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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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Guacho (1954)
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A handsome newcomer in a village marries a local girl. A year or so later an abandoned baby is left on the couple's doorstep, a baby the man had with another woman. They decide to raise the kid along with the one they had together.
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La orquídea (1951)
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A woman of great beauty is used by a man who only desires her body and falls on the path of self-destruction.
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Esperanza (1949)
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The story of the first colony of immigrants to arrive in the province of Santa Fe, in Argentina.
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Evangelina (1959)
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A rich and orphaned heiress tries to establish a school in the Southern Lakes, but her uncle sets many traps for her.
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La verdadera victoria (1944)
Character: Profesor
The romance between a Spanish correspondent and an Argentine daughter of Poles during the Nazi invasion of Poland.
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Su esposa diurna (1944)
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An etymologist and a P.E professor simulate being married to obtain a scholarship and make a scientific expedition end up falling in love.
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Un nuevo amanecer (1942)
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A young man returns to his neighborhood after spending ten years locked up in a reformatory.
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Claro de luna (1942)
Character: Don Pedro
Two twins fall in love with the same man and he thinks he only loves one woman.
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Historia de una carta (1957)
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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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Tren internacional (1954)
Character: Pastor protestante
A couple of thieves with a worldwide reputation start a dispute over a valuable necklace in a transalpine train.
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Apasionadamente (1944)
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The romance between a young aristocratic woman and an unlucky painter that takes place in the lakes of Bariloche.
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El hombre señalado (1957)
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This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.
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Way of a Gaucho (1952)
Character: Father Fernández
In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the army and becomes a bandit leader.
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Nacha Regules (1950)
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Set during the centenary celebrations, it narrates the frustrated loves between a man from high society and a woman with a hectic romantic life.
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Como tú lo soñaste (1947)
Character: Asistente de Juan Marcos
A woman imagines that his son born after a one-night encounter with a butcher is actually from a renowned musician.
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El amor nunca muere (1955)
Character: Don Mateo
Three-episode film linked to each other by means of a medallion, where love is the engine that drives people to act the way they did.
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Luisito (1943)
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To prevent her lover from marrying another woman out of interest, a young woman will pretend to be a man.
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De turno con la muerte (1951)
Character: Dr. Graciano Urbey
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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Dios se lo pague (1948)
Character: Richardson
Nancy, a gambler's wife, holds elegance to disguise their poverty. While she waits, dreaming of a wealthy man to appear and save her from that situation, she talks to an old beggar at the door of a casino. Soon after, a mysterious man offers her a life of luxury.
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Escuela de campeones (1950)
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It is the reconstruction of the history of the Buenos Aires English High School and of the legendary Alumni club, made up of its students, who dominated Argentine football in the first decade of the 20th century and its president, Alejandro Watson Hutton, The first president of the Argentine Football Association, considered the father of Argentine football.
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