Mario Fortuna

Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...

A trolley falls from a bridge to the Riachuelo, killing almost all its passengers. The families of the victims receive compensation, they improve their lifestyles and look down on the worker who didn't take the trolley that mortal day.

An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.

Three stories about love and animals.

A man returns to the town where he abandoned his wife and daughter for ten years.

A television network infiltrates an inept employee (Porcel) in the competition and he begins to ruin all the programs but, instead of subtracting audience, he only managed to improve it.

A businessman forces a simple man to become a boxer, swimmer, and runner.

Different love stories that take place in a radio station.

A town football player becomes a figure for his strange gift of gaining strength by listening to the barking of a dog.

A worker looking for money for his blind mother's operation, presents himself as a tango singer and achieves success.

A vagabond receives a large fortune as an inheritance and summons his peers to decide what to do with it.

An unsuccessful actor wants to get money from his uncle to mount a play, and seeks a woman and a child to make them look like his wife and son.

A sailor and a tango singer fall in love. To protect her, the man takes her to live with his family. But before embarking, he is robbed, and the circumstances accuse the girl of being an accomplice of the criminals.

The famous artist finds his identical twin in a tour of Argentina with many situations of entanglement, but in the end overcome the twin love.

A young man of limited intelligence but a kind heart, who earns his living as a coachman in a Buenos Aires square, saves a pregnant woman from suicide and grows fond of the child she gives birth to. The woman dies, and the young man must give the child to its true father.

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.

A humble and good-natured man is disappointed when the young woman he loves becomes involved with a millionaire.