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El Fausto criollo (1979)
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An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role.
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Compañeros (1936)
Character: N/A
The exploits of two recently arrived immigrants in Argentina.
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Las luces de Buenos Aires (1931)
Character: N/A
Anselmo works as the patron of a ranch and he is dating Elvira. One day, a visiting businessman from the city hears her sing and offers her a contract to work in Buenos Aires. She accepts and Anselmo is heartbroken.
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Una novia en apuros (1942)
Character: N/A
A young woman interrupts her honeymoon with a pharmacist to search for the mysterious donor of a valuable ring.
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Un modelo de París (1946)
Character: Fernando Galíndez
A series of confusions involve an unfaithful woman and a man on his wedding day.
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Fiebre de primavera (1965)
Character: N/A
Three young boys who live in the same neighbourhood and go to the same college meet three girls. They start picking up on them but they end up falling in love.
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Dancing (1933)
Character: N/A
The film's plot, which largely takes place in a cabaret, revolves around a worldly guy who had abandoned a mature lover for a younger and more beautiful one. It is very elementary and is just a pretext for a parade of popular songs. Currently considered lost.
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El caballo del pueblo (1935)
Character: Flaco
Unscrupulous businessman is plotting a hostile takeover, looking for ways to fix a horse-race, and scheming to force a failed businessman to marry his daughter to him to avoid financial ruin.
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Melodías de América (1942)
Character: Pedrito Córdoba
Romance starts in Rio between a Mexican tenor being wooed for a Buenos Aires production, and an Argentine gal who has won a soap contest and who he thinks is rich.
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El club del clan (1964)
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To prevent his father from finding out he has secretly married, a young man from a wealthy family disguises his wife as a maid. Members of the Clan Club, visiting the house, also disguise themselves as servants.
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¿Por qué mintió la cigüeña? (1949)
Character: N/A
To avoid the abandonment of her husband, a woman rents three children with the intention of making him believe that he is the father. Sudden maternity will bring complications in triplicate.
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El festín de Satanás (1958)
Character: Segmento "El remordimiento"
With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.
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La familia Falcón (1963)
Character: N/A
Based on the popular TV program, the film follows a middle-class family with their problems and joys.
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¡Cómo te extraño...! (1966)
Character: N/A
A stewardess tries to convince her father to return to Europe with her and the foreman of the ranch try to prevent him.
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El honorable inquilino (1951)
Character: Juancho
A professional thief rents a room in the house of a downtrodden lady to observe the bank he will assault.
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Punto negro (1943)
Character: N/A
A married man hides from his family that he has a black son, which causes a true tragedy.
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Eclipse de sol (1943)
Character: Antonio Requena
A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.
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Bajó un ángel del cielo (1942)
Character: Agustín
A young couple pretends to have had a baby in order to get the girl's father's permission to get married.
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Palermo (1937)
Character: N/A
A criminal tries to scam a horse racing fan using a seductive woman.
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El hombre señalado (1957)
Character: N/A
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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Los hijos artificiales (1943)
Character: Fernando Ruíz
To hide his escapades, a justice of the peace with a dissipated life pretends to have a son out of wedlock, but when the young man appears in his town he complicates things.
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Mi novia el… (1975)
Character: María Isabel's Father
Laucha, a normal middle-aged guy who lives with his elderly mother and works in a factory, attends a show by the transvestite artist Dominique, for whom he develops an unexpected fixation.
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El sátiro (1970)
Character: Empresario
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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El Profesor Patagónico (1970)
Character: N/A
After filming the hippie professor Luis Sandrini filmed this sequel to the above, following the sanctions imposed on it by Professor Horacio Montesano, sending him to Patagonia to a secondary school. Among the supporting cast is the famous singer Piero (he even play many of their good songs).
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Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola (1965)
Character: Camilo Balterzo
Movie divided in three episodes: a family mother becomes a successful singer; an Argentinian reporter follows a Spanish cupletista from the beginning of the XX century; the reunion of three old actors and their lies about their success.
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Mandinga en la sierra (1939)
Character: N/A
A village healer accuses a plastic surgeon who comes to the mountains to rest of being diabolical.
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Margarita, Armando y su padre (1939)
Character: Antonito
A young couple, Margarita and Armando, reenact the story of The Lady of the Camellias, as they fall in love, Armando's flamboyant father disapproves of their relationship and does everything to separate them.
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La comedia inmortal (1951)
Character: N/A
The most famous lovers of world literature help a librarian to realize her love for a young man.
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Jettatore (1938)
Character: Pocholo
A rumor spreads about a man being bad luck. His superstitious friends believe it, but it's all part of an evil scheme to ruin the man's upcoming wedding. Adapted from the play of the same name by Gregorio de Laferrere.
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La campana nueva (1950)
Character: N/A
The struggle of two rural teachers to rebuild a school destroyed by a tornado.
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Un beso en la nuca (1946)
Character: Pablo Castro
A woman becomes delusional and fails to recognize her husband. She will fall in love with the doctor who is supposed to cure her, believing he is her real husband.
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Orquesta de señoritas (1941)
Character: Rodolfo Sánchez
A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems.
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Crecer de golpe (1977)
Character: N/A
It tells the complex relationship of Milo, a teenager, and his old protector. Adaptation of "Around the cage", work of the writer Haroldo Conti, disappeared in 1976 by Argentine dictatorship.
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Escuela de campeones (1950)
Character: N/A
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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