
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
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
7.0The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.
Se abre el abismo
1945
6.6While 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
10.0The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
Cruza
1942
10.0The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.
Operación "G"
1962
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
1960s · 7 titles
10.0The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.
Operación "G"
1962
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
5.3An amnesiac carnival psychic is haunted by the thought that a man is coming to kill her.
The Ruffian
1961
8.0An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party.
Detrás de la mentira
1962
6.0Luis Sandrini plays a college professor who, because of his freethinking attitudes and concerns for moral questions over matters of business, has more in common with his students than his colleagues.
The Hippie Teacher
1969
The film is made up of three independent stories: The Network, The Experiment and The Deer of the Seven Roses.
Tres historias fantásticas
1964
9.0A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.
Kuma-Ching
1969
1950s · 11 titles
6.6While 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
8.0A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.
La vendedora de fantasías
1950
10.0A 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
8.0A tango academy has different characters and each one has its story.
Soy del tiempo de Gardel
1954
NRA womanizer's girlfriend and future father-in-law try to teach him a lesson.
El zorro pierde el pelo
1950
9.0Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.
El cielo en las manos
1950
9.0A 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
10.0Two detectives are hired to investigate the theft of essential shoes for a famous dancer.
Las zapatillas coloradas
1952
8.0This 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
5.5The five members of a soccer team discover a case of bribery.
Big five and a girl
1950
No synopsis available yet.
Los lobos del palmar
1955
1940s · 35 titles
7.0The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.
Se abre el abismo
1945
10.0The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
Cruza
1942
8.5In the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.
Las aventuras de Jack
1949
7.0A waiter who uses gambling to help others.
El mozo número 13
1941
9.5A woman saves her daughter from making the same mistake that cost her happiness years ago.
Historia de una mala mujer
1948
NRAn 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
7.0A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
El gran secreto
1942
8.0The life and work of philanthropist and educator William Case Morris (1864-1932).
Cuando en el cielo pasen lista
1945
5.8The wife of an officer receives a "prize for virtue" from one of her many lovers, causing several misunderstandings.
La casta Susana
1944
6.5The 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
6.5A modest employee of exemplary behavior is mistakenly accused of committing a major fraud.
La importancia de ser ladrón
1944
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
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
9.0A 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
9.0After 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
9.0The life of José Gabriel Brochero, the Cordovan priest who dedicated his life to those most in need.
The Gaucho Priest
1941
5.5A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.
Besos perdidos
1945
7.0The 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
10.0An 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
6.0Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.
Yo no elegí mi vida
1949
7.1A 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Cada hogar, un mundo
1942
8.0A married man usually has very bad luck until he wins the lottery.
Fúlmine
1949
10.0A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival disrupts the discipline of the beautiful students.
Cuando florezca el naranjo
1943
7.0A woman tries to run away when she finds out that her nephews plan to kill her.
The Mysterious Uncle Silas
1947
8.5Spanish conquerors from the XVI century arrive in America to establish a population.
Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo
1945
7.0The misadventures of four young women who want to get married.
Novios para las muchachas
1941
9.5A woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.
El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
1949
10.0A 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
A scout leader and his assistant discover a gang of kidnappers.
Un ángel sin pantalones
1947
7.6Juan 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
5.0The loves of Ana Cecilia Luisa Deillez with the Mexican poet Amado Nervo.
The Immovable Loved One
1945
6.9A 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
9.5While 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
7.0A 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
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
8.0Four young artists who live in a boarding house fall in love with the new lodger.
...Y los sueños pasan
1939
9.0The film deals with the conflict between a father, master of a cattle ranch, and his son, who has returned after study.
Los caranchos de la Florida
1938
5.2A man leaves his girlfriend, but she still sacrifices her happiness to procure his.
Frente a la vida
1939
6.4The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies — "berretines" in Buenos Aires slang — that keep them apart of their duties. Because of that, the family business is going down, and the only one who is concerned is the father, who hopes for his fourth son, an architect, to save the situation.
The Three Amateurs
1933
10.0Daniel, a smuggler is chased by a policeman. In his escape are helped by the messages that his lover transmits to him in code by means of the tangos that sings in a radio program. To hide himself, he pretends to be a teacher in a small town in Entre Ríos, and by the time he discovers it, the police have already faced a new life.
La fuga
1937
Behind the camera
8.0A tango academy has different characters and each one has its story.
Soy del tiempo de Gardel
1954
8.0A tango academy has different characters and each one has its story.
Soy del tiempo de Gardel
1954
9.0Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.
El cielo en las manos
1950
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Los millones de Semillita
1950
No synopsis available yet.
Los lobos del palmar
1955
10.0The head of a criminal gang hires a man to rescue some compromising documents.
Se necesita un hombre con cara de infeliz
1954
NRAspects of the life of a group of fishermen.
Stella Maris
1953
NRAspects of the life of a group of fishermen.
Stella Maris
1953
7.0A provincial postman shares with the inhabitants of a small town the joys and sorrows caused by the correspondence he delivers.
El cartero
1954

