
Acting
María Esther Podestá
Born — Died
1896-11-24 — 1983-09-18
Place of birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
47 titles
Known for
9.0Chronicle of the struggle of the first settlers of southern Argentina against the Indian rustlers and landowners.
Los troperos
1953
7.0In a town that relies heavily on horses, two men try to get rich by patenting and selling bags that hold the animals' body waste.
The Big Business
1959
10.0When a divorced couple tries to reunite, the separation of others distances them.
De noche también se duerme
1956
It narrates the misfortunes that a man who has worked in the field all his life goes through.
Barranca abajo
1937
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
7.0The romance of a couple set in the time of Juan Manuel de Rosas with a federal corporal serving as a link.
El cabo Rivero
1938
Film credits
1960s · 7 titles
6.2Piluso and Coquito confront the evil owner of a castle, who takes possession of other people's lands.
Las aventuras del Capitán Piluso en el castillo del terror
1963
7.0El Gordo Villanueva is capable of anything in order to live comfortably, but without working.
El gordo Villanueva
1964
8.0A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Viaje de una noche de verano
1965
6.3The attitudes of different people to the fact of going to the movies.
Saturday Night, Cinema
1960
7.5The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.
La murga
1963
5.8The pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján causes the meeting of people of different classes.
La procesión
1960
6.5During a local festival, a mysterious stranger appears in town, heading towards a violent confrontation.
Man on Pink Corner
1962
1950s · 16 titles
9.0Chronicle of the struggle of the first settlers of southern Argentina against the Indian rustlers and landowners.
Los troperos
1953
7.0In a town that relies heavily on horses, two men try to get rich by patenting and selling bags that hold the animals' body waste.
The Big Business
1959
10.0When a divorced couple tries to reunite, the separation of others distances them.
De noche también se duerme
1956
7.0Based on the novel by Roberto Vagni, it narrates the exploitation of loggers from Corrientes and Chaco by the English company La Forestal.
Tierra extraña
1951
A widowed man who has lived adoring the memory of his wife, discovers 15 years later that she was his best friend's lover.
Todo sea para bien
1957
8.0A trolley falls from a bridge to the Riachuelo, killing almost all its passengers. The families of the victims receive compensation, they improve their lifestyles and look down on the worker who didn't take the trolley that mortal day.
Dock Sud
1953
6.4Mexican singer touring Argentina wins a country estate in a poker game.
Amor se dice cantando
1958
9.0A tango singer is involved in the death of a lender.
Pecadora
1956
10.0To save her businesses from ruin, a woman about to marry must find another woman a husband.
Cuidado con las mujeres
1951
7.0A bachelor, sheltered by a wealthy aunt, sees the ghost of his girlfriend appear every night. But she isn't dead, and they end up getting married.
¿Vendrás a medianoche?
1950
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Especialista en señoras
1951
7.0A 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
10.0A field commissioner tries to solve the problems of his village.
Su seguro servidor
1954
Instructed by his wife's uncle, a womanizer makes her believe that he has died.
El muerto es un vivo
1953
7.8A runaway bride poses as a married woman and mother of twins to woo a suitor who only falls in love with married women.
Arroz con leche
1950
5.5In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.
A Difficult Widow
1957
1940s · 13 titles
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
6.1Paris, 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
7.2After 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
10.0Film about the biography of the musician Franz Schubert.
Inspiración
1946
8.0Isaac Albéniz was a child prodigy, and the victim of a tyrannical father. He flees from his house, to America. He returns to his country years later, where he achieves international fame and the attention of many women.
Albéniz
1947
7.7No synopsis available yet.
El que recibe las bofetadas
1947
5.7A woman fakes her pregnancy to keep her husband and then it turns out to be true.
Un bebé de París
1941
5.5A 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
8.0Two men fight for a woman.
Siete para un secreto
1947
10.0The misadventures and mishaps of a tailor.
El susto que Pérez se llevó
1940
8.0A 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
10.0A worker looking for money for his blind mother's operation, presents himself as a tango singer and achieves success.
El cantor del pueblo
1948
7.0A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path.
Sinvergüenza
1940
1930s · 5 titles
It narrates the misfortunes that a man who has worked in the field all his life goes through.
Barranca abajo
1937
7.0The romance of a couple set in the time of Juan Manuel de Rosas with a federal corporal serving as a link.
El cabo Rivero
1938
10.0A woman and a young man, mother and son, meet on a Carnival night, creating confusion for their respective spouses.
Noches de Carnaval
1938
7.0Young officer is tried for espionage when some documents turn up missing.
El escuadrón azul
1937
7.0Giácomo is an Italian man in his forties who is single, dedicated to earning money in his business. He strikes up a relationship with a Spanish singer, whose brother encourages her to conquer him to take her money.
Giácomo
1939

