Ángel Magaña
Biography: Ángel Magaña (Buenos Aires, August 24, 1915-Ib., November 12, 1982)1 was an Argentine actor. He stood out as a dramatic actor and comedian.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 23, 1915
Deathday: November 12, 1982
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Andrea
1973-10-04
Andrea
Overview: An orphan girl with a mother who lives in the care of her grandfather in the south of the country and the conflict caused by the arrival of her father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-10-04
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El viejo doctor
1939-01-18
El viejo doctor
Overview: Medical father and son in conflict over two conceptions about the practice of medicine as a result of a bad and inopportune medical practice carried out by the son to a patient of the father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-18
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Con las alas rotas
1938-06-15
Con las alas rotas
Overview: A man finds out his wife had a lover and abandons her, but first he gains custody of their daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-06-15
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Cómo se hace una película argentina
1948-01-01
Cómo se hace una película argentina
Overview: Institutional 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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La cuna vacía
1949-10-10
La cuna vacía
Overview: The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his law studies and a double frustration, as a writer and in his crush on a young woman who loved another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-10-10
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Requiebro
1955-01-01
Requiebro
Overview: A rancher fleeing from marriage is conquered by a Spanish singer.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Piantadino
1950-03-30
Piantadino
Overview: An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-03-30
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Cadetes de San Martín
1937-03-03
Cadetes de San Martín
Overview: A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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Fragata Sarmiento
1940-05-22
Fragata Sarmiento
Overview: It narrates the history of the Argentine ship that served for many generations like school for the formation of sailors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-05-22
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Never Open That Door
1952-05-23
Never Open That Door
Overview: A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Su mejor alumno
1944-05-22
Su mejor alumno
Overview: The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-05-22
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The Gaucho War
1942-11-20
The Gaucho War
Overview: The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-11-20
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Esposa último modelo
1950-07-27
Esposa último modelo
Overview: When 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.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-07-27
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Yo quiero morir contigo
1941-07-01
Yo quiero morir contigo
Overview: A baby is kidnapped and a couple will travel the whole country trying to pay the ramson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-07-01
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Feminine Wiles
1951-08-26
Feminine Wiles
Overview: A man feels abandoned because his wife is too busy with her incredible success as a lawyer. Because of this, he ends up falling into infidelity and showing certain contradictions in his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-26
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North Wind
1937-10-13
North Wind
Overview: In an indigenous village a murder occurs, and young man is sentenced to death for it. However his father, the real culprit, takes the responsibility.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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Los ojos llenos de amor
1954-07-02
Los ojos llenos de amor
Overview: An extra breaks into the department of a movie star to seduce him.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-07-02
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The Priest Lorenzo
1954-01-01
The Priest Lorenzo
Overview: A heart-warming and entertaining chronicle of Salesian priest Lorenzo Massa. His work in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires in the early 1900s led to the founding of San Lorenzo de Almagro, one of the best soccer clubs in Argentina. (Pope Francis, who grew up in this neighborhood in the 1940s, is a fan). Father Massa (Ángel Magaña), an athletic young priest, is sent to serve a working class community, where he initially faces indifference and hostility. Following the conventions of the Hollywood biopic, the film describes the characters and their plights with affection, and a dash of drama, as they are changed by the example of the priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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La sonrisa de mamá
1972-03-02
La sonrisa de mamá
Overview: Angelica Zamora is a famous actress and singer, ignored by her three children Julio, Clotilde and Felipe. After learning of a serious illness that leaves her little time to live, her children and their friends intend to make her spend her best moments without being aware of the disease she suffers. Julio will even propose to someone to please his mother.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-03-02
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La familia hippie
1971-03-24
La familia hippie
Overview: A music teacher marries the daughter of a widower, and he marries the young man's mother.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-03-24
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Adolescence
1942-03-11
Adolescence
Overview: A young man from America falls in love with a girl who already has a boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-11
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Puerta cerrada
1939-02-01
Puerta cerrada
Overview: Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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Arroz con leche
1950-10-05
Arroz con leche
Overview: A runaway bride poses as a married woman and mother of twins to woo a suitor who only falls in love with married women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-05
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Prisoners of the Land
1939-08-17
Prisoners of the Land
