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Kilómetro 111 (1938)
Character: N/A
Ceferino is the train station chief o a remote town. A group of planters ask him to legit them the wagons to send the harvest to Buenos Aires, he agrees, but he gets fired.
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El cura Lorenzo (1954)
Character: Lorenzo
A heart-warming and entertaining chronicle of Salesian priest Lorenzo Massa. His work in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires in the early 1900s led to the founding of San Lorenzo de Almagro, one of the best soccer clubs in Argentina. (Pope Francis, who grew up in this neighborhood in the 1940s, is a fan). Father Massa (Ángel Magaña), an athletic young priest, is sent to serve a working class community, where he initially faces indifference and hostility. Following the conventions of the Hollywood biopic, the film describes the characters and their plights with affection, and a dash of drama, as they are changed by the example of the priest.
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Así es la vida (1977)
Character: Alberto Castañares
Tells the story, in the key of comedy of customs, of a typical bourgeois home in Buenos Aires for three decades.
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Cadetes de San Martín (1937)
Character: N/A
A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.
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Con las alas rotas (1938)
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A man finds out his wife had a lover and abandons her, but first he gains custody of their daughter.
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La cuna vacía (1949)
Character: N/A
The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his law studies and a double frustration, as a writer and in his crush on a young woman who loved another man.
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Fragata Sarmiento (1940)
Character: N/A
It narrates the history of the Argentine ship that served for many generations like school for the formation of sailors.
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Cosas de mujer (1951)
Character: N/A
A man feels abandoned because his wife is too busy with her incredible success as a lawyer. Because of this, he ends up falling into infidelity and showing certain contradictions in his wife.
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Los chantas (1975)
Character: Aurelio
Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score.
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Piantadino (1950)
Character: N/A
An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy.
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Cómo se hace una película argentina (1948)
Character: N/A
Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.
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El mejor papá del mundo (1941)
Character: N/A
A young man gives a hard lesson to his father, a prestigious lawyer complicated in the management of a foreign company.
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Esposa último modelo (1950)
Character: Alfredo Villegas
When a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her boyfriend.
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Un ángel sin pudor (1953)
Character: Mauricio Ferran
An angel who comes down to earth in the form of a woman lives a love story.
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Héroes sin fama (1940)
Character: Enrique Lucero
Social film that explores journalism's fight against fraud, intimidation, extortion and political crimes during the 30s in Argentina.
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El muerto falta a la cita (1944)
Character: Daniel Rivero
On the night of his marriage a young man runs over a cyclist. He believes he is dead, he hides the body and a mysterious character appears.
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Puerta cerrada (1939)
Character: N/A
Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth.
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Su mejor alumno (1944)
Character: Dominguito Sarmiento
The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.
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No abras nunca esa puerta (1952)
Character: Raúl (segment “Alguien al teléfono”)
A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
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Historia de una carta (1957)
Character: N/A
In a moment of despair, a man sends a letter to her girlfriend announcing his suicide. He then regrets it and tries to recover the letter.
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La calle grita (1948)
Character: Mario
When the employee of a famous economist seeks a raise in complicity with a street vendor, her work learns real-life facts by trying to prove that you can live with what you pay.
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La cigarra no es un bicho (1963)
Character: Rubén Cooper, el periodista
The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.
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Viento norte (1937)
Character: N/A
In an indigenous village a murder occurs, and young man is sentenced to death for it. However his father, the real culprit, takes the responsibility.
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El viejo doctor (1939)
Character: N/A
Medical father and son in conflict over two conceptions about the practice of medicine as a result of a bad and inopportune medical practice carried out by the son to a patient of the father.
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Flor de piolas (1969)
Character: N/A
A gang of blackmailers travels from town to town choosing their victims.
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Arroz con leche (1950)
Character: N/A
A runaway bride poses as a married woman and mother of twins to woo a suitor who only falls in love with married women.
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La sonrisa de mamá (1972)
Character: Damián
Angelica Zamora is a famous actress and singer, ignored by her three children Julio, Clotilde and Felipe. After learning of a serious illness that leaves her little time to live, her children and their friends intend to make her spend her best moments without being aware of the disease she suffers. Julio will even propose to someone to please his mother.
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La industria del matrimonio (1965)
Character: N/A
There are 3 stories about the intermediaries of marriage (the ads of magazines, seers and agencies): Sentimental mail, about an energetic woman who wants to marry a dominable man; Elixir of love, on the subject of the title; and Romantic about a melodic singer.
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Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola (1965)
Character: Dr. Marcelo Maines
Movie divided in three episodes: a family mother becomes a successful singer; an Argentinian reporter follows a Spanish cupletista from the beginning of the XX century; the reunion of three old actors and their lies about their success.
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La familia hippie (1971)
Character: N/A
A music teacher marries the daughter of a widower, and he marries the young man's mother.
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Mi amigo Luis (1972)
Character: N/A
The story is based on the cadets of the Military College and their relationship with an older officer (1st Lieutenant) whom they see as a father.
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Prisioneros de la tierra (1939)
Character: N/A
Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas with the purpose of hiring workers.
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Requiebro (1955)
Character: Eduardo Mendoza
A rancher fleeing from marriage is conquered by a Spanish singer.
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Cuando besa mi marido (1950)
Character: N/A
A high society woman discovers a fiery romantic letter in a raincoat pocket seemingly written by a rumba dancer to the woman’s doctor husband. He tries to cover by saying that the letter is addressed to a more conservative friend of his, leading to rumours of his friend’s (supposed) incredible passion becoming intriguing to the local women, even the Doctor’s own jealous wife.
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La guerra gaucha (1942)
Character: Teniente Villareal
The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
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Adolescencia (1942)
Character: N/A
A young man from America falls in love with a girl who already has a boyfriend.
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Andrea (1973)
Character: N/A
An orphan girl with a mother who lives in the care of her grandfather in the south of the country and the conflict caused by the arrival of her father.
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