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Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá (1972)
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Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman as his captive bride. But little of interest happens after Ceferino is born. His beatification relies partly on his "miraculous" survival after falling in a stream as a baby, but the film does not present this with any great drama, and plods through the rest of the boy's life with similar tepor. Ceferino does well in school, attracts the interest of a priest, attends a Catholic school in Buenos Aires, and studies for the priesthood in Italy, where he dies of tuberculosis after a few unconvincing coughs.
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La madre María (1974)
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Based on the life of María Salomé Loredo, a figure famous for her healings and assistance to the poor of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.
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El curandero (1955)
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A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
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Todo sea para bien (1957)
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A widowed man who has lived adoring the memory of his wife, discovers 15 years later that she was his best friend's lover.
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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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Oro bajo (1956)
Character: Nicasio
The life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.
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La cosecha (1967)
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A farmer wants to register his harvest in the town's records and is imprisoned in a legal regime that encourages various excesses.
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Máscaras en otoño (1964)
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An old actor refuses to relate to reality and when he wants to work he can no longer compete with younger actors.
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Orden de matar (1965)
Character: Dr. Zani
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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La guerra la gano yo (1943)
Character: Mr. Wilson
A grocer gets rich speculating on the shortages generated by World War II until he suffers the consequences firsthand.
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Su mejor alumno (1944)
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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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El cura Lorenzo (1954)
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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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Historia de crímenes (1942)
Character: Police Superintendent
A bank clerk uncovers the manager's criminal behavior and prevents him from carrying out a murder.
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La parda Flora (1952)
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Early twentieth century in Greater Buenos Aires, where the passion of a woman of dubious past for the son of a rich man who has influence in the police develops.
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Los tallos amargos (1956)
Character: Andreani
Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.
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El túnel (1952)
Character: Allende
A young painter suspects the woman he loves, and his obsession slowly leads him down a tortuous path where madness and death become intertwined. Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato’s masterpiece: The Tunnel.
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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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Siete gritos en el mar (1954)
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Seven passengers aboard a ship that is about to hit an enemy warship will confess their most terrible secrets.
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Armiño negro (1953)
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A woman with a doubtful past tries to hide it from her teenage son and attempts to change, but she cannot.
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La casa del recuerdo (1940)
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An old woman remembers when her daughter fell in love with a young neighbor, and she and her husband did everything to break that relationship.
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Un guapo del 900 (1971)
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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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Fascinación (1949)
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The wife of a hypnotist lives in a state of uncertainty over whether she's with her husband out of love or if she's been a victim of his influence.
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Maestro Levita (1938)
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A school teacher tries to support his school against unjust measures by the government and a rich woman helps him.
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El pobre Pérez (1937)
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Juan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party of a man who is going to get married for convenience is done. When a dancer and singer with whom he was entangled, chases him, he uses Perez to get rid of her.
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María de los Ángeles (1948)
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Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.
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