Movies: Pedro Maratea

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, ...

Film about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos....

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....

A workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner....

A young man pretends to be his friends' aunt to solve certain problems....

The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher....

With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned eve...

A delinquent, the son of a police commissioner, leaves prison to seduce someone who should be like a sister to him: a girl raised and loved by his parents. To force her to give in to his obsession, he kidnaps her little daughter....

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The plot reflects the figure of Pascual Contursi, tango poet. In love with a singer, he leaves his wife and son to go with her. Some time later, the singer leaves him and he composes the tango that gives the film its title....

A screwball comedy about a young barrio songstress and pickpocket who, while escaping after nicking a woman's wallet, is hired to model for an agency. There she discovers a new world when she mixes with the rich and finds love among them....

A 1941 film....

This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) ...

The romance between a mature doctor and a young girl, set in the mountains of Córdoba....

A man intends to cure a blind aborigine, taking her to the city, but her boyfriend wants to stop him....

A girl leaves her home after the man who left her with a daughter and a young man who falls in love with her protects her from him....

A revue theater company alters the mayor's life when it arrives in his town....

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In 1812, the Argentine people and the army of the north resist the royalist advances....