Argentine Cinema Directors

Singer, actor, film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of Argentina’s best film directors and most enduring cultural figures as well as a popular singer-songwriter throughout Latin America.

At the time he began to sing in public, he was already an established film director. His first feature movie - Chronicle of a Boy Alone - and the second one - El romance del Aniceto y la Francisca - compete in the consensus of Argentine critics to be considered the best Argentine movie of all times, while the agreement is almost unanimous in considering Leonardo Favio as the best Argentine movie director of all times. Later, he would film: El Dependiente, Juan Moreira, Nazareno Cruz y el Lobo, Soñar Soñar, Gatica el Mono, Perón Sinfonía de un Sentimiento and Aniceto.
He considered Leopoldo Torre Nillson who launched him to fame as an actor his teacher and He was married for a time to the great actress Maria Vaner, sister of the even more famous and excellent actress Norma Aleandro.

Known as the father of Argentine cinema. I launch to the fame and I work several times with mythical actors of the Argentine cinema like Alfredo Alcon, Lautaro Murua, Leonardo Favio, Graciela Borges or Elsa Daniel, among others.
Torre Nilsson was married to writer Beatriz Guido, whose work served as inspiration and who worked alongside him in many of his scripts. He is acknowledged as the first Argentine film director to be critically acclaimed outside the country, making Argentina's film production known in important international festivals.

Director, scriptwriter and actor who directed many important classics and inaugurates social cinema in Argentina. His most acclaimed movies are the film noir Rosaura at ten and Prisoners of the Earth.

Filmmaker focused on the auteur cinema. In my opinion capable of the best and the worst, known for the magical realism of their films. In my opinion, his best film is Man looking southeast.

Known for his collaboration with the famous actor Ricardo Darin. He started in the American cinema and then in the Argentine with El mismo amor the same rain, The son of the bride, Luna de avellaneda and the winner of the Oscar for the best foreign film The secret of his eyes.

The most prolific film director of Argentine cinema with a total of 103 films. Except for exceptions, most were of poor quality. He directed from musicals through family comedy to adulthood with famous comedians such as Luis Sandrini, Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, Tato Bores or Tristan as protagonists and even horror movies (among them Masterpieces of Terror, one of his few well-regarded films).

Classical director with international success, working in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Brazil. Known for being the first to address tabu issues such as homosexuality, adultery, etc. His most well-known film was Safo, the story of a passion.
Directed actors today become myths of Argentine cinema as Roberto Escalada (known as the Humphrey Bogart Argentino), Guillermo Battaglia, Carlos Thompson, Laura Hidalgo, Mecha Ortiz (considered the Greta Garbo Argentina) or Olga Zubarry.

Known for his collaboration with the great Federico Luppi (his fetish actor) His films combine the narrative firmness of classic American cinema and the social issues of political cinema in Argentina.

Director of movies like Elsa & Fred or Anita.

Very versatile director well known for his black comedies such as Esperando la carroza or Cien veces no debo and his dramas as Darse cuenta (which deals with the subject of medicine) or Manos. I work several times with actor Luis Brandoni.

He was one of the most prestigious and important filmmakers and producters of his country and founded with Héctor Olivera the most famous film producer in the country, Aries Cinematográfica Argentina, of which he was president from 1956 to 1995.
He had an extensive career (he made 34 movies) starting in 1955 with the classic black and white film highlighting the bitter stems, the boss, the Candidate and Paula Cautiva up to color movies highlighting the Fiaca, Sweet Silver and Arrangement. His last movie was in 1991 and he worked several times with actor Federico Luppi.

together with Fernando Ayala, founder of Aries Producciones. He directed important pieces such as La patagonia Rebelde, La nona, There will be no more grief or forgetting and La noche de los lapices.

Like Leonardo Favio was a producer, film director, actor, scriptwriter and Argentine singer. An all-rounder well known for the social issues that he tackled in his films, being Las aguas bajan turbias his most successful and acclaimed film.

He began as actor with Pelota de Trapo by Leopoldo Torres Rios his most successful film. Later he began directing Sexploitation movies with his partner Isabel Sarli as the protagonist. Generally of dubious quality, they have become cult with the passing of the years for being the first of its kind (erotic cinema). His most famous films are Carne and El thunder en las hojas, the first Argentine movie to show nudes.

