Ricardo Fuentes (Carlos Gardel) leaves Buenos Aires after loosing in horse races to go to Barcelona, where he plans to open a tango bar, a new concept of tango dance show and dance saloon. On the ship he meets Laura Montalván (Rosita Moreno) who happens to be a thief working with a thief pal. Ricardo watches them robbing a lady's bracelet aboard but decides not to report them because he has fallen in love with Laura. Once in Barcelona, he opens the tango bar but Laura's partner tells him he sold the bracelet and now needs to recover it to avoid both Laura and him going to jail.
A freakish coincidence brings together a songwriter and the lyricist from whom he inadvertently stole the lyrics to a hit song.
The director of a tango set is in love with the singer but she marries another man who eventually abandons her. In their old age, their children will fulfill their dreams.
Carlos Argüelles is the son of a wealthy man whose only interests in life are business and making money. While trying to succeed in show business he falls in love with a dancer and they elope to marry. But success is not easy to obtain.
Newsreels, songs and films by Gardel, real scenes with events and historical figures from Argentina and the world, images of the accident that took his life in Medellín and the funeral in Buenos Aires.
Three Argentines who live in Paris and dream of returning to Buenos Aires but lack resources for the passage, find their opportunity when a landowner, a business man and his daughter arrive in Paris. In a game of rigged poker the three anchors obtain the money for the passages from the newcomers; it happens however that the employer has made an embezzlement and will go to jail if he does not return the money. The character represented by Parravicini, who is the true father of his adopted daughter, gives him the money won to solve his problem and the three remain in Paris to see them in an end with the best poetry of Romero crossing a bridge under the mist , silent, once again anchored but with the happy sadness of recovered self-esteem.
Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.
Mujeres que trabajan is a 1938 movie about women who work, combining elements of comedy and drama. The film explores the challenges and triumphs of working women in a society dominated by men. It delves into the themes of wealth and the role of a driver in the lives of these women.
The life of the famous tango singer Carlos Gardel, his emergence, his mother, his loves, his friends etc.
A single mother who is denied work to support the son she had with the aristocrat who had seduced her, is helped by a singer, a director of orchestra and an American female singer, who get her shelter in the humble pension where they live.
Isabelita, a wealthy girl, has comedic and romantic adventures that showcase her luxurious lifestyle and the obstacles she faces due to her wealth.
A humble bartender wants his minister brother to recognize the son of the woman he abandoned years ago.
Catita goes with her husband to spend the honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro and on the trip they fall into the hands of a player who will try to use them to achieve their ends.
The owner of an artists agency meets a soccer player who sings, and sets out to make him a star.
The consequences of having accepted a thief as a guest in the house.
Different love stories that take place in a radio station.
A worker looking for money for his blind mother's operation, presents himself as a tango singer and achieves success.
Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a young lady who turns out to be the daughter of his employer.
A provincial postman shares with the inhabitants of a small town the joys and sorrows caused by the correspondence he delivers.