Vicente Forastieri

The Shoemaker's Wife (1965)

After the death of the village pharmacist, his widow Lina only inherits debts that he must face. Valentin, the old shoemaker, is the main creditor and the exuberant Lina must pay him what he owes, whatever it costs. ...

El gordo Villanueva (1964)

Procesado 1040 (1958)

Elderly suburban man is imprisoned over a misunderstanding about some garden utensils. ...

El ángel de España (1957)

A Spanish immigrant goes from delivery guy to successful singer. ...

¡Ué... Paisano! (1953)

The story revolves around the relationship of Italian immigrants and Argentines. Nostalgia for his country of origin and life in a strange country. It is a call for the union of immigrants that evokes sentimentality. ...

Locuras, tiros y mambo (1951)

Five friends join a Cuban to face a powerful gang that wants to take over the theater in which they perform. ...

El hincha (1951)

A mechanical worker and football fanatic finds the meaning of life in encouraging, following and collaborating with the club that he loves, to the point of indefinitely postponing the marriage with his eternal girlfriend. ...

Alma de bohemio (1949)

Salaryman leads a double life, staying out all night singing tangos in a pool room. ...

Yo no elegí mi vida (1949)

Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence. ...

Porteña de corazón (1948)

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

Navidad de los pobres (1947)

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

El diablo andaba en los choclos (1946)

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 calle Corrientes (1943)

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

Son cartas de amor (1943)

When My Heart Calls (1942)

A singer married to a gambler is accused of murder. ...

Napoleón (1941)

Upon learning that he has two months to live, a man distributes his fortune among his pensioners, over time he is still alive and has been left without a penny. ...

Cándida millonaria (1941)

Servant in a wealthy household and her employer unexpectedly get all romantical together. His daughter isn't so keen on the marriage when it happens. ...

La luz de un fósforo (1940)

A shy man invents in front of his friends a love affair with a singer but circumstances will lead him to conquer her. ...

Ha entrado un ladrón (1940)

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

Marriage in Buenos Aires (1940)

When her boyfriends are tempted by attractive women who are only interested in their money, two friends decide to join forces to make them give up such love affairs. ...

La mujer y el jockey (Hipódromo) (1939)

The jockey and owner of a horse is seduced by a woman while criminals dope the animal, turning it into a crack. ...

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. ...

Oro entre barro (1939)

A humble bartender wants his minister brother to recognize the son of the woman he abandoned years ago. ...

Pampa y cielo (1938)

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

Adiós Buenos Aires (1938)

A freakish coincidence brings together a songwriter and the lyricist from whom he inadvertently stole the lyrics to a hit song. ...

La chismosa (1938)

In a ranch, a midwife attends to the birth of a girl resulting from an illegitimate relationship whom she will try to keep. ...

Return to the Nest (1938)

Enrique, a gray office worker who lives a marriage already without passion begins to rethink his life when he receives an anonymous who says that his wife deceives him. ...

La muchacha del circo (1937)

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

La sangre de las guitarras (1937)

A 1937 unreleased film. ...

El caballo del pueblo (1935)

Unscrupulous businessman is plotting a hostile takeover, looking for ways to fix a horse-race, and scheming to force a failed businessman to marry his daughter to him to avoid financial ruin. ...

Noches de Buenos Aires (1935)

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