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio understand each other without words, care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio vanishes without a clue, Santiago and Laura, Eugenio’s wife, join forces to solve the mystery of his ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, love and romance, couples, fall in love, couple relations, loyalty, companionship, friendship, missing person, longing, introspection, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A summer vacation in the 70s. Lalo and Bruno are teenagers doing nothing on days full of nothing. But on a hot and humid afternoon, and without asking for permission, Lisa arrives smashing more than the letargy of the town. Thirty years later Lisa ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, teenage love, unfulfillment, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, sex scene, jealousy, cheating girlfriend, love and romance, youth, midlife crisis ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gerónimo is a 45 year old man devastated by a tragic event. His friend Julian tries out afloat by encouraging him to participate in the project of a marginal town near Buenos Aires. Both are Catholic priests who decided to dedicate their life to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, rough, social ...
Plot:
sex with a priest, society, life is a bitch, fighting the system, social decay, urban ghetto, hopes, against the odds, priest, catholic, liberation theology, catholic church ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Luciano works in birthday parties and writes his first feature when friend Manuel returns from Spain to repeat his TV show, "The Paranoids", together with his girl Sofia. Manuel is everything he is not and him trying to be helpful in his ...
Style:
humorous, touching, captivating, light, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, love triangle, betrayal, friends, couple relations, writer's life, infidelity, dishonesty, love, society, rivalry, adolescence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
After Eva Perón’s death in 1952, her corpse is held for three years awaiting the construction of a mausoleum — a resting place that would never be built. In 1955, the military seized control of Argentina and hid Perón’s body from the public, ...
Style:
political, historical drama, disturbing, captivating, semi autobiographical ...
Plot:
politics, biopic, corpse, actress, female protagonist, female corpse, power, cover up, burial, legacy, military coup, dictatorship ...
Time:
1950s, 60s
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
Is relevant?
542
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A couple must hold on to $100,000 for 24 hours as they wait to buy a house. As the time ticks by, the true nature of their love unravels.
Style:
tense, realistic, talky, touching, serious ...
Plot:
couples, couple relations, breakup, family problems, human nature, sexual content, graphic violence, money, dispute, marital crisis, character study, frustration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Is relevant?

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
couples, couple relations, parents and children, midlife crisis, elderly, college, artists and showbiz, family relations, leaving home, love and romance, family problems, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, argentina
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Colombia
TV show
Story:
In 2001, a gang of Colombian thieves travel to Argentina to carry out robberies while the country is preoccupied with a political and economic crisis.
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
robbery, gang, thief, stealing money, financial crisis, theft, burglar, criminal gang, crisis, stolen money, money, economic crisis ...
Place:
argentina, colombia, latin america, buenos aires argentina, south america
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and ...
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, captivating, psychological, period piece
Plot:
forbidden love, separation, star crossed lovers, love story, male female relationship, love interest, couples, relationship problems, society, love affair, relationships, patriarchy ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
TV show
Story:
Axel Etcheverry is a young hacker.One day,he steals the password of the site of the Police department.Gabriel Nielsen is a policeman.One day,he's going to arrest Axel,but he does not arrest him because they become friends.Axel will help Gabriel ...
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, captivating, crime drama, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police, hacker, investigation, teamwork, friendship, cybercrime, friends, fighting crime, cop, police officer, police detective, police station ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the ...
Style:
serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
gender, mother son incest, accidental incest, older woman younger man relationship, incestuous sex, voyeur, incest, older woman younger man, older woman younger man sex, sex with mother, introspection, love affair ...
Place:
argentina, latin america
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Genre: Biography, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story:
Juana Doña, a communist woman; Carmen Polo, dictator Franco's wife; and Eva Duarte, President Perón's wife, the first lady of Argentina, the idolized Evita, crisscross their lives during Evita's official visit to Spain, an autarchic ...
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
communism, franco regime (francoism), letter, dictatorship, authoritarianism, social problems, political unrest, historical figure, death sentence, historical event, society, social issues ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
argentina, spain, madrid
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Switzerland, Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Marina, Sofia and Violeta deal differently with the death of their grandmother.
Style:
contemplative, sincere, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, youth, estrangement, sister sister relationship, everyday life, friendship, strong female presence, society, family problems, siblings relations, leaving home ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Christian is a Copenhagen wine seller on the brink of bankruptcy. Equally unsuccessful in just about every other aspect of life, it has been 17months since his wife Anna left him. Anna works as a soccer agent in Buenos Aires and now lives a life of ...
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, bankruptcy, parents and children, rivalry, fish out of water, win over, hopes, disorder, love triangle, husband wife relationship, soccer, divorce ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina, latin america
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