Luis Moglia Barth

Directing

Luis Moglia Barth

Born — Died

1903-04-10 — 1984-06-18

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Luis José Moglia Barth (1903–1984) was a film director and screenwriter who directed numerous films in the early stages of Argentine cinema, including ¡Tango! (1933), considered the first Argentine sound feature film.

Known for

Behind the camera

Huella poster
10.0

In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the struggles between the Unitarians and the Federalists.

Huella

1940

Cruza poster
10.0

The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.

Cruza

1942

Cruza poster
10.0

The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.

Cruza

1942

No artwork available
9.0

Tabloid journalists muddy the waters during the investigation of the murder of an Argentine senator.

Edición extra

1949

Intermezzo criminal poster
10.0

A man is found dead in a music hall during one of the numbers, so the performance is suspended and the police begin to investigate.

Intermezzo criminal

1953

Intermezzo criminal poster
10.0

A man is found dead in a music hall during one of the numbers, so the performance is suspended and the police begin to investigate.

Intermezzo criminal

1953

Ponchos azules poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ponchos azules

1942

Fortín alto poster
NR

Set in 1874, the son of a mitrista accompanies a herd of cattle whose sale will allow to buy weapons.

Fortín alto

1941

Boina blanca poster
8.5

The film narrates events of the Revolution of the Park, carried out by radical sympathizers on July 26, 1890. There is a secondary plot with the romance of a girl who, despite being in love with her father's godson, must contract a marriage with a banker that fails.

Boina blanca

1941

Boina blanca poster
8.5

The film narrates events of the Revolution of the Park, carried out by radical sympathizers on July 26, 1890. There is a secondary plot with the romance of a girl who, despite being in love with her father's godson, must contract a marriage with a banker that fails.

Boina blanca

1941

Amalia poster
10.0

The romance between Amalia Sáenz de Olabarrieta –a widow living in Buenos Aires– and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano. Based on the novel by José Mármol.

Amalia

1936

Amalia poster
10.0

The romance between Amalia Sáenz de Olabarrieta –a widow living in Buenos Aires– and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano. Based on the novel by José Mármol.

Amalia

1936

María Rosa poster
7.5

A woman who misses her husband, who died in prison, is disputed between wine growers.

María Rosa

1946

No artwork available
NR

The film's plot, which largely takes place in a cabaret, revolves around a worldly guy who had abandoned a mature lover for a younger and more beautiful one. It is very elementary and is just a pretext for a parade of popular songs. Currently considered lost.

Dancing

1933

No artwork available
NR

The film's plot, which largely takes place in a cabaret, revolves around a worldly guy who had abandoned a mature lover for a younger and more beautiful one. It is very elementary and is just a pretext for a parade of popular songs. Currently considered lost.

Dancing

1933

¡Goal! poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

¡Goal!

1936

Don't Tell Me Goodbye poster
9.0

An Argentinian and a Brazilian fall in love and at the same time, their couples do the same thing between them.

Don't Tell Me Goodbye

1950

La fuerza ciega poster
9.0

A shipyard owner rapes the daughter of a blind worker, unaware that she is his own son's girlfriend.

La fuerza ciega

1950

La fuerza ciega poster
9.0

A shipyard owner rapes the daughter of a blind worker, unaware that she is his own son's girlfriend.

La fuerza ciega

1950

Dringue, Castrito y la lámpara de Aladino poster
NR

A spy adventure intertwined with the famous magic lamp from the story of One Thousand and One Nights.

Dringue, Castrito y la lámpara de Aladino

1954

Hogar, dulce hogar poster
5.5

A capricious lady resigns herself to work as the host of a female radio program where she sings jingles and gives advice on cooking and gardening, putting aside her love of police novels, but she will find herself involved in a murder.

Hogar, dulce hogar

1941

Hogar, dulce hogar poster
5.5

A capricious lady resigns herself to work as the host of a female radio program where she sings jingles and gives advice on cooking and gardening, putting aside her love of police novels, but she will find herself involved in a murder.

Hogar, dulce hogar

1941

Romance de medio siglo poster
8.0

A love story in the midst of historical accidents in Chile, through the revolution of 1891, the Valparaiso earthquake of 1906, the centenary celebrations of 1910 to the present, in 1944.

Romance de medio siglo

1944

Picaflor poster
7.0

An habitant of the Paraná Delta is tempted to engage in smuggling but abandons it for the love of a teacher.

Picaflor

1935

Picaflor poster
7.0

An habitant of the Paraná Delta is tempted to engage in smuggling but abandons it for the love of a teacher.

Picaflor

1935

Confesión poster
7.5

Group 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

Confesión poster
7.5

Group 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

El 90 poster
NR

Through a succession of flashbacks, a grandfather tells his grandson about the outstanding episodes of the 1890 revolution, known as the "Revolution of the Park", against the government of Juárez Celman. Between the armed confrontations and the exaltation of the figure of Leandro N. Alem, the evocation includes a synthetic love story and culminates with the celebration of the second presidency of Hipólito Yrigoyen.

El 90

1928

La senda oscura poster
7.0

An impostor pretends to be the mother of a blind man so he can manage his assets. But things are changing because of the arrival of the person who takes care of the blind.

La senda oscura

1947

La casa de Quirós poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La casa de Quirós

1937

La casa de Quirós poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La casa de Quirós

1937

La mujer puede y debe votar poster
NR

Short film that promotes women's voting rights, legalized in Argentina in 1947.

La mujer puede y debe votar

1951

No artwork available
9.0

A thief, after robbing a bank, meets by accident an aristocratic woman who asks for money to help an elderly asylum. They fall in love despite belonging to two different worlds.

El último encuentro

1938

Aphrodite poster
NR

According to historian Fernando Martín Peña, this film was produced by Julio Tello's Argentine Cinematographic Union distributor and premiered at the San Martín Theater as if it were French "presumably for reasons of respectability." After the campaign against him by the Catholic newspaper El Pueblo, San Martín took it down from the billboard. On November 4 it was announced that the film would be shown again in a downtown theater and finally on November 7 the interim mayor Adrián Fernández Castro resolved the ban for "amoral".

Aphrodite

1928

Aphrodite poster
NR

According to historian Fernando Martín Peña, this film was produced by Julio Tello's Argentine Cinematographic Union distributor and premiered at the San Martín Theater as if it were French "presumably for reasons of respectability." After the campaign against him by the Catholic newspaper El Pueblo, San Martín took it down from the billboard. On November 4 it was announced that the film would be shown again in a downtown theater and finally on November 7 the interim mayor Adrián Fernández Castro resolved the ban for "amoral".

Aphrodite

1928

Juan Moreira poster
7.0

Adaptation of the homonymous novel by Eduardo Gutiérrez, inspired by a real police chronicle, starring a gaucho killed by the police in 1874. Juan Moreira's life was full of injustices and has been considered representative of those suffered by gauchos.

Juan Moreira

1948

La doctora Castañuelas poster
7.0

Love will reveal the double life of a woman who is a scientist by day and a singer by night.

La doctora Castañuelas

1950

La doctora Castañuelas poster
7.0

Love will reveal the double life of a woman who is a scientist by day and a singer by night.

La doctora Castañuelas

1950

Riachuelo poster
7.5

A thief ends up in the Riachuelo zone and after a revealing event, he stops stealing and starts working.

Riachuelo

1934

Riachuelo poster
7.5

A thief ends up in the Riachuelo zone and after a revealing event, he stops stealing and starts working.

Riachuelo

1934