
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
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
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
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
6.5Angelica 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
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
4.3The 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
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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Adiós Alejandra
1973
8.5Falling in love with a superior's daughter, complications arise for an Air Force officer.
Dos locos en el aire
1976
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
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
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
10.0Tells the story, in the key of comedy of customs, of a typical bourgeois home in Buenos Aires for three decades.
That's life
1977
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Hotel de señoritas
1979
8.0A music teacher marries the daughter of a widower, and he marries the young man's mother.
La familia hippie
1971
1960s · 7 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
4.3The 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La cigarra está que arde
1967
8.0A couple of screenwriters try to find a new idea for a movie.
¡Viva la vida!
1969
8.0A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Viaje de una noche de verano
1965
There are 3 stories about the intermediaries of marriage (the ads of magazines, seers and agencies): Sentimental mail, about an energetic woman who wants to marry a dominable man; Elixir of love, on the subject of the title; and Romantic about a melodic singer.
La industria del matrimonio
1965
8.5A gang of blackmailers travels from town to town choosing their victims.
Flor de piolas
1969
1950s · 12 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
9.0In 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
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
7.8An angel who comes down to earth in the form of a woman lives a love story.
Naughty Angel
1953
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
8.2A rancher fleeing from marriage is conquered by a Spanish singer.
Requiebro
1955
7.1An extra breaks into the department of a movie star to seduce him.
Los ojos llenos de amor
1954
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
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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Vuelva el primero!
1952
7.8A 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
10.0An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy.
Piantadino
1950
1940s · 13 titles
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
7.0A baby is kidnapped and a couple will travel the whole country trying to pay the ramson.
Yo quiero morir contigo
1941
5.3On 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
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
10.0Social film that explores journalism's fight against fraud, intimidation, extortion and political crimes during the 30s in Argentina.
Héroes sin fama
1940
9.0The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.
Nunca te diré adiós
1947
7.2A 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
10.0A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival disrupts the discipline of the beautiful students.
Cuando florezca el naranjo
1943
6.7The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
The Gaucho War
1942
7.0Institutional 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
7.0It narrates the history of the Argentine ship that served for many generations like school for the formation of sailors.
Fragata Sarmiento
1940
7.7A young man has to fight over his girlfriend with a newly arrived competitor, an older man who arrived from America.
Adolescence
1942
9.0When 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
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
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
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
10.0A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.
Cadetes de San Martín
1937
8.0A man finds out his wife had a lover and abandons her, but first he gains custody of their daughter.
Con las alas rotas
1938
7.5Unscrupulous businessman is plotting a hostile takeover, looking for ways to fix a horse-race, and scheming to force a failed businessman to marry his daughter to him to avoid financial ruin.
El caballo del pueblo
1935
6.5In an indigenous village a murder occurs, and young man is sentenced to death for it. However his father, the real culprit, takes the responsibility.
North Wind
1937

