Ralph Pappier Movies

This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) compares a past of explotation and misery...

A young woman falls asleep at the gates of an old farm; in her dream she is transported to another century where she suffers for love.

After seven years in jail, a woman is released and has to re-enter society.

Adaptation of the homonymous novel by Eduardo Gutiérrez, inspired by a real police chronicle, starring a gaucho killed by the police in 1874. Juan Moreira's life was full of injustices and has been considered representative of those suffered by gauchos.

The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.

A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.

The young daughter of a murdered rancher takes possession of her lands in Patagonia and must fight criminals alongside a teacher.

The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.

A police officer joins a gang of smugglers to try to unmask its members.

The National Gendarmerie combats arms smuggling in Alto Paraná.

A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival disrupts the discipline of the beautiful students.

Romance starts in Rio between a Mexican tenor being wooed for a Buenos Aires production, and an Argentine gal who has won a soap contest and who he thinks is rich.

The life of José Gabriel Brochero, the Cordovan priest who dedicated his life to those most in need.

The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.

The love triangle of a journalist, a political leader and his wife.

A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.

A young horse breeder will show his grandfather how they can adapt to the times and prove his theory.

In the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.

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.

The action takes place in Comodo Rivadavia, and reenacts a 1907 mission lead by José Fuchs, who was supposed to find water but found oil instead.