Three Men of the River

Three Men of the River 1943

1

The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.

1943

The Islanders

The Islanders 1951

5.60

Leandro and Carancha inhabit the islands located in the Parana delta. When their son brings home a girlfriend, her presence makes Carancha jealous and dramatic consequences ensue.

1951

Historia del 900

Historia del 900 1949

7.10

In the Buenos Aires of 1900, a man seeks to avenge the death of his brother, killed at the exit of a fight.

1949

The Clover Sect

The Clover Sect 1948

6.80

A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.

1948

En el último piso

En el último piso 1942

1

By trying to maintain her millionaire appearance, a young woman goes through a series of entanglements and finds a love that is also millionaire.

1942

Never Open That Door

Never Open That Door 1952

6.60

A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.

1952

If I Should Die Before I Wake

If I Should Die Before I Wake 1952

5.90

While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.

1952

La senda oscura

La senda oscura 1947

1

An impostor pretends to be the mother of a blind man so he can manage his assets. But things are changing because of the arrival of the person who takes care of the blind.

1947

Pobre mi madre querida

Pobre mi madre querida 1948

5.00

Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.

1948

La serpiente de cascabel

La serpiente de cascabel 1948

7.00

Juan Carlos Thorry is a police inspector who must solve the mystery of the death of the warden of a boarding school for young women, for which he goes undercover as a music teacher. The main suspect is the mischievous schoolgirl María Duval. A series of entanglements leads the protagonists to becoming romantically involved and to finding the culprit.

1948

Camino del infierno

Camino del infierno 1945

6.20

A 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.

1945

Los hijos del otro

Los hijos del otro 1947

1

A mother hires a psychologist to be the father of 3 children, and he performs his role excellently, providing affection.

1947

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary 1947

5.80

Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.

1947

Los hijos artificiales

Los hijos artificiales 1943

5.00

To hide his escapades, a justice of the peace with a dissipated life pretends to have a son out of wedlock, but when the young man appears in his town he complicates things.

1943

El pecado de Julia

El pecado de Julia 1947

6.00

It is about the love affair between an aristocratic lady and a lackey.

1947

La cumparsita

La cumparsita 1947

5.00

A young woman named Gloria, daughter of a Spanish immigrant, obtains great popularity in her neighborhood of Buenos Aires because of the way she interprets the tango. One day she enters a contest...

1947

The Phantom Lady

The Phantom Lady 1945

5.00

The young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome officer, pretending she’s a duende, a ghost. Voted the best Argentine film of 1945, La dama duende is a beautifully crafted comedy of errors, based on the 17th-century play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The most ambitious production of Estudios San Miguel, it was brought to the screen mostly by Spaniards exiled in Argentina as a result of the Civil War.

1945

Juan Moreira

Juan Moreira 1948

1

Adaptation of the homonymous novel by Eduardo Gutiérrez, inspired by a real police chronicle, starring a gaucho killed by the police in 1874. Juan Moreira's life was full of injustices and has been considered representative of those suffered by gauchos.

1948