# The Argentine films that defined the 1990s

From Rapado and Tango feroz to Pizza, Beer and Cigarettes, Crane World, Silvia Prieto and Same Love, Same Rain: the hits and the New Argentine Cinema of the 1990s, according to La Nación's decade-by-decade review.

- 36 votes · 14 items
- Mar 12, 2022 · maría sierra
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## Top 14

1. **Tango Feroz (1993)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Marcelo Piñeyro. The life of an Argentine rock pioneer.
2. **Historias breves (1995)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Shorts by Lucrecia Martel, Adrián Caetano, Daniel Burman and others: the start of New Argentine Cinema.
3. **Rapado (1992)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Martín Rejtman. A teenager whose motorbike is stolen shaves his head.
4. **Comodines (1997)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Jorge Nisco. Two American-style action cops; one of the big box-office hits.
5. **Pizza, Beer and Cigarettes (1998)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Bruno Stagnaro and Adrián Caetano. Marginalised teenagers in Buenos Aires.
6. **Manuelita (1999)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Manuel García Ferré. María Elena Walsh's tortoise goes to Paris. Over two million tickets.
7. **The Act in Question (1993)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Alejandro Agresti. A thief discovers a magic trick that makes things vanish.
8. **Wild Horses (1995)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Marcelo Piñeyro. Héctor Alterio and Leonardo Sbaraglia on the run with money taken from a finance firm.
9. **Wind with the Gone (1998)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Alejandro Agresti. A Patagonian town that receives films with scenes missing.
10. **An Argentinian in New York (1998)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Juan José Jusid. Guillermo Francella goes to fetch his daughter, Natalia Oreiro.
11. **Silvia Prieto (1999)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Martín Rejtman. A woman finds out there is another woman with her name.
12. **Same Love, Same Rain (1999)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Juan José Campanella. Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil over twenty years.
13. **Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1996)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Alejandro Agresti. A young woman films the city for an elderly couple who never go out.
14. **Crane World (1999)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Pablo Trapero. Rulo Margani as a crane operator, in black and white.

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