De turno con la muerte

The happiness of a child is marred by the harsh attitude of the captain of a boat.

A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.

Tabloid journalists muddy the waters during the investigation of the murder of an Argentine senator.

A bond develops between a truck driver and his newly-assigned helper, a young man who happens to be deaf.

A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.

Film about the biography of the musician Franz Schubert.

A man finances the invention of a friend overshadowed and dominated by the women of his family.

A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.

In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the army and becomes a bandit leader.

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.

The inhabitants of a town try to expel from the place a young man whose only sin is having been the seventh son of a family.

This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.

A sculptor lends money to a bankrupt man, who agrees to allow his daughter pose for the sculptor's next work. The film caused a scandal in Argentina for the depiction of then 17-year-old Olga Zubarry's naked back. Adaptated from the novel "Fräulein Else" by Arthur Schnitzler.

El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.

A cabaret performer tries to protect her daughter from a mysterious killer while resisting the advances of the prosecutor pursuing the criminal.

During his childhood, Nino arrived from Italy to live with his uncle in a humble neighborhood. There, he begins working in a butcher shop and falls in love with Natalia, his neighbor. However, she has other aspirations, such as winning over her boss at the jewelry store where she works.

A young man will try to escape at any cost from the humble conditions in which he lives in his neighborhood.

The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.

For ambition a woman sacrifices her true love and marries a man of fortune.

Romance starts in Rio between a Mexican tenor being wooed for a Buenos Aires production, and an Argentine gal who has won a soap contest and who he thinks is rich.

An architect goes on vacation and begins an affair with a young woman in a small town in Córdoba.

A woman and a man are involved in trafficking.

A village doctor is involved in a shady business.

A young man has to fight over his girlfriend with a newly arrived competitor, an older man who arrived from America.

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.

The story of a pair of bumbling detectives Uruguayan undertaking the mission to go to the aid of an orphan and very rich heiress to Argentina. It will be very easy to deal with the thousand and one difficulties awaiting them on the road. Clashes with bandits plaguing the region and that will go back more than once, will not be the only danger.

"The Vicious Ones" - The police investigates a drug trafficking network. Other social issues are discloses. A rare film including the famous Coccinelle.

Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.

From Emile Zola's novel "La Bete Humaine", tells the story of a jealous husband, a provocative woman and a man with an uncontrollable desire to kill.

The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.

A couple of thieves with a worldwide reputation start a dispute over a valuable necklace in a transalpine train.

A young man returns to his neighborhood after spending ten years locked up in a reformatory.

To prevent her lover from marrying another woman out of interest, a young woman will pretend to be a man.

Three-episode film linked to each other by means of a medallion, where love is the engine that drives people to act the way they did.