Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Movies

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

A legend of curses and death in an austere and dry desert where rain will not fall. The story focuses on the experiences and misery of an indigenous...

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

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, at the age of 22, made his directorial debut with this little-known auteur short film, based on one of his short stories,...

A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but...

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 waiter who uses gambling to help others.

In this drama, a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness. The woman knows that the son has fallen in...

Emma Zunz, who is planning a crime, intends to get away with it by presenting an audacious alibi.

A film producer, his wife (an actress) and her lover (a young scriptwriter) are part of a love triangle that will lead to a crime. It is set during...

After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.

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

A shy man invents in front of his friends a love affair with a singer but circumstances will lead him to conquer her.

A workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner.

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 series of confusions involve an unfaithful woman and a man on his wedding day.