At this time of year, between celebrations, toasts and various sales, the lists that chronicle the best of what’s happened on TV and the big screen over the past 12 months are at once a reminder of what’s already been seen and a guide to what’s yet to be seen. Creating rankings is a ritual that occupies trade publications around the world and that readers look forward to, perhaps planning what stories will entertain them on vacation. Among the many lists published in recent days, two stand out for the place that Argentine productions occupy in them.
According to the Spanish version of the magazine The Hollywood Reporter, which covers the artistic activity of all of Latin America, The best miniseries of 2025 was Menem, the comedy about the former president in the lead role Leonardo Sbaraglia and available in Prime Video. “Its cast, performances and narrative precision make it the most ambitious and relevant work of 2025, a dazzling reflection of how Spanish-language television can communicate with history without simplification,” says The Hollywood Reporter team of the fiction created by Mariano Varela and directed by Ariel Winograd. Surprisingly, the political satire achieved a better positioning than the celebrated one The Eternaut (Netflix) listed in third place. In any case, the outstanding mention of the adaptation of the graphic novel by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López, directed by Ricardo Darín, which has just won eight Martín Fierro Awards, including for Best Drama, Best Screenplay, Best Direction and Gold, confirms the influence of Argentine fiction in the rest of the world and in Latin America in particular.
Appears in fourth place in the rankings The best heart attack of my life (Disney+), the miniseries based on the book of the same name by writer Hernán Casciari and inspired by true events. Also highlighted was the show starring Alan Sabbagh The Eternautfrom the newspaper’s editorial team The New York Timesas one of the best of the year in a list published in early December.
Two other local series make the list The Hollywood Reporter in Spanish: It’s in 14th place caught (Netflix), the thriller based on a novel by Harlan Coben starring Soledad Villamil, Alberto Ammann and Juan Minujín, while Black Widows: p*tas y chorras (HBO Max/Flow) takes 17th place. Location.
As for Spanish-language films in 2025, The Hollywood Reporter has created a ranking of 30 feature films that tops Chilean films The mysterious look of flamenco (it was shown at the Mar del Plata Film Festival) and which also features five Argentine films. Best positioned crib (available on Prime Video), the film directed, co-written and starred by Dolores Fonzi and appears in seventh place. The film, which has just been shortlisted from fifteen candidates for the Best International Film category at the Oscars, is being celebrated for its achievement of “connecting the individual case with the movement that drove a historic change in Argentine legislation.”
Almost in the middle of the list, in fourteenth place, is the box office Homo Argentum (available January 16th on Disney+), by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. “In 16 mini-films in one, all starring Guillermo Francella, the film explores the Argentine idiosyncrasy from a humorous, almost biting perspective, without losing sight of the critical. Regardless of what was said by specialist critics or the general public, the feature film became a socio-cultural phenomenon,” wrote the editors of The Hollywood Reporter about the most-watched Argentine feature film of the year.
The presence of national productions in the ranking of the most outstanding Spanish-language films of 2025 is completed with The message, by Ivan Fund. The film, winner of a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, is currently in 17th place Mazel Tov (available on Disney+), the comedy directed by and starring Adrián Suar, appears at number 25.
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