Luis Otero

Luis Otero

Born: December 31, 1910
Died: May 29, 1979
in Montevideo, Uruguay

Movies for Luis Otero...

No Stars in the Jungle
Title: No Stars in the Jungle
Character: Old Man
Released: April 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A white man searches for a legendary gold mine in the depths of the Peruvian jungle.
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Un guapo del 900
Title: Un guapo del 900
Released: August 18, 1960
Type: Movie
The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
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Culpable
Title: Culpable
Character: Inspector Valerio
Released: June 2, 1960
Type: Movie
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.
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Virgin field
Title: Virgin field
Released: May 7, 1959
Type: Movie
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Plowed field
Title: Plowed field
Released: April 10, 1959
Type: Movie
The story of a family that lives in a rural area of the province of Buenos Aires through three generations.
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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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La bestia humana
Title: La bestia humana
Released: July 12, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Missing Persons Section
Title: Missing Persons Section
Character: Le vagabond
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
The love affair of an ex-convict with a showgirl, unleashes the jealousy of his older, wealthy and unbalanced wife. A murder plot, staged phoney suicide and other twists and turns follow.
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La muerte flota en el río
Title: La muerte flota en el río
Character: El Zurdo
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A policeman goes on the trail of a smuggling gang whose boss wants his girlfriend.
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Los torturados
Title: Los torturados
Character: José
Released: October 18, 1956
Type: Movie
A parapolice force within Peronism is dedicated to reducing and extorting all kinds of opponents, among whom a few rise up to denounce what is happening. Although the film has propaganda purposes that deliberately ignore part of reality, it is based on documented cases, such as those of the student Ernesto Mario Bravo or the trade union leader Cipriano Reyes.
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South of the 42nd parallel
Title: South of the 42nd parallel
Released: December 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Two young women taking charge of a sheep ranch, a doctor, an aging cabaret girl and a priest but heads with some wild-west style bandits who are terrorizing a part off back-country Patagonia.
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Mercado de abasto
Title: Mercado de abasto
Character: Caburé
Released: February 3, 1955
Type: Movie
The action occurs in Abasto Market in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A grown up single woman marries a mafia man who promised her he would change. After they've married, his past come to ruin the wife's life.
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Leonora of the Seven Seas
Title: Leonora of the Seven Seas
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.
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Del otro lado del puente
Title: Del otro lado del puente
Released: July 8, 1953
Type: Movie
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Mercado negro
Title: Mercado negro
Character: Antonio
Released: June 25, 1953
Type: Movie
A policeman discovers that his girlfriend's father heads a drug smuggling band.
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Dark River
Title: Dark River
Character: A Peon
Released: October 9, 1952
Type: Movie
The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
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Never Open That Door
Title: Never Open That Door
Character: Juan (segment “El pájaro cantor vuelve al hogar”)
Released: May 23, 1952
Type: Movie
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.
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Sombras en la frontera
Title: Sombras en la frontera
Character: Turco
Released: August 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Episodes of the action of the gendarmerie against smuggling.
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The Islanders
Title: The Islanders
Character: El entrerriano
Released: March 20, 1951
Type: Movie
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.
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Cane concert
Title: Cane concert
Character: Jorge Ocampo
Released: March 13, 1951
Type: Movie
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Romance en tres noches
Title: Romance en tres noches
Released: December 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A woman finds the opportunity to change her life when she meets and falls for a man who lives in a cabin far from the city.
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El seductor
Title: El seductor
Character: Julián Rosales
Released: May 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A train stops for a break in the station of a small town. That random moment allows the railway chief to fall in love with a beautiful passenger, who ends up wrapping him in a complex police plot.
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Hombres a precio
Title: Hombres a precio
Released: March 16, 1950
Type: Movie
It tells the story of a young provincial journalist who begins to work for a newspaper in the capital.
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Almafuerte
Title: Almafuerte
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Biography of the Argentine poet Almafuerte.
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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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A Sangre Fría
Title: A Sangre Fría
Character: Comisario Valdez
Released: June 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A couple plans to poison a wealthy elderly to stay with his fortune. However, the plans of the villain and his accomplice stagger at the last minute.
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The Headless Woman
Title: The Headless Woman
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
A gypsy performer and friend flee the circus troop they work for and find an old house to take refuge. Little do they realize that the house is haunted when they encounter strange men, frightening apparitions, and secret passages.
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Milagro de amor
Title: Milagro de amor
Released: December 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Margarita, the nun of a cloistered convent in charge of handling the lathe, this is a rotating mechanism provided with a small window through which she delivered and received things from the outside without direct visual contact, she is seduced by a Don Juan and induced to escape with him .
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Savage Pampas
Title: Savage Pampas
Released: October 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.
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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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María Celeste
Title: María Celeste
Character: Pedro
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
After a storm, the captain of a ship lets it float aimlessly until he reaches an island paradise.
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Title: Madame Sans-Gêne
Character: Mariscal Le Fevre
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.