Alberto Barcel
Birth : 1907-01-01, Argentina
Death : 1975-01-01
A chronicle of the life and career of a popular singer: his humble origins, his rise to fame, and his exploitation by the media.
The life, work and tragic disappearance of Carlos Gardel, the Creole thrush.
Doctor
"The Vicious Ones" - The police investigates a drug trafficking network. Other social issues are discloses. A rare film including the famous Coccinelle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A con man who lives with his three aunts in a mansion takes refuge in a slum when he is wanted by the police.
Two young people get involved in a series of lies, which ends in a love story.
Comisario
Responsible and composed doctor goes on a spree with a friend with two beautiful women, and his wife finds out.
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.
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.
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.
During a local festival, a mysterious stranger appears in town, heading towards a violent confrontation.
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.
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.
Moraca
This is the story of Ansisé, a beautiful Indian who lives in the Ibitiruzu (Paraguay).
Set on the Argentine coast in 1870, a man pretends to be an outlaw to catch an army deserter.
The love story between a man and a woman, children of rival fishermen.
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.
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.
A student and his love for a young woman, misunderstood by her father.
Five random people accidentally get dosed with an experimental psych-drug that suppresses fear and risk-avoidance.
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.
Story of a producer at the time of the big studios, in which the auteur cinema has no place.
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.
A tango singer travels to Paris seeking success.
A store clerk lives in the furniture section without anyone noticing.
A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline.
A widow who must collect her husband's life insurance is courted by the director of the insurance company, until the dead man appears.
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.
Médico forense
A marital conflict reaches the courts and becomes public comment.
Inspector Saldívar
A man believed guilty of several homicides becomes a criminal upon his release from the asylum.
Monseñor
A prostitute helps a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.
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.
Petrini
Sacerdote
A girl commits a crime first by her father and then by criminals.
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.
Médico
The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
A humble boy who works in a theater company must become the husband of an actress so that she can get her son back.
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.
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.
Jefe de policía
A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.
A gang of children has a gang of robbers arrested.
Biography of the Argentine poet Almafuerte.
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.
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.
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.
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.
