Francisco Álvarez

The Edge of Fear (1967)

One by one, the Urdaz family is plagued by a series of mysterious disappearances, starting with the tyrannical father that everyone fears. ...

Punto y banca (1961)

¡Viva quien sabe querer! (1960)

Ranchera singer and his sidekick travel to Argentina to mix it up with a playboy who bragged to them about the tour he'd book for them. ...

Anguish of a Secret (1959)

A priest is unjustly sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. The surprise will be greater when he, while in prison, knows who the murderer is through the confession of his daughter. ...

Clouds of Smoke (1959)

A student and tango aficionado stops singing when he finishes his career, but later relapses. ...

Luces de candilejas (1958)

Three supposed brothers ( a bolero singer, a tango singer and a mabo singer) are called for a musical magazine. ...

El primer beso (1958)

A taxi driver falls in love with a newspaper seller girl at a newsstand. ...

Que me toquen las golondrinas (1957)

A Mexican singer travels the world and finds love in Argentina. ...

Cubitos de hielo (1956)

Música, alegría y amor (1956)

A young bohemian who dreams of succeeding as a painter will eventually succeed as a singer. ...

De noche también se duerme (1956)

When a divorced couple tries to reunite, the separation of others distances them. ...

Una madeja de lana azul celeste (1955)

A wife tries to win back her husband's interest, as their marriage is seriously threatened by the arrival of her best friend and schoolmate in Venezuela. ...

Mi marido hoy duerme en casa (1955)

The children of a divorced marriage hatch a plan to get them back together, upon discovering that their father has a girlfriend. ...

Lo que le pasó a Reynoso (1955)

A gaucho kills a man in a duel and must flee. ...

Un novio para Laura (1955)

A humble young woman receives a dowry from a rich uncle only if she marries, so she "rents" a boyfriend but she ends up falling in love with him. ...

Vida nocturna (1955)

A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night. ...

Ritmo, amor y picardía (1955)

A grumpy father has an attitude change when a young man who marries one of his daughters alters the home lifestyle. ...

Escuela de sirenas y tiburones (1955)

Mistakes, songs and intrigues in a mixed boarding school. ...

Somos todos inquilinos (1954)

Movie divided in three episodes: a methodic man believes he's near his death and starts spending other people's money; to cure his husband's gambling addiction a woman becomes a horse races expert; a dancer and a soprano bother each other until they fall i ...

Suegra último modelo (1953)

A woman tries to annul her daughter's marriage by making her boyfriend believe that he is the real father of her daughter. ...

La mejor del colegio (1953)

Misunderstanding comedy in a girls' boarding school that requires its teachers to be married, causing some to just pretend they are. ...

El infortunado Fortunato (1952)

A humble and good-natured man is disappointed when the young woman he loves becomes involved with a millionaire. ...

Martín pescador (1951)

A man and the ambition to educate his son. ...

Yo quiero una mujer así (1950)

Lindolfo Chaves is the president of a tobacco company based in Havana and also the president of the Liga Pro Restauración de la Moral y la Virtud, but in private he is an incorrigible libertine until, after conducting a medical check-up after an agitated ...

Al compás de tu mentira (1950)

A hidden heir who is the author of tangos. ...

Un tropezón cualquiera da en la vida (1949)

Maridos modernos (1948)

Snoopy mother-in-law finds an autographed photo of a nightclub singer in her son-in-law's coat pocket and she goes on the warpath. ...

Al marido hay que seguirlo (1948)

A doctor must pretend to be single and his wife follows him to the field causing a series of incidents. ...

La caraba (1948)

A mythomaniac woman rejects her humble status and falls in the trap of a wealthy lawyer. ...

La tía de Carlos (1946)

A young man pretends to be his friends' aunt to solve certain problems. ...

Un modelo de París (1946)

A series of confusions involve an unfaithful woman and a man on his wedding day. ...

Santa Cándida (1945)

A woman of high society dies, leaving a large part of her assets to her domestic worker, who must deal with the envy and jealousy of her relatives. ...

La importancia de ser ladrón (1944)

A modest employee of exemplary behavior is mistakenly accused of committing a major fraud. ...

Su esposa diurna (1944)

An etymologist and a P.E professor simulate being married to obtain a scholarship and make a scientific expedition end up falling in love. ...

Hay que casar a Paulina (1944)

A rich and arrogant girl falls into poverty, while a noble and hardworking boy, who at first was despised, receives love. ...

Los hijos artificiales (1943)

To hide his escapades, a justice of the peace with a dissipated life pretends to have a son out of wedlock, but when the young man appears in his town he complicates things. ...

An Angel Came Down from Heaven (1942)

A young couple pretends to have had a baby in order to get the girl's father's permission to get married. ...

The Third Kiss (1942)

A single man must pretend to be the father of a teenage girl and will end up marrying her mother. ...

Boina blanca (1941)

The film narrates events of the Revolution of the Park, carried out by radical sympathizers on July 26, 1890. There is a secondary plot with the romance of a girl who, despite being in love with her father's godson, must contract a marriage with a banker t ...

Soñar no cuesta nada (1941)

Two girls without blood relationship but physically the same. One is shy and educated, the daughter of a good class marriage and the other is a very clever orphan but with terrible manners who lives in a kind of shelter. ...

Orquesta de señoritas (1941)

A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems. ...

La canción de los barrios (1941)

A young man starts working as a laborer in his father's shipyards and discovers a series of injustices. ...

Hay que educar a Niní (1940)

A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs. ...

Ha entrado un ladrón (1940)

The consequences of having accepted a thief as a guest in the house. ...

El sobretodo de Céspedes (1939)

The needy Pedro Céspedes finds a coat that implies for those who wear it a mysterious prodigality of money and jewelry. ...

Mi suegra es una fiera (1939)

A woman tries to annul her daughter's marriage by making her boyfriend believe that he is the real father of her daughter. ...

Pampa y cielo (1938)

A drunken and lazy gaucho is helped by another, pious and just. ...

Turbión (1938)

Two gangs of drug traffickers try to control the monopoly of drugs in the city, while the police commissioner tries to kill them with the help of a snitch, "the puppet". ...

La estancia del gaucho Cruz (1938)

A young actress intends to win over a man who, after Don Juan's fame, had isolated himself in a ranch, for which she disguises herself as a man and becomes his chauffeur. ...

El cabo Rivero (1938)

The romance of a couple set in the time of Juan Manuel de Rosas with a federal corporal serving as a link. ...

Los locos del cuarto piso (1937)

In a boarding house, the maid marries the ice cream man, and a newly graduated doctor falls in love with his first patient. ...

Lo que le pasó a Reynoso (1937)

A gaucho kills a romantic rival in a duel, forcing him to flee. ...

La sangre de las guitarras (1937)

A 1937 unreleased film. ...