The Bad Life 1973

Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.

Aconcagua 1964

Life in a detachment at the foot of the mountain range is altered by an accident and by a woman.

A Blonde Like That 1963

Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. In reality, Miss Shumway has escaped into the Indian jungle in the company of a conjurer. Millan, a mischievous and adventurous journalist, tracks down the young woman in the Indian sector of Tamazunchale. They get to know each other and Myra tells the young man what drove her to flee her father. But she's run out of money and expects her adventure to come to an end soon. Then she meets a man named Doc, who suggests she contact an old Indian sorcerer.

Virgin field 1959

Plowed field 1959

The story of a family that lives in a rural area of the province of Buenos Aires through three generations.

Procesado 1040 1958

Elderly suburban man is imprisoned over a misunderstanding about some garden utensils.

Los torturados 1956

A parapolice force within Peronism is dedicated to reducing and extorting all kinds of opponents, among whom a few rise up to denounce what is happening. Although the film has propaganda purposes that deliberately ignore part of reality, it is based on documented cases, such as those of the student Ernesto Mario Bravo or the trade union leader Cipriano Reyes.

Emergency Ward 1952

The Argentine Sala de Guardia was released in English-speaking markets as Emergency Ward. South-of-the-Border matinee idol Carlos Thompson stars as an idealistic intern, doing his best to survive a very tough day on the job. When not scurrying from one patient to another, the intern tries to maintain equilibrium in his romance with a nurse (Elisa Galve). Comedy dovetails neatly into tragedy, which in turn segues smoothly into heart-tugging pathos. A box-office smash in Argentina, Sala de Guardia repeated its moneymaking performance all throughout Latin America.

Road to crime 1951

A moral parable about juvenile delinquency, which takes a tour of different characters of the Buenos Aires fauna.

Arrabalera 1950

Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...

Filomena Marturano 1950

Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.

From Man to Man 1949

A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.

A Sangre Fría 1947

A couple plans to poison a wealthy elderly to stay with his fortune. However, the plans of the villain and his accomplice stagger at the last minute.

Savage Pampas 1945

In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.

Éramos seis 1945

A mother recounts the different stages experienced by her family.

María Celeste 1945

After a storm, the captain of a ship lets it float aimlessly until he reaches an island paradise.

Malambo 1942

Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.

Los chicos crecen 1942

A married man takes advantage of his friendship with another man, making him pretend to be the father of the children he has out of wedlock.