Armando Bó

Directing

Armando Bó

Born 1914-05-03 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Armando Bó was an Argentine film actor, director, producer, screenwriter and score composer of the classic era. He is mostly known for his sexploitation films in the 1960s and 1970s starring his favorite actress and romantic partner, sex symbol Isabel Sarli. His works include the first nude scene in an Argentine film (El trueno entre las hojas).

Acting credits

The Insatiable Widow poster
3.9

Isabel Sarli as a nymphomaniac wife who can't remain faithful to her husband so he seeks help from a psychologist to find out why his wife is always cheating on him with both men and women.

The Insatiable Widow

1984

Ambición poster
6.0

The struggle to succeed and a love story of some Argentines who live in the Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris.

Ambición

1939

Chimbela poster
9.0

A young woman protects and falls in love with a fugitive accused of murder.

Chimbela

1939

Los Tres Mosqueteros poster
7.0

An attempt to bring the famous novel by Dumas to the cinema, where the promenades of Montevideo such as Parque Rivera and the Castillo del Parque Rodó are transformed into French settings.

Los Tres Mosqueteros

1946

Leather Ball poster
9.0

The plot of the film focuses on the decline of a long-time footballer at Club Boca Juniors. A player who does not change colors and can not conceive of any alternative but to play in the club of which he is fan fanatic.

Leather Ball

1963

Fever poster
3.4

Sandra, lovelessly married to a landowner who owns racehorses, meets José María, a lumberjack, and they quickly fall in love. After some time, Sandra's husband learns of the relationship.

Fever

1971

Muerte civil poster
NR

A man convicted of killing his brother-in-law escaped from jail and when he found his daughter, he found out that he believed someone else was her father.

Muerte civil

1954

Mamá Gloria poster
8.0

The romance in a student pension run by a good-natured spinster, between a pensioner and a student gambler.

Mamá Gloria

1941

Sacachispas poster
10.0

A music teacher and a police officer look after a children's club.

Sacachispas

1950

La caraba poster
10.0

A mythomaniac woman rejects her humble status and falls in the trap of a wealthy lawyer.

La caraba

1948

El hijo del crack poster
6.0

A famous football player faces retirement, but his son is still his most faithful fan.

El hijo del crack

1953

Thunder Among the Leaves poster
5.6

Deep in the jungle, a drifter attempts to inspire revolt against his cruel boss’s slave labor practices, made more difficult by the arrival of the boss’s beautiful wife.

Thunder Among the Leaves

1958

El sexo y el amor poster
3.0

After an accident that leaves him paralyzed, a man drives his wife towards infidelity.

El sexo y el amor

1974

Intimacies of a Prostitute poster
6.9

A woman from the country moves into to the big city of Buenos Aires to start a new life. Things are not going very easy and she soon finds herself working as a prostitute.

Intimacies of a Prostitute

1974

Ardent Summer poster
6.3

Barbara is a sexy stripper, but she is dedicated to her husband. When a rich and above-the-law land-owner orders the murder of her husband to get her, she plans, and conducts, deadly revenge. She starts by intriguing between the rich man and his sons, who also had abused her, so that he has two of them killed, and then she sets out against the actual killers, shooting them herself, and leaving the old lecher and his older son to the last. The final confrontation has some surprises, though.

Ardent Summer

1973

Mi divina pobreza poster
NR

A millionaire commits suicide by leaving his fortune to a poor young rival and then, as a ghost, teaches him the true importance of money.

Mi divina pobreza

1951

Tropical Ecstasy poster
4.8

A woman who makes her living as a prostitute must decide her fate between two totally different men.

Tropical Ecstasy

1970

No artwork available
8.0

Three displaced children hitchhike to Buenos Aires, where they get involved in street-crime and heavier stuff. Positive-role-model adults offer a balance to those negative influences.

Nosotros los muchachos

1940

If I Were Rich poster
6.2

A screwball comedy about a young barrio songstress and pickpocket who, while escaping after nicking a woman's wallet, is hired to model for an agency. There she discovers a new world when she mixes with the rich and finds love among them.

If I Were Rich

1941

Un señor mucamo poster
7.0

Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a young lady who turns out to be the daughter of his employer.

Un señor mucamo

1940

Pelota de trapo poster
6.9

This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.

Pelota de trapo

1948

Su última pelea poster
7.0

Tuberculosis and a passional crime prevent the final triumph to a boy from the slums who has opened his way in boxing.

Su última pelea

1949

Honrarás a tu madre poster
NR

The love of a mother for her two children.

Honrarás a tu madre

1953

Bewitched poster
4.8

Ansise is a former Indian whose only dream is to become a mother. The idea of motherhood gradually turns into an obsession for her. Unfortunately, she has married an impotent man. But she tries to get pregnant anyway. She even tries to work as a prostitute and goes to a local witch. But the real problem is that an evil entity called Pombero has fallen with love with her, killing all the men crossing her way.

