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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (5 May 1924 – 8 September 1978), also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter.
Born as Leopoldo Torres Nilsson (he later changed his paternal surname from Torres to Torre) was the son of Argentine pioneer film director Leopoldo Torres Ríos, with whom he collaborated between 1939 and 1949. He debuted in 1947 with the short El muro. His mother was an Argentinian citizen of Swedish descent. His uncle was cinematographer Carlos Torres Ríos (1898–1956).
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31 October 1946
A thief going to rob an unscrupulous industrialist falls in love with a young woman and turns himself in to the police to save a thief friend.
13 April 1950
The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.
29 March 1972
The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family.
01 September 1954
The film narrates the encounter between "La Tigra", a woman known by that nickname in the cafes of the port area for her character and her sharp claws, and Luis, a student of Fine Arts.
22 November 1956
A film producer, his wife (an actress) and her lover (a young scriptwriter) are part of a love triangle that will lead to a crime.
21 June 1946
A series of confusions involve an unfaithful woman and a man on his wedding day.
10 May 1956
A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline.
16 September 1976
Eugenia'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.
08 June 1967
The daughter of an American marriage in Puerto Rico forces her parents to find a doll that her father mistakenly sent in a box of aid during a flood.
23 May 1974
The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.
03 May 1973
After committing a fraud on the company where he work, a man meets a strange character who will introduce him to a group that plot a terrorist attack.
03 June 1954
Emma Zunz, who is planning a crime, intends to get away with it by presenting an audacious alibi.
01 March 1969
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store.
25 June 1957
A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand.
05 October 1949
A man pretends to be dead and his dying wish causes his wife to marry a drifter and lose her inheritance.
15 May 1940
A shy man invents in front of his friends a love affair with a singer but circumstances will lead him to conquer her.
22 May 1975
The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
09 September 1965
Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NYC and the UN as their destination.
03 July 1952
Aspects of the life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo who for many years ruled the province of La Rioja in Argentina and was assassinated in 1835.
04 July 1968
The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.
21 January 1962
The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungle to pay homage to them.
30 August 1962
Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling.
07 December 1949
The relationship between a suffered gauchito and a foal.
20 January 1948
This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.
17 April 1975
The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", a real-life Argentine gangster in the '30s.
16 August 2018
A bitter postcard of the town of the Buenos Aires countryside that Argentinean writer Manuel Puig (1932-90) portrayed with singular mastery, based on his own land, a town named General Villegas.
14 April 2011
Julio works for an accounting firm, at the beginning of the '50s. Celina, his wife, married him without knowing that he was addicted to gambling.
26 February 1959
A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children.
01 June 1963
A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires.
16 August 1946
A young man pretends to be his friends' aunt to solve certain problems.
23 June 1960
This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth.
01 June 1958
A 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.
16 October 1967
Henchmen of the dictator from a South American country blackmail Nick Thomas into being a government spy.
01 May 1961
This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic.
21 October 1942
A workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner.
25 May 2024
Documentary about the life of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, one of Argentina's most influential directors. Narrated by his son and director of the film, Pablo Torre.
30 October 1940
A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path.
18 March 1982
During the yellow fever epidemic of 1870, a fugitive enters the mansion where three women had locked themselves in.
17 September 1948
A famous pianist, invited by a girl, becomes interested in her sister, who pretends to be mute to hide a pronunciation defect.
02 September 1976
Documentary of the phenomenonal band Sui Géneris in its farewell tour at Luna Park on September 5, 1975.
15 December 1953
A famous football player faces retirement, but his son is still his most faithful fan.
16 January 1947
A singer takes possession of a ranch and receives the mission to avenge his ancestor Santos Vega, that legendary payador, and defeat Juan Sin Ropa.
07 August 1975
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impunity.
04 August 1955
A humble woman breaks her relationship with her boyfriend and dedicates herself to taking care of her siblings, as they grow up she is left alone.
07 April 1971
The story of the wars of independence in Northern Argentina during the 19th Century.
09 June 1942
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 woman, also desired by the local commissioner.
25 March 1970
The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
20 March 1974
A legend of curses and death in an austere and dry desert where rain will not fall. The story focuses on the experiences and misery of an indigenous man who meets his death in the middle of the film.
18 August 1960
The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
01 September 1966
When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners - immigrants and zarzuela players - plan an attack on the president, he reports them to the police.
10 October 1949
After learning that his widowed father will remarry, a boy escapes home.
01 January 1947
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, at the age of 22, made his directorial debut with this little-known auteur short film, based on one of his short stories, which contains the seeds he would develop in future works: loneliness, the conflicts and morals of society at that time, its loss of identity, and literary themes.
26 February 1941
A waiter who uses gambling to help others.
31 August 1961
In this drama, a still-young grandmother has a suitor whose son is suffering from an incurable illness.
