Francisco Pablo Donadío
Actor · 1887 – 1968 · Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Francisco Donadío, whose full name was Francisco Pablo Donadío, was an actor and film director who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1888 and died in the same city in 1968. After having initiated in the theater in his country, Donadío traveled to Italy, where he acted along with Eleonora Duse and Ermete Zacconi and took part in some silent film productions such as The Last Days of Pompeii and Quo Vadis. Upon returning to Argentina in the 1920s, he was part of the theater companies led by Mecha Ortiz and Luisa Vehil. He debuted at the local cinema in 1925 directing the film without sound El caballero de la rambla; already in the stage of the sonorous one directed Poncho white (1936) and it intervened in diverse films, generally in supporting papers. He died in Buenos Aires in 1968. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Movie6.0Boyhood friends grow up, form a tango orchestra, one of them writes a brilliant song commemorating their friendship before he dies.
Movie10.0DramaThe harsh trials faced by an adolescent without a family.
Sin familia
1958 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaFantasyCacho Garibaldi is the soccer player of the moment, his goals lead to delirium fans. When an eccentric millionaire named Lupus buys his transfer, he expects to end up on a major team. Instead, he discovers the millionaire's goal in life is to collect the best -not art or stamps- but people.
Movie7.0HistoryAdventureAn attempt to bring the famous novel by Dumas to the cinema, where the promenades of Montevideo such as Parque Rivera and the Castillo del Parque Rodó are transformed into French settings.
Los Tres Mosqueteros
1946 · 2 votes
Movie9.0A drunken and lazy gaucho is helped by another, pious and just.
Pampa y cielo
1938 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMusicAn American producer arrives in Argentina searching for its most representative artists to film a movie. A group of imitators will try to convince him that they are the real artists he is looking for. The film was conceived as a showcase for the successful radio group "La Cruzada del Buen Humor", the precursor to what would later become "Los Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor", alongside the Cuban vedette Blanquita Amaro.
Cuidado con las imitaciones
1948 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaHistoryThe love story between Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, after the independence of the country, and Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos.
Embrujo
1941 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyMovie divided in three episodes: a methodic man believes he's near his death and starts spending other people's money; to cure his husband's gambling addiction a woman becomes a horse races expert; a dancer and a soprano bother each other until they fall in love.
Somos todos inquilinos
1954 · 2 votes
Movie7.5ComedyRomanceMatilda, a girl from a wealthy family, is in love with Mario de Larosa, a singer and heartthrob who is adored by women everywhere. She knows all his songs by heart and prays to heaven to give her the opportunity to meet her idol in person. Her dreams come true — Mario is scheduled to sign autographs at an appliance and record store, and Matilda and her cousin rush to this fateful meeting, which will fundamentally change the lives of the young woman and Mario himself...
Movie7.8DramaThe film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.
El último payador
1950 · 4 votes
Movie6.0DramaA famous football player faces retirement, but his son is still his most faithful fan.
El hijo del crack
1953 · 3 votes
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An impulsive actress abandons a film shoot and is replaced by a dressmaker, and the former's husband hires her to impersonate her in front of his future in-laws.
La otra y yo
1949 · 1 votes
Movie7.1ComedyA Russian duke who's fallen on hard times tries to recover a stash of jewels hidden inside an armchair, but the chair gets sold at auction to a millionairess and he's forced to marry her in order to retrieve the treasure.
Movie6.8RomanceComedyWhen a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her boyfriend.
Esposa último modelo
1950 · 6 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA young man pretends to be his friends' aunt to solve certain problems.
La tía de Carlos
1946 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyDue to something very strange, a woman transforms from a housewife into a vedette.
Mi mujer está loca
1952 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaA doctor, a young woman and a romance between them product of a suicide attempt and a heart operation.
Despertar a la vida
1945 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyWhen a man agrees to join a gang of criminals, his life becomes a complicated labyrinth that he will have to leave in order to be saved.
La suerte llama tres veces
1943 · 7 votes
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
Movie8.5DramaIn the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.
Las aventuras de Jack
1949 · 2 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
Movie5.8ComedyThe wife of an officer receives a "prize for virtue" from one of her many lovers, causing several misunderstandings.
La casta Susana
1944 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a poor servant that can make her open up.