The Clan (2015)

When it was first released in Argentina, Pablo Trapero�s film had the highest opening box-office of all time. The key to that success is simply that The Clan is based on one of the most shocking crimes in the country�s history, the Puccio Clan case. In 1985, the news broke that the Puccios, a well-established Catholic family with five children from San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnapped and held people hostage for ransom in their own home. The film is a disturbing, impressive, and beautifully controlled interpretation of those events, with Guillermo Francella’s magnificent depiction of the father, a performance for the ages.