Best Argentinian mystery movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch mystery films from Argentina, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Perdida

    Perdida 2018

    A policewoman whose childhood friend disappeared in Patagonia years ago starts a new search to find answers, and soon finds her own life in danger.

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  • Poster for Gerry

    Gerry 2002

    Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.

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  • Poster for On Probation

    On Probation 2005

    Mariano is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support to Alfredo, a policeman depressed over his wife cheating on him. Mariano is then accidentally involved in a double homicide investigation being conducted by Alfredo.

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  • Poster for The Weasel's Tale

    The Weasel's Tale 2019

    A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.

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  • Poster for Close Your Eyes

    Close Your Eyes 2023

    Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.

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  • Poster for Man Facing Southeast

    Man Facing Southeast 1987

    A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.

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  • Poster for The Headless Woman

    The Headless Woman 2008

    After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.

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  • Poster for PRESENCE

    PRESENCE 2024

    Bruno dreams of reuniting with Alma, or with what’s left of her.

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  • Poster for Rojo

    Rojo 2018

    A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

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  • Poster for Death in Buenos Aires

    Death in Buenos Aires 2014

    In the 1980s, after a businessman is murdered at his home, an experienced police inspector and his rookie partner must delve into the gay scene of the city to catch the killer.

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  • Poster for Hypersomnia

    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.

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  • Poster for Trenque Lauquen

    Trenque Lauquen 2023

    With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

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  • Poster for On the 3rd Day

    On the 3rd Day 2020

    Cecilia and her son embark on a journey. On the third day, she is found wandering alone, not remembering what happened during this time. She is desperately looking for her son and finds herself wrapped in a brutal hunt, carried out by a religious fanatic, whom she faces off against. To her, he's a lunatic. To him, Cecilia is the enemy.

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  • Poster for The Signal

    The Signal 2007

    During the last days of Eva Peron, a pair of low-ranking detectives are thrust into a case of corruption involving the Mafia.

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  • Poster for Those Who Love, Hate

    Those Who Love, Hate 2017

    Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions.

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  • Poster for La trampa

    La trampa 1949

    A lonely woman marries a man without getting to know him.

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  • Poster for The Suffering

    The Suffering 2017

    Pablo Rouviot is a renowned psychoanalyst. His life changes completely when Paula arrives to his office and asks him to prove that his brother, a man with serious psychological problems and accused for the murder of his father, is in no able condition to be judged.

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  • Poster for Dark Buildings (A Crack in the Wall)

    Dark Buildings (A Crack in the Wall) 2018

    When the beautiful Leonor arrives at the architecture studio Borla y Asociados looking for Nelson Jara, both Mario Borla and his partner Marta Hovart and Pablo Simó, the building's oldest architect, claim to ignore that name completely. But they all lie. The truth begins to unravel through the memories of Pablo Simó. Pablo should carry out the unpleasant job of dealing with Nelson Jara, an indignant owner of the building adjoining a work of the studio, damaged by a crack in the wall of his living room caused by an error in the construction. But the fear and nervousness that provokes in the three involved the arrival of Leonor and her question "what happened to Nelson Jara?" Show something much darker and more suspicious. (FILMAFFINITY)

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  • Poster for A Silent Death

    A Silent Death 2025

    Octavio, a hunting guide from southern Argentina, desperately fights to clarify the death of his niece Sofía, discovered shot in the hunting preserve where he works. The shot bursts into the darkness, unleashing an enigma that shakes the entire town. Octavio will be forced to unravel what really happened that night and thus confront a truth that threatens to change everything forever.

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  • Poster for The Widows of Thursdays

    The Widows of Thursdays 2009

    The closed community of a private neighborhood of high-priced houses, is moved by the discovery of three corpses that appear floating in a pool and rushes to frame it as an accident.

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  • Poster for Lamb of God

    Lamb of God 2020

    North Argentina, 1961. Only a few priests and interns remain in a secluded run-down boys' religious boarding school. Suddenly and unannounced, Father Martin arrives, whose intentions are not as clear as he claims.

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  • Poster for The Tutor

    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.

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  • Poster for Camping

    Camping 2017

    In New Years Eve, Sofía goes back to the countryside where she spent her childhood. At first idyllic, the place and its people will soon reveal their sadness and resentments.

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  • Poster for Bruja

    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.

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  • Poster for SPAM

    SPAM 2022

    Juan works as an office worker, and after spending several months overworked, he suffers from stress. One morning he falls asleep while working and dreams about being stalked by something or someone he doesn't recognize: exhaustion.

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  • Poster for Rock, Paper and Scissors

    Rock, Paper and Scissors 2019

    Jesus and Maria José live together in the grand house that belonged to their recently deceased father. Their playful routine is disrupted when Magdalena, their half sister on their dad’s side, returns from Spain asking for her share of the inheritance. What are they going to do about this interloper into their dangerous folie à deux?

