Movies: Jorge Luis Borges

A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he ...

A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal, who establishes a bold parallelism between Borges' work and opinions and his own creations,...

Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders....

During a local festival, a mysterious stranger appears in town, heading towards a violent confrontation....

A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various aspects of his thought and his life....

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 199...

A fragmented biography, inconclusive, partial, of the brilliant Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, based on different testimonies: his links with Leonor de Acedevo —his mother— and María Kodama —his second wife—; his vast culture and devout dedica...

Emma Zunz, who is planning a crime, intends to get away with it by presenting an audacious alibi....

A young man enters a brothel and sees a staged narration of a Chinese folk tale concerning a female pirate....

the shadows hide mimics eaten selves they live in our sins beauty encircled with grand evil we invite them in (shot in Busch Stadium and elsewhere in St. Louis.)...

Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections....

Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives....

Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion....

The life, customs and death of an authoritarian man....

This documentary examines Borges' extraordinary life and work, using dramatizations of his most memorable stories and rare interview footage with the author at his Buenos Aires home....

Documentary about the life and work of Jorge Luis Borges, from his own memories and reflections....

A tour for Buenos Aires with Jorge Luis Borges, who reflects on different topics....

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A rabbi is murdered. Detective Llonrot is called in on the case and looks for a 'rabbinical explanation' for the murder. Other murders are committed and deliberate clues left in chosen locations. Llonrot, convinced he is on the trail of a 'mystical i...