Santiago Gómez Cou

Acting

Santiago Gómez Cou

Born — Died

1903-09-28 — 1994-03-24

Place of birth

Montevideo, Uruguay

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

Fever poster
3.4

Sandra, lovelessly married to a landowner who owns racehorses, meets José María, a lumberjack, and they quickly fall in love. After some time, Sandra's husband learns of the relationship.

Fever

1971

La gran ruta poster
6.0

A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault.

La gran ruta

1971

The Unforgettable Gang poster
10.0

The son of a businessman neglected by his father and orphaned by a mother, goes to a group of friends. A typical gang of humble neighborhood boys, led by Chirola. The history of this gang is ruled by two magical characters, El Hada de la Esperanza represented by Liliana Rodríguez Morlino and El Pombero, a typical Formosan character-legend, played by Jaime Cohen. Through these boys the life of the social classes of the time is reflected, the innocence of the boys apart from those values ​​and what children are capable of when they decide to transform things. During the story, the typical life of the province in which it was filmed, Formosa, and the daily life of the neighborhoods of the capital city that used to be a commercial port with Paraguay are highlighted.

The Unforgettable Gang

1972

La noche del hurto poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

La noche del hurto

1976

Los irrompibles poster
5.7

The story of a pair of bumbling detectives Uruguayan undertaking the mission to go to the aid of an orphan and very rich heiress to Argentina. It will be very easy to deal with the thousand and one difficulties awaiting them on the road. Clashes with bandits plaguing the region and that will go back more than once, will not be the only danger.

Los irrompibles

1975

1960s · 12 titles

Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola poster
7.0

Movie divided in three episodes: a family mother becomes a successful singer; an Argentinian reporter follows a Spanish cupletista from the beginning of the XX century; the reunion of three old actors and their lies about their success.

Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola

1965

La cigarra está que arde poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La cigarra está que arde

1967

No artwork available
10.0

The daughter of a bourgeois family is seduced, pregnant and dragged into a seedy environment.

Bettina

1964

El día que me quieras poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

El día que me quieras

1969

La murga poster
7.5

The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.

La murga

1963

La procesión poster
5.8

The pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján causes the meeting of people of different classes.

La procesión

1960

Asalto en la ciudad poster
9.0

A former German soldier leads a team through a bank robbery that doesn't turn out the way anybody expected.

Asalto en la ciudad

1961

Fiebre de primavera poster
9.0

Three young boys who live in the same neighbourhood and go to the same college meet three girls. They start picking up on them but they end up falling in love.

Fiebre de primavera

1965

The Good Life poster
7.7

An ambitious man pulls off schemes to get his boss to loan him money to invest in an apartment with the promise of getting more, he sets his eyes on a rich woman in the process and believes in not working honestly in order to live a "good life"

The Good Life

1966

Last year of Nacional High School poster
8.0

The adventures and misfortunes of high school seniors.

Last year of Nacional High School

1961

La familia Falcón poster
9.0

Based on the popular TV program, the film follows a middle-class family with their problems and joys.

La familia Falcón

1963

La leona poster
6.0

A millionaire businessman must deal simultaneously with the kidnap of his wife and his worker's strike.

La leona

1964

1950s · 19 titles

Arrabalera poster
6.5

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

Arrabalera

1950

Forbidden Love poster
5.9

During a horse race, Ana, a happily married woman with a child, he met Captain Brown. Later, they meet again on a long train journey and inevitably love arises. Both try to forget each one on his own, however, things go more and more complicated, making it impossible to stop the situation.

Forbidden Love

1958

Mercado negro poster
7.0

A policeman discovers that his girlfriend's father heads a drug smuggling band.

Mercado negro

1953

3 citas con el destino poster
6.2

The story unfolds through the twists and turns of a strange curse attributed to a jewel that, passed from hand to hand, carries a deadly destiny. Its theme spans the three countries where it was filmed (Spain, Mexico, and Argentina), beginning in Spain and then moving to Mexico. The jewel, which takes on the character of another figure in the narrative as it travels through different parts of the world, arrives in Buenos Aires. The film ultimately presents the jewel's final destination in Mexico, where its owner dies, like others who were also marked by its malevolent influence.

3 citas con el destino

1954

El regreso poster
9.0

A man returns from hell to earth to redeem himself.

El regreso

1950

Vida nocturna poster
8.5

A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.

