Known for Acting
Alberto and Jorge are two typical "chantas", who are dedicated to deceiving people along with another friend, nicknamed "Palomita". One day "Palomita" is awarded a prize consisting of dollars and two tickets to Caracas, but it turns out that this decomposes and dies. His last wish communicated to his friends Alberto and Jorge is that they take care of his sister. Upon meeting her, she turns out to be a very beautiful girl, with whom they both get involved. Then together with her they get into trouble with a group of criminals and must leave the country, taking a flight to Caracas, where they arrive posing as an Argentine vedette and her two representatives.
Benjamin Ortalora is a young man who leaves Buenos Aires after murdering a rival. He goes to Montevideo where his cool boldness draws the attention of gang leader Azevedo Bandeira. When the old bandit becomes ill, Ortalora makes a determined play to take his place.
A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault.
A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.
A woman realizes her husband's brutality while he's away and other men are after her.
The miserable life of the inhabitants of a town in Santiago del Estero, between crime, revenge and drought.
A parapolice force within Peronism is dedicated to reducing and extorting all kinds of opponents, among whom a few rise up to denounce what is happening. Although the film has propaganda purposes that deliberately ignore part of reality, it is based on documented cases, such as those of the student Ernesto Mario Bravo or the trade union leader Cipriano Reyes.
During the second half of the 19th century, a young survivor is saved in the Argentine pampas by a man she ends up marrying.
Passions and confrontations for a woman on a ship of fur smugglers.
The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.