

El Angel
Inspired by true events.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
- $10.5M
- Language
- Spanish
- 1970s
- based on true story
- male homosexuality
- argentina
- lgbt
- bisexual man
- teenage gang
- armed robbery
- gay theme
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Argentina, Spain
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereFantastic Fest20 Sept 2018
- TheatricalNR9 Nov 2018
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical169 Aug 2018
BrazilBR
- Theatrical18 Apr 2019
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical11 Apr 2019
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival11 May 2018
- TheatricalU9 Jan 2019
- Digital / OTTVOD4 Jun 2019
- PhysicalDVD5 Jun 2019
- Digital / OTTUPrime Video9 Jan 2022
GermanyDE
- Physical1627 Jun 2019
GreeceGR
- Theatrical28 Mar 2019
Hong KongHK
- TheatricalIII24 Mar 2019
HungaryHU
- Digital / OTT1624 Oct 2019
ItalyIT
- Theatrical30 May 2019
JapanJP
- Digital / OTTR15+16 Aug 2019
PolandPL
- Theatrical161 Feb 2019
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El Angel was released on 9 August 2018.
Audience reviews
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/23/2024
Lorenzo Ferro really does deliver well here and is pretty convincing as the curly-haired, butter-wouldn't-melt, Argentinian lad (Carlos) who at the age of seventeen already had his parent's piano stuffed full of ill-gotten pesos. His childhood within a respectable family suggested nothing out of the ordinary til he went to school and met the charismatic petty crook Ramón (Chino Darín). He is infatuated, and there's p…
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