Astor Piazzolla Movies

In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.

An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party.

Peggy Ahwesh re-edits and optically prints a Super 8 stag loop, rarifying the degraded images into an abstract stained-glass mosaic. From a clumsy...

Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s.

Astor Piazzolla performs an evocative set of tangos at the 1984 Montreal Jazz Festival. Lovingly restored by Piazzolla's former student Richard...

An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.

In a moment of despair, a man sends a letter to her girlfriend announcing his suicide. He then regrets it and tries to recover the letter.

Young María, the embodiment of tango, leaves the outskirts of Buenos Aires and tries her luck in the chaotic downtown, where she triumphs in...

Piazzolla and his Quintet perform with the Cologne Rundfunk Orchestra conducted by Pinches Steinberg in this film by Jose-Montes Baquer. Piazzolla is...

Several short films from the first class of graduates of the National School of Experimentation and Film Production (ENERC), from 1965. 55 years...

Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic accentuate the colors, rhythms and passion of the music of Argentina's leading composers on this invigorating...

A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.

A boxer and a singer are hired by the Armed Forces to entertain the people of a small town. When their personalities and principles get them in...

A documentary about the economic plan of the last dictatorship that investigates the role of the IMF and international banking in the policies...

Concert and Interview with Astor Piazzolla and his sextet by the BBC-Bristol.