Mario Soffici
Director · 1900 – 1977 · Firenze, Toscana, Italia
Mario Soffici (1900-1977) was an Italian-born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most important and renowned filmmakers during Argentina's golden age of cinema. He was known for his social movies, often filming in different provinces throughout the country.
Movies15
Movie9.0DramaA girl who sometimes mistreats her father, leaves her home and leaves her boyfriend, seduced by an adventurer who starts her as a tango singer. The father is jailed after shooting the seducer and she tries to commit suicide but her old boyfriend saves her, starting a more successful way.
Movie7.3ThrillerDramaOut of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.
Movie9.5DramaTold in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.
Movie7.7DramaA doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.
El curandero
1955 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaA homeless man returns to the countryside after traveling the world for years.
El linyera
1933 · 1 votes
Movie7.6ComedyMara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.
Movie7.0DramaThe life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
Esta tierra es mía
1961 · 7 votes
Movie6.5HorrorDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Movie10.0ComedyMusicA boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.
Un elefante color ilusión
1970 · 1 votes
MovieDramaPassion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction
Una ventana a la vida
1953 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaThe story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.
Maternidad sin hombres
1968 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryInstitutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.
- Movie9.0Music
A girl from the suburbs is seduced by worldly life while another accepts her condition and conquers the love of a singer.
Calles de Buenos Aires
1933 · 1 votes
MovieDramaSeveral individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.
Tierra del Fuego
1948 · 1 votes
Movie4.5DramaA young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.
Isla brava
1958 · 2 votes