Homero Cárpena

Homero Cárpena

Born: February 13, 1910
Died: January 17, 2001
in Mar del Plata, Argentina
Homero Cárpena was an Argentine film director and actor who had an extensive artistic career.

Movies for Homero Cárpena...

Olga, la hija de aquella princesa rusa
Title: Olga, la hija de aquella princesa rusa
Released: August 3, 1972
Type: Movie
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The Patagonic Teacher
Title: The Patagonic Teacher
Released: September 3, 1970
Type: Movie
After filming the hippie professor Luis Sandrini filmed this sequel to the above, following the sanctions imposed on it by Professor Horacio Montesano, sending him to Patagonia to a secondary school. Among the supporting cast is the famous singer Piero (he even play many of their good songs).
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The Hippie Teacher
Title: The Hippie Teacher
Character: Profesor Salvatierra
Released: July 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Luis Sandrini plays a college professor who, because of his freethinking attitudes and concerns for moral questions over matters of business, has more in common with his students than his colleagues.
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Kuma-Ching
Title: Kuma-Ching
Character: General Chang
Released: June 19, 1969
Type: Movie
A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.
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Tres historias fantásticas
Title: Tres historias fantásticas
Released: October 1, 1964
Type: Movie
The film is made up of three independent stories: The Network, The Experiment and The Deer of the Seven Roses.
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La cigarra no es un bicho
Title: La cigarra no es un bicho
Character: Gerente del hotel
Released: May 6, 1963
Type: Movie
The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.
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Detrás de la mentira
Title: Detrás de la mentira
Character: Instructor
Released: December 12, 1962
Type: Movie
An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party.
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Operación
Title: Operación "G"
Character: André
Released: September 27, 1962
Type: Movie
The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.
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Delito
Title: Delito
Character: Daniel
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
A police officer joins a gang of smugglers to try to unmask its members.
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The Ruffian
Title: The Ruffian
Released: September 7, 1961
Type: Movie
An amnesiac carnival psychic is haunted by the thought that a man is coming to kill her.
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Anguish of a Secret
Title: Anguish of a Secret
Character: Valentín
Released: September 17, 1959
Type: Movie
A priest is unjustly sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. The surprise will be greater when he, while in prison, knows who the murderer is through the confession of his daughter.
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El hombre señalado
Title: El hombre señalado
Released: August 8, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Los lobos del palmar
Title: Los lobos del palmar
Released: January 2, 1955
Type: Movie
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María Magdalena
Title: María Magdalena
Released: June 10, 1954
Type: Movie
A prostitute helps a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.
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El cartero
Title: El cartero
Released: January 21, 1954
Type: Movie
A provincial postman shares with the inhabitants of a small town the joys and sorrows caused by the correspondence he delivers.
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Soy del tiempo de Gardel
Title: Soy del tiempo de Gardel
Released: January 2, 1954
Type: Movie
A tango academy has different characters and each one has its story.
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Las zapatillas coloradas
Title: Las zapatillas coloradas
Released: March 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Two detectives are hired to investigate the theft of essential shoes for a famous dancer.
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
Title: If I Should Die Before I Wake
Released: March 11, 1952
Type: Movie
While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.
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El zorro pierde el pelo
Title: El zorro pierde el pelo
Character: Cayetano Orloff
Released: November 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A womanizer's girlfriend and future father-in-law try to teach him a lesson.
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La vendedora de fantasías
Title: La vendedora de fantasías
Character: Márido de Olga
Released: May 5, 1950
Type: Movie
A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.
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El cielo en las manos
Title: El cielo en las manos
Released: March 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.
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Big five and a girl
Title: Big five and a girl
Character: Antón de Rizzo
Released: February 28, 1950
Type: Movie
The five members of a soccer team discover a case of bribery.
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Fascination
Title: Fascination
Released: September 26, 1949
Type: Movie
The wife of a hypnotist lives in a state of uncertainty over whether she's with her husband out of love or if she's been a victim of his influence.
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Yo no elegí mi vida
Title: Yo no elegí mi vida
Character: Polizón en tren
Released: June 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.
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Hardly a Criminal
Title: Hardly a Criminal
Released: March 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…
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Fúlmine
Title: Fúlmine
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A married man usually has very bad luck until he wins the lottery.
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La otra y yo
Title: La otra y yo
Released: January 28, 1949
Type: Movie
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El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
Title: El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.
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Las aventuras de Jack
Title: Las aventuras de Jack
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
In the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.
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El tambor de Tacuarí
Title: El tambor de Tacuarí
Released: July 6, 1948
Type: Movie
After the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.
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Story of a Bad Woman
Title: Story of a Bad Woman
Released: May 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Based on "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde. The story of a woman who saves her daughter from making the same mistake that cost her happiness years ago.
