Alberto de Mendoza

Alberto de Mendoza

Born: January 21, 1923
Died: December 12, 2011
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alberto Manuel Rodríguez-Gallego González de Mendoza was an Argentine film actor who appeared in 114 films between 1930 and 2005, spanning eight decades.

A lifelong figure in Argentine films, De Mendoza appeared in film such as Adán y la serpiente in 1946 and A hierro muere in 1962 often working alongside Olga Zubarry. In the late 1960s and 1970 he appeared in a number of spaghetti Westerns. and also had a prominent role in the 1973 horror classic Horror Express, in which he co-starred alongside Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas.

De Mendoza is better known to audiences in Argentina for his role in the popular TV series El Rafa, aired from 1980 to 1982, or the less successful El Oriental, aired from 1982 to 1983. He died in Madrid on 12 December 2011, at age 88.

Movies for Alberto de Mendoza...

Bad Truth
Title: Bad Truth
Character: Ernesto
Released: December 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Barbara’s behavior at school unlishes the suspicions of her teacher and the school psychologist, Sara. Talks at school with Sara, begin to reveal fears and darkness that the girl hides behind her eyes. Already convinced of her suspicions, Sara tries to get her superiors’ support as well as Barbara’s mother support to set her free out of her pain. Barbara’s mother denial, her own fear and the inaction of different institutions seem to be impossible barriers to overcome.
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Tapas
Title: Tapas
Character: Don Mariano
Released: July 6, 2006
Type: Movie
The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her terminally ill husband in poor health; the tapas bar owner and his estranged wife; and two Chinese immigrants.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: íctor
Released: August 14, 2003
Type: Movie
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
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Lua de Outubro
Title: Lua de Outubro
Character: Marcial Lopes
Released: August 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Arzabal wins land on the border. When he arrives to settle in, he finds himself confronted by the local political boss, unenthusiastic about his landing. Based on the play by Mario Arregui.
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Bossa Nova
Title: Bossa Nova
Character: Juan
Released: February 18, 2000
Type: Movie
Bossa Nova is a romantic comedy that enfolds many love convergences and divergences, in today’s Rio de Janeiro. It’s in the city’s “useless landscape” that the lonely hearts of nine characters will cross destinies and they’ll discover new passions. The meeting place for these journeys is a charming English teacher, Mary Ann Simpson, former airline stewardess, who’s been living in Rio for two years, since she became a widow, and the newly separated Pedro Paulo. They approach each other without a hint that their lives will be linked by many characters and incidents.
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Lola Mora
Title: Lola Mora
Released: January 11, 1996
Type: Movie
The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.
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Los tigres de la memoria
Title: Los tigres de la memoria
Character: Carlos
Released: September 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Looking for news of his ex-guerrilla sons, a man agrees to collaborate with his restaurant in a network of drug dealers.
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Nights Without Moons and Suns
Title: Nights Without Moons and Suns
Character: Cairo
Released: June 21, 1984
Type: Movie
A criminal escapes from a court, with help of three miscreants, to find his lifelong friend, who is terminally ill. The police officer catch knows there is a hidden loot involved.
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El infierno tan temido
Title: El infierno tan temido
Released: August 7, 1980
Type: Movie
A journalist begins to receive envelopes containing erotic pictures, which he connects to a relationship he once had with an actress.
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La amante ingenua
Title: La amante ingenua
Character: Adrián
Released: January 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Adrián, a businessman who runs his wife's family industry, begins an affair with Marisa, an employee at his office. Marisa tries to blackmail her mature boss who has fallen into her trap. But the plot takes an unexpected turn, and it turns out that he is the one who dominates the situation and uses the young woman for his own benefit.
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Manaos
Title: Manaos
Character: Mario Buendía
Released: October 21, 1979
Type: Movie
At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...
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Seven Dangerous Women
Title: Seven Dangerous Women
Character: Marqués de Castellamare
Released: September 30, 1979
Type: Movie
Seven female friends decide to play an erotic game. They try to seduce as many aristocrats and middle-class men as possible.
