
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
3.9Isabel Sarli as a nymphomaniac wife who can't remain faithful to her husband so he seeks help from a psychologist to find out why his wife is always cheating on him with both men and women.
The Insatiable Widow
1984
7.0Movie 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
6.5Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...
Arrabalera
1950
6.2A 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
7.3A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.
The Clover Sect
1948
3.4Sandra, 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
Film credits
1980s · 2 titles
3.9Isabel Sarli as a nymphomaniac wife who can't remain faithful to her husband so he seeks help from a psychologist to find out why his wife is always cheating on him with both men and women.
The Insatiable Widow
1984
9.0The daughter of an archaeologist believes she has found an Inca treasure and is protected by the superagents.
Los superagentes y la gran aventura del oro
1980
1970s · 5 titles
3.4Sandra, 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
6.0A 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
10.0The 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
4.3No synopsis available yet.
La noche del hurto
1976
5.7The 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
7.0Movie 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La cigarra está que arde
1967
The daughter of a bourgeois family is seduced, pregnant and dragged into a seedy environment.
Bettina
1964
10.0No synopsis available yet.
El día que me quieras
1969
7.5The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.
La murga
1963
5.8The pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján causes the meeting of people of different classes.
La procesión
1960
9.0A former German soldier leads a team through a bank robbery that doesn't turn out the way anybody expected.
Asalto en la ciudad
1961
9.0Three 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
7.7An 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
8.0The adventures and misfortunes of high school seniors.
Last year of Nacional High School
1961
9.0Based on the popular TV program, the film follows a middle-class family with their problems and joys.
La familia Falcón
1963
6.0A millionaire businessman must deal simultaneously with the kidnap of his wife and his worker's strike.
La leona
1964
1950s · 19 titles
6.5Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...
Arrabalera
1950
5.9During 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
7.0A policeman discovers that his girlfriend's father heads a drug smuggling band.
Mercado negro
1953
6.2The 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
9.0A man returns from hell to earth to redeem himself.
El regreso
1950
8.5A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Vida nocturna
1955
9.0A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful.
Marta Ferrari
1956
5.3Edmundo 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
5.4A 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
9.0A man marries a woman with the purpose of later eliminating her and inheriting her fortune.
Horas marcadas
1954
8.5Seven passengers aboard a ship that is about to hit an enemy warship will confess their most terrible secrets.
Siete gritos en el mar
1954
8.0A 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
8.5To 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
5.3No synopsis available yet.
La voz de mi ciudad
1953
10.0A doctor with political ambitions leaves his humble fiancée on the eve of the wedding to marry a rich woman.
Lejos del cielo
1950
7.0Based on the novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós.
El abuelo
1954
9.0An 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
7.0The story of a family that lives in a rural area of the province of Buenos Aires through three generations.
Plowed field
1959
NRA conflict arises when a girl whose father has died does not accept that her mother remarry.
La melodía perdida
1952
1940s · 16 titles
6.2A 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
7.3A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.
The Clover Sect
1948
8.5A journalist investigates several crimes, one of which involves the well-known riddle of the "closed room".
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1947
8.0Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.
Una mujer sin importancia
1945
7.1Three 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
8.0The love story between Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, after the independence of the country, and Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos.
Embrujo
1941
8.0A woman forces a politician not to report a big scam.
An Ideal Husband
1947
9.0Elena 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
8.0A 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
9.0A 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
NRAn 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
NRA criminal arrives at a town and involuntarily frees its inhabitants from the oppression of which they were victims.
Dream Thief
1949
7.5After 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
9.0Film about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos.
Centauros del pasado
1944
5.0The loves of Ana Cecilia Luisa Deillez with the Mexican poet Amado Nervo.
The Immovable Loved One
1945
9.5While 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
5.9While studying at a Catholic boarding school, the young Luisa meets a boy, Julio, who talks to her from the street and through the gate. However, the girl's arrogant older brother removes her from the establishment and takes her to live in her family house. The beginning of love between Luisa and Julio is made even more difficult by what seems to be the beginning of a disease in her.
Help Me to Live
1936
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Busco un marido para mi mujer
1938
6.0The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel.
La vida de Carlos Gardel
1939
10.0Two young men from the radio environment dispute for the love of a girl.
Dos amigos y un amor
1938
9.0An interfamily romance in a small town where two families are rivals with each other.
Villa Discordia
1938
7.0An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.
Melgarejo
1937

