Armando Bó
Also Known As: Армандо Бо
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Armando Bó was an Argentine film actor, director, producer, screenwriter and score composer of the classic era. He is mostly known for his sexploitation films in the 1960s and 1970s starring his favorite actress and romantic partner, sex symbol Isabel Sarli. His works include the first nude scene in an Argentine film (El trueno entre las hojas).
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Adult: No
Birthday: May 03, 1914
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 08, 1981
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La novela de un joven pobre
Overview: After 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.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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The Shoemaker's Wife
Overview: After the death of the village pharmacist, his widow Lina only inherits debts that he must face. Valentin, the old shoemaker, is the main creditor and the exuberant Lina must pay him what he owes, whatever it costs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-05-27
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Flesh on Flesh
Overview: Documentary on Argentine actress and sex symbol Isabel Sarli, including clips from her films and interviews with her and other actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-04-01
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El último amor en Tierra del Fuego
Overview: The conflict of a good man fighting between two loves: the violent love for a fascinating woman and the tender love for the little son, orphaned of a mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-10-11
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Ardent Summer
Overview: Barbara is a sexy stripper, but she is dedicated to her husband. When a rich and above-the-law land-owner orders the murder of her husband to get her, she plans, and conducts, deadly revenge. She starts by intriguing between the rich man and his sons, who also had abused her, so that he has two of them killed, and then she sets out against the actual killers, shooting them herself, and leaving the old lecher and his older son to the last. The final confrontation has some surprises, though.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-08-30
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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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Mamá Gloria
Overview: The romance in a student pension run by a good-natured spinster, between a pensioner and a student gambler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-08-20
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La caraba
Overview: A mythomaniac woman rejects her humble status and falls in the trap of a wealthy lawyer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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The Virgin Goddess
Overview: Reworking of H. Ridder Haggard's SHE with softcore sex star Sarli as the white "goddess" who lives among the tribes of South Africa and can enjoy eternal life as long as she remains a virgin. Enter adventurer Bo and the trouble begins.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-18
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...Y mañana serán hombres
Overview: A man who is a director of a reformatory is slowly gaining everyone's trust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-10-25
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La mujer de mi padre
Overview: Jose, a mountain rancher in northern Argentina, meets and begins an affair with Eva, a beautful but mysterious woman who is the mistress of Simon, a local gangster from a nearby village, which complicates things more when Jose's son Mario returns and also begins a romantic relationship with Eva which brings out jealousy in Jose.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-04-24
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Thunder Among the Leaves
Overview: Deep in the jungle, a drifter attempts to inspire revolt against his cruel boss’s slave labor practices, made more difficult by the arrival of the boss’s beautiful wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-10-02
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Tropical Ecstasy
Overview: A woman who makes her living as a prostitute must decide her fate between two totally different men.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-10-19
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Fever
Overview: Sandra, lovelessly married to a landowner who owns racehorses, meets José María, a lumberjack, and they quickly fall in love. After some time, Sandra's husband learns of the relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-06-24
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Ambición
Overview: The struggle to succeed and a love story of some Argentines who live in the Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-06-29
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Su última pelea
Overview: Tuberculosis and a passional crime prevent the final triumph to a boy from the slums who has opened his way in boxing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-08
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Tú eres la paz
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Original Language: es
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If I Were Rich
Overview: A screwball comedy about a young barrio songstress and pickpocket who, while escaping after nicking a woman's wallet, is hired to model for an agency. There she discovers a new world when she mixes with the rich and finds love among them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-04-16
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Bewitched
Overview: Ansise is a former Indian whose only dream is to become a mother. The idea of motherhood gradually turns into an obsession for her. Unfortunately, she has married an impotent man. But she tries to get pregnant anyway. She even tries to work as a prostitute and goes to a local witch. But the real problem is that an evil entity called Pombero has fallen with love with her, killing all the men crossing her way.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-18
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Fuego
Overview: Laura is a young woman living in a mansion with her maid Andrea. She meets and falls in love with Carlos, a man of high society who sees in her a vivaciousness he so longs to have in his life. But little does he know what troubles lie in store for him. Laura suffers from a dangerous case of nymphomania, desiring any man she lays her eyes on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-10
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La diosa impura
Overview: After a series of doublecrosses involving stolen diamonds, a gangster's babe in Argentina flees to Mexico; she's kept by a druggy, decadent painter and then falls in love with his brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-08-20
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Put Up or Shut Up
Overview: The love story between a man and a woman, children of rival fishermen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-02-25
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La cabalgata del circo
Overview: The 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.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-05-30
