Leopoldo Torre Nilsson — Director (12)
The Party Is Over (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fin de fiesta
other title: Fin de fiesta
This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.
The Mafia (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
La maffia
other title: La maffia
The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.
The Kidnapper (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
El secuestrador
other title: El secuestrador
A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.
Martín Fierro (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Martín Fierro
Primer film del tríptico épico que completan "El santo de la espada" y "Güemes, la tierra en armas". Adaptación del poema sobre el gaucho Martín Fierro del escritor argentino José Hernández. Cuando Martín Fierro regresa al rancho familiar lo encuentra abandonado. Recuerda entonces su apacible vida hasta que fue reclutado a la fuerza para servir en el ejército de la frontera, del que acabó desertando. Una voz en off recita los versos de Hernández, relata los enfrentamientos con los indios y denuncia las injusticias sociales y el autoritarismo que se ceban con los más humildes.
The House of the Angel (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La casa del ángel
other title: La Maison de l'Ange / La casa del ángel
A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forcibly kept innocent of the sexual nuances of some adult relationships, she is not too clear on her rights, his intentions, or the consequences when her father's best friend starts to lust after her.