If I Should Die Before I Wake

If I Should Die Before I Wake 1952

6.10

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

1952

Cuando la primavera se equivoca

Cuando la primavera se equivoca 1944

1

A young woman falls asleep at the gates of an old farm; in her dream she is transported to another century where she suffers for love.

1944

Never Open That Door

Never Open That Door 1952

6.80

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

La dama duende

La dama duende 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.

1945

Casa de muñecas

Casa de muñecas 1943

5.00

The conflict of a woman with her husband when she starts defending her individuality.

1943

Strange World

Strange World 1950

2.00

During an archeological expedition in the Amazon, a group of explorers -- including a father and a son -- finds a beautiful golden statue. The party is attacked by remnants of a lost civilization, and the son is rescued by Indians. Years later, living in the city, he discovers in a magazine article photographic evidence of the golden god in the jungle. Willing to find his father, he quits his job and travels to the Amazon.

1950

Juvenilia

Juvenilia 1943

5.00

A group of young people from the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires recount their wanderings and their days in high school at the time of the National Organization in Buenos Aires.

1943

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

Nuestra Natacha

Nuestra Natacha 1944

1

A girl who grew up in a boarding school where she suffered from a lack of love is set as its director once she graduates as a lawyer.

1944

La cabalgata del circo

La cabalgata del circo 1945

6.70

The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.

1945

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

Cuando florezca el naranjo

Cuando florezca el naranjo 1943

1

A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival disrupts the discipline of the beautiful students.

1943

El último payador

El último payador 1950

8.50

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.

1950

Eclipse de sol

Eclipse de sol 1943

7.20

A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.

1943

The Prodigal Woman

The Prodigal Woman 1945

5.50

The story of Julia, a beautiful woman of licentious life who one day reconsiders and decides to use her fortune for the good of her neighbor and of the needy.

1945

Volver a la vida

Volver a la vida 1951

5.00

An Italian sailor and soldier rebuilds his post-war life in Argentina.

1951

En el viejo Buenos Aires

En el viejo Buenos Aires 1942

5.00

The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.

1942