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Browse 76 movies from Establecimientos Filmadores Argentinos
When a man agrees to join a gang of criminals, his life becomes a complicated labyrinth that he will have to leave in order to be saved.
Jun 1943
Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a young lady who turns out to be the daughter of his employer.
Jan 1940
A young woman returns from boarding school and will repeat in a certain way her mother's secret story, but she will be happy.
Jun 1941
The misadventures of four young women who want to get married.
Jan 1941
A man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.
Oct 1943
A capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a poor servant that can make her open up.
Jan 1942
A woman tries to run away when she finds out that her nephews plan to kill her.
Mar 1947
A shy man marries the daughter of a local warlord, works as a municipal chief of staff, witnesses numerous injustices and rebels himself.
Mar 1941
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.
Oct 1942
A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.
Oct 1947
While her husband is abroad, Luisa receives a visit from an old love, her cousin, who becomes a "dangerous attraction". Her husband's stay abroad is prolonged and her loneliness overwhelms her and her attraction to her cousin increases.
Jun 1944
A Russian duke who's fallen on hard times tries to recover a stash of jewels hidden inside an armchair, but the chair gets sold at auction to a millionairess and he's forced to marry her in order to retrieve the treasure.
Jul 1943
A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.
Oct 1940
Giácomo is an Italian man in his forties who is single, dedicated to earning money in his business. He strikes up a relationship with a Spanish singer, whose brother encourages her to conquer him to take her money.
May 1939
A married man usually has very bad luck until he wins the lottery.
Feb 1949
Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.
Mar 1945
The relationship of the young night school teacher with her students.
Mar 1942
Enrique, a gray office worker who lives a marriage already without passion begins to rethink his life when he receives an anonymous who says that his wife deceives him.
Jan 1938
After losing all his fortune, a man assumes his poverty with dignity, confidence and effort. He faces all adversities and his nobility and perseverance make him succeed and be happy with the woman he loves.
A neighborhood hairdresser suddenly becomes a boxing champion and abandons his girlfriend to get engaged to a star.
Nov 1941