Movies by Mónica Lairana

The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime
This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a better life for himself and his young wife, but soon finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt boss. The film is based on a thorough investigation of a real event that happened in Buenos Aires 10 years ago. Almost every scene in the film is inspired by real facts or based on well documented daily practic...

She Wolf
She Wolf is a serial killer who traps her men in the subway in Buenos Aires. She seduces, has sex with them and kills them. But one of those men is a police officer who is investigating her crimes. Running away from him she meets a dealer with whom she stars a relationship. This romance unravels a war between her three personalities: the monster woman, the sensual woman and the human woman who can still love.

Ecosistemas de la Costanera Sur
A documentary about the Costanera Sur (south boardwalk) of Buenos Aires, Argentina, including Super 8 filmmakers, conspiracies, choripanes and myths.

The Friends
Four friends live together in an abandoned house, wearied by the tedium of knowing that their lives will be tomorrow the same as today, a year from now the same as tomorrow, a century from now the same as a year from now. Being eternal was their sentence.

Cruzaron el disco
Disinterested and disoriented characters in a world that is real, where the absurd is consistent and daily violence, try to relate to each other, reacting only by inertia to situations that do not concern them.

The Night Inside
Mendoza, 1978. María and her father live in a remote and inhospitable area east of the mountain range. The monotony of their lives is altered when one day a wounded militant, Salazar, arrives. They are forced to take her in and take care of her until she recovers or someone comes for her. As the days go by, the military siege closes in on them, there is no possibility of escape and the house becomes a death trap.

El aprendiz

Diciembre
Amidst the political crisis of December 2001 in Argentina, Clara observes the relationship troubles of her cousin Mara with her boyfriend Tomás. Their sexual bonds are about to undergo some changes as well.

Lo que tenemos

El sueño del perro
The path of a man to restart his life after a personal tragedy that leads him to leave the city and move to an inhospitable place that allows him to be reborn.