Francisco Múgica

Directing

Francisco Múgica

Born — Died

1907-04-09 — 1985-01-01

Place of birth

Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

26 titles

Francisco Mugica (1907-1985) was a film editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and director. He was one of the greatest creators of the bourgeois comedies of the 1940s in Argentine cinema and was married to the actress Alímedes Nelson.

Known for

Behind the camera

Deshojando margaritas poster
7.0

Workaholic kindustrial tycoon is kidnapped and learns the value of a more leisurely lifestyle.

Deshojando margaritas

1946

El solterón poster
10.0

A single man and womanizer who enjoys the nightlife learns that he has a son who is already an adult. In order to gain his affection he decides to change his life. Things get complicated when he needs to return to his past life, this time to save his family from ruin.

El solterón

1940

He nacido en Buenos Aires poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

He nacido en Buenos Aires

1959

Margarita, Armando and his father poster
7.8

A young couple, Margarita and Armando, reenact the story of The Lady of the Camellias, as they fall in love, Armando's flamboyant father disapproves of their relationship and does everything to separate them.

Margarita, Armando and his father

1939

Margarita, Armando and his father poster
7.8

A young couple, Margarita and Armando, reenact the story of The Lady of the Camellias, as they fall in love, Armando's flamboyant father disapproves of their relationship and does everything to separate them.

Margarita, Armando and his father

1939

La guerra la gano yo poster
8.0

A grocer gets rich speculating on the shortages generated by World War II until he suffers the consequences firsthand.

La guerra la gano yo

1943

Persona honrada se necesita poster
7.0

A 1941 film.

Persona honrada se necesita

1941

La hija del ministro poster
9.3

The daughter of a minister pretends to be a worker to conquer the opposition deputy and discover the evidence that he proposes to present against her father.

La hija del ministro

1943

El mejor papá del mundo poster
7.2

A young man gives a hard lesson to his father, a prestigious lawyer complicated in the management of a foreign company.

El mejor papá del mundo

1941

Mi novia es un fantasma poster
7.6

A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her.

Mi novia es un fantasma

1944

El espejo poster
6.4

Faced with her own reflection, a woman traces the events that led her to renounce love, and the sacrifices she has made for her mother and sister.

El espejo

1943

Adam's Pajamas poster
8.0

A recently married woman runs away from her husband upon discovering that he had had a mistress. The father-in-law, determined to fix things, also becomes entangled in a disgust with his wife.

Adam's Pajamas

1942

Allá en el setenta y tantos poster
6.5

The life of Élida Passo, pioneer of medicine of the Buenos Aires of the XIX century. By 1870, the first women tried to practice medicine in an area reserved for men; and through sacrifice and struggle, they begin the path towards a more egalitarian society.

Allá en el setenta y tantos

1945

Mi Buenos Aires querido poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mi Buenos Aires querido

1961

Medio millón por una mujer poster
7.0

A man pretends to be a doctor to kidnap a miser's wife.

Medio millón por una mujer

1940

El barco sale a las diez poster
7.0

To investigate a robbery, a journalist embarks on the maiden voyage of a ship that will never take place

El barco sale a las diez

1948

Milagro de amor poster
7.0

Margarita, 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

Así es la vida poster
7.0

The history of a Buenos Aires family over three decades.

Así es la vida

1939

Piantadino poster
10.0

An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy.

Piantadino

1950

La pícara cenicienta poster
NR

A young woman must take shelter one rainy afternoon in the house of the writer with whom she is in love.

La pícara cenicienta

1951

Esperanza poster
9.5

The story of the first colony of immigrants to arrive in the province of Santa Fe, in Argentina.

Esperanza

1949

Rescate de sangre poster
10.0

During the colonial period, a man buys a small piece of land in Mendoza and marries a slave woman. The dry and arid climate harms the yield of the land from it. In need of money to buy the freedom of his spouse, he decides to undertake the task of building with his own hands a kilometric ditch that carries water from the river to his fields.

Rescate de sangre

1952

El viaje poster
5.9

An architect goes on vacation and begins an affair with a young woman in a small town in Córdoba.

El viaje

1942

On Tuesdays, Orchids poster
6.9

The story is based on Elenita, the younger of four sisters, young, timid and romantic. To try to change her character and give her an illusion, his father sends her weekly a bouquet of orchids making her believe they are from a secret admirer.

On Tuesdays, Orchids

1941

Adolescence poster
7.7

A young man has to fight over his girlfriend with a newly arrived competitor, an older man who arrived from America.

Adolescence

1942

Cristina poster
10.0

A rural woman triumphs in Buenos Aires with the help of a lawer she loves.

Cristina

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