Over the years, Argentine cinema gained territory within the catalog of Netflix, which began to incorporate more and more local titles. So much so that today we recommend four Argentine films that you can enjoy on the platform of the streaming giant.
The pattern, x-ray of a crime
2014 – Dir: Sebastian Schindel
The film focuses on a real criminal event about a rural man who arrives in Buenos Aires in search of work. and ends up exploited by a sinister boss who forces him to sell rotten meat and subjects him to true slaveryin the heart of the city of Buenos Aires and in the 21st century.
Vilas: You will be what you should be or you will be nothing
2020 – Dir: Matías Gueilburt
this documentary portrays the history of William Vilas, tennis legend, who for more than 40 years called for the revision of the rankings to be recognized number 1 in the world. It is also the story of a sports journalist, Eduardo Puppowho making Vilas’ fight his own, undertook a crusade for more than a decade against one of the largest sports corporations to show that he had indeed been unfairly displaced from the top of world tennis. The journalist’s work takes us into an investigation that reviews all the results that made up the world men’s tennis rankings between 1973 and 1978.
Rojo
2018 – Dir: Benjamin Naishtat
In the mid-1970s, a strange man arrives in a quiet provincial town. In a restaurant, and for no apparent reason, he begins to attack Claudio, a well-known lawyer. The community supports the lawyer and the stranger is humiliated and expelled from the place. Later and on the way home, Claudio and his wife, Susana, are intercepted by the strange man who is determined to take revenge. The lawyer then takes a path of no return, of death, secrets and silences.
the king of eleven
2016 – Dir: Daniel Burman
In this work directed by Daniel Burman the vicissitudes of Ariel (Alan Sabagh), an Argentine from a Jewish family who lives in New York and works as an economist. He must return to his native Buenos Aires at the request of his father to temporarily direct a charitable foundation in his community.. Then he meets Eva (Julieta Zylberberg), a mute woman who makes him rethink his future and his relationship with his origins.
