Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Moderate
- raw
- restless
- bleak
- late night cinephile viewing
- social realism double feature
What sets it apart
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Cordobés faces impending fatherhood while relying on petty criminal work to finance an escape with Sandra.
The friends improvise robberies after leaving their taxi-driver employer, and their lack of competence repeatedly undermines their plans.
The protagonists turn to robbery because exploitative work and scarce opportunities offer no credible route toward independence.
The film follows working-class youths through street-level jobs, friendships, pregnancy, and failed robberies with an unsentimental dramatic focus.
Films like Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes, and why
Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes
shared naturalistic youth crime drama, economic marginalization, and bleak coming-of-age energy
Mean Streets
shared italian neorealist influence, working-class desperation, and amateur criminals under economic pressure
La haine
shared street-level crime, young protagonists, social realism, and restless urban atmosphere
City of God
shared latin american urban precarity, criminal entanglement, and morally ambiguous youth drama
Scarecrow
shared raw coming-of-age perspective, petty crime, and intimate portrayal of economically marginalized friends
Movie Details
- Directors
- Adrián Caetano, Bruno Stagnaro
- Release Date
- 1998-01-15
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 (66)
Cast
- Héctor Anglada
- Jorge Sesán
- Pamela Jordán
- Adrián Yospe
- Daniel Di Biase
- Walter Díaz
- Martín Adjemián
- Elena Cánepa
- Rubén Rodríguez
- Tony Lestingi
Common questions
- What is Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes about?
- A group of Argentine working-class youths turn to amateur robbery when honest work cannot support love, impending fatherhood, or their dream of escape.
- What is Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes as moderate.
- Which films are like Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes?
- Films with a similar feel include Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes, Mean Streets, La haine, City of God, and Scarecrow.
- How long is Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes?
- Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes runs 92 minutes.