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The House on Garibaldi Street
Title: The House on Garibaldi Street
Character: Primo
Released: May 28, 1979
Type: Movie
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
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Avisa a Curro Jiménez
Title: Avisa a Curro Jiménez
Character: El Jandalo
Released: September 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.
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Sentados al borde de la mañana con los pies colgando
Title: Sentados al borde de la mañana con los pies colgando
Character: Sr. Empresa
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A group of friends finds a dilapidated place and decide to repair it, paint it and live in it in communal plan. The problem is the bank, owner of the premises, does not want them occupied so they threaten to call the police to evict them.
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Venus de fuego
Title: Venus de fuego
Character: Beltrán
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A young man falls madly in love with a woman they call La Venus de Fuego and because of her he becomes involved in a crime. They accuse him of murder and he is forced to flee to a place far away.
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Curse of the Black Cat
Title: Curse of the Black Cat
Character: David
Released: May 9, 1977
Type: Movie
A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.
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La violación
Title: La violación
Released: May 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Pilar is a young admirer of Miguel Santos, a famous pianist. At a concert that he gives in Cádiz, she is lucky enough to meet him in person, and that same night something arises between them. What she doesn't know is that Miguel has known his older sister for years
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Title: Curro Jiménez
Character: Lédaux
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: TV
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
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El erotismo y la informática
Title: El erotismo y la informática
Character: Gonzalo Garcés
Released: November 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A software engineer develops an algorithm to succeed on dating womans
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The People Who Own the Dark
Title: The People Who Own the Dark
Character: Prof. Fulton
Released: October 27, 1976
Type: Movie
A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.
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Fulanita y sus menganos
Title: Fulanita y sus menganos
Character: Manolo
Released: September 26, 1976
Type: Movie
The Spanish official representative of the European Congress of prostitutes, held in Paris, is dedicated to remembering various stories that have occurred in the performance of their profession over the years.
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El hombre que supo amar
Title: El hombre que supo amar
Character: Juan de Ávila
Released: September 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.
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Striptease
Title: Striptease
Character: George
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A disillusioned and depressed film director is forced to confront his lack of humanity through his involvement in the death of a young actress and the suicide of her husband.
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What Changed Charley Farthing?
Title: What Changed Charley Farthing?
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Charley Farthing is on the run, chased by an irate husband with murder on his mind.
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Zorrita Martínez
Title: Zorrita Martínez
Character: Antonio
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Zorrita Martínez is the stage name of Lydia Martínez, a Venezuelan artist based in Spain. Zorrita, however, runs into an unexpected problem: she cannot stay in the country any longer if she does not marry a man of Spanish nationality.
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And Then There Were None
Title: And Then There Were None
Character: Otto Martino
Released: September 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
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Hold Up
Title: Hold Up
Character: Ashley
Released: August 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Robert is a police agent of American origins who lost his memory through an accident during a robbery in a branch of the Bank of America. A robber who survived the shooting is convinced the agent is faking his amnesia, just to then get rid of him and enjoy the loot, that cost the other delinquents their lives, together with his ex lover.
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Open Season
Title: Open Season
Character: Martin
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.
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To Love Ophelia
Title: To Love Ophelia
Character: Piero Criscione, Avvocato
Released: April 25, 1974
Type: Movie
Although he is in his thirties, Orlando still feels like a child. He is terrified of the outside world and is stuck in an obsessive relationship with his mother.
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A Prewar Grandmother
Title: A Prewar Grandmother
Character: Juan
Released: March 6, 1974
Type: Movie
Doña Emilia lives quietly in a village in Lugo, when she receives the news that her son has suffered an accident. So she travels to Madrid without warning.
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Title: Los camioneros
Character: Sargento Sandoval
Released: November 12, 1973
Type: TV
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Special Killers
Title: Special Killers
Character: Giorgio Russo
Released: August 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Sandro, a detective, finds his wife strangled. His girl-friend Tiffany, who works as photographer, makes a "Blow up" from a photo, what Sandro finds beside the victim. Sandro and Tiffany are looking for the woman on the photo, Laura. They finds her in a Night Club in Rome...
