El festín de Satanás 1958

With 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.

Crisol de hombres 1954

The life of conscripts who live in a barracks.

Mi noche triste 1952

The plot reflects the figure of Pascual Contursi, tango poet. In love with a singer, he leaves his wife and son to go with her. Some time later, the singer leaves him and he composes the tango that gives the film its title.

Suburbio 1951

Two 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.

Ayer y hoy 1951

This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) compares a past of explotation and misery with the new Argentina of Peronist social justice.

Llegada de noche 1949

Santos Vega vuelve 1947

A singer takes possession of a ranch and receives the mission to avenge his ancestor Santos Vega, that legendary payador, and defeat Juan Sin Ropa.

La tía de Carlos 1946

A young man pretends to be his friends' aunt to solve certain problems.

Centauros del pasado 1944

Film about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos.

Pachamama 1944

A man intends to cure a blind aborigine, taking her to the city, but her boyfriend wants to stop him.

Cruza 1942

The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.

Mamá Gloria 1941

The romance in a student pension run by a good-natured spinster, between a pensioner and a student gambler.

Persona honrada se necesita 1941

A 1941 film.

If I Were Rich 1941

A screwball comedy about a young barrio songstress and pickpocket who, while escaping after nicking a woman's wallet, is hired to model for an agency. There she discovers a new world when she mixes with the rich and finds love among them.

El diablo con faldas 1938

A revue theater company alters the mayor's life when it arrives in his town.

La vuelta de Rocha 1937

A sailor and a tango singer fall in love. To protect her, the man takes her to live with his family. But before embarking, he is robbed, and the circumstances accuse the girl of being an accomplice of the criminals.

Outside the Law 1937

A delinquent, the son of a police commissioner, leaves prison to seduce someone who should be like a sister to him: a girl raised and loved by his parents. To force her to give in to his obsession, he kidnaps her little daughter.