Alberto Barcel

Alberto Barcel

Birth : 1907-01-01, Argentina

Death : 1975-01-01

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Alberto Barcel

Movies

Pajarito Gómez
A chronicle of the life and career of a popular singer: his humble origins, his rise to fame, and his exploitation by the media.
Bicho raro
Recordando al Zorzal
The life, work and tragic disappearance of Carlos Gardel, the Creole thrush.
Los viciosos
Doctor
"The Vicious Ones" - The police investigates a drug trafficking network. Other social issues are discloses. A rare film including the famous Coccinelle.
Mujeres perdidas
Asesino
In an art academy that serves as a screen for a strip club, a pimp falls in love with one of the prostitutes, but she sells herself to a rich man.
El encuentro
A small-town, simple, working-class young man, marries a girl who won't resign herself to poverty and cheats on him with his employer.
Circe
Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others.
Los evadidos
Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from director Enrique Carreras was the official entry for Argentina at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival.
Así o de otra manera
Leather Ball
The plot of the film focuses on the decline of a long-time footballer at Club Boca Juniors. A player who does not change colors and can not conceive of any alternative but to play in the club of which he is fan fanatic.
La fin del mundo
A con man who lives with his three aunts in a mansion takes refuge in a slum when he is wanted by the police.
Cuando calienta el sol
Two young people get involved in a series of lies, which ends in a love story.
Dr. Cándido Pérez, Sras.
Comisario
Responsible and composed doctor goes on a spree with a friend with two beautiful women, and his wife finds out.
Love Hunger
Don Lucas
Three criminals escape prison and find themselves at the swampland home of a strange old man and his sexy blonde daughter. This black-and-white Argentine crime film was dubbed into English and spiced up with over 10 minutes of color nudie insert shots.
Love Hunger
Three criminals escape prison and find themselves at the swampland home of a strange old man and his sexy blonde daughter. This black-and-white Argentine crime film was dubbed into English and spiced up with over 10 minutes of color nudie insert shots.
The Female: Seventy Times Seven
Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how she got to where she is; she hooked up with a gringo and got involved in digging a well. A horse thief given up for dead gives them a hand.
Man on Pink Corner
During a local festival, a mysterious stranger appears in town, heading towards a violent confrontation.
Alias Gardelito
The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the music business. Yet at the same time, he does not stop his illegal means of making ends meet, stealing and petty thievery. Discouraged when his big break never quite materializes, Toribio heads for disaster when he joins up with a large smuggling scheme.
Masterworks of Terror
Three extraordinary tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of the Grotesque: a man who is dead but is not; a cask of liquor and a meditated revenge; a heart that refuses to stop beating.
India
Moraca
This is the story of Ansisé, a beautiful Indian who lives in the Ibitiruzu (Paraguay).
Cavalcade
Set on the Argentine coast in 1870, a man pretends to be an outlaw to catch an army deserter.
Put Up or Shut Up
The love story between a man and a woman, children of rival fishermen.
Socios para la aventura
Young nightclub performer, down on her luck, falls in with a portrait-cartoonist who works the streets and a terminally-ill singer-songwriter and goes to live on their houseboat. They consider doing a crime.
Detrás de un largo muro
A young girl from a small town migrates to the capital of Buenos Aires, only to find a home in the slum area of the city.
Primavera de la vida
A student and his love for a young woman, misunderstood by her father.
Cinco gallinas y el cielo
Five random people accidentally get dosed with an experimental psych-drug that suppresses fear and risk-avoidance.
The House of the Angel
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.
El protegido
Story of a producer at the time of the big studios, in which the auteur cinema has no place.
Los torturados
Jefe Sección Especial
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.
Cubitos de hielo
El tango en París
A tango singer travels to Paris seeking success.
La pícara soñadora
A store clerk lives in the furniture section without anyone noticing.
Graciela
A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline.
La dama del millón
A widow who must collect her husband's life insurance is courted by the director of the insurance company, until the dead man appears.
Alejandra
Beyond Oblivion
Usher
After a period of sorrow, Fernando de Arellano, a rich businessman who has recently lost his young wife Blanca from a serious ilness, meets Mónica, who looks identical to her.
El barro humano
Médico forense
A marital conflict reaches the courts and becomes public comment.
Los hermanos corsos
Yo soy el criminal
Inspector Saldívar
A man believed guilty of several homicides becomes a criminal upon his release from the asylum.
El abuelo
Monseñor
María Magdalena
A prostitute helps a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.
Guacho
A handsome newcomer in a village marries a local girl. A year or so later an abandoned baby is left on the couple's doorstep, a baby the man had with another woman. They decide to raise the kid along with the one they had together.
La cueva de Alí Babá
Petrini
La niña del gato
Sacerdote
A girl commits a crime first by her father and then by criminals.
La parda Flora
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.
Dishonor
Médico
The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Me casé con una estrella
A humble boy who works in a theater company must become the husband of an actress so that she can get her son back.
Fantasmas asustados
Bruno
A beautiful girl who lives in an old mansion that is said to be haunted will try with the help of five young people to unmask some scarers.
Romance en tres noches
A woman finds the opportunity to change her life when she meets and falls for a man who lives in a cabin far from the city.
La vendedora de fantasías
Jefe de policía
A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.
Toscanito y los detectives
A gang of children has a gang of robbers arrested.
Hombres a precio
Almafuerte
Biography of the Argentine poet Almafuerte.
Dance of Fire
The sometimes profound, sometimes slightly sordid tale of Elena, a famous concert pianist who, as a child, was sexually assaulted by a circus clown while the music of Manuel de Falla "Ritual Dance of Fire" could be heard from the circus tent. Since that time, Elena has gone into hysterics every time she hears that composition. Making matters worse, the lascivious clown is now her business manager.
Un tropezón cualquiera da en la vida
¿Por qué mintió la cigüeña?
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.
Passport to Rio
Inspector de aduanas
A thief commits a robbery and is seen by a showgirl who becomes a witness to the crime. The man finds her and forces her to help him take what he stole to Rio de Janeiro. With no other way out, she is sent on a boat to Brazil by the thief. On board, the showgirl meets a doctor with whom she begins a romance while the criminal falls in love with her.
Death Walks in the Rain
Policía (uncredited)
A murderer terrorizes the city of Buenos Aires by attacking on the streets on rainy days and always leaving a card with the name "S. López". A local boarding house full of eccentrics appears to house a possible suspect.