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Por ellos... todo (1948)
Character: Mecha
Aging father watches his adult children grow into independence and leave the roost.
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Estrellita (1947)
Character: N/A
A young woman takes care of her father and silblings after the death of her mother, giving up love in the process.
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De hombre a hombre (1949)
Character: Alicia
A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.
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Vacaciones (1947)
Character: N/A
A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.
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Valentina (1950)
Character: Esther González García
A young millionaire meets a mechanic who has invented a carburetor as a result of a breakdown in her car.
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El calavera (1958)
Character: Susana
Aging-roue comedy: foxy grandpa's doctor tells him he needs to cut out the high-living and make a stable, tranquil home for himself, as befits his age and station... but he decides he'd rather do that by marrying his nephew off and piggybacking on the domestic tranquility created in that household.
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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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El tambor de Tacuarí (1948)
Character: N/A
After the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.
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El ídolo del tango (1949)
Character: N/A
A young woman who works as a music store saleswoman falls in love with a popular singer.
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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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Mosquita muerta (1946)
Character: N/A
In an all-girls boarding school, one of the students resists the will of her uncles to marry her off because she does not know her future husband. Which is why she pretends to be a prude for whom marriage is a dirty word.
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La serpiente de cascabel (1948)
Character: Alumna
Juan Carlos Thorry is a police inspector who must solve the mystery of the death of the warden of a boarding school for young women, for which he goes undercover as a music teacher. The main suspect is the mischievous schoolgirl María Duval. A series of entanglements leads the protagonists to becoming romantically involved and to finding the culprit.
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Los torturados (1956)
Character: Mujer de Raúl
A parapolice force within Peronism is dedicated to reducing and extorting all kinds of opponents, among whom a few rise up to denounce what is happening. Although the film has propaganda purposes that deliberately ignore part of reality, it is based on documented cases, such as those of the student Ernesto Mario Bravo or the trade union leader Cipriano Reyes.
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Tierra del Fuego (1948)
Character: N/A
Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.
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El festín de Satanás (1958)
Character: Segmento "La violencia"
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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No abras nunca esa puerta (1952)
Character: María (segment “El pájaro cantor vuelve al hogar”)
A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
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Con el diablo en el cuerpo (1947)
Character: N/A
Young newlywed girl about to embark on her honeymoon persuades older family friend to assist her in an extensive search for her missing husband. A road-trip full of comical misadventures ensues.
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Madre Alegría (1950)
Character: N/A
The mother superior of a convent raises an abandoned girl and after twenty years the repentant biological mother returns.
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