
Acting
Oscar Villa
Argentina
Acting credits
8.0A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price.
Diez segundos
1949
9.0Lucy is a woman of shady past who convinces Argüello and Carlos to install an illegal gambling hall on a cabaret that worked legally. When Argüello is interested romantically in her, it rejects it because it is attracted by Carlos, a womanizer singer. The obsession for her leads Argüello to cheat in the game that he holds with Carlos and manages to ruin him, but finally both fight and Argüello dies stabbed but without denouncing his aggressor to recover his self-esteem as a professional player.
Monte Criollo
1935
7.0The adventures of the man who had no childhood, smart for business, but a lover of innocent jokes.
Don Fulgencio
1950
7.5Group 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
9.0A late pregnancy disrupts the routine of a mature marriage.
El andador
1967
Argentine film.
El guapo de la flota
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8.0A shy and humble young man overcomes his fears and becomes a racing champion.
Steel racing cars
1950
In a boarding house, the maid marries the ice cream man, and a newly graduated doctor falls in love with his first patient.
Los locos del cuarto piso
1937
9.0A bohemian reluctant to marriage and work will get sudden wealth.
Así te quiero
1942
No synopsis available yet.
Una porteña optimista
1937
NRAn older single woman pretends to be a widow to get a husband but his spouse returns to her life complicating her situation.
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
1943
10.0A house in Buenos Aires where the oldest profession in the world is in practice.
La Casa del Amor
1973
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
8.0An 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Busco un marido para mi mujer
1938
5.3On the night of his marriage, a young bourgeois man runs over a cyclist. He believes he is dead and hides the body. However, a mysterious character will later appear in his life.
The Corpse Breaks a Date
1944
7.0Two boys from Mendoza leave their land attracted by Buenos Aires and fall into crime.
La barra mendocina
1935
9.0The failure of a marriage and its consequences in the family.
El divorcio está de moda (de común acuerdo)
1978
10.0Rich man suddenly feels compelled to track down his son from his first wife, whom he abandoned in early childhood.An imposter slides into his household on that pretext...
El caradura y la millonaria
1971
An impulsive actress abandons a film shoot and is replaced by a dressmaker, and the former's husband hires her to impersonate her in front of his future in-laws.
La otra y yo
1949
10.0No synopsis available yet.
El gran crucero
1970
8.0No synopsis available yet.
El hombre del sábado
1947
9.0Two brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Por buen camino
1935
6.5When a woman finds out that her husband is being unfaithful to her, she decides to give him a dose of his own medicine, making him jealous with another suitor.
My Husband and My Boyfriend
1955