La historia del tango

La calle Corrientes

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

Noches de Buenos Aires

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

Historia de crímenes

A bank clerk uncovers the manager's criminal behavior and prevents him from carrying out a murder.

El diablo andaba en los choclos

Country boy moves to Buenos Aires, falls upward into a prestigious career. Meanwhile two idle-class playboys are running practical jokes on him that interfere with his personal life.

La rubia Mireya

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

When My Heart Calls

A singer married to a gambler is accused of murder.

Navidad de los pobres

A woman finds herself in trouble from a single mother whose father has stolen her child and decides to protect her.

Los muchachos se divierten

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

El fabricante de estrellas

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

¡Tango!

¡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.

Valentina

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

Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tienda

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

Porteña de corazón

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

Isabelita

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

Mi amor eres tú

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

Gente bien

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.