Best award winning movies with a gripping drama from Argentina

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a gripping drama from Argentina! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a gripping drama from Argentina, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Argentina, 1985 (2022)

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

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2022-09-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani

Rating

rating icon 7.889
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    practically flawless
  2. Ranked #1 for
    humorous tone
  3. Ranked #1 for
    nearly perfect

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2 The Two Popes (2019)

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

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2019-11-27 | Drama / History

Cast

Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins

Rating

rating icon 7.499
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    splendid
  2. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely magnificent
  3. Ranked #1 for
    for Catholic contemplation

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The Two Popes trailer
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3 The Blonde One (2019)

Gabriel rents a room in Juan’s House. They work together in a Woodwork place. Gabriel is a very quiet guy and has a little daughter. Juan is a party boy who has a lots of girls around. Inadvertently the sexual tension starts to grow between them. It opens a new hidden forbidden world they have to deal with.

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2019-07-11 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Gaston Re, Alfonso Barón

Rating

rating icon 7.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    acting with subtle facial expression
  2. Ranked #1 for
    pleasing to the eyes
  3. Ranked #1 for
    unifying theme

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4 Coven (2020)

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.

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2020-10-02 | Drama / History

Cast

Alex Brendemühl, Amaia Aberasturi

Rating

rating icon 6.65
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    innocent girl
  2. Ranked #1 for
    beautiful detail
  3. Ranked #2 for
    sumptuous cinematography

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Coven trailer
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5 The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

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2009-08-13 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil

Rating

rating icon 8.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #44 for
    quality directing
  2. Ranked #89 for
    masterpiece
  3. Ranked #100 for
    miscarriage of justice

Trailer

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6 The German Doctor (2013)

Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them to a town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter to his care, not knowing that he is one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.

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2013-05-19 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Àlex Brendemühl, Natalia Oreiro

Rating

rating icon 6.472
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #255 for
    spine-tingling
  2. Ranked #348 for
    gastronomic
  3. Ranked #351 for
    sociopath

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The German Doctor trailer
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7 Wild Tales (2014)

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

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2014-08-21 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia

Rating

rating icon 7.871
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #68 for
    Black Comedy
  2. Ranked #90 for
    seriocomedy
  3. Ranked #95 for
    masterpiece

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8 The Clan (2015)

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.

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2015-08-13 | Drama / History

Cast

Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #42 for
    morally dubious
  2. Ranked #169 for
    professional directing
  3. Ranked #195 for
    heinous crime

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The Clan trailer
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9 The Official Story (1985)

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

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1985-04-03 | Drama / History

Cast

Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio

Rating

rating icon 7.486
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #40 for
    confusing
  2. Ranked #44 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #115 for
    teaching tool

Trailer

The Official Story trailer
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10 El Angel (2018)

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

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2018-08-09 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darín

Rating

rating icon 7.421
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #156 for
    with gravitas
  2. Ranked #234 for
    little scary
  3. Ranked #305 for
    outside the laws

Trailer

El Angel trailer
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