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Horror Express
Title: Horror Express
Character: Father Pujardov
Released: September 30, 1972
Type: Movie
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
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Las colocadas
Title: Las colocadas
Character: Enrique
Released: April 10, 1972
Type: Movie
Julia, Carmen and Charo are three young and funny ladies, lovers of three married men. These combine their family life and the relationship with them. The three friends share the hardships of such a situation. Julia is pregnant, but Enrique, the future father, decides to shirk his responsibilities
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Delusions of Grandeur
Title: Delusions of Grandeur
Character: Le roi d'Espagne
Released: December 8, 1971
Type: Movie
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
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The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
Title: The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
Character: John Stanley
Released: August 16, 1971
Type: Movie
After her husband dies in a freak plane accident, a woman leaves London for Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy. She soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money - and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, a private investigator arrives to investigate irregularities in the claim, teaming up with a beautiful reporter.
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Human Cobras
Title: Human Cobras
Character: George MacGreves
Released: August 5, 1971
Type: Movie
A former American gangster organises a safari in Kenya in order to have his business partner, whom he suspects of being responsible for his brother's death, killed. However, it turns out that he killed the wrong person and a series of murders follow.
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The Corsairs
Title: The Corsairs
Character: The Duke
Released: July 1, 1971
Type: Movie
After the death of her father, the viceroy of a small Caribean island, the beautiful young Isabella is in a big danger. The crafty duke of Burt wants to grab the power on the isle so he decides to eliminate her. Fortunately then comes a group of pirates stranded after a shipwreck. Their leader is the brave and bold Alan Drake. The pirates are hired to protect Isabella and the adventure begins.
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Title: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Character: Sergeant Brandon
Released: February 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
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The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
Title: The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
Character: Neil Wardh
Released: January 15, 1971
Type: Movie
When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.
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Awkward Hands
Title: Awkward Hands
Character: Latimore
Released: May 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Peter is whipped (twice) and chased away from his sweetheart, but his rescuer leaves him with a Chinese master who teaches him how to seek revenge on his tormentors.
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De profesión, sus labores
Title: De profesión, sus labores
Character: Juan Montesinos
Released: February 26, 1970
Type: Movie
While Ana and Juan are a happy couple, and satisfied with their eight years of married life, María José and Federico, their best friends, have not achieved the desired balance in their marriage. Ana and Juan's happiness makes their friends nervous. María José and Clara, Ana's "good" friends, will try by all means to make Ana believe that her husband is capable of cheating on her if the opportunity arises.
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Forgotten Pistolero
Title: Forgotten Pistolero
Character: Tomas
Released: October 17, 1969
Type: Movie
One of the most ambitious spaghetti westerns, The Forgotten Pistolero is a retelling of the Greek legend of Orestes, who avenges the murder of his father with the help of his friend and former mentor Pylades and his sister Electra. In Baldi’s movie, Orestes is called Sebastian, a man living on his own. One day a wounded stranger called Rafael/Pylades takes shelter in his house and tells him that he, Sebastian, is the son of a Mexican general who was murdered by his wife and her lover. Sebastian has no recollection of the massacre, but the tolling of the bells announcing the Ave Maria bring back fragmented memories. Finally Sebastian is re-united with his sister Isabella and together they avenge the murder of their father. The film is a bit confusing from time to time, with a storyline that seems over-complicated for a spaghetti western, but patient and attentive viewers are rewarded. The Forgotten Pistolero is also known for Roberto Pregadio’s awesome score.
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A Bullet for Sandoval
Title: A Bullet for Sandoval
Character: Lucky
Released: August 19, 1969
Type: Movie
After his girlfriend dies in childbirth, Confederate deserter John Warner travels to Mexico, where the woman's father, Don Pedro Sandoval, grudgingly hands over his child. But with no locals willing to provide milk, the baby dies. Rounding up a group of rebels, Warner goes on a rampage through northern Mexico, with the ultimate goal of taking down Sandoval in this gritty Western.
