cinehunch
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Night of the Pencils, this is an unflinching Argentine account of the dictatorship’s machinery of disappearance, sustained through intimate personal stakes rather than historical abstraction.
02
Why this pick
It shares the moral urgency and Argentine dictatorship context, but approaches state terror through a gradually destabilized middle-class family life and a quietly devastating search for truth.
03
Why this pick
Its investigation is shaped by Argentina’s violent political past, pairing patient, emotionally weighty suspense with a strong sense of how institutions fail ordinary people.
04
Why this pick
A tense, humane political-prison drama whose power comes from the evolving bond between two confined men and the pressure of authoritarian repression.
05
Why this pick
This Chilean coming-of-age drama similarly sees political violence through schoolchildren, making national upheaval painfully immediate through friendship, vulnerability, and a lost sense of safety.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
Our curator needs a little longer. Please come back shortly.
No confident matches yet. Try our personal film finder.
01 / THE STORY
During a time of economic and political unrest and State-sponsored terrorism in Argentina in the mid-1970s, the students want reduced bus fares, so they take to the streets and protest in support of the ''boleto estudiantil'': the students' ticket. At first, under Isabel Martínez de Perón government they succeed, but their protests draw hostile attention from the ensuing military regime led by Jorge Rafael Videla, which overthrows Perón on March 24, 1976.
Showing saved details. Some information may be out of date.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Horacio (as Pablo Novarro)
Nelva de Falcone
Policía uniformado 1
Moni
Osvaldo
Raúl
Daniel
Delegado asamblea 5