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  • Poster for Diablo

    Diablo 2012

    A depressed former boxing champion gets involved in a big problem with his cousin the same day that he was about to make up with his ex-girlfriend.

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  • Poster for Amateur

    Amateur 2016

    Martin is a lonely television director who becomes obsessed with his neighbor Isabel when he finds an amateur porn video in which she participates. However Isabel turns out to be the wife of the owner of the TV network where he works.

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  • Poster for Rosaura at 10 O'Clock

    Rosaura at 10 O'Clock 1958

    Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.

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  • Poster for Voces secretas

    Voces secretas 2021

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  • Poster for The Future is an Angel and a Smile

    The Future is an Angel and a Smile 2020

    Martín Garabal is the best employee of Garabal and sons, his father's real state agency. Leonardo envies him deeply, Tomás admires him and Eva loves him. But something is wrong, the world seems to be telling Martín that he should take a different path. Martín doesn't listen because he's worried about his dad but, where is he?

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  • Poster for Ico, the Brave Horse

    Ico, the Brave Horse 1987

    A young horse wishes to be one of the king's horses, and while trying to achieve it, finds out that one of the king's horses mysteriously disappear every night.

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  • Poster for Crystal Eyes

    Crystal Eyes 2017

    Buenos Aires, 1985. It's the first anniversary of the death of Alexis Carpenter, the unstable supermodel who died tragically when she was set on fire while closing a runaway show. Lucia L'uccello - Editor-in-Chief of the most important magazine in Buenos Aires - chooses supermodels Eva Lantier and Irene del Lago to honor Alexis on the cover of the anniversary issues dedicated to the famous model. The night before the photo shoot, Alexis's original dresses that were going to be used by the models are stolen. From that moment, members of the important fashion magazine and the agency begin to disappear, one by one, at the hands of a stealthy, sinister female silhouette in a long black leather raincoat. Is someone seeking revenge? Or has Alexis returned from the grave?

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  • Poster for The K.E.O.P/S System

    The K.E.O.P/S System 2022

    Belgrano neighborhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Someone is watching Fernando Berlasky from one of the countless windows in front of his apartment and sending him e-mails.

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  • Poster for El bosque

    El bosque 2008

    Dannenberg lives alone in a house lost in the middle of the countryside, hunting for food, and living immersed in monotony. Every day he stands in front of two graves, crowned by a wooden circle. One afternoon, he sees, in the distance, the silhouettes of two people approaching. Finally, the house's grandfather clock begins to tick on its own. What he had been waiting for has arrived, and from now on, things become unpredictable.

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  • Poster for Pleiades (or Going Home)

    Pleiades (or Going Home) 2023

    From the music of Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla, Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou crafts a story inspired by the Pleiades, seven sisters who are nymphs who were turned into stars. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.

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  • Poster for Ostende

    Ostende 2011

    Waiting alone for her boyfriend at a hotel, a woman starts paying attention to the mysterious behavior of some guests.

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  • Trenque Lauquen parte II 2023

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  • Poster for El desvío

    El desvío 1998

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  • Poster for To Kill the Beast

    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.

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  • Poster for The Flock

    The Flock 2017

    Two teenage outcasts, who resent their schoolmates and teachers, resolve to spread panic in school through a series of anonymous vandalism acts. Little by little, the game loses its innocent approach and the boys find themselves absorbed in a dangerous spiral of violence that seems to have no limits.

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  • Poster for Ecuación

    Ecuación 2016

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  • Poster for The Miu Miu Affaire

    The Miu Miu Affaire 2024

    Nothing went as planned: what seemed to be an original idea (taking an international fashion event to a small town in the Argentine Pampas) ended up as a mysterious affair, with a mannequin who seems to have vanished, and who insists on leaving small clues scattered across the immense plains. But nothing seems to be too strange for Commissioner Sirota and her particular method which, this time, includes a clairvoyant, a legendary detective arriving from Santa Rosa and some picturesque “peritas” who choose to work at night, swinging to the rhythm of Ska. In the middle, a disturbing question: Is it a police case they are dealing with, or is someone taking them (the police, the whole town, the Italians – all of us, perhaps) for a fool?

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  • Poster for How to Win Enemies

    How to Win Enemies 2015

    Lucas, a young lawyer obsessed with crime novels, turns a chance encounter with a beautiful woman into a date ending in his bed. But when he wakes up alone, missing a secret stash of cash, the game’s afoot. Inspired by his favorite gumshoes, Lucas looks for clues. What was once a love story becomes the caper to end all capers.

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  • Poster for Vanishing Landscapes

    Vanishing Landscapes 2013

    A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental hospital. In their visits to the mental hospital, the three students will forge a very special relationship with the self-styled former film director as they follow different clues and strategies to discover his 'true' identity.

