Nelo Cosimi

El tercer huésped

A threatened financier is impersonated during a train ride by an identical-looking salesman.

Centauros del pasado

Film about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos.

Malambo

Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.

Sendas cruzadas

A bandit is accused of killing a young man who was actually killed by his girlfriend's stepfather who was in love with her.

La maestrita de los obreros

The relationship of the young night school teacher with her students.

La quinta calumnia

A huge store in Buenos Aires is about to close due to restrictions on imports. The owner of the store returns from a vacation in France, and knowing the financial situation proceeds to throw a big gala party. He hires a man he had met abroad to pose as a fake earl, hoping to attract wealthy clients.

The Charge of the Brave

It takes place in 1827, in Carmen de Patagones, in the context of the confrontation between the militias of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and the navy troops of the Empire of Brazil. It is the story of a fort lieutenant who falls in love with a young woman.

Dios y la Patria

Pro-military film, released just one year after the first Argentinian military coup.

Defiende tu honor

The film was filmed with sound, but the result was so poor that it had to be released as a silent film.

La quena de la muerte

A woman and his lover spend a season at the mountains, in order to recover from the excesses of life in the city. But peace doesn’t last long: he tries to seduce a country-woman and she invites a mongrel over to her bedroom. The film is, in essence, a melodrama filled with jealousy and betrayal, but it also showcases some original elements that no other cinematography would have dared to suggest in 1929, like the possibility of a romance between an Indian and a white woman (with her taking the first step).

Manuelita Rosas

The life and times of Manuelita Rosas.

El arriero de Yacanto

A 1924 film.

Odio serrano

A 1924 film.

La leyenda del puente inca

A 1923 film.

Mi alazán tostao

Amancio, the son of a judge, is the real master and lord of a town, and wants to impose his property criteria over the owners of ranches and horses. He stops the eviction of Eulalia’s family ranch, with the hidden intention of making her his lover. Silvestre, an outsider that arrives at the village, meets Eulalia by chance, after suffering a zulky accident. He will find trouble as well, as his horse doesn’t have a property mark.

Los hijos de naides

A 1921 film.

De vuelta al pago

Inspired by the tango "De vuelta al pago", by the pianist Armando Chimenti.

Campo ajuera

The confrontation of civic sophistication with uncontaminated humble rural life.

En buena ley

Rural melodrama about the social and humanistic events that occurred at the dawn of the past times.

El tango de la muerte

A woman driven by misery to a path of degradation until the inexorable end of which the tango symbolizes, at the same time, her condemnation and her liberation.