The best Guillermo Battaglia’s 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.
Missing Persons Section
6.4/10
The love affair of an ex-convict with a showgirl, unleashes the jealousy of his older, wealthy and unbalanced wife. A murder plot, staged phoney suicide and other twists and turns follow.
Se abre el abismo
6.1/10
The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.
Hotel alojamiento
5.2/10
Different stories that take place in a hotel for a temporary shelter for couples.
The Candidate
6.7/10
An old politician is claimed by his party to be a candidate in the next elections.
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.
Filomena Marturano
7.2/10
Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.
Los evadidos
5.6/10
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.
Dishonor
7.3/10
The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Dagli Appennini alle Ande
6.5/10
A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.
Stella
6.2/10
Los hipócritas
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.
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.
Pesadilla
A woman who believes she has seen a murder is harassed by the alleged criminal.
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.
Devil in the Flesh
7/10
Young newlywed girl about to embark on her honeymoon persuades older family friend to assist her in an extensive search for her missing husband. A road-trip full of comical misadventures ensues.
La potranca
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.
La cigarra no es un bicho
6/10
The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.