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  • Poster for The Clover Sect

    The Clover Sect 1948

    A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.

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  • Poster for 5 A.M. Cinco ante los miedos

    5 A.M. Cinco ante los miedos 2016

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  • Poster for The Car Mechanic

    The Car Mechanic 2019

    A woman has to rescue her friend, a prisoner of a psychopath who lives in a mechanical workshop.

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  • Poster for Nights Without Moons and Suns

    Nights Without Moons and Suns 1984

    A criminal escapes from a court, with help of three miscreants, to find his lifelong friend, who is terminally ill. The police officer catch knows there is a hidden loot involved.

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  • Poster for The Attachment Diaries

    The Attachment Diaries 2021

    Argentina, 1970s. A desperate young woman goes to a clinic to have a clandestine abortion. As her pregnancy is already through the fourth month, the doctor refuses. Instead, she proposes to sell the baby to one of her clients and offers to provide shelter in her house until the child is born. Their disturbed personalities will become intertwined in a strange and dangerous relationship.

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  • Poster for Odd Number

    Odd Number 1962

    Two brothers quarrel for the love of a woman. One of them falls ill and dies; the other one marries her. The couple’s relationship falters in Paris due to the involvement of a reproaching mother, who still acts as if the dead brother were alive and living with her.

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  • Poster for History of Fear

    History of Fear 2014

    Buenos Aires, during the summer heart, in gated communities surrounded by wastelands covered with trash. The barking of stray dogs, repeated power outages, and uncontrollable clouds of smoke drive the inhabitants to confront their most primitive instincts.

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  • Poster for The Red Star

    The Red Star 2021

    The investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.

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  • Poster for Robe of Gems

    Robe of Gems 2023

    Deep in the Mexican countryside, a community is plagued by the constant threat of looming violence. Three women from different social classes—a maid, her wealthy employer, and a police officer—become tragically affected by a missing-person case related to organized crime.

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  • Poster for Los suicidas

    Los suicidas 2006

    Daniel is a journalist who is commissioned to write an article based on a photograph of a presumed suicide. As he begins his investigation, he meets Marcela, the enigmatic photographer assigned to him as a colleague, with whom he has never had a relationship before, and with whom he slowly begins to fall in love.

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  • Poster for No Signal

    No Signal 2012

    In 2013, a filming unit arrived at Isla del Faro Rojo to make a documentary about the Ticolense culture that lived there, and about how they turned it into a place of mass extermination. Once installed on the island, away from all civilization and technology, the camera was rendered unusable due to a technical problem. But that was not an isolated event, and Leon, the person in charge of the making of, recorded everything that happened afterwards with his small camera. This is his bloody legacy.

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  • Poster for Someone Is Watching You

    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.

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  • Poster for The Conclave of Shadows

    The Conclave of Shadows 2024

    The end of the world begins today and here.

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  • Poster for Contrasangre

    Contrasangre 2015

    Daniel, Juan Palomino is a security guard, he was once a policeman, and he would have liked to be a vigilante hero. But, far from it, his job is to take care of the buildings of others. The city will cross with Analía (Emilia Attias), a distant woman, obsessive and beautiful in a mysterious way. She avoids contact with men because she has been the victim of rape. That terrible past comes back when Julio, Esteban Meloni, a violent and obsessed man, gets out of jail. Between the three are weaving on the streets of the city a plot of passion and crime.

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  • Poster for Los enemigos

    Los enemigos 1983

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  • Poster for Mi novia es un fantasma

    Mi novia es un fantasma 1944

    A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her.

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  • Poster for The Sound of Tulips

    The Sound of Tulips 2019

    Marcelo Di Marco is a writer turned journalist, who must return to the last steps of his father, Tonio Di Marco after he dies in strange conditions.

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  • Poster for No Escape

    No Escape 2003

    The spiritual journey of a man with a debt that cannot be paid. In a Korean supermarket not too important, a small embezzlement is discovered. Luciano, a young man who works there, is pressured by the Koreans to return the money he stole in less than twenty-four hours.

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  • Poster for Vestigios, el Misterio del Dique la Ciénaga

    Vestigios, el Misterio del Dique la Ciénaga 2020

    A father takes his son fishing at La ciénaga dam in northern Argentina. When a mysterious creature emerges from the depths, their lives will be in danger.

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  • Poster for The Santiso Report

    The Santiso Report 2015

    A star journalist goes mad after losing his daughter on an international assignment. Almost a decade later, upon his release from the psychiatric hospital, he must rebuild his life and save his marriage. But as he investigates his daughter's disappearance, the truth or his sanity will be at stake, and an ancient neo-Nazi sect will be on his trail.

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  • Poster for El diablo

    El diablo 1963

    Two friends find a mysterious black-cloaked figure on the beach

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