Tango: Our Dance

Así es el tango

February 1937 •Spanish

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

Café de los maestros

June 2008 •Spanish

Coffee Masters is a documentary by Miguel Kohan, produced by Lita Stantic, Gustavo Santaolalla and Walter Salles. It tells the story of great tango of the old guard who, summoned by a rock musician, proposing a record to demonstrate its validity. This adventure, full of memories, humor and poignant moments, culminating with a presentation of the Masters at the Teatro Colon.

¡Tango!

April 1933 •Spanish

¡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, making it more like a musical revue. This format would be copied by many subsequent films. The plot is derived from tango songs. Many of these songs tell of the seduction of an innocent slum girl by a rich man who promises her a glamorous life, but who abandons her when her looks fade. The stylized and sentimental plot of ¡Tango! revolves around a young man who is abandoned by his girlfriend for an older rich man and is heartbroken. The film follows his misfortunes.

El morocho del Abasto (La vida de Carlos Gardel)

March 1950 •Spanish

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

The Tango Lesson

November 1997 •English

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.

Gran Casino

June 1947 •Spanish

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

La vida es un tango

February 1939 •Spanish

Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.

Gricel. Un amor en tiempo de tango

November 2012 •Spanish

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 forgetting is impossible.

Radio Bar

September 1936 •Spanish

La voz de mi ciudad

January 1953 •Spanish

Nelly Omar, cantora nacional

August 2014 •Spanish

The life of the last female singer of the golden age of tango, who died at 102 years of age. Nelly Omar stood out as one of the consecrated interpreters of tango and national folklore.

Tango

August 1998 •Spanish

A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and boldly seductive dance film ever made.

Espérame

February 1933 •Spanish

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

Athens Rising: The Sicyon Project: Volume One

June 2018 •English

Featuring dozens of performances from the living rooms, backyards, and unconventional venues throughout Athens, GA, the first Athens Rising film takes a deep look at music, dance, food, stand-up comedy, strange theater, visual art, and the origins of AthFest.

Piazzolla: The Years of the Shark

August 2018 •Spanish

A cinematic portrait of the world-wide legendary Argentinian composer who changed tango. For the first time ever, the hidden archives of bandoneón player Astor Piazzolla are opened by his son Daniel.

The Sidewalks of Saturn

April 1986 •Spanish

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 visited by his sister, a member of a guerrilla organization.

Tango

August 1985 •German

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 20th century, and texts by Celedonio Flores and Enrique Santos Discépolo.

Gracias y Hasta Siempre ¡Gardel Está Vivo!

Invalid date •Spanish

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

Recordando al Zorzal

January 1965 •Spanish

The life, work and tragic disappearance of Carlos Gardel, the Creole thrush.

Carlos Gardel, Historia de un Ídolo

April 1964 •Spanish

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.