The Golden Age of Argentine cinema, sometimes known interchangeably as the broader classical or classical-industrial period, is an era in the history of the cinema of Argentina that began in the 1930s
View of the shooting of Manuel Romero's La rubia del camino (1938) at Lumiton studios.
French immigrant Eugenio Py is generally considered to have made the first films of the country in the 1890s.
A frame from Mario Gallo's La Revolución de Mayo (1909), regarded as the first narrative film of the country.
The unprecedented commercial success of Nobleza gaucha (1915) inaugurated a new boom period for Argentine silent cinema.
The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema, also known as the Survey of Argentine cinema, are a series of opinion polls carried out to establish a list of the greatest films of Argentine cinema of all
In the 2022 list, Leonardo Favio was the director with the greatest presence among the top 100 films, with eight titles.
Prisioneros de la tierra (1939) by Mario Soffici was chosen as the best Argentine film of all time in the 1977 and 1984 polls.
Crónica de un niño solo (1965) by Leonardo Favio was chosen as the best Argentine film of all time in the 2000 survey.
In the 2022 list, La Ciénaga (2001) by Lucrecia Martel (pictured) was the most voted film by a wide margin, and all her films appear in the Top 100.