El Angel

El Angel

2018 · 115 min · ES · NR · 7.4 (511 votes)
Dir. Luis Ortega · Starring Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darín, Mercedes Morán, Daniel Fanego, Luis Gnecco, Cecilia Roth · Music Moondog

Inspired by true events.

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Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

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A sun-drenched, yet deeply unsettling, portrait of a young man's descent into a life of crime and dangerous desire. It's a stylish, slow-burn exploration of a charismatic killer's psyche, set against the backdrop of 1970s Argentina.

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