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The pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján causes the meeting of people of different classes.
Isaac Albéniz was a child prodigy, and the victim of a tyrannical father. He flees from his house, to America. He returns to his country years later, where he achieves international fame and the attention of many women.
In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.
The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.
A beautiful woman is married to a film director. Despite the apparent happiness of the marriage, she has an affair with a young womanizer, and flirts with a screenwriter. During the filming of a film directed by her husband, two actresses are mysteriously murdered.
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.
Aging father watches his adult children grow into independence and leave the roost.
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.
Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance.
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 criminal escapes from a court, with help of three miscreants, to find his lifelong friend, who is terminally ill. The police officer catch knows there is a hidden loot involved.
A shipyard owner rapes the daughter of a blind worker, unaware that she is his own son's girlfriend.
A woman dreams of being a great classical dancer and that the public cheers her on, which gives rise to the most absurd situations.
Three stories based on tales of the book by Manuel Mujica Lainez, ("El hambre", "La pulsera de cascabeles" y "El salón dorado".).) On scripts for the directors themselves and the collaboration of Ernesto Schoo.
Benjamin Ortalora is a young man who leaves Buenos Aires after murdering a rival. He goes to Montevideo where his cool boldness draws the attention of gang leader Azevedo Bandeira. When the old bandit becomes ill, Ortalora makes a determined play to take his place.
Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expecting to inherit a large sum of money, but instead, he receives from his father a treasure map, with the promise that the map will make him rich. After the father dies, Pablo decides to go to an adventure and seek the treasure, aided by the men his father choose as companionship, and by one woman faith choose for him.
In a Latin American country under a dictatorial regime, a young, idealistic priest confronts the ecclesiastical hierarchy in defense of victims of social neglect and police violence. His struggle and his ethics will find no place in a church complicit with the ruling power.
