Ralph Pappier

The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.

A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.

A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.

A young horse breeder will show his grandfather how they can adapt to the times and prove his theory.

The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.

Four brothers set their differences apart when they need to help another brother.

The 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.

After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.

A woman who misses her husband, who died in prison, is disputed between wine growers.

The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.

An engineer leads an expedition that makes a very dangerous exploration towards the top of the mountains and is blamed when a young member who had displaced him in the conquest of a girl falls into a precipice.

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.

An Italian immigrant accumulates wealth for their children, all consider him a miserable, until one day one of her children gives a very big disappointment and dies of a heart attack. Their children begin to spend the fortune he had amassed his father.

With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.

Margarita, the nun of a cloistered convent in charge of handling the lathe, this is a rotating mechanism provided with a small window through which she delivered and received things from the outside without direct visual contact, she is seduced by a Don Juan and induced to escape with him .

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.

A young man who travels from the country to he city to study law has economic hardship until he receives help from a neighbor.

This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) compares a past of explotation and misery with the new Argentina of Peronist social justice.

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.

A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.

Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.

A reporter and tango singer is sent to the war zone in 1916, where he loses his memory.

The life of José Gabriel Brochero, the Cordovan priest who dedicated his life to those most in need.

A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.