Acting
Homero Cárpena was an Argentine film director and actor who had an extensive artistic career.
An amnesiac carnival psychic is haunted by the thought that a man is coming to kill her.
The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.
The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies — "berretines" in Buenos Aires slang — that keep them apart of their duties. Because of that, the family business is going down, and the only one who is concerned is the father, who hopes for his fourth son, an architect, to save the situation.
The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.
An orphan young man in Argentina finds that his family's fortune is in ruins, so he goes back to Spain where he finds Chiruca, the family's maid. Together they will find out who is trying to scam him.
A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
The wife of a hypnotist lives in a state of uncertainty over whether she's with her husband out of love or if she's been a victim of his influence.
This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.
The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.
While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.
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 woman saves her daughter from making the same mistake that cost her happiness years ago.
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.
The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.
A woman tries to run away when she finds out that her nephews plan to kill her.
The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.
Luis Sandrini plays a college professor who, because of his freethinking attitudes and concerns for moral questions over matters of business, has more in common with his students than his colleagues.
Daniel, a smuggler is chased by a policeman. In his escape are helped by the messages that his lover transmits to him in code by means of the tangos that sings in a radio program. To hide himself, he pretends to be a teacher in a small town in Entre Ríos, and by the time he discovers it, the police have already faced a new life.
Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas with the purpose of hiring workers.
