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Juan Moreira (1948)
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Adaptation of the homonymous novel by Eduardo Gutiérrez, inspired by a real police chronicle, starring a gaucho killed by the police in 1874. Juan Moreira's life was full of injustices and has been considered representative of those suffered by gauchos.
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El paraíso (1953)
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A newly married couple who left the country to make their fortune in the city comes across a gang of criminals.
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Propiedad (1962)
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Mario Soffici's last film. The story is about a beautiful young woman who is criticized by the town's old gossip women and is defended by a generous priest. She has an amorous relationship with a young orphan.
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El conde de Montecristo (1953)
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Edmundo Dantes is betrayed by his best friend, who has him killed to keep his property and his love. But after a few years, a certain Count appears to mortify the life of the traitorous friend.
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Bacará (1955)
Character: Julián
When a concert pianist is crippled in a car accident, his wife turns to gambling and gets in over her head.
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De hombre a hombre (1949)
Character: Mafioso
A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.
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La telaraña (1954)
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The problems of a man who when he goes to see his newborn son is mistaken for an assailant.
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El sol en botellitas (1985)
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A teenage couple spends their lives knowing that the way to success is to work on the railroad.
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La pulga en la oreja (1981)
Character: N/A
Following a forgotten piece of underwear, a single who lives with his uncles has a series of entanglements.
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Coche cama, alojamiento (1968)
Character: Lechuza
A magazine company and some in-love couples board a night train where a gang of bandits is traveling.
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Los superagentes y el tesoro maldito (1978)
Character: Dimitri
When the bionic superagents, after five years without vacations, go to Mar del Plata, they must fight against an international gang that intends to seize a treasure.
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Pasión dominguera (1970)
Character: N/A
A waiter, a notary, a policeman and some gravediggers leave everything to go and watch their favorite football team play.
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El Ladrón de Sueños (1949)
Character: El ángel
A criminal arrives at a town and involuntarily frees its inhabitants from the oppression of which they were victims.
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Héroes de hoy (1960)
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A group of robbers rob a photo novel publishing house and take refuge in a seaside town. It was never released commercially, only exhibited on television.
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Del brazo con la muerte (1966)
Character: Dr. Hoffman
A criminal takes advantage of a bum who crosses his path and convinces him to carry out robberies for him.
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Socia de alcoba (1962)
Character: Inspector
Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.
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3 citas con el destino (1954)
Character: El Griego (segmento "Buenos Aires")
The story unfolds through the twists and turns of a strange curse attributed to a jewel that, passed from hand to hand, carries a deadly destiny. Its theme spans the three countries where it was filmed (Spain, Mexico, and Argentina), beginning in Spain and then moving to Mexico. The jewel, which takes on the character of another figure in the narrative as it travels through different parts of the world, arrives in Buenos Aires. The film ultimately presents the jewel's final destination in Mexico, where its owner dies, like others who were also marked by its malevolent influence.
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Marihuana (1950)
Character: Sopita
Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.
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El rufián (1961)
Character: Andres
An amnesiac carnival psychic is haunted by the thought that a man is coming to kill her.
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La buena vida (1966)
Character: N/A
An ambitious man pulls off schemes to get his boss to loan him money to invest in an apartment with the promise of getting more, he sets his eyes on a rich woman in the process and believes in not working honestly in order to live a "good life"
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Pasaporte a Río (1948)
Character: Dueño hotel
A thief commits a robbery and is seen by a showgirl who becomes a witness to the crime. The man finds her and forces her to help him take what he stole to Rio de Janeiro. With no other way out, she is sent on a boat to Brazil by the thief. On board, the showgirl meets a doctor with whom she begins a romance while the criminal falls in love with her.
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Escala musical (1966)
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An entrepreneur encourages New Wave youth to get their own radio show on the air. Tour of great musical successes of the 60s, with the participation of Johnny Tedesco, Los Shakers, Los Gatos Salvajes and Yaco Monti.
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Two to Tango (1989)
Character: Morelos
Jim Conrad, a reluctant hitman, is ordered to Buenos Aires to complete one last contract. The task becomes complicated when the intended victim proves to be a well-protected man accompanied by a beautiful mistress who has caught Conrad's eye.
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Los neuróticos (1971)
Character: N/A
Dr. Sigmund is a psychoanalyst whose only goal in his group therapies is to conquer the women who attend there.
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Sur (1988)
Character: Rasatti
After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.
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El vampiro negro (1953)
Character: Teodoro Ulber
A cabaret performer tries to protect her daughter from a mysterious killer while resisting the advances of the prosecutor pursuing the criminal.
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Apenas un delincuente (1949)
Character: N/A
A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…
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Hotel alojamiento (1966)
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Different stories that take place in a hotel for a temporary shelter for couples.
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Sala de guardia (1952)
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An idealistic intern is doing his best to survive a very tough day on the job. When not scurrying from one patient to another, he tries to maintain equilibrium in his romance with a nurse. Comedy dovetails neatly into tragedy, which in turn segues smoothly into heart-tugging pathos.
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Esto es alegría (1967)
Character: Bachicha
Three stories where optimism triumphs: a television director finds a new mother for his children, an old couple of artists deal with a sentimental crisis and an illustrator whose father is an alcoholic fights to educate his brother.
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7 uomini e un cervello (1968)
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A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
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Quinto año Nacional (1961)
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This movie was based on a TV series popular in Argentina at that time dealing with the adventures of high school seniors.
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El sátiro (1970)
Character: Burgos
A man who works at a striptease club / theater is haunted by a murder / robbery he committed and becomes infatuated with his lead performer.
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La herencia (1964)
Character: Don César
A woman and her husband are faced with a dilemma when her aunt dies. In order to collect her inheritance, she must produce a daughter. The problem is that the woman's husband seems to be sterile. After they try every method to conceive, they resort to help from an outside source.
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Saverio, el cruel (1977)
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Saverio is an insurance broker who arrives in a small town after receiving a letter from a potential client requesting insurance for "special affections." Upon arriving at the mansion, Saverio is captivated by the beauty of Susana, the granddaughter and heiress to a vast fortune—beautiful, refined, and cultured. What Saverio doesn't suspect is that he will become the victim of a macabre plot, in which he plays a crucial role. Susana, in collusion with her family and friends, will feign madness with the sole purpose of making Saverio fall at her feet.
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Asalto en la ciudad (1961)
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A former German soldier leads a team through a bank robbery that doesn't turn out the way anybody expected.
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El gordo catástrofe (1977)
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Catrasca (Jorge Porcel) is a man who works in a restaurant and in his spare time helps in a children's home. His problem is that he carries a family tradition that makes him cause catastrophes in his path, one of which takes his boss (Adolfo García Grau) to the hospital.
Upon leaving the hospital, Catrasca is run over by Graciela (Graciela Alfano), the daughter of Professor Galíndez (Osvaldo Terranova). This is how he meets this professor, who has a formula that says he will be the salvation of humanity, so he is the object of persecutions by villains such as Dr. Linda Winters (Moria Casán).
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De turno con la muerte (1951)
Character: N/A
A young doctor tries to cope with his intimate dramas and, at the same time, fulfill the duties of his profession.
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La bestia debe morir (1952)
Character: Carpax
A crime writer searching for the truth about a personal tragedy becomes involved in a murder investigation.
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Los evadidos (1964)
Character: Don Benjamín Lener
Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from director Enrique Carreras was the official entry for Argentina at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival.
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El viaje (1992)
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A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.
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Villa Cariño (1967)
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A comedy in which several couples indulge in passion inside their cars while parked in the area of Palermo baptized as "Villa Cariño".
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