Pedro Maratea Movies

Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the...

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

The romance in a student pension run by a good-natured spinster, between a pensioner and a student gambler.

A screwball comedy about a young barrio songstress and pickpocket who, while escaping after nicking a woman's wallet, is hired to model for an...

A girl leaves her home after the man who left her with a daughter and a young man who falls in love with her protects her from him.

With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for...

The plot reflects the figure of Pascual Contursi, tango poet. In love with a singer, he leaves his wife and son to go with her. Some time later, the...

A gaucho flees from justice for murdering a man with whom his girlfriend was betraying him. He settles in a place where he falls in love with a...

A man intends to cure a blind aborigine, taking her to the city, but her boyfriend wants to stop him.

A country girl falls in love with an English professor who's in the country studying fossils, but must return to his land.

A revue theater company alters the mayor's life when it arrives in his town.

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

A thief commits a robbery and is seen by a showgirl who becomes a witness to the crime. The man finds her and forces her to help him take what he...

The life of conscripts who live in a barracks.

A delinquent, the son of a police commissioner, leaves prison to seduce someone who should be like a sister to him: a girl raised and loved by his...

A sailor and a tango singer fall in love. To protect her, the man takes her to live with his family. But before embarking, he is robbed, and the...

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 workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner.

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