
Acting
Ángel Magaña
Born 1915-08-23 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ángel Magaña (Buenos Aires, August 24, 1915-Ib., November 12, 1982)1 was an Argentine actor. He stood out as a dramatic actor and comedian.
Acting credits
5.6Ceferino is the train station chief o a remote town. A group of planters ask him to legit them the wagons to send the harvest to Buenos Aires, he agrees, but he gets fired.
Kilómetro 111
1938
10.0Medical father and son in conflict over two conceptions about the practice of medicine as a result of a bad and inopportune medical practice carried out by the son to a patient of the father.
El viejo doctor
1939
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Adiós Alejandra
1973
7.0The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his law studies and a double frustration, as a writer and in his crush on a young woman who loved another man.
La cuna vacía
1949
5.3Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth.
Puerta cerrada
1939
9.0An orphan girl with a mother who lives in the care of her grandfather in the south of the country and the conflict caused by the arrival of her father.
Andrea
1973
8.3A rancher fleeing from marriage is conquered by a Spanish singer.
Requiebro
1955
6.7The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
The Gaucho War
1942
7.5A heart-warming and entertaining chronicle of Salesian priest Lorenzo Massa. His work in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires in the early 1900s led to the founding of San Lorenzo de Almagro, one of the best soccer clubs in Argentina. (Pope Francis, who grew up in this neighborhood in the 1940s, is a fan). Father Massa (Ángel Magaña), an athletic young priest, is sent to serve a working class community, where he initially faces indifference and hostility. Following the conventions of the Hollywood biopic, the film describes the characters and their plights with affection, and a dash of drama, as they are changed by the example of the priest.
The Priest Lorenzo
1954
9.0The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.
Nunca te diré adiós
1947
8.5Falling in love with a superior's daughter, complications arise for an Air Force officer.
Dos locos en el aire
1976
8.0The 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.
Su mejor alumno
1944
10.0Social film that explores journalism's fight against fraud, intimidation, extortion and political crimes during the 30s in Argentina.
Héroes sin fama
1940
7.8An angel who comes down to earth in the form of a woman lives a love story.
Naughty Angel
1953
9.0Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score.
Los chantas
1975
7.7A high society woman discovers a fiery romantic letter in a raincoat pocket seemingly written by a rumba dancer to the woman’s doctor husband. He tries to cover by saying that the letter is addressed to a more conservative friend of his, leading to rumours of his friend’s (supposed) incredible passion becoming intriguing to the local women, even the Doctor’s own jealous wife.
When My Husband Kisses
1950
7.0A baby is kidnapped and a couple will travel the whole country trying to pay the ramson.
Yo quiero morir contigo
1941
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
7.0The story is based on the cadets of the Military College and their relationship with an older officer (1st Lieutenant) whom they see as a father.
Mi amigo Luis
1972
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
6.4Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas with the purpose of hiring workers.
Prisoners of the Land
1939
6.5Angelica Zamora is a famous actress and singer, ignored by her three children Julio, Clotilde and Felipe. After learning of a serious illness that leaves her little time to live, her children and their friends intend to make her spend her best moments without being aware of the disease she suffers. Julio will even propose to someone to please his mother.
La sonrisa de mamá
1972
6.8When a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her boyfriend.
Esposa último modelo
1950
5.6Based on the remains of never-completed Argentine features from the archives of the film museum in Buenos Aires. The film is, as it were, a parallel film history: an essay like a cinematographic Frankenstein, that blows new life into images that once seemed unsuccessful and pointless.
The Endless Film
2018