7 Best Movies Set in or About Argentina

7 Movies Set in or About Argentina

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Argentina.

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   1. Gilda

   1946

   In a glittering Buenos Aires casino, a small-time gambler takes a job for a mysterious nightclub owner, only to discover that the boss's alluring new wife is the very woman who once broke his heart. A smoldering film noir of obsession and jealousy, and a Rita Hayworth icon.

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   2. The Hush

   Complici del silenzio · 2009

   In 1978, two Italian journalists travel to Argentina to cover the World Cup, but behind the festivities they come face to face with the horror of the dictatorship and the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo searching for their vanished children. A drama about spectacle and conscience.

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   3. The House on Garibaldi Street

   1979

   When Israeli intelligence receives word that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be hiding in Argentina under an assumed name, they mount a daring covert operation to identify and abduct him. Based on the true account of his capture.

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   4. Tre mogli

   2001

   Abandoned on New Year's Eve, three very different women learn that their husbands have pulled off a robbery and fled to Argentina. United by betrayal, they set off together across the ocean to track the men down. An Italian comedy-drama.

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   5. Operation Finale

   2018

   In 1960, a team of Israeli agents travels to Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, the fugitive Nazi architect of the Holocaust, and smuggle him to Israel to stand trial. Based on a true story, it becomes a tense duel of nerves between captors and captive.

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   6. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

   1962

   The two daughters of a wealthy Argentine patriarch marry into French and German families, so that when World War II erupts and Nazi Germany occupies France, the once-united clan finds its members on opposite sides of the conflict. A sweeping wartime melodrama.

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   7. Evita

   1996

   Adapted from the hit stage musical, this film charts the meteoric rise of Eva Duarte from provincial obscurity to become the adored and reviled first lady of Argentina at Juan Perón's side. Told almost entirely in song, with Madonna in the title role.