Best Argentinian family movies

Así es la vida (1939)

The history of a Buenos Aires family over three decades.

Pinocchio (1986)

An old man named Geppetto creates a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life

Los Marziano (2011)

Los Marziano reconstruye la oportunidad de un reencuentro entre dos hermanos tras un largo período de distanciamiento. Se trata de un relato que trabaja con profunda inteligencia -y con rasgos de comedia- el universo de las relaciones familiares.

The Lulú Club (2023)

Racing against time, a Chilean dad and his friends embark on a mishap-filled adventure across the Andes to gain custody of a daughter he's never met.

The Clone (2021)

A teenager, tired of all the obligations he has, looks for a solution to his problems. what he doesn´t expect is that the solution is him. literally

Off the Map (2013)

Four young friends play hooky from class, and get locked in the school basement by the class snitch.

Mother River (2020)

In a remote Peruvian city, lives Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent who sells candies more than 20 years ago, with the rain will cry to the sky itself.

No es nada (2020)

10-year-old Santiago's parents, who is hardly at home, use their conflict to reproach each other for desertions and failures, transforming the solution to their son's problem into a simple fight of power between them.

Home Team (2017)

Tito is 13 years old and extremely gifted at soccer, his genius brings him a contract that lifts him and his family out of poverty. He shines with his goals, but turns into a petty player, drops out of school, and has no friends. Tito becomes the breadwinner of the family and his father no longer has the authority to force him to finish school. When Tito is one step away from consecrating himself, something unexpected will make his dream disappear. Having lost everything he must return to his village. Tito will have to face the most difficult challenge of his life: to stand up and keep going.

Musical Chairs (2003)

Victor, who lives abroad, must travel to his country of origin sent by the company where he works and will have only one day to visit his family who will do the impossible to honor him in that short stay. At that time, dramatic turns and touches of humor will occur to deep solemnities, within the traditional and beloved domestic bosom.

Flinderella: Princess of the Terrace (2005)

Flinderella lives in a terrace and that's her world... A sad, dark, cold and lonely place that is transformed into a magical space, thanks to the light of our heroine's soul. Alongside her live her guardians of the heart: a magician, a fairy, an angel and a jester: they help her, accompany her and give her strength when she feels lost. Her joy and her ability to feel and dream make Delfina, her sister, hate her, envy her and try to destroy her. Delfina has everything that can be bought with money and lacks everything that comes from the heart. Such is the strength of the soul of our “Princess of the Terrace” that she manages to reverse Delfina's superficial and frivolous world. In this terrace love arises, since Max, a writer who lives nearby, manages to see everything that happens in the house of the evil Delfina and in the dome of the sweet Flinderella. A new tale with a great love story.

La pelea de mi vida (2012)

Years after being disqualified in a big fight and leaving the country in disgrace, an Argentinean boxer returns to restore his honor and reunite with the young son he has never met.

Shunko (1960)

A teacher arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must educate children against the will of their parents.

Casa Coraggio (2017)

La chica más rara del mundo (2021)

A 15-year-old imaginative yet lonely girl assures that her drawings come to life.

France (2010)

Mariana doesn’t like her name and starts calling herself Gloria. Her parents split up before she was one year old and today, like many separated couples, they are brought back together under the same roof only because they don’t have a decent job. Cristina, her mother, rents a part of the house to her ex-husband for a bit of extra money. “Francia” talks about those people who will never travel far from their home, where they take refuge, for good or bad, from all disgusting things in the outside world. Meanwhile, Mariana puts on her headphones when she hears her parents fighting. Those fights which now serve as a relief to the helpless.

Kally’s Mashup: A Very Kally's Birthday (2021)

Days before her birthday, Kally meets the latest pop icon, who is as successful as he is seductive, but ex-boyfriend Dante still has feelings for her and doesn't want to lose her. While she's having the time of her life, Kally must decide what to do with her career and her heart.

Flinderella in the theater (2004)

A sequence of musical scenes that define a tender and romantic story, typical of a fairy tale: that is what the theatrical version of Flinderella, which took place in 2004 at the Teatro Gran Rex, is all about. In this version full of fantasy, Greta tells a story to Tomás, a boy who is in his bed sad and without anything to cheer him up. The story tells the love story of a poor girl who lives on top of a train and a rich prince who lives in a palace. Despite class differences and the evil Delfina, love between Flinderella is possible. She is rich in dreams and poor in gold, he is rich in money but does not know how to smile. Flor Bertotti, Juan Gil Navarro, Benjamin Rojas (here a guide who leads Flinderella through the path of dreams) and all the cast of the novel.

Tres alegres fugitivos (1988)

Mingo, Carlitos and Tristán are three friends who run a humble moving company together. One day, while they are having dinner at Carlitos' house, a baby is left at his door with a letter in which they are asked to take the baby to the province of Córdoba so that he's not in danger. From there, a series of entanglements begin as they are taken as kidnappers and fugitives from the law.

Entre ríos: todo lo que no dijimos (2014)

Emanuel travels to visit his grandma Catie, who lives in the countryside. He has a feeling this is going to be their last goodbye. His mother's looking after Catie and she has decided not to speak a word about grandma's diagnosis, because she does not want to embitter her. Emanuel does not agree with this decision, but on the other hand, he is also hiding his own sexuality to his grandma. Every little moment shared among them, makes strengthen family ties while mismatched feelings emerge. Emanuel should reconsider if things are really better left unsaid.

Sorelle (2022)

My Mother Is a Parrot (2017)

Juana is part of a very special family; they have the gift of transforming into animals, but she doesn't know it. Which he will discover the day his mother transforms into a parrot, having three days to recover her human form or, otherwise, she will remain a parrot forever.

Hermanitos del fin del mundo (2011)

It is the story of "Pato" (Topa) and Pirucha (Muni), who together with a famous music group called La Pandilla de Sol, join forces to save the children of the "Home at the End of the World" from eviction. The film will advance through adventures, songs and stories until reaching an emotional, surprising and spectacular ending.

Desmadre (2011)

Carla is 19 years old, she grew up without a father and with an absent mother. His world of parties, friends and emotional swings is invaded by the sudden return of his mother to Buenos Aires. The forced coexistence will bring to light a relationship, at times hilarious, between a mother who wants to live as a teenager and a daughter who wants to grow.

¡Hola Señor León! (1973)

The adventures in Africa of an Argentine child

Las aventuras del Capitán Piluso en el castillo del terror (1963)

Piluso and Coquito confront the evil owner of a castle, who takes possession of other people's lands.

Un elefante color ilusión (1970)

A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.

Blessed be you (1956)

María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.

El derecho a la felicidad (1968)

The three daughters of a mature marriage and their problems with the original boyfriends.

The children of López (1980)

The relationships of a businessman with a Japanese company and of his son with women