Best Argentinian fantasy movies

Hypersomnia (2017)

A young actress rehearsing for a play about human trafficking begins to relive terrifying scenes that may be dreams -- or an alternate reality.

La Flor (2019)

An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes…

Bruja (2019)

A single mother is an expert in black magic, but has never used it to do evil, until a prostitution network kidnaps her daughter.

Butterfly (2015)

A butterfly, a creature symbolising rebirth and a new beginning, epitomises Romina’s and Germán’s world, a world that consists of two parallel realities. In one of them they grow up as siblings who desire each other and try to give shape to their love without sexual fulfilment; in the other they are a young man and woman who form an awkward friendship instead of succumbing to their feelings for each other. Germán finds himself in a discordant relationship with Mariela. Mariela’s brother is interested in Bruno. Bruno is with Romina, but wants to be with Germán. Playfully alternating between these two realities, the lovers find themselves drawn into ever new couplings in order to explore their intuitive feelings – cautiously, but at the same time prepared to lose everything.

Existir (2021)

Two friends driven by a perverse hacker are guided in the search of a missing friend from a few years ago.

The Last Rite (2018)

In the distant future, demonic creatures rule the earth. Two magicians try to open a chest that holds the secret of the salvation of humanity.

Someone Is Watching You (1988)

A group of students undergoes an experiment conducted by American scientists. It consists of testing the effects of a new drug, which allows a dream generated by one person to be shared by several individuals.

Cursed Bastards! (2013)

A task force kidnaps the wrong man: a medicine man. He will use his black magic to escape from prison, regardless of the consequences that will last for decades on those who crossed his path.

Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going (1995)

A lonely film projectionist through a series of odd events, discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through centuries.

Mansión Helada (2021)

A portrait of what fame and love hurts.

Twisting the Aces (2020)

Twisting the Aces is a romantic comedy set in the magic community where things are not what they seem. Martin, an amateur magician, dwells in a world filled with pickpockets, illusions and sleight of hand.

The Tutor (2017)

Mona picks up her first job tutoring two orphaned children living in a derelict house in the country. Her obsession with trying to educate these two nearly feral children blinds her to the fact they have other plans for her.

El bosque (2010)

To Kill the Beast (2021)

Emilia arrives at her Aunt Inés' hostel located on the Argentina-Brazil border, looking for her missing brother. In this lush jungle a dangerous beast which takes the form of different animals seems to be roaming around.

The Conclave of Shadows (2024)

The end of the world begins today and here.

Karaí Octubre (2025)

Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (1975)

Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.

Dead Man Tells His Own Tale (2016)

Angel is one of those typical macho’s who does not hold women in high regard. With his fancy talk, his tight suit and his fashionable job as a director of publicity spots, he has ample opportunity to grab as many young aspiring actresses by the pussy as he can. His wife and kid are left to deal with the consequences. This is now drastically coming to an end. One night, when there’s once again not enough blood flowing through his brains and too much through his nether regions, he walks into a trap set up by a circle of Celtic Goddesses. They transform him into a zombie and make him a pawn in their plan to end male dominance one and for all. Luckily Angel’s not alone. He’s part of a brotherhood of undead macho’s. They do not only exchange tips in how to mask their increasingly penetrating body odor, they also come up with a plan to sabotage the Goddesses.

Carnal Sins (2024)

Fleeing homophobic attacks, Nino moves to a rural house amidst a forest haunted by Almamula, a monster that takes those who commit carnal sins. In a world of whispers, unspoken desires and prayers, Nino’s curiosity and impulses rise to the surface.

Johan (2021)

La casa acecha (2020)

El Ucumar (2022)

A group of biologist search for evidence of an unseen southamerican bear. There, they hear about the local legend of a bear-man known as the ucumar.

Inverso Mundus (2015)

Inverso Mundus reveals an absurd world based on exchange of power and roles that instead of distancing itself from reality reflects our own society, the contemporary crisis rooted in social, political and economic factors, today’s conflicts and inequalities, stereotypes and human behavior.

Discord (2020)

Discord follows a girl who sees herself sleeping.

Don't Come Back Alive (2022)

A dogged detective and hard charging prosecutor track the criminal ring behind a gruesome series of murders. What they find shocks them to their core - a sinister satanic female cult leader orchestrating gruesome murder rituals to bring about the rise of the anti-Christ. They must figure out why this happened, when the next ritual will happen and how to stop her!

The Unburied (2020)

Maximiliano is a psychiatrist who suffers from strange visions of his past. He grew up in an orphanage and then left for the big city. When his adoptive father dies, he goes back to his hometown where he will be reunited with his brothers and discover a dark family secret.

Our Happiest Days (2021)

Agatha and Leonidas have a somewhat absorbing mother-child relationship: Agatha never fell in love again, and Leonidas doesn't know what love is. From one day to the next, Agatha wakes up in the body of a seven-year-old girl.

The Open Window (2014)

A man travels to the country house of a distant aunt in search of peace and quiet. But when he arrives, he learns of a tragedy that happened there which keeps the house and the family frozen in time.

Fantástico (2015)

A beautiful woman sees her study afternoon interrupted by a man who tries to woo her with an elaborate story about time travel.

Salomé (2020)

At night a traveling flash runs through the streets of Buenos Aires hell, illuminating even the most remote roads. It's easy to mistake it for an angel. Its light, volatile step numbs the city and condenses the glances. It takes refuge in subways and tunnels under the ground. It comes off time. It tempts the dead to come back. It is The Light. The comfort of the homeless.