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1) Anita
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2012, 2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The story of a young woman with Down syndrome who lives a happy, routine life in Buenos Aires, being meticulously cared for by her mother Dora. One tragic morning, everything changes when Anita is left alone, confused and helpless after the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association is bombed (the deadliest bombing in Argentina's history). As Anita wanders through the city, she learns not only to care for herself, but touches the lives of those...
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamín decides to write a novel based on a twenty-five-year-old unresolved rape and murder case which still haunts him. Sharing his plans with Irene, the beautiful judge and his former colleague, Benjamín's initial involvement with the case is shown through flashbacks as he sets out to identify the murderer. But Benjamín's search for the truth will put him at the center of a judicial nightmare, as...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thrilling true story of the secret mission led by Israeli intelligence agent Peter Malkin to infiltrate Argentina and capture Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the plans that sent millions of innocent Jews to their deaths during World War II, and bring him to justice.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentine family and follows them to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrusts their young daughter to his care, unaware that he is a notorious war criminal. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring "the German doctor" to justice.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2013], 2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110, 25 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is "one about love".
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, she begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political prisoner. When she attempts to unearth the truth, her investigation reveals levels of political corruption so abhorrent that the illusions of her past life are irrevocably shattered.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything returns to normal. That is until a gruesome discovery is...
Publisher
Zima Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Éd. especial.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A shy taxidermist, Espinoza, who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery, steals from a casino and is thrown into a dangerous new world of crime. While he runs for his life, his epileptic seizures give him a moment of confusion and enlightenment where the past and future seem to blend.
10) Los muertos
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A convicted killer is freed after serving a lengthy prison sentence. Released into Argentina, the ex-convict sets off on a journey of redemption and self-discovery.
Publisher
AVH
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Benjamín Espósito acaba de jubilarse después de trabajar toda una vida como empleado en un Juzgado Penal. Para ocupar su tiempo libre decide escribir una novela basada en una historia real de la que ha sido testigo y protagonista: un terrible asesinato ocurrido en Buenos Aires en 1974, y la investigación para hallar al culpable. Pero una vez abierta la puerta de ese pasado, al propio Espósito se le volverá imposible cerrarla. Primero, porque...
12) Trenque Lauquen
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (260 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella's playful new feature. The missing woman is Laura (Laura Paredes), a biologist cataloging plant species in and around the Argentinean city of Trenque Lauquen. The men searching for her: Rafael, her boyfriend, and Ezequiel, a coworker who has come to mean more to her in recent days. But to uncover the truth of Laura's disappearance, a profusion of mysteries...
Publisher
Capitol Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A love story set in Buenos Aires in which a Jewish woman because of the impending visit from her American brother is forced to create a contrived relationship with a man of her own faith.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Musical romance about Glenda, a rich New Yorker who collects fine horses and Ricardo, an Argentine rancher renowned for his prize jumpers. Their families have been feuding for years so they have to conduct a Romeo and Juliet romance.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The story of Teresa, a 54 year old woman who works as a domestic employee in a family home in Buenos Aires. For decades she has taken refuge in the routine of her tasks, but now that the family has decided to sell the house, her life begins to totter.
16) Carancho
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Sosa is an ambulance-chasing attorney with questionable ethics. Lujan is a young, idealistic doctor, susceptible to corruption. After Lujan and Sosa's paths repeatedly cross, the two form an unlikely romance that is threatened by Sosa's turbulent past.
17) When evil lurks
Publisher
IFC Films, RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late.
18) The last suit
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Abraham Bursztein, an 88-year-old Jewish tailor, runs away from Buenos Aires to Poland, where he proposes to find a friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War II. After seven decades without any contact, Abraham will try to find his old friend and keep his promise to return one day. Comedic and poignant in equal measure, it approaches its weighty themes with a light touch that illuminates a serious story.
Series
Criterion collection volume 743
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen director-approved special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 pages; color illustrations; 19 cm)
Language
Español
Description
With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of amazing tactility and one of the great...
20) Liverpool
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Farrel asks the captain of the freighter he works on to go ashore once they reach the port of Ushuaia, a town in southern Argentina. He wants to return to his birthplace and see if his mother is still alive. For the past twenty years he has worked as a seaman. Having reached the cluster of houses where he grew up, Farrel discovers his mother is indeed still alive, but someone else has become part of the family....
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