He was a great actor but also stood out as director of the 60's generation with films like Raulito, Alias Gardelito and Shunko.

Known for directing the official story, the first Argentine film to win the Oscar for best foreign film. He also directed the plague based on a work by Mario Camus and gringo viejo in E.E.U.U with Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda.

The most famous woman director and the most important of the New Argentine Cinema. Films like La Cienaga, La niña santa or the woman without a head have been acclaimed by critics.

The most important and acclaimed woman director in Argentina, even more than Lucrecia Martel. In his films, he specialized in portraying famous South American women and the Argentine upper class.
Known by Camila (1984) nominated to Oscar for best foreign film and for working with such famous figures as Julie Chistie and Marcello Mastroianni.

Known for his taste in shooting with non-professional actors and in rural areas of Argentina as the Pampa. His most famous movies are Minimal Stories and Bombon the dog.

Director who died tragically. Known for its style closer to American cinema.Directed Nueve Reinas, a modern classic of Argentine cinema and Aura, both with Ricardo Darin.

director unknown, even for those familiar with Argentine cinema. It deserves a special mention by the man of the subsoil that is based on a book of Fiódor Dostoyevski. The great Russian writer.

Director of the new Argentine cinema. His best known movies are Mundo Grua, El Bonaerense, Leonera, Carancho and El Clan. His films are realistic, portraying ordinary people developing daily activities and highlights the injustices of the socio-economic context of the society in which their protagonists live.

Daughter of director Luis puenzo. His best known films are XXY and Wakolda.

Uruguayan director based in Argentina belonging to the new Argentine cinema. Known for movies such as Pizza Birra and Faso, Bolivia, A Red Bear and chronic of a leak.

Director of the new Argentine cinema of Jewish descent. His best-known films are the autobiographical trilogy, which deal with the life of a young neurotic Jew in contemporary Buenos Aires.
Starting with Esperando al Mesias, the Abrazo Partido and Derechos de Familia, all with the Uruguayan actor Daniel Hendler as protagonist.

One of the best Argentine directors of today. Known for Fierce Tango, Wild Horses, Ashes of Paradise, Kamchatka, Burnt Silver and The Method. The magician of the performance Hector Alterio and the always interesting Leonardo Sbaraglia are the actors who most times worked with him.

Director belonging to the new Argentine cinema. Known for Tan suddenly and The Invisible look.

Director of Argentine origin who made his entire career in Brazil.Where together with Bruno Barreto he became an important director of Brazilian cinema. Known for the kiss of the spider woman, Carandiru, Pixote and Ironweed.

Director of the classic cinema. Known for his historical films about gauchos, something like westerns, often very concerned about technical details. I work several times with Angel Magaña and Francisco Petrone, the 2 best actors of those years. Among his films, Los Isleros and La guerra gaucha stand out. It can be said that it was the Argentine John Ford.

Pioneer of Argentine cinema and father of Leopoldo Torres Nilsson. It was characterized by its intimate look and its rejection by the openly commercial films. Among his most well-known films is The Crime of Oribe and Cloth Ball.

Director belonging to the generation of the 60. Known by Pajarito Gomez and Los jovenes viejos. He was married to Elsa Daniel.

Director belonging to the generation of the 60. He wrote and directed films such as Breve Cielo(1969), Prisioneros De Una Noche (1960), and Tres Veces Ana (1961). His last work as director it was Un agujero en la Pared in 1981.

Director belonging to the generation of the 60. Known for pleasure to adapt novels, including some of Julio Cortazar.

Director belonging to the generation of the 60. Brother of the famous actresses Mirtha Legrand and Silvia Legrand. His most famous films are the Crack and the boys from before did not use arsenic.

The first important director of Argentine cinema. Well known for his melodramas starring Libertad Lamarque, the most popular star of that time.

Director known as the father of the New Latin American Cinema. He directed several documentaries but among his films stand out Los inundados with non-professional actors and that can be considered as an Argentine neorealism.

Also actor. Known for his taste to adapt literary works to the cinema. Among them is the Truce (1974), the first Argentine film nominated to the best foreign film Oscar.

Director known for El Polaquito and for his films based on important Argentine cinema characters such as Eva Peron and El Che Guevara.

Director known for Conversaciones Con Mamá and El Verso.

Director known by the Censor and Yepeto. I always work with the actor Ulises Dumont as the protagonist, a great secondary actor rarely used to play the leadership.