
Acting
Roberto Escalada
Known for
Acting
Credits
50 titles
Roberto Escalada born Aldo Roberto Leggero (4 July 1914 – 5 December 1986 in Buenos Aires) was a major Argentine film actor and cinema icon of the classic era.
Known for
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
7.6A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.
Culpable
1960
9.0During his childhood, Nino arrived from Italy to live with his uncle in a humble neighborhood. There, he begins working in a butcher shop and falls in love with Natalia, his neighbor. However, she has other aspirations, such as winning over her boss at the jewelry store where she works.
Nino, las cosas simples de la vida
1972
7.7A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.
El jugador
1947
7.2A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Never Open That Door
1952
6.1A murderer terrorizes the city of Buenos Aires by attacking on the streets on rainy days and always leaving a card with the name "S. López". A local boarding house full of eccentrics appears to house a possible suspect.
La muerte camina en la lluvia
1948
Film credits
2000s · 1 titles
1970s · 8 titles
9.0During his childhood, Nino arrived from Italy to live with his uncle in a humble neighborhood. There, he begins working in a butcher shop and falls in love with Natalia, his neighbor. However, she has other aspirations, such as winning over her boss at the jewelry store where she works.
Nino, las cosas simples de la vida
1972
8.0A boy leaves home to take singing lessons with a teacher whom he befriends and a beautiful and ambitious young woman appears
El mundo es de los jóvenes
1970
6.6The students of a school create a big mess for their favorite teacher to return to school.
The Bomb-thrower Teacher
1972
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Con alma y vida
1970
10.0A girl falls in love with the son of a rancher, who gives her certain illusions about their relationship.
Un idilio de estación
1978
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
5.2Dr. Bevilaqua takes over the direction of a clinic where only sex problems are treated and the clients are very special people. With fun therapy, there will be different characters who want to receive treatment.
Clínica con música
1974
9.0To live in peace and progress, Guillermo Hoyos must pay the price of harassment from the authorities.
Hormiga negra
1979
1960s · 7 titles
7.6A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.
Culpable
1960
8.0A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Viaje de una noche de verano
1965
7.0Four stories about sexual initiation in adolescence.
Los debutantes en el amor
1969
NRFor various reasons a couple cannot consummate the marriage.
Esta noche mejor no!
1965
9.0The adventures of two truckers (one Argentine and the other Mexican) carrying different people and a suspicious trunk
Dos quijotes sobre ruedas
1966
6.0Luis 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.
The Hippie Teacher
1969
9.0Based on the popular TV program, the film follows a middle-class family with their problems and joys.
La familia Falcón
1963
1950s · 14 titles
7.2A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Never Open That Door
1952
8.5A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Vida nocturna
1955
10.0When a divorced couple tries to reunite, the separation of others distances them.
De noche también se duerme
1956
9.0The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.
The Crime of Oribe
1950
8.0A man suspects that his late wife had an extramarital relationship, so he decides to face the alleged lover.
Yesterday Was Spring
1955
6.3A cabaret performer tries to protect her daughter from a mysterious killer while resisting the advances of the prosecutor pursuing the criminal.
The Black Vampire
1953
6.0A woman with a doubtful past tries to hide it from her teenage son and attempts to change, but she cannot.
Black Ermine
1953
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
9.0A young widow goes to a marriage agency where she is introduced to three hired suitors who end up falling in love with her.
Una viuda casi alegre
1950
6.5From Emile Zola's novel "La Bete Humaine", tells the story of a jealous husband, a provocative woman and a man with an uncontrollable desire to kill.
La bestia humana
1957
7.0A young doctor tries to cope with his intimate dramas and, at the same time, fulfill the duties of his profession.
De turno con la muerte
1951
A provincial woman who arrives in the city is helped by a taxi driver to look for a criminal
Sucedió en Buenos Aires
1954
9.0A tango singer is involved in the death of a lender.
Pecadora
1956
9.0A young man must choose between the love of two women.
Cartas de amor
1951
1940s · 16 titles
7.7A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.
El jugador
1947
6.1A murderer terrorizes the city of Buenos Aires by attacking on the streets on rainy days and always leaving a card with the name "S. López". A local boarding house full of eccentrics appears to house a possible suspect.
La muerte camina en la lluvia
1948
6.5A middle-age woman and a young composer live a tragic romance.
Swan Song
1945
7.2After running over a young man with her car, a girl is forced to kiss him for 30 seconds, in order not to pay the expensive fine.
30 seconds of love
1947
7.0The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.
Safo, historia de una pasión
1943
6.0A policeman infiltrates a gang of criminals.
Morir en su ley
1949
8.0A woman becomes delusional and fails to recognize her husband. She will fall in love with the doctor who is supposed to cure her, believing he is her real husband.
Un beso en la nuca
1946
6.2To avoid the abandonment of her husband, a woman rents three children with the intention of making him believe that he is the father. Sudden maternity will bring complications in triplicate.
¿Por qué mintió la cigüeña?
1949
6.0A treacherous provincial girl repeatedly cheats on a young writer who loves her madly.
Los pulpos
1948
8.0An unusually intense and emotional day in the otherwise monotonous life of a woman.
Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer
1944
6.1Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
Madame Bovary
1947
9.0Two rival families, a son and a daughter unaware of that and a flood that arrives.
La gran tentación
1948
10.0A film about Carlos Gardel's meeting with José Razzano, his love affairs, and his death.
Se llamaba Carlos Gardel
1949
7.0The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of life".
Pájaros sin nido
1940
8.0Love affairs in a theater: vedettes, sweethearts of chorus and scandals that include a millionaire.
Cinco besos
1946
9.5Family-owned ski resort is failing, and they've pinned all their hopes on seeing the property purchased by the Gonzalez Brothers.
Una atrevida aventurita
1948



