Luis Mottura

Directing

Luis Mottura

Italia

Luigi Mottura, better known as Luis Mottura, was an actor and film, television and theater director who was born in Italy and carried out most of his professional activity in Argentina, the country where he settled.

Acting credits

La murga poster
7.5

The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.

La murga

1963

30 Seconds of Love poster
10.0

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.

30 Seconds of Love

1936

Los evadidos poster
7.0

Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from director Enrique Carreras was the official entry for Argentina at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival.

Los evadidos

1964

Ai vostri ordini, signora... poster
9.0

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.

Ai vostri ordini, signora...

1939

The Lady in White poster
7.2

The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.

The Lady in White

1938

Ginevra degli Almieri poster
8.0

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.

Ginevra degli Almieri

1935

Battles in the Shadow poster
7.0

Foreign spies steal the formula for a revolutionary explosive created by an Italian scientist and to decrypt the secret code they kidnap his secretary who knows about it.

Battles in the Shadow

1939

L'albero di Adamo poster
10.0

Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.

L'albero di Adamo

1936

Amicizia poster
10.0

After falling in love with his friend's wife, a young man prefers to move to another place on a long trip. After several years he returns and reunites with the woman he loved and this time she will confess her love for him. The woman's husband will begin to suspect something.

Amicizia

1938

Behind the camera

Blessed be you poster
8.0

María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.

Blessed be you

1956

Vacaciones poster
8.5

A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.

Vacaciones

1947

Filomena Marturano poster
8.3

Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.

Filomena Marturano

1950

Punto negro poster
9.0

A married man hides from his family that he has a black son, which causes a true tragedy.

Punto negro

1943

Rigoberto poster
8.0

A man finances the invention of a friend overshadowed and dominated by the women of his family.

Rigoberto

1945

El mal amor poster
9.0

Widow meets her husband's family for the first time after his death; her mother-in-law hates her and her husband's son from earlier marriage falls in love with her.

El mal amor

1955

Una noche cualquiera poster
8.0

An unsuccessful actor wants to get money from his uncle to mount a play, and seeks a woman and a child to make them look like his wife and son.

Una noche cualquiera

1951

30 seconds of love poster
7.3

After running over a young man with her car, a girl is forced to kiss him for 30 seconds, in order not to pay the expensive fine.

30 seconds of love

1947

La dama del collar poster
6.3

A rich woman's personal secretary borrows an expensive piece of jewelry without permission for a night on the town... and then loses it. Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant.

La dama del collar

1948

Mi hermano Esopo (Historia de un Mateo) poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mi hermano Esopo (Historia de un Mateo)

1952

Un beso en la nuca poster
8.0

A woman becomes delusional and fails to recognize her husband. She will fall in love with the doctor who is supposed to cure her, believing he is her real husband.

Un beso en la nuca

1946