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El muro (1947)
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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, at the age of 22, made his directorial debut with this little-known auteur short film, based on one of his short stories, which contains the seeds he would develop in future works: loneliness, the conflicts and morals of society at that time, its loss of identity, and literary themes. Although Torre Nilsson himself used to define "The Wall" as "a sin of youth," it already reveals a different kind of cinema, with a certain expressionist touch, a reflection of his literary restlessness and an early and natural rejection of the commercial vision of cinema at that time, a rejection he would maintain throughout his career, in which he would crash against another wall, that of censorship, more than he would have liked.
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Yo maté a Facundo (1975)
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The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.
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Un guapo del 900 (1960)
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The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
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Graciela (1956)
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A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline.
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Operación Antartida (1957)
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Two sailors traveling to Antarctica, delude themselves with meeting to the same woman on their return. Totally natural scenes filmed in Antarctica.
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Buenos Aires, verano 1912 (1966)
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The son of a politician who tries to follow the same path as his father, gives up when he discovers his fraudulent dealings.
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Hormiga negra (1979)
Character: Sargento Laurito
To live in peace and progress, Guillermo Hoyos must pay the price of harassment from the authorities.
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Pasión dominguera (1970)
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A waiter, a notary, a policeman and some gravediggers leave everything to go and watch their favorite football team play.
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Los hampones (1961)
Character: Vicente
A woman robs the authoritarian boss of a criminal gang and then falls in love with a buddy.
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Dos quijotes sobre ruedas (1966)
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The adventures of two truckers (one Argentine and the other Mexican) carrying different people and a suspicious trunk
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Orden de matar (1965)
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Upon learning of the murder of a friend, a police inspector sets out to take justice on his own. This attitude, contrary to his usual convictions, will gradually destroy him.
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El gordo de América (1976)
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To celebrate his promotion, a manager (Javier Portales) decides to summon his brother from the field, but as he did not stop making disasters he sends him back. His brother (Jorge Porcel) is not convinced and dazzled by an advertisement decides to set up an investigation office.
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La buena vida (1966)
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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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Procesado 1040 (1958)
Character: Preso
Elderly suburban man is imprisoned over a misunderstanding about some garden utensils.
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Breve cielo (1969)
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A young middle-class man and a young girl who has left the slums to work as a prostitute meet by chance on the Plaza de los Ingleses, opposite the emblematic Retiro station in Buenos Aires.
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Rosaura a las 10 (1958)
Character: Alicio
Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.
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El secuestrador (1958)
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A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.
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Patapúfete (1967)
Character: Suarez
Pepe receives a notebook from his great-uncle containing the formula for making an atomic bomb. When some specialists dedicated to science discover it, they begin to send people to steal it.
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La obertura (1977)
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A man is kidnapped when he is mistaken for another and his wife tries to collect a large life insurance but he reappears alive.
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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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Los venerables todos (1963)
Character: Ruiz
Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader, Lucas, and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.
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La casa del ángel (1957)
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A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forcibly kept innocent of the sexual nuances of some adult relationships, she is not too clear on her rights, his intentions, or the consequences when her father's best friend starts to lust after her.
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