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Malambo (1942)
Character: Balvidio
Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.
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Siete mujeres (1944)
Character: N/A
The sisters reject the daughter their father had out of wedlock until she receives a fortune from her dead mother.
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Volver a vivir (1941)
Character: N/A
A wealthy young man gets involved in criminal activities and decides to go to rehabilitate himself in the countryside.
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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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La fin del mundo (1963)
Character: N/A
A con man who lives with his three aunts in a mansion takes refuge in a slum when he is wanted by the police.
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Campo arado (1959)
Character: N/A
The story of a family that lives in a rural area of the province of Buenos Aires through three generations.
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Esta es mi vida (1952)
Character: N/A
In view of his mother's death, a dancer quits the show he was presenting and loses everything gambling.
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Cita en la Frontera (1940)
Character: N/A
Two middle-aged brothers fall in love with a tango singer they have met in a gambling hall, after she is stranded in their border mining town, causing them to turn against each other.
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La doctora quiere tangos (1949)
Character: Hugo Mendozabal
Luisa Soler, a young and wealthy lawyer, travels to the province of Buenos Aires with her aunt Totona and there she meets a humble composer of tangos, Martín Salazar. The meeting between them creates confusion for his girlfriend and, after several moments of tension and strong arguments, Martin asks Luisa to clarify the situation with her fiancée. But when the lawyer decides to do something, it changes for both of them. Both realize that they love each other and that, beyond the different lives they lead, they will fight to be together.
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Fin de fiesta (1960)
Character: N/A
This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.
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La honra de los hombres (1946)
Character: N/A
In a fishing village a young woman carries the guilt of her married sister, passing through the mother of her son.
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Un señor mucamo (1940)
Character: N/A
Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a young lady who turns out to be the daughter of his employer.
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Alas de mi Patria (1939)
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Semi-documentary film in which a fictional plot is narrated linked to events that really occurred in the history of Argentine aviation between 1908 and 1938.
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