This Desired Body

El Fausto criollo

An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role.

Historia de una mala mujer

A woman saves her daughter from making the same mistake that cost her happiness years ago.

Corrientes, calle de ensueños

Story about a humble musician who triumphs overcoming his failures and a young woman arrives in Buenos Aires from the interior of the country in search of triumph but finds death.

El balcón de la Luna

The lives of 3 singers during their last few months working at a venue called "The Moon's Balcony"

Coche cama, alojamiento

A magazine company and some in-love couples board a night train where a gang of bandits is traveling.

Nace un amor

Some professional actors are unemployed due to the opinion of a theater critic, then they decide to take revenge and disguise themselves as poor tenants from a neighborhood who are hired by the same critic to perform his work.

Eclipse de sol

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.

Camino del infierno

A melodramatic, psychological thriller, the film tells the story of a young wealthy widow, who is unhappy. She meets a Bohemian artist who marries her to escape the poverty of his family, but is stifled by her possessiveness and jealousy.

La dama duende

The young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome officer, pretending she’s a duende, a ghost.

The Rats

Returning from Switzerland, a young investigator meets María, his father's new wife. They immediately feel an irresistible attraction, which he tries to overcome by mixing it up with another woman.

Passport to Rio

A thief commits a robbery and is seen by a showgirl who becomes a witness to the crime. The man finds her and forces her to help him take what he stole to Rio de Janeiro. With no other way out, she is sent on a boat to Brazil by the thief. On board, the showgirl meets a doctor with whom she begins a romance while the criminal falls in love with her.

Kill and Be Killed

A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword.

Stain on the Snow

"La neige était sale" is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gélin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.

Demoniac

Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been carrying on a romance by correspondence with Hélène, whom he has never seen, Gervais makes the acquaintance of the woman and they move in, but her sister Agnès dabbles in the black arts, which should be warning enough for Gervais to make himself scarce. Yet he sticks around, intrigued that the dead man's sister, Julia, refuses to blow the whistle on him.

Story of a Single Night

A man returns to town after a long time and meets his ex-girlfriend, who is married to a husband in desperate economic situation.

El loco serenata

A vagabond violinist, a shameless doctor, gunmen and an impossible affair.