Writing

Alejandro Verbitzky

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

El retrato poster
6.9

A repressed woman, unable to give love, is possessed by the spirit of her lewd grandmother.

El retrato

1947

La hostería del caballito blanco poster
10.0

A famous singer falls in love with the owner of a hostel where he is employed in incognito.

La hostería del caballito blanco

1948

María de los Ángeles poster
7.0

Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.

María de los Ángeles

1948

Date in the Stars poster
6.8

A couple splits up and gets married to other people. After the man dies, the woman becomes delirious and thinks she's found him again in heaven.

Date in the Stars

1949

3 citas con el destino poster
6.2

The story unfolds through the twists and turns of a strange curse attributed to a jewel that, passed from hand to hand, carries a deadly destiny. Its theme spans the three countries where it was filmed (Spain, Mexico, and Argentina), beginning in Spain and then moving to Mexico. The jewel, which takes on the character of another figure in the narrative as it travels through different parts of the world, arrives in Buenos Aires. The film ultimately presents the jewel's final destination in Mexico, where its owner dies, like others who were also marked by its malevolent influence.

3 citas con el destino

1954

Don Fulgencio poster
7.0

The adventures of the man who had no childhood, smart for business, but a lover of innocent jokes.

Don Fulgencio

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

Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain! poster
5.5

Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.

Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!

1953

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

The Body Snatcher poster
5.9

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...

The Body Snatcher

1957

The Armchair and the Grand Duchess poster
7.1

A Russian duke who's fallen on hard times tries to recover a stash of jewels hidden inside an armchair, but the chair gets sold at auction to a millionairess and he's forced to marry her in order to retrieve the treasure.

The Armchair and the Grand Duchess

1943

The Intruder poster
6.0

Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...

The Intruder

1954

Juan Mondiola poster
NR

A woman and a winning ticket bring a neighborhood boy to the center.

Juan Mondiola

1950

Dance of Fire poster
8.7

The sometimes profound, sometimes slightly sordid tale of Elena, a famous concert pianist who, as a child, was sexually assaulted by a circus clown while the music of Manuel de Falla "Ritual Dance of Fire" could be heard from the circus tent. Since that time, Elena has gone into hysterics every time she hears that composition. Making matters worse, the lascivious clown is now her business manager.

Dance of Fire

1949

No artwork available
10.0

A series of confusions involve an unfaithful woman and a man on his wedding day.

Un modelo de París

1946

Mi adorada Clementina poster
6.2

A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier.

Mi adorada Clementina

1953

La senda oscura poster
7.0

An impostor pretends to be the mother of a blind man so he can manage his assets. But things are changing because of the arrival of the person who takes care of the blind.

La senda oscura

1947

La cumparsita poster
6.4

A reporter and tango singer is sent to the war zone in 1916, where he loses his memory.

La cumparsita

1947

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