Caballos Salvajes

Director: Marcelo Piñeyro
Genre: Crime Fiction, Action/Adventure, World cinema, Chase Movie, Drama, Adventure
Year: 1995
Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Héctor Alterio, Federico Luppi, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Dopazo, Fernán Mirás, Daniel Kuzniecka, Mónica Scapparone, Álex Benn, Adrián Yospe, Miguel Ruiz Díaz, Fernando Alvarez

Caballos Salvajes (English: Wild Horses) is a 1995 Argentine road movie directed by Marcelo Piñeyro and written by Piñeyro and Aída Bortnik. It stars Héctor Alterio, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Dopazo and Federico Luppi in a cameo appearance. The film chronicles the five days of two fugitives on the run after robbing a corporation and being targeted by the media.

José is an aging anarchist who decides to get even with the corporation that stole $15,344 from his family 18 years ago. When confronted by the yuppie manager, Pedro Mendoza, José threatens to kill himself and orders him to hand in the requested amount of money. In the ensuing chaos, Pedro stumbles upon a drawer holding half a million dollars, and puts it all in the bag. He then asks José to take him hostage so that the police will not shoot them, and both drive away successfully.

After the robbery, Pedro is confronted with a dilemma: he cannot turn himself in, because the stolen money is laundered money and he will thus have trouble with the mafia, so he decides to join José on a road trip to Patagonia as they run away from police and mafia alike.

On their way to the border they bond and decide to correct those false

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