Francisco López Silva
Actor · 1880 – 1960 · La Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Francisco López Silva (b. La Coruña, Spain, August 17, 1880 - d. Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 3, 1960) was a first Spanish actor who developed his career in Argentina from 1942. He stood out especially during the golden age of Argentine cinema in 30 films, along with a lot of popular actors like Arturo García Buhr, Jorge Mistral, Roberto Airaldi, Amalia Sánchez Ariño, Norma Giménez, Beba Bidart, Lalo Malcolm, Francisco de Paula, Eva Duarte, Jorge Rigaud, and others.
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Movie10.0DramaHistoryIn seventeenth century's Chile a woman kills her lover because she wants to conquer a priest.
Movie9.0DramaFantasyA man returns from hell to earth to redeem himself.
El regreso
1950 · 1 votes
Movie5.9DramaRomanceDuring a horse race, Ana, a happily married woman with a child, he met Captain Brown. Later, they meet again on a long train journey and inevitably love arises. Both try to forget each one on his own, however, things go more and more complicated, making it impossible to stop the situation.
Movie6.5DramaComedyThe life of Saint Rosa de Lima.
Rosa de América
1946 · 2 votes
Movie5.3AdventureEdmundo Dantes is betrayed by his best friend, who has him killed to keep his property and his love. But after a few years, a certain Count appears to mortify the life of the traitorous friend.
Movie10.0DramaIn an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.
Movie10.0ComedyA new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival disrupts the discipline of the beautiful students.
Cuando florezca el naranjo
1943 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaFantasyA man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.
La piel de zapa
1943 · 1 votes
Movie9.0HistoryWarFilm about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos.
Centauros del pasado
1944 · 1 votes
Movie8.5DramaHistoryEl 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.
El grito sagrado
1954 · 2 votes
Movie9.5DramaWarDuring the English invasions, a merchant forces his daughter to marry a soldier.
La muerte en las calles
1952 · 2 votes
Movie7.3DramaComedyFor over twenty years, an elderly man convinces his wife that their long-lost criminal grandson has changed his ways to become a successful professional and loving husband. When he learns of his grandson’s death, he decides to keep yet another secret and arranges for a false couple to pose as their exiled grandson and his wife. As the couple enters, uncertainties arise. Will they be able to convince her?
Movie7.0HorrorComedyIn a mysterious farm house, a drug is made to resurrect people.
Desalmados en pena
1954 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaComedyThis relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.
El hombre señalado
1957 · 1 votes
Movie7.9DramaRomanceAfter a period of sorrow, Fernando de Arellano, a rich businessman who has recently lost his young wife Blanca from a serious ilness, meets Mónica, who looks identical to her.
Movie7.5DramaMusicAfter losing all his fortune, a man assumes his poverty with dignity, confidence and effort. He faces all adversities and his nobility and perseverance make him succeed and be happy with the woman he loves.
La novela de un joven pobre
1942 · 2 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA humble boy who works in a theater company must become the husband of an actress so that she can get her son back.
Me casé con una estrella
1951 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaFilm co-produced between Argentina and Paraguay in 1959 that was never released commercially.
En la vía
1959 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaA naive teenager faces a distressing reality that will force her to mature and face her emotions.
Dieciséis años
1943 · 5 votes
Movie5.5ComedyIn colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.
Movie6.7ComedyRomanceThe young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome officer, pretending she’s a duende, a ghost.
- Movie7.0Adventure
Los hermanos corsos
1955 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaA man and his con man brother, who adores his mother, has a dream of seeing the family reunited.