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Six stories follow ordinary people pushed toward revenge, fury, and social rupture.

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Six Argentine stories follow ordinary people pushed past restraint by insult, inequality, bureaucracy, betrayal, or humiliation. Each episode escalates a recognizable grievance toward revenge, public confrontation, or a darkly comic loss of control.

Why it belongs

Wild Tales follows six everyday humiliations as they erupt into darkly comic revenge, each story unfolding with ruthless narrative economy.

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Szifron gives each episode its own social pressure cooker—road rage, restaurant service, parking bureaucracy, wealth, betrayal, or wedding ritual—then escalates through exacting comic timing, sharp reversals, and performers willing to push humiliation into cathartic excess.

Major award record

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BAFTA1 win2016 · official BAFTA 2016 Film Awards results ↗

Plus 1 additional win

No headline-category win to name

Totals include every recorded competitive win. Only Picture or top-film honors, Direction, Screenplay, and lead or supporting performances are named.

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Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250207AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness8.6
Engagement9.8
Ease9.4

Spanish · Not Rated
Narrative Feature
Mood: Tense & Absorbing