Homero Cárpena
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Homero Cárpena was an Argentine film director and actor who had an extensive artistic career.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mar del Plata, Argentina
Adult: No
Birthday: February 13, 1910
Age: 115 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 17, 2001
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Tres millones... y el amor
Overview: A thief going to rob an unscrupulous industrialist falls in love with a young woman and turns himself in to the police to save a thief friend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-10-31
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
Overview: While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-11
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Historia de una mala mujer
Overview: A woman saves her daughter from making the same mistake that cost her happiness years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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Cruza
Overview: The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-09-02
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Las de Barranco
Overview: A drama that revolves around the speculations made by a widow woman taking advantage of the sympathies aroused by one of her three unmarried daughters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-06-29
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El tambor de Tacuarí
Overview: After the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-07-06
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Encadenado
Overview: Love confusion between a girl and her benefactors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-03-28
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La otra y yo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-28
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Los lobos del palmar
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-02
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Soy del tiempo de Gardel
Overview: A tango academy has different characters and each one has its story.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-02
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Big five and a girl
Overview: The five members of a soccer team discover a case of bribery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-28
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El deseo
Overview: While her husband is abroad, Luisa receives a visit from an old love, her cousin, who becomes a "dangerous attraction". Her husband's stay abroad is prolonged and her loneliness overwhelms her and her attraction to her cousin increases.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-06-22
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La importancia de ser ladrón
Overview: A modest employee of exemplary behavior is mistakenly accused of committing a major fraud.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-07-28
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Operación "G"
Overview: The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-09-27
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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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Anguish of a Secret
Overview: A priest is unjustly sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. The surprise will be greater when he, while in prison, knows who the murderer is through the confession of his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-17
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El gran secreto
Overview: A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-07-21
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Detrás de la mentira
Overview: An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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Frente a la vida
Overview: A man leaves his girlfriend, but she still sacrifices her happiness to procure his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-02-22
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Cuando en el cielo pasen lista
Overview: The life and work of philanthropist and educator William Case Morris (1864-1932).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-11-29
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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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Un ángel sin pantalones
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-07-29
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El zorro pierde el pelo
Overview: A womanizer's girlfriend and future father-in-law try to teach him a lesson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
Overview: While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-11
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The Gaucho Priest
Overview: The life of José Gabriel Brochero, the Cordovan priest who dedicated his life to those most in need.
Genres: History Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-06-25
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La casta Susana
Overview: The wife of an officer receives a "prize for virtue" from one of her many lovers, causing several misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-11
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The Patagonic Teacher
Overview: After filming the hippie professor Luis Sandrini filmed this sequel to the above, following the sanctions imposed on it by Professor Horacio Montesano, sending him to Patagonia to a secondary school. Among the supporting cast is the famous singer Piero (he even play many of their good songs).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-09-03
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Yo no elegí mi vida
Overview: Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-14
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Fascination
Overview: The wife of a hypnotist lives in a state of uncertainty over whether she's with her husband out of love or if she's been a victim of his influence.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-09-26
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Besos perdidos
Overview: A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-08-30
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Three Men of the River
Overview: The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-22
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The Ruffian
Overview: An amnesiac carnival psychic is haunted by the thought that a man is coming to kill her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-09-07
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Las aventuras de Jack
Overview: In the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Nuestra Natacha
Overview: A girl who grew up in a boarding school where she suffered from a lack of love is set as its director once she graduates as a lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-09-07
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El fin de la noche
Overview: A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-11-01
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La serpiente de cascabel
Overview: Juan Carlos Thorry is a police inspector who must solve the mystery of the death of the warden of a boarding school for young women, for which he goes undercover as a music teacher. The main suspect is the mischievous schoolgirl María Duval. A series of entanglements leads the protagonists to becoming romantically involved and to finding the culprit.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-16
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El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
Overview: A woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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...Y los sueños pasan
Overview: Four young artists who live in a boarding house fall in love with the new lodger.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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Nativa
Overview: The love triangle of a journalist, a political leader and his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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La locura de Don Juan
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-20
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Hardly a Criminal
Overview: A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-03-22
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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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La vendedora de fantasías
Overview: A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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Fúlmine
Overview: A married man usually has very bad luck until he wins the lottery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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Se abre el abismo
Overview: The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-16
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The Immovable Loved One
Overview: The loves of Ana Cecilia Luisa Deillez with the Mexican poet Amado Nervo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-07-27
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The Mysterious Uncle Silas
Overview: A woman tries to run away when she finds out that her nephews plan to kill her.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-03-07
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Cuando la primavera se equivoca
Overview: A young woman falls asleep at the gates of an old farm; in her dream she is transported to another century where she suffers for love.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-31
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Olga, la hija de aquella princesa rusa
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Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-08-03
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Kuma-Ching
Overview: A bellicose Eastern power organizes a complicated plan to obtain the services of Professor Diego de Alcántara, a Spanish atomic scientist and father of Lola, a famous singer.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-06-19
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El hombre señalado
Overview: This 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-08-08
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Chingolo
Overview: A vagabond saves the child of a rich family. They adopt him and try to impose to him their values and protocols.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-09-18
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El cielo en las manos
Overview: Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-03-20
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La fuga
Overview: Daniel, a smuggler is chased by a policeman. In his escape are helped by the messages that his lover transmits to him in code by means of the tangos that sings in a radio program. To hide himself, he pretends to be a teacher in a small town in Entre Ríos, and by the time he discovers it, the police have already faced a new life.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-07-28
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María Magdalena
Overview: A woman helps a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-10
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Overview: In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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El mozo número 13
Overview: A waiter who uses gambling to help others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-02-26
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Novios para las muchachas
Overview: The misadventures of four young women who want to get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-01-29
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Cada hogar, un mundo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-27
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Los caranchos de la Florida
Overview: The film deals with the conflict between a father, master of a cattle ranch, and his son, who has returned after study.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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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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Las zapatillas coloradas
Overview: Two detectives are hired to investigate the theft of essential shoes for a famous dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-29
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Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo
Overview: Spanish conquerors from the XVI century arrive in America to establish a population.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-08-02
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Chiruca
Overview: An orphan young man in Argentina finds that his family's fortune is in ruins, so he goes back to Spain where he finds Chiruca, the family's maid. Together they will find out who is trying to scam him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-07-04
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The Hippie Teacher
Overview: Luis Sandrini plays a college professor who, because of his freethinking attitudes and concerns for moral questions over matters of business, has more in common with his students than his colleagues.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-07-31
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El cartero
Overview: A provincial postman shares with the inhabitants of a small town the joys and sorrows caused by the correspondence he delivers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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Delito
Overview: A police officer joins a gang of smugglers to try to unmask its members.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-07-25
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Tres historias fantásticas
Overview: The film is made up of three independent stories: The Network, The Experiment and The Deer of the Seven Roses.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-10-01
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