Julio Porter

Writing

Julio Porter

Born — Died

1916-07-13 — 1979-10-24

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Known for

Writing

Credits

41 titles

From Wikipedia Julio Porter (July 14, 1916 in Buenos Aires – October 24, 1979 in Mexico City) was an Argentine screenwriter and film director known as one of the most prolific screenwriters and film directors in the history of the Cinema of Argentina. He wrote the scripts for over 100 films between 1942 and his death. He directed 25 films between 1951 and 1979. His 1967 film Scandal in the Family was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

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

Spring Bride poster
6.4

To impress friends and family, Cristina pretends to be the fiancée of best-selling author Pablo Reyes. When Reyes shows up in town, he good-naturedly agrees to keep up the pretense.

Spring Bride

1942

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El glotón

1967

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963) poster
5.5

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)

1964

Somos novios poster
6.3

To save a television show, an administrator proposes a show involving three young singers.

Somos novios

1969

Deliciosamente amoral poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Deliciosamente amoral

1969

To Hell with the Music poster
6.7

Sitcom episodes about the daily life of a pop-vocal quartet family. One of four in a series.

To Hell with the Music

1958

One Sin a Month poster
9.0

Paloma and Marcelo are in love, but only dare meet once a month- see, she doesn't know that he is only pretending to be the son of rich ranchers, and he doesn't know that she is only pretending to be the daughter of the great business tycoon B. Quintana... she is in reality just an employee! But when a desperate Marcelo must take a job at Quintana's company, both their lies begin to unravel.

One Sin a Month

1949

Tonta tonta, pero no tanto poster
7.8

María Nicolasa Cruz, an illiterate young Mazahua woman, travels to Mexico City in search of a better life, only to be swept into a chain of misunderstandings and conspiracies that make her an unlikely suspect in thefts and murders.

Tonta tonta, pero no tanto

1972

Four Bullets for Joe poster
5.4

The mysterious death of a man who is about to leave a small town in Kansas with his girlfriend triggers a chain of unfortunate events that will only end when another man completes a relentless and bloody revenge.

Four Bullets for Joe

1964

La cigarra está que arde poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La cigarra está que arde

1967

30 seconds of love poster
7.2

After 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

Africa Laughs poster
9.0

Four men, known for their reckless actions, are arrested one night after ruining a dinner party. They are soon released and go to visit their uncle who is sick. The four of them decide to travel to Africa to try to find a cure for their uncle, but they get into a big mess.

Africa Laughs

1956

Safo, historia de una pasión poster
7.0

The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.

Safo, historia de una pasión

1943

Red canary poster
10.0

A young student marries her professor. Tensions will arise as their opposite music tastes start clashing.

Red canary

1955

Red canary poster
10.0

A young student marries her professor. Tensions will arise as their opposite music tastes start clashing.

Red canary

1955

Novio, marido y amante poster
8.0

A young woman marries an older man on a whim; the marriage is not consummated. She falls in love with her husband's son.

Novio, marido y amante

1948

Quiero morir en carnaval poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Quiero morir en carnaval

1961

La mamá de la novia poster
4.4

Mother and daughter are both pop singers, but mom wants her little girl to get married. Wacky complications.

La mamá de la novia

1978

The Tent of Love poster
6.2

A group of young people who want to go camping acquires a circus tent by mistake.

The Tent of Love

1979

Memorias de un Visitador Médico poster
4.8

A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous

Memorias de un Visitador Médico

1980

Noche de bodas poster
7.2

For reasons that will be revealed in the end, a woman mysteriously returns to her parents' home on her wedding night.

Noche de bodas

1942

Luna de miel en Puerto Rico poster
6.0

Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.

Luna de miel en Puerto Rico

1966

La casa de Madame Lulú poster
7.7

In the 1930s a young revolutionary falls in love with a young woman of innocent appearance but who really works in a brothel.

La casa de Madame Lulú

1968

Los expatriados poster
6.5

The film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.

Los expatriados

1963

La pequeña señora de Pérez poster
8.7

A student secretly goes back to school after getting married to one of her teachers.

La pequeña señora de Pérez

1944

Vamos a soñar por el amor poster
10.0

Two women are River Plate Club fans, while their husbands are Boca Juniors fans. The males go out on their own, causing some trouble, until they are discovered.

Vamos a soñar por el amor

1971

Blum poster
8.0

A businessman falls in love with a beautiful young woman, showers her with attention and turns her into a star without confessing his love to her.

Blum

1970

Blum poster
8.0

A businessman falls in love with a beautiful young woman, showers her with attention and turns her into a star without confessing his love to her.

Blum

1970

La locura de Don Juan poster
NR

An intrascendent man pretends to be crazy to stop his family's extravagance, which is about to ruin him, victim of two scammers.

La locura de Don Juan

1948

No artwork available
NR

A Puerto Rican goes to New York to seek his fortune.

Mr. Dólar

1964

Escándalo en la familia poster
9.0

A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.

Escándalo en la familia

1967

Escándalo en la familia poster
9.0

A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.

Escándalo en la familia

1967

No artwork available
NR

A man is frustrated his date of love when he finds a newly married friend in his apartment

Escándalo nocturno

1951

Detective poster
NR

To preserve the happiness of his home, a detective transforms himself into different characters: a brave mexican, a French compliment, a tough German and a smiling lady.

Detective

1954

La sombra de Safo poster
8.5

To 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

Un hombre solo no vale nada poster
7.0

An employee progresses in the factory where he works by having his wife pass by an attractive Cuban singer.

Un hombre solo no vale nada

1949

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

Gang Adventures poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Gang Adventures

1959

El extraño del pelo largo poster
7.5

Argentinian movie about the 1968's beat band "La Joven Guardia" and their effort to get success in hard sociopolitical times.

El extraño del pelo largo

1970