Acting
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires to prevent deserting soldiers.
A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.
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.
The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.
An Italian immigrant accumulates wealth for their children, all consider him a miserable, until one day one of her children gives a very big disappointment and dies of a heart attack. Their children begin to spend the fortune he had amassed his father.
A hotel waiter, a femme fatale and a failure.
The most famous lovers of world literature help a librarian to realize her love for a young man.
Story about a humble musician who triumphs overcoming his failures and a young woman arrives in Buenos Aires from the interior of the country in search of triumph but finds death.
A young woman appears as an intruder in the house of an invalid friend.
Hands sculpted in stone, hidden in the niches of an ancient house, are regarded as sources of a curse by the present inhabitant, a country gambling addict. Indeed, he goes to an early grave after experiencing bankruptcy. The house passes to another family, one of whose sons becomes obsessed with the hands. (A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.)
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A criminal arrives at a town and involuntarily frees its inhabitants from the oppression of which they were victims.
In exchange for the life of a Norwegian fisherman, a bankrupt industrialist gives his soul to the devil.
A young man loses all his money by gambling and decides to commit suicide, but is interrupted by a mysterious man who invites him to join a suicide club, where, through letters, it is drawn who is going to die.
A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems.
A young widow goes to a marriage agency where she is introduced to three hired suitors who end up falling in love with her.
A waiter who uses gambling to help others.
