Directing

Mario C. Lugones

Acting credits

Behind the camera

One Sin a Month poster
9.0

Paloma and Marcelo are in love, but only dare meet once a month- see, she doesn't know that he is only pretending to be the son of rich ranchers, and he doesn't know that she is only pretending to be the daughter of the great business tycoon B. Quintana... she is in reality just an employee! But when a desperate Marcelo must take a job at Quintana's company, both their lies begin to unravel.

One Sin a Month

1949

Novio, marido y amante poster
8.0

A young woman marries an older man on a whim; the marriage is not consummated. She falls in love with her husband's son.

Novio, marido y amante

1948

Abuse of Trust poster
9.5

A homeless young woman breaks into a married couple's house claiming to be the man's daughter, but she regrets the deception.

Abuse of Trust

1950

La cueva de Alí Babá poster
8.0

Two friends, an heir and a musical group take charge of a boite.

La cueva de Alí Babá

1954

¡Qué rico el mambo! poster
NR

A rumbera falls in love with a dentist who wants to sing boleros despite her father's opposition.

¡Qué rico el mambo!

1952

Miguitas en la cama poster
9.5

A young woman must alternately live with her separated parents and while her mother gives her a severe upbringing, her father amuses her with his carefree life.

Miguitas en la cama

1949

La simuladora poster
9.0

To avoid imprisonment, a woman pretends to be crazy after killing the man who blackmailed her sister.

La simuladora

1955

Un hombre solo no vale nada poster
7.0

An employee progresses in the factory where he works by having his wife pass by an attractive Cuban singer.

Un hombre solo no vale nada

1949

La locura de Don Juan poster
NR

An intrascendent man pretends to be crazy to stop his family's extravagance, which is about to ruin him, victim of two scammers.

La locura de Don Juan

1948

Se rematan ilusiones poster
9.5

A young man tries to follow a path different from that of his retired public employee father and associates with a friend to make bags.

Se rematan ilusiones

1944

El zorro pierde el pelo poster
NR

A womanizer's girlfriend and future father-in-law try to teach him a lesson.

El zorro pierde el pelo

1950

El último guapo poster
6.2

Hercules, a poor individual earns his living as a walking street ad, carrying a gigantic advertising sign on his shoulders. His biggest concern is his daughter Leonor, who helps at home by working as a seamstress. Afflicted by the economic situation, Hercules gets a job as a casino watchman. There he must face a trio of mobsters and a kleptomaniac baroness who tries to seduce him with her vampire airs and whom Hercules ends up falling in love with.

El último guapo

1947

La mujer del león poster
7.0

A banker's mistress falls in love with a colorful writer, but to hide the situation from him, she pretends to be the banker's daughter, which causes many complications, until the situation is cleared up for the good of the young couple.

La mujer del león

1951

Cartas de amor poster
9.0

A young man must choose between the love of two women.

Cartas de amor

1951

Ensayo final poster
6.8

The belief that he has discovered a crime, makes a worker endanger his own life and the happiness of his marriage.

Ensayo final

1955