13 Movies Set in Argentina to Inspire Your Trip

Argentina is famous for tv series about life under the hot sun on the coast, where serious passions boil. But today, Argentina leads the Spanish-speaking countries in the film industry.

We decided to offer you a selection of 10+ great movies set in Argentina. So get ready to dive into the vortex of Latin American passions.

Whether you’re visiting the amazing city of Buenos Aires or traveling south to Ushuaia, this list of movies set in Argentina will inspire your trip!

This post contains affiliate links. This means if you purchase something from a link, I may make a small commission, at no cost to you. This helps me keep the site running and free.

If you like this post, be sure to sign up for my e-mail list for travel inspiration (and get your FREE budget printable), or connect with me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

Movies Set in Argentina

Wild Tales, 2014.

Gabriel Pasternak was offended by many with whom his life brought him – a girl, a music teacher, a professor at the conservatory, and a dentist. And to their misfortune, they all ended up with him on the same plane.

At a roadside diner at night, a waitress recognizes the patron as the pawnbroker who drove her father to suicide years ago. And the cook, who had served time in the past, immediately found a remedy for revenge on such a reptile – rat poison.

The handsome city man was driving his powerful Audi along a desert road and decided to overtake the old Peugeot, but the provincial ghoul who was driving determined not to yield. And now the bloody result of senseless rivalry is just around the corner.

The director decided to show us human stories from a dangerous, dramatic side. Sometimes even the most insignificant little things can play a cruel joke on us, and the art of restraining one’s angry impulses is worth a lot. So I recommend this movie as a witty textbook on anger management. Watching the movie will be helpful for you.

Significantly this film will fall in love with car owners since three of the six stories are devoted to problems that are close to any motorist.

The Clan, 2015

This crime thriller, the script of which was based on actual historical events related to the criminal activities of the Argentine Puccio family clan.

Left without a job after the Falklands War, the head of the family, Arquímedes Puccio, decides to kidnap for ransom. His eldest son Alejandro, an Argentine rugby player, agrees to help his father find potential victims. Thus, the Puccio clan will go down in the country’s history as one of the most dangerous.

The picture looks cynical and wild, dipping the viewer entirely into the terrible events of those years. The atmosphere was very strongly written. It completely contributes to the viewer’s immersion in the picture; you feel it fully.

Guillermo Francella, the lead actor, did a great job as the monster. It hides two people at the same time. In the family, he is an exemplary father who reads a prayer before meals and helps his children do homework. In the circle of his abduction comrades, he is sober, prudent, cruel, and thinking through everything to the smallest detail, the main organizer of terrible atrocities.

Read More: Best things to do in Buenos Aires

That’s Not Cheating, 2016

Two lovers, Camilla and Mateo, loved to chat so much that one day they agreed to the following: each chose a celebrity, sex with which would not be considered treason. Both heroes were sure that neither would even meet their unattainable idols. And both of them were wrong. But did they change each other?

This anecdotal story was a huge success in its homeland and, as a result, was sold to other film markets in Latin America, including Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile. And then it spread all over the world.

Heroic Losers, 2019

The film is based on the novel Night of the Heroic Losers by Eduardo Saceri.

Much is on the verge of extinction in a remote town in Buenos Aires province. During the economic crisis that led to the 2001 banking collapse, a group of men decided to raise money to buy abandoned silos.

But soon, they had time to put the crumbs of the collected money into the bank, and it burst.

Friends in despair lost everything in one minute and became complete losers. However, it soon became known that a treacherous lawyer who had entered into a criminal conspiracy with the bank manager had taken possession of their savings the day before the collapse. The heroes have only one way out – to return what they have acquired by overwork, it is necessary to rob the robber.

A new film by the Argentinean director Sebastian Borensztein was made at the intersection of a heist film, a thriller, and a comedy.

The picture became a national film hit in Argentina in 2019 and was nominated for an Oscar.

El Ángel, 2018

It is another crime story based on the life of Argentine serial killer Carlos Robledo Puch. He committed 11 murders before age 20 and set the record for the most extended stay in an Argentine prison. At the Cannes Film Festival, Luis Ortega’s film was presented in the Un Certain Regard section and received a Queer Palme d’Or nomination for LGBT film coverage. It was also nominated for an Oscar.

Carlos wanted to live freely, go anywhere, and do anything, and think that his freedom intersected with another person’s liberty, he did not want to. Actually, about the absence of limits in respecting the rights and freedoms of other people, Ortega made a film.

His family or environment did not predetermine the young guy’s criminal path. It was his unwillingness to live differently, and his freedom, as he understood it. Carlos did Evil – regardless of those nearby, parents, accomplices, or strangers. The director showed that a young man’s ego did not know compassion or sympathy if something did not go according to his will.

The Weasels’ Tale, 2019

The plot will focus on the elderly actress Mara Ordaz, who has long completed her brilliant career and now lives in a luxurious country mansion. Together with her, her husband, an actor, and two of Mara’s friends revel in memories of past glory.

Then one day, a young couple, Francisco and Barbara, drop in on the light and immediately fall in love with Mara’s house. They devise a cunning plan to get it, but the old guard can still fight back.

Before us appears a pretty cute Argentinean-Spanish film, it is like a wine that does not immediately reveal its rich flavor bouquet.