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One on Top of the Other
Title: One on Top of the Other
Character: Henry Dumurrier
Released: August 15, 1969
Type: Movie
A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.
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A Bullet for Rommel
Title: A Bullet for Rommel
Character: SS Major Hermann Traniger
Released: March 7, 1969
Type: Movie
During World War II, a tough officer organizes a commando raid into Germany.
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Psychout for Murder
Title: Psychout for Murder
Character: Francesco
Released: February 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
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Appointment in Beirut
Title: Appointment in Beirut
Character: Police Captain
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: Movie
When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game, the casino police enlists the help of Jeff Miller, an alcoholic croupier, to nab the bad guys. Jeff is attracted to Laura, a singer at the casino, but she prefers the company of the leader of the thieving casino ring.
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Volver a vivir
Title: Volver a vivir
Character: Garrido
Released: February 12, 1968
Type: Movie
A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by making victories and also finding another love.
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Las secretarias
Title: Las secretarias
Character: Don Carlos
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Three young and attractive secretaries, Julia, Paula and Doli, work in an insurance company.
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The Midshipmen
Title: The Midshipmen
Character: Comandante de Brigada Carlos Torres
Released: February 27, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of students preparing to be midshipmen at the Naval Academy live very different experiences: from the typical hazing the new responsibilities they will face when they obtain graduation.
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The Desperate Ones
Title: The Desperate Ones
Character: Hamlat
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.
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Las locas del conventillo
Title: Las locas del conventillo
Character: Manuel
Released: June 21, 1966
Type: Movie
The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent people live under the tutelage of Magdalena, in the other, Manuel,ir responsible of a nightclub. Among decent people live Manolo, the milkman, awaiting the arrival of a Spanish woman to marry her. At the same time, the villain of Manuel also hopes for a Spanish nightclub. Women Arrivals weapon confusion.
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The Man from Marrakech
Title: The Man from Marrakech
Released: April 24, 1966
Type: Movie
In southern Morocco, a hold-up is organized on the road linking the northern towns to a major factory built on a gold deposit. Several accomplices have perfected a carefully thought-out "scenario" that should bring them success. Travis, a specialist, and his mistress, Lila, a former barmaid, "work" in liaison with Vibert, the mine engineer. José, the local mechanic, and Georges, the truck driver, have already been sacrificed.
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The Dictator's Guns
Title: The Dictator's Guns
Character: Hendrix
Released: June 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a prospective vessel, the "Dragoon", Cournot reports his positive appraisal to Mr Hendrix and initiates the negotiations with Mrs Osborne, the owner of the craft. Barely a couple of days later, Cournot finds himself in a bind as the police questions him about the exact kind of cruise he was supposed to organize for his principal. For the "Dragoon" is gone; Mr Hendrix has disappeared; Mrs Osborne is not aware of any deal; and the corpses of mysterious individuals, victims of a violent death, are found on the beaches of Santo Domingo.
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Secuestro en la ciudad
Title: Secuestro en la ciudad
Character: José
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Ana, a four-yeared girl, is kidnaped by a man who move the girl to a solitary house and call her father to demand ramsons.
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Shot in the Back
Title: Shot in the Back
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
An atmosphere of mystery surrounds the death of Juan Durán. Paula, his wife, who has traveled to Rio de Janeiro to meet her husband, receives the news of his death. Since then, she also feels the impression of being watched and persecuted.
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An Almost Decent Girl
Title: An Almost Decent Girl
Character: Carlos
Released: October 9, 1963
Type: Movie
An almost decent girl is a German-Spanish Romance of Ladislao Vajda from 1963. In Spain he was entitled Una chica casi formal on.
