María Esther Podestá

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

Film credits

1960s · 7 titles

1950s · 16 titles

Los troperos poster
9.0

Chronicle of the struggle of the first settlers of southern Argentina against the Indian rustlers and landowners.

Los troperos

1953

The Big Business poster
7.0

In 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

De noche también se duerme poster
10.0

When a divorced couple tries to reunite, the separation of others distances them.

De noche también se duerme

1956

Tierra extraña poster
7.0

Based 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

No artwork available
7.0

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

Dock Sud poster
8.0

A 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

Amor se dice cantando poster
6.4

Mexican singer touring Argentina wins a country estate in a poker game.

Amor se dice cantando

1958

Pecadora poster
9.0

A tango singer is involved in the death of a lender.

Pecadora

1956

Cuidado con las mujeres poster
10.0

To save her businesses from ruin, a woman about to marry must find another woman a husband.

Cuidado con las mujeres

1951

¿Vendrás a medianoche? poster
7.0

A 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

Especialista en señoras poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Especialista en señoras

1951

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

Su seguro servidor poster
10.0

A field commissioner tries to solve the problems of his village.

Su seguro servidor

1954

No artwork available
9.0

Instructed by his wife's uncle, a womanizer makes her believe that he has died.

El muerto es un vivo

1953

Arroz con leche poster
7.8

A 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

A Difficult Widow poster
5.5

In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.

A Difficult Widow

1957

1940s · 13 titles

Orca poster
7.0

A 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

Madame Bovary poster
6.1

Paris, 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

30 seconds of love poster
7.2

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

Inspiración poster
10.0

Film about the biography of the musician Franz Schubert.

Inspiración

1946

Albéniz poster
8.0

Isaac 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

El que recibe las bofetadas poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

El que recibe las bofetadas

1947

Un bebé de París poster
5.7

A woman fakes her pregnancy to keep her husband and then it turns out to be true.

Un bebé de París

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

Siete para un secreto poster
8.0

Two men fight for a woman.

Siete para un secreto

1947

El susto que Pérez se llevó poster
10.0

The misadventures and mishaps of a tailor.

El susto que Pérez se llevó

1940

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

El cantor del pueblo poster
10.0

A worker looking for money for his blind mother's operation, presents himself as a tango singer and achieves success.

El cantor del pueblo

1948

Sinvergüenza poster
7.0

A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path.

Sinvergüenza

1940