Movies: Jorge Villalba

In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to ...

Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay....

In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners....

Super agents must protect a scientist inventor of a new type of synthetic fuel that works if a certain speed is not exceeded....

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A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive....

A lucky provincial in business arrives in Buenos Aires and is scammed. A lawyer who is also provincial will help you get your money back....

Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman a...

Benjamin Ortalora is a young man who leaves Buenos Aires after murdering a rival. He goes to Montevideo where his cool boldness draws the attention of gang leader Azevedo Bandeira. When the old bandit becomes ill, Ortalora makes a determined play to ...

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century....

"Pobres habrá siempre" is a rarity within Argentine cinema for many reasons. Its theme is the rebellion of a group of meatpacking workers around 1935 and the several reasons that justified it, but the film was shot at a time when workers and union st...

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The love story in Buenos Aires of a young provincial couple....

The life, customs and death of an authoritarian man....

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

Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country during its last dictatorship....

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century....

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Four friends, who are volunteer firefighters, get into a series of problems when they discover a fraud....

The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná....