# The best films about Argentina's last military dictatorship

From The Official Story, Latin America's first Oscar winner, to Night of the Pencils, Olympic Garage, Clandestine Childhood and Argentina, 1985: the films about the 1976-1983 dictatorship recommended by Latino Life.

- 54 votes · 14 items
- Jun 2, 2024 · Mariana Rodríguez
- https://even.best/en/l/4567/the-best-films-about-argentina-s-last-military-dictatorship

## Top 14

1. **The Official Story (1985)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Luis Puenzo. A teacher discovers her adopted daughter may be the child of disappeared parents. Oscar for best foreign-language film.
2. **Argentina, 1985 (2022)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Santiago Mitre. Prosecutor Julio Strassera and the Trial of the Juntas, with Ricardo Darín.
3. **Olympic Garage (1999)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Marco Bechis. A young activist held in a clandestine detention centre.
4. **The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Juan José Campanella. A murder case that runs through the dictatorship years. Oscar for best foreign-language film.
5. **Tangos: The Exile of Gardel (1985)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Fernando Solanas. Argentine exiles in Paris put on a tango show.
6. **Night of the Pencils (1986)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Héctor Olivera. The high school students abducted in La Plata in 1976.
7. **Captive (2005)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Gastón Biraben. A teenager discovers she is the daughter of disappeared parents.
8. **Clandestine Childhood (2012)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Benjamín Ávila. A boy living under a false identity with his Montonero parents.
9. **The Girlfriend (1988)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Jeannine Meerapfel. The friendship of two women, one of them a Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, with Liv Ullmann.
10. **Sisters (2005)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Julia Solomonoff. Two sisters separated by exile and a secret from the 1970s.
11. **Real Truths: The Life of Estela (2011)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Nicolás Gil Lavedra. Estela de Carlotto and the search for her grandson.
12. **The Two Popes (2019)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Fernando Meirelles. Benedict XVI and Bergoglio, with his past under the Argentine dictatorship.
13. **A Wall of Silence (1993)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Lita Stantic. A British director makes a film about a disappeared man.
14. **Eva y Lola (2010)** (-2 · ▲1 ▼3) — Sabrina Farji. Two young circus performers, one of them the child of disappeared parents.

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