Movies: Tango

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20t...

Concert and Interview with Astor Piazzolla and his sextet by the BBC-Bristol....

The romance between a young man from a wealthy family and the dancer from a place of fun....

Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the family....

Hugo Santiago and writers Juan José Saer and Jorge Semprún move back and forth between Paris and the city of Aquilea in a shadowy fable about exile. The frontier between one city and the other begins to blur after Bandoneonist Rodolfo Mederos is visi...

A documentary about Medellín's historic and continued connection to tango and its most iconic figure....

Mr Plastimime is a funny and moving story about a man who faithfully practices a dying art, a man whose timing is a bit off, a man whose skills aren’t recognized, a man who is unlucky in love; But this is a man who keeps moving forward, faithfully be...

Newsreels, songs and films by Gardel, real scenes with events and historical figures from Argentina and the world, images of the accident that took his life in Medellín and the funeral in Buenos Aires....

Piazzolla and his Quintet perform with the Cologne Rundfunk Orchestra conducted by Pinches Steinberg in this film by Jose-Montes Baquer. Piazzolla is also featured in conversation....

An old abandoned house in Buenos Aires. Four female dancers. Four tangos interpreted by female singers. These elements intertwine in order to narrate through music and dance the evolution of a romantic relationship over time. Each room is a poetic sp...

Two women, one man all the amourous combinations and a lot of tango and waltzes being danced in this silent adaptation of the operette by Gustav Kadelburg....

The owner of a tango academy finds the possibility of love after the arrival of a charming character....

Argentinean singer and tango legend Ada Falcón disappeared without a trace in 1942 at the height of her career. This is the story of how she was located sixty years later, living in an unexpected way, in an unexpected place....

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Brownie the Bear as a young, dapper Gaucho and his adventures as a South American cowboy....

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criol...

Joel, a young man of Chinese origin, competes in a singing contest in his neighborhood....

Musical documentary about the love story between tango lyricist José María Contursi and a village girl named Gricel. After a passionate and forbidden romance, Contursi and Gricel separate and propose to forget each other, but they discover that forge...

The compelling story of a group of young Argentine musicians racing against time to learn and preserve the elegant and nuanced music played by the legendary Golden Age tango orchestras of Buenos Aires in the 40's and 50's....

A singer is in love with a young woman who is being extorted by a rich rancher....