Raúl del Valle

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.

A legend of curses and death in an austere and dry desert where rain will not fall. The story focuses on the experiences and misery of an indigenous man who meets his death in the middle of the film. The dead time and the morosity of the story operate as the stylistic foundation of this indispensable national film that was shot in Patquía, La Rioja.

Set in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, it showed the formation, rise and fall of a criminal gang.

A man leaves his job working in the mining industry, falls in love with a girl and succeeds as a singer.

The determination of a rural doctor to discover the virus that carries the stubble disease.

A teacher arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must educate children against the will of their parents.

A 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.

When Alicia is left alone with her little son, she finds herself harassed by society. She travels to Panama, where she starts a chain of extortions from men she has first seduced.

In a rural setting, the chronicle of a woman with too many love demands.

A fighter lives haunted by the memory of a friend whom he believes he killed in the ring.

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 life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.

The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the music business. Yet at the same time, he does not stop his illegal means of making ends meet, stealing and petty thievery. Discouraged when his big break never quite materializes, Toribio heads for disaster when he joins up with a large smuggling scheme.

A married man is attracted to a teenage niece who, due to family problems, spends some time at his house. Everything takes place in a mean village life, where a sad, small world is discovered, made of gossip and understandings. This film had difficulties being released at the time of its production due to censorship reasons.

A 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.

The last actions of the Riojan caudillo Chacho Peñaloza until his death and beheading.

Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...

A rancher makes a pact with the devil to achieve happiness and love.

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.

The dwarfs of the Carnaval Catamarqueño party (La Chaya) and their actions over the muleteers.

The harsh trials faced by an adolescent without a family.

A group of peasants recovers a piece of land on which a curse rested.

With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.

A doctor is persecuted after treating a tortured man at a police station.

The film evokes the career of boxer Luis Ángel Firpo.

Based on Oscar Castro's novel rtp slot, the film is set in the El Encanto mine, in the interior of Rancagua, where prospectors and barreteros dig the bowels of the earth in search of hidden riches.

The miserable life of the inhabitants of a town in Santiago del Estero, between crime, revenge and drought.

The 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.

This 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.

The life of the famous poet Evaristo Carriego (1883-1912), who lived in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo and who painted the customs of the people of those years like no one else.

In exchange for the life of a Norwegian fisherman, a bankrupt industrialist gives his soul to the devil.

While a drought and debts overwhelm a farmer, the arrival of a Polish visitor will make him see the world in another way.

Emma Zunz, who is planning a crime, intends to get away with it by presenting an audacious alibi.

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A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price.

Film about the biography of the musician Franz Schubert.

The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.

The story of the tragic love of Count Loris Ipanov, a Russian nihilist, for the Princes Fedora Romanov.

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A film about Carlos Gardel's meeting with José Razzano, his love affairs, and his death.

Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.