Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score.

An amnesiac carnival psychic is haunted by the thought that a man is coming to kill her.

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.

A couple travels the country with the money destined to pay the ransom for a kidnapped baby

The love story between two teenagers, children of incomprehensible parents.

A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.

In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.

In a train repair shop, a passion involves a woman and, years later, her daughter.

The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.

The story revolves around the relationship of Italian immigrants and Argentines. Nostalgia for his country of origin and life in a strange country. It is a call for the union of immigrants that evokes sentimentality. The film conveys the sensation of the musician, whom an Italian immigrant listens to, and feels "understood and unconditionally loved"

A man is found dead in a music hall during one of the numbers, so the performance is suspended and the police begin to investigate.

A man and his con man brother, who adores his mother, has a dream of seeing the family reunited.

The adventures of a movie stuntman when the actor he was supposed to replace is murdered.

A womanizer's girlfriend and future father-in-law try to teach him a lesson.

The adventures of the man who had no childhood, smart for business, but a lover of innocent jokes.

A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.

Fast-talking con artist type falls in love with a nice young woman and tries to go straight to win her father's approval.

The sometimes profound, sometimes slightly sordid tale of Elena, a famous concert pianist who, as a child, was sexually assaulted by a circus clown while the music of Manuel de Falla "Ritual Dance of Fire" could be heard from the circus tent. Since that time, Elena has gone into hysterics every time she hears that composition. Making matters worse, the lascivious clown is now her business manager.

A humble boy can not be a sailor as he wishes, for lack of documents, and works as a driver for an old woman.

A thief commits a robbery and is seen by a showgirl who becomes a witness to the crime. The man finds her and forces her to help him take what he stole to Rio de Janeiro. With no other way out, she is sent on a boat to Brazil by the thief. On board, the showgirl meets a doctor with whom she begins a romance while the criminal falls in love with her.

A threatened financier is impersonated during a train ride by an identical-looking salesman.