Acting
Hugo del Carril
Born November 27, 1912 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died August 13, 1989 · aged 76
Piero Bruno Hugo Fontana Bertani, known as Hugo del Carril (November 30, 1912 - August 13, 1989), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. He began his career as a singer of tango choruses at the age of fifteen. He made his film debut as an actor in 1937 and in 1949 as a director. In 1948 he would go on to immortality as the voice of La Marcha Peronista, for …
Known For
Esta tierra es mía · 1961Esta tierra es mía
★ 7.01961
MovieDrama
The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
Vida nocturna · 1955Vida nocturna
★ 8.51955
MovieComedy
A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Amorina · 1961Amorina
★ 8.51961
MovieDramaRomance
A woman feels abandoned by her husband and children.
Siempre fuimos compañeros · 1973Siempre fuimos compañeros
★ 9.01973
MovieComedyMusic
Culpable · 1960Culpable
★ 7.61960
MovieCrimeDrama
A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.
Amor último modelo · 1942Amor último modelo
★ 7.01942
MovieComedy
The daughter of a fashion house owner falls in love with the designer of a competitor business.
El último payador · 1950El último payador
★ 7.81950
MovieDrama
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.
I Did Kill Facundo · 1975I Did Kill Facundo
★ 8.51975
MovieDrama
The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.
Movies
Esta tierra es mía · 1961Esta tierra es mía
★ 7.01961
MovieDrama
The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
Vida nocturna · 1955Vida nocturna
★ 8.51955
MovieComedy
A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Amorina · 1961Amorina
★ 8.51961
MovieDramaRomance
A woman feels abandoned by her husband and children.
Siempre fuimos compañeros · 1973Siempre fuimos compañeros
★ 9.01973
MovieComedyMusic
Culpable · 1960Culpable
★ 7.61960
MovieCrimeDrama
A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.
Amor último modelo · 1942Amor último modelo
★ 7.01942
MovieComedy
The daughter of a fashion house owner falls in love with the designer of a competitor business.
El último payador · 1950El último payador
★ 7.81950
MovieDrama
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.
I Did Kill Facundo · 1975I Did Kill Facundo
★ 8.51975
MovieDrama
The story of Santos Pérez, the man who murdered caudillo Facundo Quiroga in 1835.
El astro del tango · 1940El astro del tango
★ 7.51940
MovieMusicRomance
Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the family.
Gente bien · 1939Gente bien
★ 7.31939
MovieMusicRomance
A single mother who is denied work to support the son she had with the aristocrat who had seduced her, is helped by a singer, a director of orchestra and an American female singer, who get her shelter in the humble pension where they live.
The Vampire of Santiago · 1955The Vampire of Santiago
★ 10.01955
MovieDramaHistory
In seventeenth century's Chile a woman kills her lover because she wants to conquer a priest.
Pasión imposible · 1943Pasión imposible
1943
MovieDrama
A girl marries a writer, with whom her older sister is also in love; and when she gets sick, her sister takes care of her family.
Las tierras blancas · 1959Las tierras blancas
★ 10.01959
MovieDramaWestern
The miserable life of the inhabitants of a town in Santiago del Estero, between crime, revenge and drought.
Honeysuckle · 1938Honeysuckle
★ 6.71938
MovieMusicRomance
A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
El último perro · 1956El último perro
★ 8.11956
MovieWesternDrama
During the second half of the 19th century, a young survivor is saved in the Argentine pampas by a man she ends up marrying.
Dark River · 1952Dark River
★ 7.61952
MovieDramaWestern
The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
Confesión · 1940Confesión
★ 7.51940
MovieDramaMusic
Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.
The Bad Life · 1973The Bad Life
★ 4.01973
MovieCrime
Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.
Beyond Oblivion · 1956Beyond Oblivion
★ 7.91956
MovieDramaRomance
After a period of sorrow, Fernando de Arellano, a rich businessman who has recently lost his young wife Blanca from a serious ilness, meets Mónica, who looks identical to her.
The Black Man Who Had a White Soul · 1951The Black Man Who Had a White Soul
★ 7.31951
MovieMusicDrama
Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them.
Amalio Reyes, un hombre · 1970Amalio Reyes, un hombre
★ 7.71970
MovieComedyDrama
Some years from the life of a neighborhood tough in Buenos Aires around 1915.
El socio · 1946El socio
★ 5.81946
MovieDramaAdventure
A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
Pobre mi madre querida · 1948Pobre mi madre querida
★ 6.01948
MovieDramaMusic
Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.
Fire in the Flesh · 1958Fire in the Flesh
★ 5.01958
MovieRomanceAdventure
Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.