
Acting
Pedro López Lagar
Born 1899-06-17 · Madrid, Spain
Pedro López Lagar (1899-1977) was a renowned Spanish theater and film actor. In 1936, he was on tour when the Spanish Civil War broke out. He and his coworkers found refuge in Argentina, where he was naturalized. There he lived the rest of his life and made almost his entire cinematographic career (including his debut).
Acting credits
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
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
5.5A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
El gran autor
1954
6.5A medical student helps an amnesic patient to remember his life but they end up falling in love, and she'll must sacrifice her love.
Concierto de almas
1942
8.0A young woman returns from boarding school and will repeat in a certain way her mother's secret story, but she will be happy.
Veinte años y una noche
1941
6.7Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
The Boy and the Fog
1953
8.0A man agrees to sell his youth to a strange character.
El hombre que amé
1947
10.0Argentinian adaptation of "The Kreutzer Sonata" by Leo Tolstoy.
Celos
1946
6.8Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.
The Marihuana Story
1950
NRSeveral individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.
Tierra del Fuego
1948
The story of different episodes that happen in each of the sections of a newspaper.
Ceniza al viento
1942
7.3Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Reportaje
1953
7.0Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.
How to Make an Argentine Film
1948
8.0In exchange for the life of a Norwegian fisherman, a bankrupt industrialist gives his soul to the devil.
La barca sin pescador
1950
7.0A single man must pretend to be the father of a teenage girl and will end up marrying her mother.
The Third Kiss
1942
10.0A man from Europe knows a secret with which he tries to blackmail the father of a young woman.
Incertidumbre
1942
6.0A passionate young man can't forget the love of her life, who is about to get married. Passion will find its way but with fatal consequences.
Bodas de sangre
1938
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Los ojos más lindos del mundo
1943
7.3A melodramatic, psychological thriller, the film tells the story of a young wealthy widow, who is unhappy. She meets a Bohemian artist who marries her to escape the poverty of his family, but is stifled by her possessiveness and jealousy.
Camino del infierno
1945
6.1A man returns to town after a long time and meets his ex-girlfriend, who is married to a husband in desperate economic situation.
Story of a Single Night
1941
7.5The romance between a young aristocratic woman and an unlucky painter that takes place in the lakes of Bariloche.
Apasionadamente
1944
No synopsis available yet.
Son cartas de amor
1943
7.3A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.
The Clover Sect
1948
8.0Rosario, Tirana, actress of the late eighteenth century, enjoys the protection of the Duke of Fornells, Chief Justice of the Kingdom, which paves for the actress the way to fame on stage at the Prince theater. The secret love of Rosario, the Earl of San Esteban dies in a duel with Fornells and its position is occupied by the bullfighter Costillares.
La Tirana
1958