
Acting
Carlos Carella
Born 1926-05-28
Acting credits
9.0The story of Santos Vega, an Argentine gaucho from the province of Buenos Aires, who lived around 1830, and who gave rise to a legend in which, being an invincible payador, he ends up falling defeated to none other than the Devil, embodied in the person of Juan Sin Ropa, the only one who could defeat him.
Santos Vega
1971
9.0Chronicle of the struggle of the first settlers of southern Argentina against the Indian rustlers and landowners.
Los troperos
1953
6.9In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.
Operación Masacre
1973
10.0A gang of criminals takes advantage of a dog's intelligence to commit their misdeeds.
Faithful Love
1954
9.0A once prominent family fight each other over the inheritance of a run down mansion. Motivated by individual greed, they turn on one another until they unite to subdue a stranger prone to violence. Outwardly the family retains respectability and their name is not sullied, but irreparable harm is done to the unit and mutual trust is shattered in the wake of the events that transpire.
Los herederos
1970
4.7A woman becomes an unwitting accessory to a company robbery. Out of love, she finds herself involved in a surprising plot trying to get out of the event unscathed.
La cómplice
1966
7.5A boy from Tucumán is reunited with his grandfather after seven years of exile and learns about his father, a lawyer for workers.
El rigor del destino
1985
5.9A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over. Written by
Tangos Are for Two
1998
8.0A magazine company and some in-love couples board a night train where a gang of bandits is traveling.
Coche cama, alojamiento
1968
8.0Looking for news of his ex-guerrilla sons, a man agrees to collaborate with his restaurant in a network of drug dealers.
Los tigres de la memoria
1984
9.0No synopsis available yet.
He nacido en Buenos Aires
1959
9.0A 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
7.5A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
The Truce
1974
6.0An old boat is a silent witness of how the lives of the characters on board are fleetingly intertwined on a predetermined day.
The boat, the river and the people
1960
9.0A con man who lives with his three aunts in a mansion takes refuge in a slum when he is wanted by the police.
La fin del mundo
1963
10.0A woman tries to prove his son's innocence, a taxi driver who is accused of murder.
El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
1964
5.0A wealthy man comes to Buenos Aires to avenge the death of his young brother. He starts a relation with a suggestive blonde singer from a nightclub run by a mafia boss. One of the musical numbers is made by Michelle, a well-known American transvestite and is the first appearance of a transvestite in an Argentine film, something daring for the time.
Violated Love
1963
5.5Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War.
The Children of the War
1984
8.0The story of Tuco, an amateur singer who thinks he sings like Carlos Gardel and locks himself in his room, waiting for a group of musicians to accompany him in a hypothetical television debut.
The Accompaniment
1991
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La cigarra está que arde
1967
9.0The adventures of two truckers (one Argentine and the other Mexican) carrying different people and a suspicious trunk
Dos quijotes sobre ruedas
1966
A docu-fiction that interweaves a historical review of 19th and 20th-century Argentina, through the tension between economic autonomy and surrender to foreign interests, and the daily life of a worker and his family in the late 1980s.
DNI (La otra historia)
1989
8.0A mature woman, a martyr of the home, with a husband who has lost love and two children who are into something else, decides one day to rebel and try a new life with a much younger man.
The days that you gave me
1975