Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes

Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (Pizza, birra, faso, 1998) is an Argentine crime drama you can watch online on iFILM — a debut feature co-directed by Bruno Stagnaro and Adrián Caetano. Four teenagers drift through the poorest neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, scraping together cash through petty street robberies. No jobs, no plans. The three words of the title are about as far as their horizon goes.

Sandra is the only woman in the group, and she's pregnant. She wants out — a real life somewhere else, across the river in Uruguay. Her boyfriend Córdobes keeps promising one last score before they go. Shot on a shoestring budget with handheld cameras and near-documentary rawness, this film announced what critics came to call the Nuevo Cine Argentino — a wave of street-level Argentine filmmaking that dominated the early 2000s. Stream Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998) online on iFILM.