The best Guillermo Battaglia’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Guillermo Battaglia’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Guillermo Battaglia.
The Official Story
7.7/10
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.
Dishonor
7.3/10
The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Filomena Marturano
7.2/10
Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.
Intimidades de una cualquiera
6/10
A woman from the country moves into to the big city of Buenos Aires to start a new life. Things are not going very easy and she soon finds herself working as a prostitute.
The Beast Must Die
7.5/10
A writer whose son was killed in a hit-and-run goes in search of the driver to get revenge.
The Candidate
6.7/10
An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.
Dagli Appennini alle Ande
6.5/10
A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.
Los evadidos
5.7/10
Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from director Enrique Carreras was the official entry for Argentina at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival.
La indeseable
Safo, historia de una pasión
7.6/10
The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.
The Conquest of Paradise
6.6/10
Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expecting to inherit a large sum of money, but instead, he receives from his father a treasure map, with the promise that the map will make him rich. After the father dies, Pablo decides to go to an adventure and seek the treasure, aided by the men his father choose as companionship, and by one woman faith choose for him.
Los hipócritas
The Naked Angel
7.3/10
A sculptor lends money to a bankrupt man, who agrees to allow his daughter pose for the sculptor's next work. The film caused a scandal in Argentina for the depiction of then 17-year-old Olga Zubarry's naked back. Adaptated from the novel "Fräulein Else" by Arthur Schnitzler.
La bestia humana
6.6/10
From Emile Zola's novel "La Bete Humaine", tells the story of a jealous husband, a provocative woman and a man with an uncontrollable desire to kill.
El que recibe las bofetadas
8/10
Destino de un capricho
6.2/10
The House of the Angel
7.2/10
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.
Su mejor alumno
6.6/10
Mi vida por la tuya
6.3/10
During a mother's dream comes up Gloria Rivas as a vamp who crushes her son's life.
Bendita seas
8/10
María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.