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The Adventures of Scaramouche
Title: The Adventures of Scaramouche
Character: Roger - Marquis de la Tour
Released: September 23, 1963
Type: Movie
Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
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The Blackmailers
Title: The Blackmailers
Character: Vergara 'El Americano'
Released: June 14, 1963
Type: Movie
A girl has two suitors: a famous bullfighter who is in love and rejecting a pawn. His relationship with the bullfighter is hampered by the harassment to which he submits. After suffering a serious catch, the bullfighter lifesaving through the locket she gave him.
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Primero yo
Title: Primero yo
Released: February 19, 1963
Type: Movie
A charming racecar driver is visited by his 20-year-old son who is nothing like his father. Solemn and introverted, the boy is shown the ways of sensual pleasure by his father's mistress, but he falls in love with another young woman. Intending to marry the girl, the young man takes the relationship very seriously. His father, however, believes the boy should have a more carefree lifestyle and decides to intervene by seducing his own son's fiance. This action proves to be a tremendous mistake.
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Queen of the Chantecler
Title: Queen of the Chantecler
Character: Federico de la Torre
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War.
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You and I Are Three
Title: You and I Are Three
Character: Rodolfo Céspedes / Adolfo Céspedes
Released: September 6, 1962
Type: Movie
When Manolina saw a picture of Rodolfo, a South American poet, she falls in love for him. Three months after marriage by proxy, Rodolfo meets with her, which takes a major surprise to meet the twin brother of her husband.
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Kill and Be Killed
Title: Kill and Be Killed
Character: Fernando
Released: May 3, 1962
Type: Movie
A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword.
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Buscando a Mónica
Title: Buscando a Mónica
Character: Antonio Montes
Released: January 29, 1962
Type: Movie
A man has a street accident with his car in his way to Buenos Aires. While he waits for his car repairing, this business man learns that everybody in the little town where he's stuck seem to know about his wife Mónica. He knows little about her past, but the reactions of the townsfolk towards him range from laughing at his back to practically don't want him around. He won't leave the town until he could learn more about the secret past of his wife. But the former life of the young beautiful mother of his daughter involves a turbulent story.
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El asalto
Title: El asalto
Released: September 10, 1960
Type: Movie
A strange group of people steals a bank.
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Yo quiero vivir contigo
Title: Yo quiero vivir contigo
Character: Mauricio del Solar
Released: May 25, 1960
Type: Movie
A couple travels the country with the money destined to pay the ransom for a kidnapped baby
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The Boss
Title: The Boss
Character: Berger
Released: October 23, 1958
Type: Movie
The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.
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Socios para la aventura
Title: Socios para la aventura
Released: August 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Young nightclub performer, down on her luck, falls in with a portrait-cartoonist who works the streets and a terminally-ill singer-songwriter and goes to live on their houseboat. They consider doing a crime.
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The Marked Woman
Title: The Marked Woman
Character: Rodolfo Morán alias El Sudamericano
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: Movie
Beautiful woman with disfiguring facial scars learns to cope.
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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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La dulce enemiga
Title: La dulce enemiga
Character: Ricardo
Released: May 2, 1957
Type: Movie
The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.
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La adúltera
Title: La adúltera
Character: Carlos Alatorre
Released: November 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
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¡Que seas feliz!
Title: ¡Que seas feliz!
Character: Pablo Suárez
Released: May 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Career criminal hooks up with famous singer because she looks like a long-term meal ticket.
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La mujer desnuda
Title: La mujer desnuda
Released: November 6, 1955
Type: Movie
A serious radio commentator becomes a vedette in the magazine theater.
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La noche de Venus
Title: La noche de Venus
Released: May 4, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman will do everything to achieve fame, using her physique and her feminine cunning to achieve it.
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Gray neighborhood
Title: Gray neighborhood
Character: Claudio
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: Movie
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.
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Descent Into Hell
Title: Descent Into Hell
Character: Adrián Villar
Released: August 20, 1954
Type: Movie
For ambition a woman sacrifices her true love and marries a man of fortune.
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La calle del pecado
Title: La calle del pecado
Character: Alberto Salazar
Released: April 8, 1954
Type: Movie
A student dreams that she is the heroine of one of her history teacher's lessons with whom she is in love.
