
Acting
Pedro Maratea
Acting credits
6.3A country girl falls in love with an English professor who's in the country studying fossils, but must return to his land.
El inglés de los güesos
1940
NRA man intends to cure a blind aborigine, taking her to the city, but her boyfriend wants to stop him.
Pachamama
1944
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ponchos azules
1942
6.5Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the neighborhood forget their differences before the appearance of an epidemic.
Suburbio
1951
9.0Film about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos.
Centauros del pasado
1944
10.0The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
Cruza
1942
8.0The romance in a student pension run by a good-natured spinster, between a pensioner and a student gambler.
Mamá Gloria
1941
10.0The romance between a mature doctor and a young girl, set in the mountains of Córdoba.
Fuego en la montaña
1943
7.0A gaucho flees from justice for murdering a man with whom his girlfriend was betraying him. He settles in a place where he falls in love with a woman, also desired by the local commissioner.
Orca
1942
6.7A singer takes possession of a ranch and receives the mission to avenge his ancestor Santos Vega, that legendary payador, and defeat Juan Sin Ropa.
Santos Vega vuelve
1947
9.0In 1812, the Argentine people and the army of the north resist the royalist advances.
Nace la libertad
1949
6.2A delinquent, the son of a police commissioner, leaves prison to seduce someone who should be like a sister to him: a girl raised and loved by his parents. To force her to give in to his obsession, he kidnaps her little daughter.
Outside the Law
1937
7.0A 1941 film.
Persona honrada se necesita
1941
7.5A gaucho kills a romantic rival in a duel, forcing him to flee.
Lo que le pasó a Reynoso
1937
7.0A humble bartender wants his minister brother to recognize the son of the woman he abandoned years ago.
Oro entre barro
1939
10.0A revue theater company alters the mayor's life when it arrives in his town.
El diablo con faldas
1938
6.2A screwball comedy about a young barrio songstress and pickpocket who, while escaping after nicking a woman's wallet, is hired to model for an agency. There she discovers a new world when she mixes with the rich and finds love among them.
If I Were Rich
1941
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Llegada de noche
1949
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
9.0The life of conscripts who live in a barracks.
Crisol de hombres
1954
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
After saying goodbye to friends, a man walks towards the port while realizing that what a young woman with a graceful voice sang begins to open the door that leads him to the path of faith.
Senderos de fe
1938
10.0This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) compares a past of explotation and misery with the new Argentina of Peronist social justice.
Ayer y hoy
1951
The story of different episodes that happen in each of the sections of a newspaper.
Ceniza al viento
1942