Bewitched

1976

Behind the camera

The Insatiable Widow poster
3.9

Isabel Sarli as a nymphomaniac wife who can't remain faithful to her husband so he seeks help from a psychologist to find out why his wife is always cheating on him with both men and women.

The Insatiable Widow

1984

The Insatiable Widow poster
3.9

Isabel Sarli as a nymphomaniac wife who can't remain faithful to her husband so he seeks help from a psychologist to find out why his wife is always cheating on him with both men and women.

The Insatiable Widow

1984

The Insatiable Widow poster
3.9

Isabel Sarli as a nymphomaniac wife who can't remain faithful to her husband so he seeks help from a psychologist to find out why his wife is always cheating on him with both men and women.

The Insatiable Widow

1984

Sin familia poster
10.0

The harsh trials faced by an adolescent without a family.

Sin familia

1958

Sin familia poster
10.0

The harsh trials faced by an adolescent without a family.

Sin familia

1958

Goodbye Boys poster
6.0

Boyhood friends grow up, form a tango orchestra, one of them writes a brilliant song commemorating their friendship before he dies.

Goodbye Boys

1955

Goodbye Boys poster
6.0

Boyhood friends grow up, form a tango orchestra, one of them writes a brilliant song commemorating their friendship before he dies.

Goodbye Boys

1955

Leather Ball poster
9.0

The plot of the film focuses on the decline of a long-time footballer at Club Boca Juniors. A player who does not change colors and can not conceive of any alternative but to play in the club of which he is fan fanatic.

Leather Ball

1963

Leather Ball poster
9.0

The plot of the film focuses on the decline of a long-time footballer at Club Boca Juniors. A player who does not change colors and can not conceive of any alternative but to play in the club of which he is fan fanatic.

Leather Ball

1963

Fever poster
3.4

Sandra, lovelessly married to a landowner who owns racehorses, meets José María, a lumberjack, and they quickly fall in love. After some time, Sandra's husband learns of the relationship.

Fever

1971

Fever poster
3.4

Sandra, lovelessly married to a landowner who owns racehorses, meets José María, a lumberjack, and they quickly fall in love. After some time, Sandra's husband learns of the relationship.

Fever

1971

Fever poster
3.4

Sandra, lovelessly married to a landowner who owns racehorses, meets José María, a lumberjack, and they quickly fall in love. After some time, Sandra's husband learns of the relationship.

Fever

1971

Muerte civil poster
NR

A man convicted of killing his brother-in-law escaped from jail and when he found his daughter, he found out that he believed someone else was her father.

Muerte civil

1954

La Tigra poster
7.8

The film narrates the encounter between "La Tigra", a woman known by that nickname in the cafes of the port area for her character and her sharp claws, and Luis, a student of Fine Arts. There will be born a strong, passionate and necessarily brief relationship during which each of them will peek into the world of the other, until then unknown, unable to overcome the hostility of the same. Luis is unwilling or unable to leave his bourgeois stability and "La Tigra" is unable to leave an environment in which the malevo Olivera is the dominant figure.

La Tigra

1954

Sacachispas poster
10.0

A music teacher and a police officer look after a children's club.

Sacachispas

1950

El hijo del crack poster
6.0

A famous football player faces retirement, but his son is still his most faithful fan.

El hijo del crack

1953

Thunder Among the Leaves poster
5.6

Deep in the jungle, a drifter attempts to inspire revolt against his cruel boss’s slave labor practices, made more difficult by the arrival of the boss’s beautiful wife.

Thunder Among the Leaves

1958

Thunder Among the Leaves poster
5.6

Deep in the jungle, a drifter attempts to inspire revolt against his cruel boss’s slave labor practices, made more difficult by the arrival of the boss’s beautiful wife.

Thunder Among the Leaves

1958

El sexo y el amor poster
3.0

After an accident that leaves him paralyzed, a man drives his wife towards infidelity.

El sexo y el amor

1974

El sexo y el amor poster
3.0

After an accident that leaves him paralyzed, a man drives his wife towards infidelity.

El sexo y el amor

1974

El sexo y el amor poster
3.0

After an accident that leaves him paralyzed, a man drives his wife towards infidelity.

El sexo y el amor

1974

The Hot Days poster
4.6

The story is about a woman traveling to the islands of the Parana River Delta to claim rightful inheritance, and begins to relate to fruit growers in the region.

The Hot Days

1966

The Hot Days poster
4.6

The story is about a woman traveling to the islands of the Parana River Delta to claim rightful inheritance, and begins to relate to fruit growers in the region.

The Hot Days

1966

The Hot Days poster
4.6

The story is about a woman traveling to the islands of the Parana River Delta to claim rightful inheritance, and begins to relate to fruit growers in the region.

The Hot Days

1966