Overview: Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas with the purpose of hiring workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-08-17
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Kilómetro 111
1938-08-31
Kilómetro 111
Overview: Ceferino is the train station chief o a remote town. A group of planters ask him to legit them the wagons to send the harvest to Buenos Aires, he agrees, but he gets fired.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-08-31
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El muerto falta a la cita
1944-12-07
El muerto falta a la cita
Overview: On the night of his marriage a young man runs over a cyclist. He believes he is dead, he hides the body and a mysterious character appears.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-12-07
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Historia de una carta
1957-10-17
Historia de una carta
Overview: In a moment of despair, a man sends a letter to her girlfriend announcing his suicide. He then regrets it and tries to recover the letter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-17
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Los chantas
1975-04-03
Los chantas
Overview: Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-03
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La cigarra está que arde
1967-05-04
La cigarra está que arde
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-05-04
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Así es la vida
1977-05-19
Así es la vida
Overview: Tells the story, in the key of comedy of customs, of a typical bourgeois home in Buenos Aires for three decades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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Dos locos en el aire
1976-07-22
Dos locos en el aire
Overview: Falling in love with a superior's daughter, complications arise for an Air Force officer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-07-22
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La calle grita
1948-09-14
La calle grita
Overview: When the employee of a famous economist seeks a raise in complicity with a street vendor, her work learns real-life facts by trying to prove that you can live with what you pay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-09-14
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Nunca te diré adiós
1947-04-29
Nunca te diré adiós
Overview: The passionate love of a married woman and a single man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-04-29
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Cuando florezca el naranjo
1943-04-01
Cuando florezca el naranjo
Overview: A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival disrupts the discipline of the beautiful students.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Flor de piolas
1969-05-29
Flor de piolas
Overview: A gang of blackmailers travels from town to town choosing their victims.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-05-29
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Vuelva el primero!
1952-04-24
Vuelva el primero!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-24
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Viaje de una noche de verano
1965-06-10
Viaje de una noche de verano
Overview: A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-06-10
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El mejor papá del mundo
1941-03-14
El mejor papá del mundo
Overview: A young man gives a hard lesson to his father, a prestigious lawyer complicated in the management of a foreign company.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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La cigarra no es un bicho
1963-05-06
La cigarra no es un bicho
Overview: The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-05-06
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Héroes sin fama
1940-01-10
Héroes sin fama
Overview: Social film that explores journalism's fight against fraud, intimidation, extortion and political crimes during the 30s in Argentina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-01-10
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Mi amigo Luis
1972-04-06
Mi amigo Luis
Overview: The story is based on the cadets of the Military College and their relationship with an older officer (1st Lieutenant) whom they see as a father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-06
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Hotel de señoritas
1979-10-18
Hotel de señoritas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-10-18
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La industria del matrimonio
1965-09-01
La industria del matrimonio
Overview: There are 3 stories about the intermediaries of marriage (the ads of magazines, seers and agencies): Sentimental mail, about an energetic woman who wants to marry a dominable man; Elixir of love, on the subject of the title; and Romantic about a melodic singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-09-01
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Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola
1965-08-19
Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola
Overview: Movie divided in three episodes: a family mother becomes a successful singer; an Argentinian reporter follows a Spanish cupletista from the beginning of the XX century; the reunion of three old actors and their lies about their success.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-19
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Adiós Alejandra
1973-04-19
Adiós Alejandra
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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¡Viva la vida!
1969-10-02
¡Viva la vida!
Overview: A couple of screenwriters try to find a new idea for a movie.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-02
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When My Husband Kisses
1950-05-17
When My Husband Kisses
Overview: A high society woman discovers a fiery romantic letter in a raincoat pocket seemingly written by a rumba dancer to the woman’s doctor husband. He tries to cover by saying that the letter is addressed to a more conservative friend of his, leading to rumours of his friend’s (supposed) incredible passion becoming intriguing to the local women, even the Doctor’s own jealous wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-17
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Naughty Angel
1953-03-10
Naughty Angel
Overview: An angel who comes down to earth in the form of a woman lives a love story.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-10
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