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Browse 27 movies from Barakacine Producciones
In 1959, Buenos Aires, Mabel, an employee of a ministry must travel to the field to get a contract signed by the rancher Antonovich. In that solitary house, guarded by a female motorist, she will live unexpected scenarios with intriguing characters that will change forever the course of her life.
May 2024
Fernando and Ana meet again after a few years and relive their love story from two different angles. It is a story (or maybe two) that dives into the universe of the body, the memory of the body, the marks of love, desire, and memories. It is a story in which the "real world" is challenged by the emergence of desire.
Sep 2009
The earthquake in the city of San Juan, in January 1944, is the origin of the love story between Juan Domingo Perón (Osmar Nunez) and Eva Duarte (Julieta Diaz). He was a colonel in the Army and she was a popular radio actress. Eva collaborates with other artists in the collection organized by Peron, from the Secretary of Workr, to raise funds for earthquake victims. Neither then imagine what the future holds them.
Sep 2011
Paco knows that his mother died of a terminal illness when he was barely two years old, that his father, Alvaro, has remarried after a long period of mourning, and that his newborn sister will be with him for life. He has a strange tattoo on his forearm, and he knows it was his mother's last message before she left for the first time, because now he knows that death was a step after abandonment.
Mar 2005
A young man is witness of a murder committed by his father
Sep 2003
The stories of four solitary characters form a single plot in which the rules of the game are determined by chance. Everyone is finishing something; everyone, unknowingly, is about to start over.
May 2005
A librarian founds a copy of the fabled Necronomicon, only unleash hell on earth.
Mar 2018
The story, based on true events occurred in Colombia en May 2003, tells the dreams and adventures of Porras, Venegas, Lloreda and Perlaza, four of the 147 soldiers that were in a company of the anti-guerrilla "Destroyer" battalion. It begun when these soldiers found in the middle of the jungle, during a rescue mission, 46 million dollars inside a FARC "guaca". Instead of give it to the Government, they take it all for themselves instead. They desperate when realize that they're completely isolated because the bridge, the only way to return to civilization, has been blown up. Everything's ironic, almost surreal: These soldiers don't have food, water, or toilet paper, but they sleep on their dollar-ful bags. This discovery will change their lives forever, and will allow them to have everything they've dreamt about: some authority, power and respect, others help their families and have a no-longer poor life. Their big challenge: return to civilization and make their dreams come true.
Aug 2006
Year 1956. Rodolfo Walsh, young writer and translator, is an involuntary testimony of a failed insurrection attempt against the military dictatorship in Argentina. A little while later he receives the news that there are some survivors of the massacre. Together with his young colleague, they begin an investigate adventure which will bring them to the center of the labyrinth of power. The adventure will unite them in front of innumerable dangers that they'll face. A story of love and a political thriller all to the background of the tragic story of Argentina
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The fascinating story of Luca Prodan, Italo-Scottish Idol of Argentina's mythical Sumo Rock Band, and innovator of Latin American rock. His past as a pupil in Gordonstoun, Scotland's elitist college. His rebellious adolescence and fatal flirtation with heroin. His London years in the heart of the Punk explosion, and miraculous 're-birth' in dictatorship-ridden Argentina. South America's Ian Curtis... with a twist.
Apr 2008
Sumo, one of the most emblematic bands of Argentine rock, during the preparations and the unfolding of a historical concert: the presentation of their last album at the mythical Obras Stadium, recorded a couple of months before the death of their leader, Luca Prodan.
Apr 2024
A journalist interviews a general from the Process a few days after the defeat in the Falklands War. The general's speech is brutally sincere. These are the words that no Argentine military officer would say, has said, or will say. The idea is to exploit one of the feelings many people experience during the trials of repressors: it's strange that no one explicitly admits a single truth. The irony of this story is built on this sense of need to listen, with a certain moral and political awareness.
Apr 2014
Dec 2019
Jun 2023
José (Diego Capusotto) lives in Buenos Aires with his father, with whom he doesn't have a good relationship. He's a musician, but supports himself with the earnings from his taxi company, and when he can, he plays with his band in pubs. He's nostalgic for the success he could never achieve again, like when he played with his cousin Miguel (Luis Luque). They had both achieved a certain notoriety with the song "Pájaros vuela" (Flying Birds) by their band "Dientes de Limón." After a long time without seeing each other, Miguel, who lives in Las Pircas, a small town in the mountains of Córdoba, comes to visit him and suggests that he leave the city and come with him.
Aug 2010
Buenos Aires in the year 2002; the economical depression has caught the country. Elsa keeps her head above water through several badly paid jobs and occasional criminal offenses with her friends Walter, Laura and Toni. She's saving money for a ticket to Rome to get out of her life and visit an Italian with whom she had a one night stand several months ago.
May 2002
It chronicles a few hours in the life of a family living on the southern coast of Buenos Aires. After breakfast, a father (Guillermo Arengo) heads off with his son (Agustín Alcoba) to a desolate beach for the day, while his wife (Roxana Berco) visits her seriously ill mother (Susana Campos) in a remote, wooded area.
In 1977, the famous Argentine cartoonist Héctor Germán Oesterheld, author of El Eternauta, was kidnapped by the military dictatorship. While being transported through a dusty road somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires, one of his captors and companion reads one of his own adventures.
May 2016
The life of Ernesto Guevara retold in testimonies from those who knew him personally.
Nov 1998