Vida nocturna

1955

Marta Ferrari poster
9.0

A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful.

Marta Ferrari

1956

The Count of Monte Cristo poster
5.3

Edmundo Dantes is betrayed by his best friend, who has him killed to keep his property and his love. But after a few years, a certain Count appears to mortify the life of the traitorous friend.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1953

La orquídea poster
5.4

A woman of great beauty is used by a man who only desires her body and falls on the path of self-destruction.

La orquídea

1951

Horas marcadas poster
9.0

A man marries a woman with the purpose of later eliminating her and inheriting her fortune.

Horas marcadas

1954

Siete gritos en el mar poster
8.5

Seven passengers aboard a ship that is about to hit an enemy warship will confess their most terrible secrets.

Siete gritos en el mar

1954

La calle del pecado poster
8.0

A student dreams that she is the heroine of one of her history teacher's lessons with whom she is in love.

La calle del pecado

1954

La sombra de Safo poster
8.5

To prevent a politician from winning, a journalist blackmails his wife with old love letters from his former lover. She feels cornered because her family's honor is at stake. The film includes excerpts from "Sappho, Story of a Passion" (1943), a film by Carlos Hugo Christensen.

La sombra de Safo

1957

La voz de mi ciudad poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

La voz de mi ciudad

1953

Lejos del cielo poster
10.0

A doctor with political ambitions leaves his humble fiancée on the eve of the wedding to marry a rich woman.

Lejos del cielo

1950

El abuelo poster
7.0

Based on the novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós.

El abuelo

1954

Emergency Ward poster
9.0

An idealistic intern is doing his best to survive a very tough day on the job. When not scurrying from one patient to another, he tries to maintain equilibrium in his romance with a nurse. Comedy dovetails neatly into tragedy, which in turn segues smoothly into heart-tugging pathos.

Emergency Ward

1952

Plowed field poster
7.0

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

Plowed field

1959

La melodía perdida poster
NR

A conflict arises when a girl whose father has died does not accept that her mother remarry.

La melodía perdida

1952

1940s · 16 titles

Los chicos crecen poster
6.2

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.

Los chicos crecen

1942

The Clover Sect poster
7.3

A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.

The Clover Sect

1948

The Mystery of the Yellow Room poster
8.5

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

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

1947

Una mujer sin importancia poster
8.0

Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.

Una mujer sin importancia

1945

Las tres ratas poster
7.1

Three sisters become orphans. The eldest one will undertake the protection of the rest which involves a very hard task . Eventually, she will have to resign to her happiness.

Las tres ratas

1946

Embrujo poster
8.0

The love story between Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, after the independence of the country, and Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos.

Embrujo

1941

An Ideal Husband poster
8.0

A woman forces a politician not to report a big scam.

An Ideal Husband

1947

Joven, viuda y estanciera poster
9.0

Elena is coming back to her country house while León and the person in charge of the estate fight to gain her love.

Joven, viuda y estanciera

1941

La piel de zapa poster
8.0

A man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.

La piel de zapa

1943

Tres millones... y el amor poster
9.0

A thief going to rob an unscrupulous industrialist falls in love with a young woman and turns himself in to the police to save a thief friend.

Tres millones... y el amor

1946

Los hombres las prefieren viudas poster
NR

An older single woman pretends to be a widow to get a husband but his spouse returns to her life complicating her situation.

Los hombres las prefieren viudas

1943

Dream Thief poster
NR

A criminal arrives at a town and involuntarily frees its inhabitants from the oppression of which they were victims.

Dream Thief

1949

La novela de un joven pobre poster
7.5

After losing all his fortune, a man assumes his poverty with dignity, confidence and effort. He faces all adversities and his nobility and perseverance make him succeed and be happy with the woman he loves.

La novela de un joven pobre

1942

Centauros del pasado poster
9.0

Film about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos.

Centauros del pasado

1944

The Immovable Loved One poster
5.0

The loves of Ana Cecilia Luisa Deillez with the Mexican poet Amado Nervo.

The Immovable Loved One

1945

El deseo poster
9.5

While her husband is abroad, Luisa receives a visit from an old love, her cousin, who becomes a "dangerous attraction". Her husband's stay abroad is prolonged and her loneliness overwhelms her and her attraction to her cousin increases.

El deseo

1944

1930s · 6 titles

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