Ángel Magaña

Acting

Ángel Magaña

Born — Died

1915-08-23 — 1982-11-12

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

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.

Known for

Puerta cerrada poster
5.3

Nina 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

Prisoners of the Land poster
6.4

Argentina, 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

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 sonrisa de mamá poster
6.5

Angelica 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

Never Open That Door poster
7.2

A 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

The Games Men Play poster
4.3

The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.

The Games Men Play

1963

Film credits

1970s · 9 titles

1960s · 7 titles

1950s · 12 titles

Never Open That Door poster
7.2

A 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

Historia de una carta poster
9.0

In a moment of despair, a man sends a letter to her girlfriend announcing his suicide. He then regrets it and tries to recover the letter.

Historia de una carta

1957

Esposa último modelo poster
6.8

When 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

Naughty Angel poster
7.8

An angel who comes down to earth in the form of a woman lives a love story.

Naughty Angel

1953

No artwork available
9.0

A man feels abandoned because his wife is too busy with her incredible success as a lawyer. Because of this, he ends up falling into infidelity and showing certain contradictions in his wife.

Feminine Wiles

1951

Requiebro poster
8.2

A rancher fleeing from marriage is conquered by a Spanish singer.

Requiebro

1955

Los ojos llenos de amor poster
7.1

An extra breaks into the department of a movie star to seduce him.

Los ojos llenos de amor

1954

The Priest Lorenzo poster
7.5

A 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

When My Husband Kisses poster
7.7

A 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

Vuelva el primero! poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vuelva el primero!

1952

Arroz con leche poster
7.8

A runaway bride poses as a married woman and mother of twins to woo a suitor who only falls in love with married women.

Arroz con leche

1950

Piantadino poster
10.0

An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy.

Piantadino

1950

1940s · 13 titles

Su mejor alumno poster
8.0

The 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

Yo quiero morir contigo poster
7.0

A baby is kidnapped and a couple will travel the whole country trying to pay the ramson.

Yo quiero morir contigo

1941

The Corpse Breaks a Date poster
5.3

On the night of his marriage, a young bourgeois man runs over a cyclist. He believes he is dead and hides the body. However, a mysterious character will later appear in his life.

The Corpse Breaks a Date

1944

La cuna vacía poster
7.0

The 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

Héroes sin fama poster
10.0

Social film that explores journalism's fight against fraud, intimidation, extortion and political crimes during the 30s in Argentina.

Héroes sin fama

1940

Nunca te diré adiós poster
9.0

The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.

Nunca te diré adiós

1947

El mejor papá del mundo poster
7.2

A young man gives a hard lesson to his father, a prestigious lawyer complicated in the management of a foreign company.

El mejor papá del mundo

1941

Cuando florezca el naranjo poster
10.0

A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival disrupts the discipline of the beautiful students.

Cuando florezca el naranjo

1943

The Gaucho War poster
6.7

The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.

The Gaucho War

1942

How to Make an Argentine Film poster
7.0

Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.

How to Make an Argentine Film

1948

Fragata Sarmiento poster
7.0

It narrates the history of the Argentine ship that served for many generations like school for the formation of sailors.

Fragata Sarmiento

1940

Adolescence poster
7.7

A young man has to fight over his girlfriend with a newly arrived competitor, an older man who arrived from America.

Adolescence

1942

La calle grita poster
9.0

When the employee of a famous economist seeks a raise in complicity with a street vendor, her work learns real-life facts by trying to prove that you can live with what you pay.

La calle grita

1948

1930s · 8 titles