
Acting
Luis Otero
Born 1910-12-31 · Montevideo, Uruguay
Acting credits
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
7.1In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires to prevent deserting soldiers.
Savage Pampas
1945
8.0Two young women taking charge of a sheep ranch, a doctor, an aging cabaret girl and a priest but heads with some wild-west style bandits who are terrorizing a part off back-country Patagonia.
South of the 42nd parallel
1955
7.6A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.
Culpable
1960
7.0A policeman discovers that his girlfriend's father heads a drug smuggling band.
Mercado negro
1953
5.5A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.
Leonora of the Seven Seas
1955
8.0It tells the story of a young provincial journalist who begins to work for a newspaper in the capital.
Hombres a precio
1950
6.8Leandro and Carancha inhabit the islands located in the Parana delta. When their son brings home a girlfriend, her presence makes Carancha jealous and dramatic consequences ensue.
The Islanders
1951
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Virgin field
1959
8.0A young man will try to escape at any cost from the humble conditions in which he lives in his neighborhood.
Del otro lado del puente
1953
7.0Margarita, the nun of a cloistered convent in charge of handling the lathe, this is a rotating mechanism provided with a small window through which she delivered and received things from the outside without direct visual contact, she is seduced by a Don Juan and induced to escape with him .
Milagro de amor
1946
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
7.0A girl makes a young man move away from his girlfriend and she goes with her friend.
Cane concert
1951
10.0Episodes of the action of the gendarmerie against smuggling.
Sombras en la frontera
1951
9.5A woman saves her daughter from making the same mistake that cost her happiness years ago.
Historia de una mala mujer
1948
6.5From Emile Zola's novel "La Bete Humaine", tells the story of a jealous husband, a provocative woman and a man with an uncontrollable desire to kill.
La bestia humana
1957
7.6The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
Dark River
1952
5.5A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.
Besos perdidos
1945
7.0The story of a family that lives in a rural area of the province of Buenos Aires through three generations.
Plowed field
1959
7.0A parapolice force within Peronism is dedicated to reducing and extorting all kinds of opponents, among whom a few rise up to denounce what is happening. Although the film has propaganda purposes that deliberately ignore part of reality, it is based on documented cases, such as those of the student Ernesto Mario Bravo or the trade union leader Cipriano Reyes.
Los torturados
1956
6.6The love affair of an ex-convict with a showgirl, unleashes the jealousy of his older, wealthy and unbalanced wife. A murder plot, staged phoney suicide and other twists and turns follow.
Missing Persons Section
1956
9.0In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
Madame Sans-Gêne
1945
8.0A gypsy performer and friend flee the circus troop they work for and find an old house to take refuge. Little do they realize that the house is haunted when they encounter strange men, frightening apparitions, and secret passages.
The Headless Woman
1947
6.0Biography of the Argentine poet Almafuerte.
Almafuerte
1949