Tangos Are for Two 1998

A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over. Written by

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The story of Tuco, an amateur singer who thinks he sings like Carlos Gardel and locks himself in his room, waiting for a group of musicians to accompany him in a hypothetical television debut.

El rigor del destino 1985

The Children of the War 1984

Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War.

The days that you gave me 1975

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The Truce 1974

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

Operación Masacre 1973

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Santos Vega 1971

The story of Santos Vega, an Argentine gaucho from the province of Buenos Aires, who lived around 1830, and who gave rise to a legend in which, being an invincible payador, he ends up falling defeated to none other than the Devil, embodied in the person of Juan Sin Ropa, the only one who could defeat him.

Los herederos 1970

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La cigarra está que arde 1967

Dos quijotes sobre ruedas 1966

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La cómplice 1966

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El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres 1964

Violated Love 1963

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La fin del mundo 1963

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Faithful Love 1954

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Los troperos 1953

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