Movies: Tango

A man traveling in his truck on a desolate road......

Documentary filmed in Buenos Aires that shows the importance of tango for Argentines, with dance scenes, voiceovers and interviews with professionals but also with other anonymous characters who find their form of expression in this music. The film w...

The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel....

A musical tour through the work of Aníbal "Pichuco" Troilo, one of the defining figures of tango and Argentinian music....

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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....

Carlos Argüelles is the son of a wealthy man whose only interests in life are business and making money. While trying to succeed in show business he falls in love with a dancer and they elope to marry. But success is not easy to obtain....

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

When Malhar, an auto driver, accidentally discovers Argentine Tango, he finds himself torn between his conservative roots and an elite dance community. Along the way he uncovers connection, awakening something beyond his mundane existence...

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The life of the famous tango singer Carlos Gardel, his emergence, his mother, his loves, his friends etc....

Five young dancers are obsessed with tango, far from its homeland Argentina: in the Black Forest. Helena, Susanna, Christian, Joscha and Ruben are all single. Their all-consuming passion is a dance with rigid gender roles and hierarchical rules. How...

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...

A Young man from a wealthy family hide them his attraction for tango culture of arrabal. In a milonga he fell in love with Mirella and he have a knife fight with all others guapos that want her, he won. Time pass and Mirella became a mistress but th...

The Geneva Grand Theatre Ballet presents Tango. Created by Oscar Araiz...

¡Tango! follows a formula established by Carlos Gardel with films such as Luces de Buenos Aires (The Lights of Buenos Aires, 1931) in which a melodramatic story is interspersed with tango songs. However, the film had less dialog and more music, makin...

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....

Two unfaithful husbands have to win their wives back while they take their revenge on them by going out with other people....

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....