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The Insatiable Widow
Overview: Isabel Sarli as a nymphomaniac wife who can't remain faithful to her husband so he seeks help from a psychologist to find out why his wife is always cheating on him with both men and women.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-09-27
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A Butterfly in the Night
Overview: A prostitute in Paris is taken home to her native Argentina by an in love rich landlord.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Lujuria tropical
Overview: The story of a sensual woman torn between two loves, in the setting of the beautiful Venezuelan beaches.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-02
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Naked Temptation
Overview: A girl falls off a yacht and finds herself lost in the jungle where she is discovered by the natives who are thoroughly entranced by her beauty
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-11-17
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Pelota de trapo
Overview: This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-20
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Intimacies of a Prostitute
Overview: A woman from the country moves into to the big city of Buenos Aires to start a new life. Things are not going very easy and she soon finds herself working as a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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Leather Ball
Overview: The plot of the film focuses on the decline of a long-time footballer at Club Boca Juniors. A player who does not change colors and can not conceive of any alternative but to play in the club of which he is fan fanatic.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-07-24
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Los Tres Mosqueteros
Overview: An 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.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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El sexo y el amor
Overview: After an accident that leaves him paralyzed, a man drives his wife towards infidelity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-19
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El hijo del crack
Overview: A famous football player faces retirement, but his son is still his most faithful fan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-12-15
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La leona
Overview: A millionaire businessman must deal simultaneously with the kidnap of his wife and his worker's strike.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-09-17
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Joven, viuda y estanciera
Overview: Elena is coming back to her country house while León and the person in charge of the estate fight to gain her love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-06-11
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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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Un señor mucamo
Overview: Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a young lady who turns out to be the daughter of his employer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-01-20
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Nosotros los muchachos
Overview: Three displaced children hitchhike to Buenos Aires, where they get involved in street-crime and heavier stuff. Positive-role-model adults offer a balance to those negative influences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Si mis campos hablaran
Overview: Si mis campos hablaran is a 1947 Chilean film directed by José Bohr. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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Heat
Overview: City girl ends up in a fishing village and all the men in her orbit fight over her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-08-31
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Chimbela
Overview: A young woman protects and falls in love with a fugitive accused of murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-08-30
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En cuerpo y alma
Overview: Two boys who love basketball come into the confrontation, already big, for the love of a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-19
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El más infeliz del pueblo
Overview: A shy man marries the daughter of a local warlord, works as a municipal chief of staff, witnesses numerous injustices and rebels himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-03-19
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Fangio, el demonio de las pistas
Overview: Based on the career of Juan Manuel Fangio, an Argentine motorist who, in his first season in Formula 1, in 1950, achieved the runner-up; and that then between 1951 and 1958 he would obtain five world titles in Formula 1, driving with Mercedes Benz, Maserati, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-15
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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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Cándida millonaria
Overview: Servant in a wealthy household and her employer unexpectedly get all romantical together. His daughter isn't so keen on the marriage when it happens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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La maestrita de los obreros
Overview: The relationship of the young night school teacher with her students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-04
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Melodías de América
Overview: Romance starts in Rio between a Mexican tenor being wooed for a Buenos Aires production, and an Argentine gal who has won a soap contest and who he thinks is rich.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-01-21
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La burrerita de Ypacaraí
Overview: A Paraguayan peasant woman who arouses passions in men falls in love with a criminal, consequently she has to face various situations to cope with the relationship.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-04-05
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Sacachispas
Overview: A music teacher and a police officer look after a children's club.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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Con el sudor de tu frente
Overview: While a drought and debts overwhelm a farmer, the arrival of a Polish visitor will make him see the world in another way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-07
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Mi divina pobreza
Overview: A millionaire commits suicide by leaving his fortune to a poor young rival and then, as a ghost, teaches him the true importance of money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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Honrarás a tu madre
Overview: The love of a mother for her two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-06-18
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Muerte civil
Overview: A man convicted of killing his brother-in-law escaped from jail and when he found his daughter, he found out that he believed someone else was her father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-08-24
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