Best Argentinian fantasy movies

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.

The Exchange (2023)

Mateo and Lucas, best friends, go out to party in a hot summer night. Mateo meets Lucia, and Lucia commits an act that will change their lives. From there, Mateo and Lucas will begin a search, both physical and personal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Imaginary Portrait (2020)

Through the creation of a family portrait, a mentally imbalanced young artist connects with her dead mother to exact revenge on her ghoulish father and abusive grandfather.

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.

Existir (2021)

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

El bosque (2010)

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.

Message in a Bottle (2025)

A renowned sommelier finds a way to communicate with her past self in an attempt to correct the mistakes that have shaped her life. However, each message sent triggers unexpected consequences, altering not only her present but also the fates of those around her. What begins as an opportunity to make amends for the past becomes a race against time to prevent everything from spiraling out of control.

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.

Chronicles of a Wandering Saint (2024)

In a tiny rural village in Argentina, Rita Lopez, a pious yet insatiably competitive woman, discovers that staging a miracle could be her ticket to sainthood.

Rejected (2018)

After the fall of civilization, man has repeated the same mistakes again and installed a new system of law based on false science and superstitious beliefs. This reaches its climax when it comes to the “Chisa” flower, because anyone who dares to touch it is banished from the village and has to live a life of loneliness and poverty. The most vulnerable to this deviation are children, as their natural curiosity makes them fall prey to temptation.

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.

Asleep in the Sun (2012)

Lucio Bordenave carries on the Grey lifestyle of an unemployed worker, dedicated to the trade of watchmaking, until in a somewhat mysterious way, his wife is admitted to a Frenopatic Institute. From this point on, the story enters a territory without parameters where reality is confused with the imaginary, sleep with wakefulness, and insanity with lucidity.

The Endless Film (2018)

Based on the remains of never-completed Argentine features from the archives of the film museum in Buenos Aires. The film is, as it were, a parallel film history: an essay like a cinematographic Frankenstein, that blows new life into images that once seemed unsuccessful and pointless.

Muta (2011)

Directed by Argentinean Lucrecia Martel, MUTA, meaning both “mute” and “transformation”, is a beautiful and cryptic portrayal of an all female world of symbolism, hidden meaning and intrigue.

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…

The Conclave of Shadows (2024)

The end of the world begins today and here.

El Aleph (2005)

The Aleph is the point where diachronic and synchronic times meet, and each second represents a moment in life, from birth to death.

Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine (2020)

Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian farmers find an abandoned shed in the valley, attributing it supernatural powers.

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.

La Mary (1974)

A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.

Ovum (2017)

A reclusive fisherman's life is forever changed by a mysterious discovery.

Astrogauchos (2019)

The plot is set in 1966 when an Argentine scientist carries out a space plan to compete with the United States and the Soviet Union in the arrival to the Moon.

Balances (2024)

Alessandra, a young student, is found dead on her university campus by three mysterious women who decide to bring her back to life. Upon reviving, the witches will present Alessandra with a difficult task: she must find and kill her murderer in order to reestablish the natural balance of things. Otherwise, Alessandra will face a fate worse than death...