Argentine Cinema
Argentine cinema runs on a fault line between its studio-era golden age and the raw, handheld rebirth of the late 1990s — and it has a genre history most people outside the country have never heard of. The five lists below don’t try to smooth that over: a nationwide critics’ survey, a deep dive into a specific noir subgenre, a golden-age retrospective, a new-wave primer, and a running list of what’s happening right now.
Argentine movie lists
Top 100 | Encuesta de cine argentino
100 filmsThe reference point — a nationwide survey of 546 critics, directors, and curators, narrowed down from over 800 nominated titles. Start here for the canon Argentina agreed on together.
view list →Noir Criollo 🚬 🇦🇷 - Catálogo
55 filmsA genre most people don’t associate with Argentina at all — cine negro criollo, fatalism and moral ambiguity translated into distinctly local terms, going deeper than any international noir spotlight usually bothers to.
view list →Top 50 Cine Clásico Argentino
50 filmsA trip back to the studio era, 1933 to 1956 — the golden age when Argentina’s film industry rivaled the rest of Latin America, told through 50 handpicked landmarks.
view list →nuevo cine argentino
46 filmsThe rebirth — a late-’90s wave of handheld, low-budget filmmaking that broke from the golden age entirely, including Lucrecia Martel’s early work and the humid, claustrophobic world of La Ciénaga.
view list →Cine Argentino ⭐⭐⭐
325 filmsThe only list still growing — 325 films and counting, built for finding what’s overlooked: festival entries and contemporary work that haven’t made it into any official canon yet.
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