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La locura de Don Juan
Title: La locura de Don Juan
Character: Raimundo
Released: March 20, 1948
Type: Movie
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La serpiente de cascabel
Title: La serpiente de cascabel
Character: Morales
Released: March 16, 1948
Type: Movie
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.
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Un ángel sin pantalones
Title: Un ángel sin pantalones
Released: July 29, 1947
Type: Movie
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The Mysterious Uncle Silas
Title: The Mysterious Uncle Silas
Character: William
Released: March 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A woman tries to run away when she finds out that her nephews plan to kill her.
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Tres millones... y el amor
Title: Tres millones... y el amor
Released: October 31, 1946
Type: Movie
A thief going to rob an unscrupulous industrialist falls in love with a young woman and turns himself in to the police to save a thief friend.
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Cuando en el cielo pasen lista
Title: Cuando en el cielo pasen lista
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The life and work of philanthropist and educator William Case Morris (1864-1932).
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Besos perdidos
Title: Besos perdidos
Released: August 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.
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Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo
Title: Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo
Released: August 2, 1945
Type: Movie
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The Immovable Loved One
Title: The Immovable Loved One
Released: July 27, 1945
Type: Movie
The loves of Ana Cecilia Luisa Deillez with the Mexican poet Amado Nervo.
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Chiruca
Title: Chiruca
Released: July 4, 1945
Type: Movie
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Se abre el abismo
Title: Se abre el abismo
Character: Gregorio Andrada
Released: March 16, 1945
Type: Movie
The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Title: Madame Sans-Gêne
Character: Fouchet, duque de Otranto
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
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El fin de la noche
Title: El fin de la noche
Released: November 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance.
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Cuando la primavera se equivoca
Title: Cuando la primavera se equivoca
Character: Miguel
Released: October 31, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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La casta Susana
Title: La casta Susana
Released: October 11, 1944
Type: Movie
The wife of an officer receives a "prize for virtue" from one of her many lovers, causing several misunderstandings.
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Nuestra Natacha
Title: Nuestra Natacha
Released: September 7, 1944
Type: Movie
A 1944 film.
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La importancia de ser ladrón
Title: La importancia de ser ladrón
Released: July 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A modest employee of exemplary behavior is mistakenly accused of committing a major fraud.
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El deseo
Title: El deseo
Released: June 22, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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Su mejor alumno
Title: Su mejor alumno
Released: May 22, 1944
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.
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Three Men of the River
Title: Three Men of the River
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Cuando florezca el naranjo
Title: Cuando florezca el naranjo
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival upsets the discipline of the beautiful students.
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Cruza
Title: Cruza
Released: September 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
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El gran secreto
Title: El gran secreto
Released: July 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
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Cada hogar, un mundo
Title: Cada hogar, un mundo
Released: April 27, 1942
Type: Movie
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The Gaucho Priest
Title: The Gaucho Priest
Released: June 25, 1941
Type: Movie
The life of José Gabriel Brochero, the Cordovan priest who dedicated his life to those most in need.
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El mozo número 13
Title: El mozo número 13
Character: Dr. Jeremías
Released: February 26, 1941
Type: Movie
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Novios para las muchachas
Title: Novios para las muchachas
Released: January 29, 1941
Type: Movie
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Chingolo
Title: Chingolo
Character: Carbonillo
Released: September 18, 1940
Type: Movie
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Encadenado
Title: Encadenado
Released: March 28, 1940
Type: Movie
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Prisoners of the Land
Title: Prisoners of the Land
Released: August 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas with the purpose of hiring workers.
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...Y los sueños pasan
Title: ...Y los sueños pasan
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Four young artists who live in a boarding house fall in love with the new lodger.
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Frente a la vida
Title: Frente a la vida
Released: February 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A man leaves his girlfriend, but she still sacrifices her happiness to procure his.
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Nativa
Title: Nativa
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The love triangle of a journalist, a political leader and his wife.
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Las de Barranco
Title: Las de Barranco
Released: June 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A drama that revolves around the speculations made by a widow woman taking advantage of the sympathies aroused by one of her three unmarried daughters.
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Los caranchos de la Florida
Title: Los caranchos de la Florida
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The film deals with the conflict between a father, master of a cattle ranch, and his son, who has returned after study.
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La fuga
Title: La fuga
Character: Don Onofrio
Released: July 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Daniel, a smuggler is chased by a policeman. In his escape are helped by the messages that his lover transmits to him in code by means of the tangos that sings in a radio program. To hide himself, he pretends to be a teacher in a small town in Entre Ríos, and by the time he discovers it, the police have already faced a new life.