Help Me to Live

Film based on the sonnet by the same name, written by Evaristo Carriego.

A poor girl falls in love with a young rich boy who is the son of her boss.

A young woman protects and falls in love with a fugitive accused of murder.

A 1923 film.

Rich man's daughter throws over her nerdy boyfriend when she gets a taste of the real thing from one of her daddy's construction workers. Meanwhile, there's a crooked labor contractor posing as an agitator and trying to provoke a strike.

A girl who sometimes mistreats her father, leaves her home and leaves her boyfriend, seduced by an adventurer who starts her as a tango singer. The father is jailed after shooting the seducer and she tries to commit suicide but her old boyfriend saves her, starting a more successful way.

A young painter who frequents the poor neighborhoods looking for motifs for his works becomes the lover of a prostitute-singer.

On his first night out after receiving the key to his house, a young man walks into a club where an orchestra of young ladies is playing.

The film revolves around a lower-class family: Doña Camila, the aging mother, and Elena and Carlos, her children. Carlos is, unbeknownst to her, a reformed thief. One day he meets Nora, a prostitute, in the park, and decides to bring her home after falling in love with her. Elena, who is being courted by a shady Don Juan, is given a ring as a gift, but Nora takes it away from her complaining that she knows men like Don Juan and the ring is probably stolen. This is evidenced when the police arrive in search for the ring, and Nora takes the fall for Elena.

A poor fellow is dominated by his wife who is unfaitful.

The romantic story between a young employee and the seller of a bookstore whose father wishes to marry her with an older man.

A woman driven by misery to a path of degradation until the inexorable end of which the tango symbolizes, at the same time, her condemnation and her liberation.

The romance between a female singer and a tango composer.

A man is accused of stealing from a store when the real perpetrator is his girlfriend's brother.

The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of life".