Leopoldo Torre Nilsson: His 20 best films
He is considered one of the greatest latinamerican filmakers of all times with a prolific body of work and he needs to be more reknown.
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- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielDuilio MarzioLautaro MurúaAlbertina, a pretty but wet university student, is hired by a bedridden widow to take care of her and her four children. Helping out around the house she soon discovers the kids live a life of their own, independent of their mother, who neglects them. The atmosphere of the place is both fascinating and unhealthy and Albertina gradually finds herself stuck in it so that although a young lawyer falls for her, she won't follow him out of the house...
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónArturo García BuhrElida Gay PalmerThe moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielLautaro MurúaBerta OrtegosaThe House of the Angel focuses on the ruling class in 1920s Argentina, a deeply repressive society where political arguments were often settled by duels, and young women were expected to be totally ignorant of sex.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioAfter committing a fraud in the company where he works, a man meets a strange character who will introduce you to a group a terrorist attack plot.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónThelma BiralJosé SlavinA thinly disguised account of the story of the Galiffi mafia family of Rosario, Argentina, their decadent loves and brutal crimes.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónMarta GonzálezLuisina BrandoThe life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsArturo García BuhrLautaro MurúaGraciela BorgesDuring the infamous decade, the grandson of a conservative leader of the Province of Buenos Aires will get into the affairs of his grandfather and discover a world of corruption.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielFrancisco RabalLeonardo FavioA woman uncovers the secret of her aunt's withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsMaría VanerLeonardo FavioLautaro MurúaA group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsGraciela BorgesLeonardo FavioMarcela López ReyAdapted from a story by Beatriz Guido. A group of young people from high society are enclosed, for fun, on a terrace in a charming building in Buenos Aires. His parents try to get them out, but young people threaten to jump into the void if adults enter the terrace.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsArthur KennedyGeraldine PageDeborah ReedA married couple uproot their entire family and move to Puerto Rico where the familial tree promptly dies in the face of relentless poverty and depression.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsMarilina RossJuan José CameroMecha OrtizEugenia's parents die. She goes to live with Amalita, her close friend. Her grandmother Amalia Pradere a wealth landlady, takes the orphan under her protection. After a chain of events, disappearing her grandchild, Eugenia will take Amalita's place. She will inherit not only Amalia's possessions but also Ezequiel's love, Amalita's widower.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónGraciela BorgesFranca BoniA shallow young woman reluctantly agrees to spend a few days with a young man she dislikes, who is dying.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsJosé SlavinMarta GonzálezVíctor LaplaceIn an alternative reality, a man who is entering old age faces a society in which the young eliminate the old.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónMarta GonzálezJosé SlavinThe life of "El Pibe Cabeza", an authentic Argentine gangster in the '30.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonLeopoldo Torres RíosStarsRoberto EscaladaCarlos ThompsonRaúl De LangeA journalist José Luis Villafane travels to a little town. A problem with your car forced him to stay in a hotel, where they share the room with Carlos Oribe, a copycat poet.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónLautaro MurúaGraciela BorgesThe story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro and his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas some centuries ago.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónEvangelina SalazarLautaro MurúaThe life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsIsabel SarliFrancisco RabalJardel FilhoMelodrama about a prostitute who remembers her ill-fated romances.