Hugo del Carril
Actor · 1912 – 1989 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Piero Bruno Hugo Fontana Bertani, known as Hugo del Carril (November 30, 1912 - August 13, 1989), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. He began his career as a singer of tango choruses at the age of fifteen. He made his film debut as an actor in 1937 and in 1949 as a director. In 1948 he would go on to immortality as the voice of La Marcha Peronista, for which he would be persecuted and imprisoned in 1955 after the coup against the government of Juan Domingo Perón.
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Movie8.5DramaRomanceA woman feels abandoned by her husband and children.
Amorina
1961 · 6 votes
Movie8.5ComedyA cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Vida nocturna
1955 · 2 votes
Movie7.2MusicRomanceA 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.
Gente bien
1939 · 8 votes
Movie7.5DramaMusicGroup of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.
Confesión
1940 · 2 votes
Movie6.7MusicRomanceA film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
Movie7.6CrimeDramaA criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.
Culpable
1960 · 5 votes
Movie7.5MusicRomanceAccidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the family.
El astro del tango
1940 · 2 votes
Movie5.0RomanceAdventurePhysicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.
- Movie7.0Music
A boy's family wants him to marry a girl of the same position even though he is in love with another girl.
Cuando canta el corazón
1941 · 2 votes
Movie7.3MusicDramaPeter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them.
Movie7.6DramaWesternThe Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
Movie9.0ComedyMusicSiempre fuimos compañeros
1973 · 1 votes
Movie7.2DramaMusicThe lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
Movie5.8CrimeMusicTango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.
La noche y tú
1946 · 5 votes
Movie7.0DramaThe life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
Esta tierra es mía
1961 · 7 votes
Movie6.0DramaMusicContrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.
Pobre mi madre querida
1948 · 6 votes
Movie7.7ComedyDramaSome years from the life of a neighborhood tough in Buenos Aires around 1915.
Amalio Reyes, un hombre
1970 · 3 votes
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
Movie7.0MusicVarious musical episodes make up this film-magazine in which Del Carril tried to merge his two great passions: cinema and tango.
Movie7.0ComedyMusicThree 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.
Movie4.0CrimeBuenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.