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8.3Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.
Filomena Marturano
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
9.5A young man starts working in a millionaire's home to take care of his daughter.
El mucamo de la niña
1951
7.0The problems that a couple in love suffers because of their relatives.
Pocholo, Pichuca y yo
1951
7.0A six-time widowed man lives with his six mothers-in-law and is looking for a new wife.
Las seis suegras de Barba Azul
1945
9.0A humble boy who works in a theater company must become the husband of an actress so that she can get her son back.
Me casé con una estrella
1951
Film credits
1950s · 23 titles
8.3Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.
Filomena Marturano
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
9.5A young man starts working in a millionaire's home to take care of his daughter.
El mucamo de la niña
1951
7.0The problems that a couple in love suffers because of their relatives.
Pocholo, Pichuca y yo
1951
9.0A humble boy who works in a theater company must become the husband of an actress so that she can get her son back.
Me casé con una estrella
1951
9.0The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.
The Crime of Oribe
1950
7.7A high society woman discovers a fiery romantic letter in a raincoat pocket seemingly written by a rumba dancer to the woman’s doctor husband. He tries to cover by saying that the letter is addressed to a more conservative friend of his, leading to rumours of his friend’s (supposed) incredible passion becoming intriguing to the local women, even the Doctor’s own jealous wife.
When My Husband Kisses
1950
10.0With 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.
El festín de Satanás
1958
9.0A young widow goes to a marriage agency where she is introduced to three hired suitors who end up falling in love with her.
Una viuda casi alegre
1950
7.6Eulogio Soto lives with his mother. To please her, he tries to locate her brother because she will have to undergo a delicate eye operation and he fears that he will never be able to see her face again. The youngest son, who does not know who his real family is, lives in a luxurious mansion. In the search for his lost brother, Eulogio will be "found" by a woman who, like a goblin, makes life impossible for him to help him by all means.
Cuando los duendes cazan perdices
1955
6.8When a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her boyfriend.
Esposa último modelo
1950
7.0To protect the relationships of his two friends, a student drags to act as their aunt.
La tía de Carlitos
1953
10.0To save her businesses from ruin, a woman about to marry must find another woman a husband.
Cuidado con las mujeres
1951
9.0The most famous lovers of world literature help a librarian to realize her love for a young man.
La comedia inmortal
1951
7.0Believing that he is about to die, a man sells his skeleton for science.
Mi esqueleto
1959
6.5A man and his con man brother, who adores his mother, has a dream of seeing the family reunited.
The Grand House
1953
8.0The plot reflects the figure of Pascual Contursi, tango poet. In love with a singer, he leaves his wife and son to go with her. Some time later, the singer leaves him and he composes the tango that gives the film its title.
Mi noche triste
1952
7.0A girl makes a young man move away from his girlfriend and she goes with her friend.
Cane concert
1951
NRThe admirer of a singer does her best to see him and be with him.
¡Qué hermanita!
1951
10.0An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy.
Piantadino
1950
5.8An ex-crack who lives off the memory of a goal that he scored against the Uruguayans lives in Montevideo an adventure with a young millionaire.
Fantoche
1957
7.8A man tries to cheat on his wife, but even though he stops earlier, everyone believes that he was unfaithful.
El hombre virgen
1956
6.5A train stops for a break in the station of a small town. That random moment allows the railway chief to fall in love with a beautiful passenger, who ends up wrapping him in a complex police plot.
El seductor
1950
1940s · 24 titles
7.0A six-time widowed man lives with his six mothers-in-law and is looking for a new wife.
Las seis suegras de Barba Azul
1945
10.0The romance between a mature doctor and a young girl, set in the mountains of Córdoba.
Fuego en la montaña
1943
8.0The inhabitants of a town try to expel from the place a young man whose only sin is having been the seventh son of a family.
Don Bildigerno en Pago Milagro
1948
10.0A famous singer falls in love with the owner of a hostel where he is employed in incognito.
La hostería del caballito blanco
1948
6.8Mrs. Pérez wants to get divorced because she believes that her husband is unfaithful to her.
La señora de Pérez se divorcia
1945
7.5Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.
Confesión
1940
7.0A waiter who uses gambling to help others.
El mozo número 13
1941
10.0Country boy moves to Buenos Aires, falls upward into a prestigious career. Meanwhile two idle-class playboys are running practical jokes on him that interfere with his personal life.
El diablo andaba en los choclos
1946
NRAn older single woman pretends to be a widow to get a husband but his spouse returns to her life complicating her situation.
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
1943
6.6Young newlywed girl about to embark on her honeymoon persuades older family friend to assist her in an extensive search for her missing husband. A road-trip full of comical misadventures ensues.
Devil in the Flesh
1947
8.0By trying to maintain her millionaire appearance, a young woman goes through a series of entanglements and finds a love that is also millionaire.
En el último piso
1942
6.2To avoid the abandonment of her husband, a woman rents three children with the intention of making him believe that he is the father. Sudden maternity will bring complications in triplicate.
¿Por qué mintió la cigüeña?
1949
8.0A 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
10.0A young Mexican saves a mortgage from an Argentine rural owner, associating with him and falling in love with her daughter.
De México llegó el amor
1940
6.1Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
Madame Bovary
1947
9.0Desideria, a servant girl, dreams of traveling to Buenos Aires. Incredibly, Blas Pastrana, a relative of her employers, is dying in Argentina and expressly asks them to travel with her. When he arrives at his deathbed, he says that he inherits everything to the employee, confessing that she is his daughter, but on one condition: that in less than two weeks she gets married. Her employers try to convince her to marry the son of the family, Jorge, but Desideria is interested in Tito, a nice porteño. Everything ends in a surprise ending.
P'al otro lado
1942
9.0A bohemian reluctant to marriage and work will get sudden wealth.
Así te quiero
1942
9.5A woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.
El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
1949
7.6Juan Carlos Thorry is a police inspector who must solve the mystery of the death of the warden of a boarding school for young women, for which he goes undercover as a music teacher. The main suspect is the mischievous schoolgirl María Duval. A series of entanglements leads the protagonists to becoming romantically involved and to finding the culprit.
La serpiente de cascabel
1948
6.4A reporter and tango singer is sent to the war zone in 1916, where he loses his memory.
La cumparsita
1947
7.0A hotel waiter, a femme fatale and a failure.
Un hombre bueno
1941
10.0The misadventures and mishaps of a tailor.
El susto que Pérez se llevó
1940
5.8A humble boy can not be a sailor as he wishes, for lack of documents, and works as a driver for an old woman.
Juan Globo
1949
9.5Family-owned ski resort is failing, and they've pinned all their hopes on seeing the property purchased by the Gonzalez Brothers.
Una atrevida aventurita
1948
1930s · 4 titles
6.7A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
Honeysuckle
1938
7.0Young officer is tried for espionage when some documents turn up missing.
El escuadrón azul
1937
7.0A bohemian protects several people in his house, which is why he gets involved with some swindlers to keep them.
El gran camarada
1939
A 1936 film.
Santos Vega
1936
