Homero Cárpena

Acting

Homero Cárpena

Born — Died

1910-02-13 — 2001-01-17

Place of birth

Mar del Plata, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Homero Cárpena was an Argentine film director and actor who had an extensive artistic career.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 7 titles

1950s · 11 titles

If I Should Die Before I Wake poster
6.6

While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.

If I Should Die Before I Wake

1952

La vendedora de fantasías poster
8.0

A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.

La vendedora de fantasías

1950

Anguish of a Secret poster
10.0

A priest is unjustly sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. The surprise will be greater when he, while in prison, knows who the murderer is through the confession of his daughter.

Anguish of a Secret

1959

Soy del tiempo de Gardel poster
8.0

A tango academy has different characters and each one has its story.

Soy del tiempo de Gardel

1954

El zorro pierde el pelo poster
NR

A womanizer's girlfriend and future father-in-law try to teach him a lesson.

El zorro pierde el pelo

1950

El cielo en las manos poster
9.0

Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.

El cielo en las manos

1950

María Magdalena poster
9.0

A vile woman has a change of attitude and starts helping a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.

María Magdalena

1954

Las zapatillas coloradas poster
10.0

Two detectives are hired to investigate the theft of essential shoes for a famous dancer.

Las zapatillas coloradas

1952

El hombre señalado poster
8.0

This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.

El hombre señalado

1957

Big five and a girl poster
5.5

The five members of a soccer team discover a case of bribery.

Big five and a girl

1950

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los lobos del palmar

1955

1940s · 35 titles

Se abre el abismo poster
7.0

The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.

Se abre el abismo

1945

Cruza poster
10.0

The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.

Cruza

1942

Las aventuras de Jack poster
8.5

In the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.

Las aventuras de Jack

1949

El mozo número 13 poster
7.0

A waiter who uses gambling to help others.

El mozo número 13

1941

Historia de una mala mujer poster
9.5

A woman saves her daughter from making the same mistake that cost her happiness years ago.

Historia de una mala mujer

1948

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

El gran secreto poster
7.0

A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.

El gran secreto

1942

Cuando en el cielo pasen lista poster
8.0

The life and work of philanthropist and educator William Case Morris (1864-1932).

Cuando en el cielo pasen lista

1945

La casta Susana poster
5.8

The wife of an officer receives a "prize for virtue" from one of her many lovers, causing several misunderstandings.

La casta Susana

1944

Fascination poster
6.5

The wife of a hypnotist lives in a state of uncertainty over whether she's with her husband out of love or if she's been a victim of his influence.

Fascination

1949

La importancia de ser ladrón poster
6.5

A modest employee of exemplary behavior is mistakenly accused of committing a major fraud.

La importancia de ser ladrón

1944

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

No artwork available
9.0

An impulsive actress abandons a film shoot and is replaced by a dressmaker, and the former's husband hires her to impersonate her in front of his future in-laws.

La otra y yo

1949

Tres millones... y el amor poster
9.0

A thief going to rob an unscrupulous industrialist falls in love with a young woman and turns himself in to the police to save a thief friend.

Tres millones... y el amor

1946

El tambor de Tacuarí poster
9.0

After the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.

El tambor de Tacuarí

1948

The Gaucho Priest poster
9.0

The life of José Gabriel Brochero, the Cordovan priest who dedicated his life to those most in need.

The Gaucho Priest

1941

Besos perdidos poster
5.5

A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.

Besos perdidos

1945

Three Men of the River poster
7.0

The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.

Three Men of the River

1943

Chiruca poster
10.0

An orphan young man in Argentina finds that his family's fortune is in ruins, so he goes back to Spain where he finds Chiruca, the family's maid. Together they will find out who is trying to scam him.

Chiruca

1945

Yo no elegí mi vida poster
6.0

Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.

Yo no elegí mi vida

1949

El fin de la noche poster
7.1

A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance.

El fin de la noche

1944

Cada hogar, un mundo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cada hogar, un mundo

1942

Fúlmine poster
8.0

A married man usually has very bad luck until he wins the lottery.

Fúlmine

1949

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 Mysterious Uncle Silas poster
7.0

A woman tries to run away when she finds out that her nephews plan to kill her.

The Mysterious Uncle Silas

1947

Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo poster
8.5

Spanish conquerors from the XVI century arrive in America to establish a population.

Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo

1945

Novios para las muchachas poster
7.0

The misadventures of four young women who want to get married.

Novios para las muchachas

1941

El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada poster
9.5

A woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.

El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada

1949

Cuando la primavera se equivoca poster
10.0

A young woman falls asleep at the gates of an old farm; in her dream she is transported to another century where she suffers for love.

Cuando la primavera se equivoca

1944

No artwork available
10.0

A scout leader and his assistant discover a gang of kidnappers.

Un ángel sin pantalones

1947

La serpiente de cascabel poster
7.6

Juan Carlos Thorry is a police inspector who must solve the mystery of the death of the warden of a boarding school for young women, for which he goes undercover as a music teacher. The main suspect is the mischievous schoolgirl María Duval. A series of entanglements leads the protagonists to becoming romantically involved and to finding the culprit.

La serpiente de cascabel

1948

The Immovable Loved One poster
5.0

The loves of Ana Cecilia Luisa Deillez with the Mexican poet Amado Nervo.

The Immovable Loved One

1945

Hardly a Criminal poster
6.9

A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…

Hardly a Criminal

1949

El deseo poster
9.5

While her husband is abroad, Luisa receives a visit from an old love, her cousin, who becomes a "dangerous attraction". Her husband's stay abroad is prolonged and her loneliness overwhelms her and her attraction to her cousin increases.

El deseo

1944

Nuestra Natacha poster
7.0

A girl who grew up in a boarding school where she suffered from a lack of love is set as its director once she graduates as a lawyer.

Nuestra Natacha

1944

1930s · 6 titles

Behind the camera