In the backdrop of political repression and dictatorship, the story revolves around the lives of people in Argentina. It explores the struggles, terrors, and resilience of individuals navigating through the turbulent period. Amidst this, the power of music, specifically the Tango, emerges as a source of hope and expression for the oppressed. The film sheds light on the experience of living under a repressive regime and the impact it has on the lives of the Argentine people.
Two orderlies pretend to be surgeons to impress two young doctors and conquer, through several scenarios. Finally, they are discovered when they had to operate on a mafia boss to remove a bullet.
For ambition a woman sacrifices her true love and marries a man of fortune.
When a concert pianist is crippled in a car accident, his wife turns to gambling and gets in over her head.
Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from director Enrique Carreras was the official entry for Argentina at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival.
The plot deals with the developments in an old decadent village after a stranger arrives at the old train station, an event in itself. This stranger is a Brazilian musician who carries and plays his "oboe". The music from the oboe, the musician's instrument, will change the lives of everyone involved, and that small village itself will forever be changed by the sound of the oboe.
Two men and a woman that blackmail a woman will pay for their actions.
A strange group of people steals a bank.
Jose, a mountain rancher in northern Argentina, meets and begins an affair with Eva, a beautful but mysterious woman who is the mistress of Simon, a local gangster from a nearby village, which complicates things more when Jose's son Mario returns and also begins a romantic relationship with Eva which brings out jealousy in Jose.
After a series of doublecrosses involving stolen diamonds, a gangster's babe in Argentina flees to Mexico; she's kept by a druggy, decadent painter and then falls in love with his brother.
A man falls in love with a woman who leads him to commit a robbery, when he is released from prison he takes refuge in a convent.
La calesita tells the story of parents as they navigate the challenges and complexities of life. Set in 1960s Argentina, the movie explores the joys and struggles faced by parents in their daily lives.
El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.
In the delta islands of the Paraná, a woman is the object of desire of the village's men.
A woman will do everything to achieve fame, using her physique and her feminine cunning to achieve it.
A policeman discovers that his girlfriend's father heads a drug smuggling band.
In Cerro Bayo, a mountainous region of Patagonia on the Chilean border, a Kolla Indian falls in love with a girl from another village. His mother disapproves the relationship and hates the woman. When the girl becomes pregnant with his baby, he must travel to find better work, leaving her alone with the mother's wrath.
A man leaves his job working in the mining industry, falls in love with a girl and succeeds as a singer.