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Adiós muchachos (1955)
Character: N/A
Boyhood friends grow up, form a tango orchestra, one of them writes a brilliant song commemorating their friendship before he dies.
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Mateo (1937)
Character: Manager
Cars and progress made an old carriage-driver jobless and so desperate that he becomes a gangster. When his own son starts a life of crime, he repents and gives himself to the authorities. When he lives prison, he will be happy to rejoin his family, as his son repented, too.
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La mujer del león (1951)
Character: N/A
A banker's mistress falls in love with a colorful writer, but to hide the situation from him, she pretends to be the banker's daughter, which causes many complications, until the situation is cleared up for the good of the young couple.
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La caraba (1948)
Character: Perkins
A mythomaniac woman rejects her humble status and falls in the trap of a wealthy lawyer.
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Piantadino (1950)
Character: N/A
An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy.
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Cantando llegó el amor (1938)
Character: N/A
A sixty-something millionaire marries a young woman and locks her up in his mansion with two friends, so they won't lack company.
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La barra de la esquina (1950)
Character: N/A
A singer who achieved world fame returns to his country and with his friends recalls episodes of his youth.
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Sacachispas (1950)
Character: N/A
A music teacher and a police officer look after a children's club.
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En carne viva (1955)
Character: N/A
The extramarital love of a doctor and a woman who ends up killing her husband.
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El cañonero de Giles (1937)
Character: N/A
A town football player becomes a figure for his strange gift of gaining strength by listening to the barking of a dog.
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El cura Lorenzo (1954)
Character: N/A
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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Derecho viejo (1951)
Character: N/A
Tango musician moves to France to put an unhappy love affair behind him. Inspired by the life of tango composer Eduardo Arolas.
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Don Quijote del Altillo (1936)
Character: Hombre en la pensión
A rich man offers marriage to a humble girl to be able to get her but he is discovered in his lie.
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Pelota de trapo (1948)
Character: El gallego
This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.
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Fúlmine (1949)
Character: N/A
A married man usually has very bad luck until he wins the lottery.
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El centroforward murió al amanecer (1961)
Character: N/A
Cacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.
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Alas de mi Patria (1939)
Character: N/A
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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El pobre Pérez (1937)
Character: N/A
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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Cinco locos en la pista (1950)
Character: N/A
A group of friends, artists and mechanics invent a unique, high-powered car carburetor that will allow them to win an important race. The device is stolen, and the prime suspect is the girlfriend of one of them. In their quest to recover it, they become involved in a madcap race of intrigue, confusion, and entanglements, in which the protagonists display all their histrionics and comedy.
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Suburbio (1951)
Character: N/A
Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the neighborhood forget their differences before the appearance of an epidemic.
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