The best Justina Bustos’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Justina Bustos’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Justina Bustos.
Colonia
7/10
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Focus
6.6/10
Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
To Kill The Dragon
4.4/10
Elena is kidnapped at seven years old and taken to Hell. Twenty-five years later she returns home and is reunited with Facundo, his older brother. He includes her in his life, but Elena brings to her family the terror of the past she lived. Based on a nightmare, Kill the Dragon is a dramatic and fantastic horror story about a family living on the edge of Paradise and Hell.
Volley
6.4/10
Six twenty-something friends are spending New Year's Eve at a summer house at the river. The host, Nicolas (writer and director Martin Piroyansky, XXY), brings his ex-girlfriend Pilar (Inés Efron, Empty Nest, XXY) with whom he just had a one-night stand. But, Nicolas hits on every other girl including the brooding Cata (Vera Spinetta) and the voluptuous Belén (Justina Bustos). When Nicolas unexpectedly falls into bed and then into love with the high-strung Manuela (Violeta Urtizberea) who also happens to be his best friend's girlfriend, the last laugh is on him.
Those Who Love, Hate
5.7/10
Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions.
The Suffering
4.8/10
Pablo Rouviot is a renowned psychoanalyst. His life changes completely when Paula arrives to his office and asks him to prove that his brother, a man with serious psychological problems and accused for the murder of his father, is in no able condition to be judged.
Lava
5.5/10
Deborah makes a living by drawing the skin of her clients. One night, her housemate invites her boyfriend and friend to their house. Sitting in the armchair, they consume the series of the moment, Gain of Clones, until, suddenly, the signal is cut off and the screen is dyed red while subliminal images float. No one remembers what happened the last two minutes. The answer will be in the enigmatic presence of giant cats that will later invade the city.
Madly
5.5/10
Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly.
Breadcrumbs
6.9/10
When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile with her son and be able to live peacefully as a mother and a grandmother.
Death Doesn't Exist, and Love Doesn't Either
6.7/10
Emilia is a young psychiatrist living in Buenos Aires with her boyfriend. She has a steady life but is not fully satisfied. She receives an invitation to go back to 28 de Noviembre, her hometown in Patagonia to spread Andrea's ashes, Emilia's best friend who died five years earlier. Emilia pauses her life in the city and travels for the ceremony. The cold and the snow of the hard winter in southern Argentina are the setting of her journey to the past. There, she revisits her friendship with dead Andrea and mourns her with her family. On the isolated routs of Patagonia, Emilia meets Julián, her first love, who has recently become a father.
The Employer and the Employee
6.5/10
The employer is a young man who apparently has everything going on for him except one pressing concern: his baby’s health. The employee is looking for a job to support his newborn too, so does not hesitate when the first decides to hire him to work in his lands. Both will meet their needs by helping each other. But one day an accident happens. This unexpected event will strain the ties between them, endangering the fate of the two families.
Una noche de amor
5.9/10