This picture combines drama, comedy, tragedy, and detective story with a good pinch of old horror.

To be honest, the first 30 minutes or so are prolonged. But then the action gradually accelerates, and the final twist is amazing.

It was a great fight between youth and experience.

4×4, 2019

The action-packed chamber crime thriller from Wild Stories’ creators will excite you. The main character, the swindler Ciro Bermudez, decides to rob someone else’s SUV.

Ciro easily gets inside the car, takes all the valuables, and is about to leave when he realizes he cannot. The triggered security system turns the car into a high-tech trap that is impossible to escape.

Bulletproof walls and glass, soundproofing, and tinting – everything is here to finish off Shiro slowly. But he’s not ready to give up.

The 4x4pleased me with the fact that it is a quality thriller. It has borrowings from Saw, Buried Alive, and Phone Booth. But the film turned out to be original and self-sufficient. It is one of my favorite Argentinian movies.

The Heist of the Century, 2020

A film by Argentine Ariel Winograd is also based on real events and, more specifically, on the unique and daring bank robbery that rocked Argentina in 2006.

It all started when humble martial arts instructor Fernando came up with the brilliant idea to rob a bank. His friend Marciano at first only laughed at this crazy idea, but when Fernando let him in on all the subtleties of the plan, the friends rushed to collect the team.

And so, five robbers entered the Rio de Acassuso bank on the appointed day and hour with toy guns. They took 23 people hostage and $15 million from 147 personal safes. And then they just left the bank with the stolen goods. So how did they do it?

As a result, it is a well-staged film about an actual robbery with interesting actors, watching which it will not be boring to spend an evening.

Música en espera, 2009

Before Ezequiel Font is the task, he must write a soundtrack for a new film in a short time. Here are just a whimsical muse not in a hurry to come to the aid of the composer. Bank collectors press the musician, and the main character calls the branch and finds inspiration in Paula, a pregnant assistant to the manager.

The result is an excellent melodrama with amazing actors and subtle and light humor. In addition, the music in the film is just amazing.

I recommend watching it to anyone who prefers a cozy atmosphere in movies.

The Secret in Their Eyes, 2009

Former court official and now bored pensioner Benjamin Esposito decides to write a novel. And he wants to start with one criminal case, which even now, twenty-five years later, haunts him, remaining open.

Director Juan José Campanella and The Secret in Their Eyes won the Oscar for best foreign film and collected other no less prestigious awards.

This film has a fundamentally new, fresh, and multifaceted look at the detective story. The authors are interested in intense and subtle life matters rather than the investigation of a brutal murder itself.

The intense dramaturgy is fueled by an intoxicating soundtrack that is beautiful in its classically lyrical beauty.

If you love crime stories, then check out my new detective movies.

The German Doctor, 2013

Surely you have heard about the Angel of Death from Auschwitz. The deeds of Josef Mengele stagger the imagination. The doctor crossed out the precepts of Hippocrates with a fascist swastika. Director Lucia Puenzo decided to show us a sadist from the other side. She directed the historical thriller The German Doctor about Mengele’s life in Argentina. Under the guise of a veterinarian, he takes root in an ordinary family, but in a peaceful home environment, thoughts about genetic experiments do not leave the sick mind of the Angel of Death.

In addition to the historical aspect of the film, an important place is occupied by things that always interest people: family relationships, trust, and the problems of growing up.

The German Doctor is a solid dramatic film that, without imposing any morality, gives you a reason to think once again and try to comprehend the terrible pages of our shared human history.

Last Summer of La Boyita, 2009

Jorgelina spends the summer at the ranch. In the province, the girl meets an unsociable boy Mario. The boy has a secret – he started menstruating.

Director Yulia Solomonoff assures that the entire film crew was meticulous in handling Nicholas Treise, who played the lead role in this film. According to the director, Toto is a shy farm boy who has never participated in filming before. Moreover, he has never been to the cinema, doing exclusively rural labor, like his character, Mario, working in the field or coping with livestock.

The film addresses the theme of growing up and the experience of knowing friends, loved ones, and oneself.

And again, one of the most valuable things in the film is the musical accompaniment. It is just a miracle! How everything was well-chosen and harmonious. From the very beginning, I was immersed in that atmosphere, a quiet Argentinean farm with which Spanish blood.

Don’t Look Down, 2008

Let’s add a drop of sensual eroticism to our selection of Argentine films.

Aloy, 19, suffers from sleepwalking. The illness brings him to bed with Elvira. The main character undertakes to teach the unintelligent youth the mysteries of sex. In the end, the art of love will heal the guy from bodily and mental illnesses.

Even though the film has many explicit scenes, it can hardly be called erotic. Because erotica mainly affects the lower centers, this film is for the heart and development. The picture well reflects the attitude towards sex as the art of loving and reuniting into one, reaching the highest degree of divine pleasure in the energy exchange.

It is not just a picture of the finest erotica from the ‘for dummies’ section. It is a picture of the intricacies of human souls, bodies, and touches.

Final words

So my Argentina movie list came to an end. I like to watch Spanish and Argentine films from time to time. It is because so many pictures are original, and I take a break from Hollywood stamps while watching.