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Ellos nos hicieron así
Title: Ellos nos hicieron así
Released: February 23, 1953
Type: Movie
The education received at home influences the future of some neighborhood boys of different economic status.
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Pasó en mi barrio
Title: Pasó en mi barrio
Character: Mingo
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.
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Suburbio
Title: Suburbio
Released: February 16, 1951
Type: Movie
Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the neighborhood forget their differences before the appearance of an epidemic.
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The Marihuana Story
Title: The Marihuana Story
Character: Lt. DeLuca
Released: June 8, 1950
Type: Movie
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.
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Madre Alegría
Title: Madre Alegría
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
The mother superior of a convent raises an abandoned girl and after twenty years the repentant biological mother returns.
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When My Husband Kisses
Title: When My Husband Kisses
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A high society woman discovers a fiery romantic letter in a raincoat pocket seemingly written by a rumba dancer to the woman’s doctor husband. He tries to cover by saying that the letter is addressed to a more conservative friend of his, leading to rumours of his friend’s (supposed) incredible passion becoming intriguing to the local women, even the Doctor’s own jealous wife.
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Filomena Marturano
Title: Filomena Marturano
Character: Ricardo
Released: January 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.
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Miguitas en la cama
Title: Miguitas en la cama
Character: Esteban Roselli
Released: November 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman must alternately live with her separated parents and while her mother gives her a severe upbringing, her father amuses her with his carefree life.
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La cuna vacía
Title: La cuna vacía
Released: October 10, 1949
Type: Movie
The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his law studies and a double frustration, as a writer and in his crush on a young woman who loved another man.
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Un hombre solo no vale nada
Title: Un hombre solo no vale nada
Character: Borracho en la boite
Released: March 24, 1949
Type: Movie
An employee progresses in the factory where he works by having his wife pass by an attractive Cuban singer.
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Don Juan Tenorio
Title: Don Juan Tenorio
Character: Joven bromista
Released: February 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A retired actor decides to donate his savings to his nephew and move to an old house, there he meets an old love.
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Navy's girlfriend
Title: Navy's girlfriend
Released: October 20, 1948
Type: Movie
The film narrates the story of a young rich woman who suffers from sleepwalking and a young man convinces her to marry with him.
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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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El retrato
Title: El retrato
Released: January 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A repressed woman, unable to give love, is possessed by the spirit of her lewd grandmother.
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Inspiración
Title: Inspiración
Released: September 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Film about the biography of the musician Franz Schubert.
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Adán y la serpiente
Title: Adán y la serpiente
Character: Daniel
Released: May 9, 1946
Type: Movie
A hotel becomes very popular when rumors begin to circulate about a ghost wandering its corridors.
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Su mejor alumno
Title: Su mejor alumno
Character: Enrique Moreno
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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Se rematan ilusiones
Title: Se rematan ilusiones
Released: April 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A young man tries to follow a path different from that of his retired public employee father and associates with a friend to make bags.
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Un nuevo amanecer
Title: Un nuevo amanecer
Released: November 25, 1942
Type: Movie
A young man returns to his neighborhood after spending ten years locked up in a reformatory.
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The Old Skinflint
Title: The Old Skinflint
Released: April 29, 1942
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant accumulates wealth for their children, all consider him a miserable, until one day one of her children gives a very big disappointment and dies of a heart attack. Their children begin to spend the fortune he had amassed his father.
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...Y mañana serán hombres
Title: ...Y mañana serán hombres
Released: October 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A man who is a director of a reformatory is slowly gaining everyone's trust.
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Murió el sargento Laprida
Title: Murió el sargento Laprida
Character: (as Alberto Mendoza)
Released: December 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A corporal and sergeant in the fire service fight over a woman.
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Gaucho soul
Title: Gaucho soul
Released: June 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Elsa, a young girl from Buenos Aires, visits her aunt and uncle, Don Alfredo and Doña Cristina, at their ranch. While playing golf, Elsa meets a gaucho, Antonio, and is enchanted by his exquisite singing voice.