Tito Alonso

A look at the Buenos Aires underworld and its protagonists: the pimps, the prostitutes, the madams, and the politicians.

The political career of Juan Manuel de Rosas, twice Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires (1829-1832 and 1835-1852), who also ruled the Argentine Confederation during his second term in office.

A modest employee gets his boss trust him a large sum of money.

A movie in four parts. A frustrated woman finds love with a painter ("La estrella del destino"). A woman tries to seduce her subordinate when she takes him to her apartment ("La buscona"). A woman who killed her husband falls in love with the gravedigger ("La necrófila"). The sexual awakening of two teenagers and the reaction of their parents ("Chicos jugando al deseo") .

A store owner tries to commit suicide several times and he can't do it..

A vida em um destacamento no sopé da serra é alterada por um acidente, e uma mulher.

Two robbers flee to Brazil with a cabaret singer after robbing a bank.

The story of a family that lives in a rural area of the province of Buenos Aires through three generations.

Elderly suburban man is imprisoned over a misunderstanding about some garden utensils.

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.

Passions and confrontations for a woman on a ship of fur smugglers.

The experiences of several young people who practice music and want to form an orchestra.

A man believed guilty of several homicides becomes a criminal upon his release from the asylum.

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.

The Argentine Sala de Guardia was released in English-speaking markets as Emergency Ward. South-of-the-Border matinee idol Carlos Thompson stars as an idealistic intern, doing his best to survive a very tough day on the job. When not scurrying from one patient to another, the intern tries to maintain equilibrium in his romance with a nurse (Elisa Galve). Comedy dovetails neatly into tragedy, which in turn segues smoothly into heart-tugging pathos. A box-office smash in Argentina, Sala de Guardia repeated its moneymaking performance all throughout Latin America.

Sentimental aspects of a group of cadets from the Military Aviation School.

A moral parable about juvenile delinquency, which takes a tour of different characters of the Buenos Aires fauna.

Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...

Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.

A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…

A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.

After reaching retirement age and leaving his job, a fatrher devotes all his attention to helping his children transition smoothly into their adult lives.

A couple plans to poison a wealthy elderly to stay with his fortune. However, the plans of the villain and his accomplice stagger at the last minute.

A journalist investigates several crimes, one of which involves the well-known riddle of the "closed room".

In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.

A mother recounts the different stages experienced by her family.

After a storm, the captain of a ship lets it float aimlessly until he reaches an island paradise.

Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.

A married man takes advantage of his friendship with another man, making him pretend to be the father of the children he has out of wedlock.

The happiness of a child is marred by the harsh attitude of the captain of a boat.

A country girl falls in love with an English professor who's in the country studying fossils, but must return to his land.

A drunken and lazy gaucho is helped by another, pious and just.