# The best Argentine films of all time

The top ten of the 2022 Argentine Cinema Survey (546 voters among critics, filmmakers and researchers, presented at Mar del Plata) plus the Argentine films most awarded and loved by audiences.

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- Oct 12, 2023 · versionoriginal_lapata
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## Top 20

1. **Invasion** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Hugo Santiago, 1969. A besieged city, written by Borges and Bioy Casares.
2. **The Employee** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Leonardo Favio, 1969. A hardware-shop clerk waits to inherit his boss's store.
3. **La Ciénaga** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Lucrecia Martel, 2001. Two families in a stifling Salta summer; number one in the 2022 survey by a wide margin.
4. **Juan, as if Nothing Had Happened** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Carlos Echeverría, 1987. A documentary about the only person disappeared in Bariloche during the dictatorship.
5. **Nine Queens** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fabián Bielinsky, 2000. Ricardo Darín and Gastón Pauls, con men and a set of fake stamps.
6. **The Secret in Their Eyes** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Juan José Campanella, 2009. A murder unsolved since 1974; Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
7. **Argentina, 1985** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Santiago Mitre, 2022. Ricardo Darín as prosecutor Julio Strassera in the Trial of the Juntas.
8. **The Headless Woman** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Lucrecia Martel, 2008. María Onetto believes she has run someone over on the road.
9. **Dark River** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hugo del Carril, 1952. Exploited labourers on the yerba mate plantations of the Upper Paraná.
10. **Chinese Take-Away** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sebastián Borensztein, 2011. Darín as a grumpy hardware dealer and a lost Chinese man in Buenos Aires.
11. **Time for Revenge** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Adolfo Aristarain, 1981. Federico Luppi pretends to have lost his voice to sue a mining company.
12. **The Hour of the Furnaces** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, 1968. A militant documentary over four hours long, shot clandestinely.
13. **Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Adrián Caetano and Bruno Stagnaro, 1998. Young petty thieves in Buenos Aires; the start of New Argentine Cinema.
14. **Silvia Prieto** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Martín Rejtman, 1999. A woman discovers another woman with the same name; dry Buenos Aires humour.
15. **The Official Story** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Luis Puenzo, 1985. A teacher discovers her adopted daughter may be the child of the disappeared; Argentina's first Oscar.
16. **Wild Tales** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Damián Szifron, 2014. Six tales of revenge; the most-watched Argentine film of its time and Oscar-nominated.
17. **Waiting for the Hearse** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alejandro Doria, 1985. A black family comedy with Antonio Gasalla as Mamá Cora; lines quoted for generations.
18. **The Blonds** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Albertina Carri, 2003. The director investigates her parents' disappearance using Playmobil figures.
19. **Chronicle of a Boy Alone** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Leonardo Favio, 1965. A boy escapes from a reformatory; Favio's debut.
20. **Crane World** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — Pablo Trapero, 1999. A former musician learns to operate a crane; black-and-white Buenos Aires neorealism.

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