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Going against his family's will, a lawyer becomes a tango singer.

Various love and crime stories take place in the context of a theater, between tango singers, musicians and dancers.

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 misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the tango mythology.

A singer married to a gambler is accused of murder.

The owner of an artists agency meets a soccer player who sings, and sets out to make him a star.

Some youngsters from the city, visiting the countryside, have fun tricking naive local boys.

¡Tango! follows a formula established by Carlos Gardel with films such as Luces de Buenos Aires (The Lights of Buenos Aires, 1931) in which a melodramatic story is interspersed with tango songs. However, the film had less dialog and more music, making it more like a musical revue. This format would be copied by many subsequent films. The plot is derived from tango songs. Many of these songs tell of the seduction of an innocent slum girl by a rich man who promises her a glamorous life, but who abandons her when her looks fade. The stylized and sentimental plot of ¡Tango! revolves around a young man who is abandoned by his girlfriend for an older rich man and is heartbroken. The film follows his misfortunes.

Rich girl with progressive ideas goes undercover as a sales clerk at her father's department store.

A young millionaire meets a mechanic who has invented a carburetor as a result of a breakdown in her car.

Young doctor falls in love with a nurse, but his parents insist he marry someone from his own economic class.

In order to seduce a humble man, a rich girl pretends to be a maid.

An authoritarian tutor changes his behavior thanks to a young orphan with whom he ends up falling in love.

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.

Obsessed by a Mexican singer, an Argentine doctor arrives in Paris; Far from his land he begins to find his true identity transforming into a singer of tangos.

The life of some circus people and how their lives are affected by melodramatic situations.