Renée Dumas

El Violetero

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.

As he rises through the ranks of the police department, a young officer gets more deeply involved in manipulating gang activity for personal gain.

A homeless young woman breaks into a married couple's house claiming to be the man's daughter, but she regrets the deception.

A mechanical worker and football fanatic finds the meaning of life in encouraging, following and collaborating with the club that he loves, to the point of indefinitely postponing the marriage with his eternal girlfriend.

Un tropezón cualquiera da en la vida

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When a woman decides to divorce her husband suspiciously changes his attitude from one day to the next.

A newly married couple who left the country to make their fortune in the city comes across a gang of criminals.

A great dancer, unable to continue dancing, takes as a disciple a girl who wants to succeed.

Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.

The Argentine Sala de Guardia was released in English-speaking markets as Emergency Ward. South-of-the-Border matinee idol Carlos Thompson stars as an idealistic intern, doing his best to survive a very tough day on the job. When not scurrying from one patient to another, the intern tries to maintain equilibrium in his romance with a nurse (Elisa Galve). Comedy dovetails neatly into tragedy, which in turn segues smoothly into heart-tugging pathos. A box-office smash in Argentina, Sala de Guardia repeated its moneymaking performance all throughout Latin America.