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- DirectorFlorián ReyStarsCarmen ViancePedro LarrañagaAmelia MuñozIn an impoverished Castilian village live Juan, his wife Acacia, their son and Juan's blind father. The harsh weather conditions force the peasants to emigrate to a better land. Acacia goes to the city instead. Time goes by and they will meet again.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAbel JacquinAlexandre O'NeillA surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- DirectorBenito PerojoStarsMiguel LigeroRoberto ReyRaquel RodrigoA little love drama between Julián, an honest typesetter, and 'chulapa' Susana, adapted from a famous Spanish 'zarzuela'.
- DirectorRafael GilStarsRafael RivellesJuan CalvoFernando ReyThe most faithful of all the major film versions of Cervantes' novel.
- DirectorJean-Paul Le ChanoisA documentary short subject on the situation in Spain, where a civil war between Fascists and Republican government loyalists has erupted.
- DirectorRafael GilStarsAntonio CasalIsabel de PomésCamino GarrigóOctavio Saldaña is a poor young dreamer who lives with his elderly mother and is an office worker at Manufacturas Sánchez-Bey. Mr. Bey rewards Octavio for his work by inviting him to spend a few days at a spa. There Octavio meets Lelly, daughter of a cloth manufacture, and to impress her he decides to pass himself off as a millionaire.
- DirectorJuan de OrduñaStarsAurora BautistaFernando ReySara MontielQueen Juana of Castile go insane as a result of a conspiracy based on the infidelities of her husband, King Philip of Flanders.
- DirectorAntonio RománStarsArmando CalvoJosé NietoGuillermo MarínDuring the time of the Spanish-American War, the commandant of a Spanish detachment in Baler, in the Philippines, realizes that the native people of his district are planning an insurrection. He orders his troops to entrench in the village church. During their stay, which is prolonged for nearly a year, there are several incidents which show the tenacity and heroism of the Spanish.
- DirectorJosé Luis Sáenz de HerediaStarsAlfredo MayoAna MariscalJosé NietoWhen the Spanish Republic is declared in 1931, three brothers go separate ways. One, a priest, is killed by leftists. One, a member of the government, betrays his family's traditional ideals. The third fights on the side of Franco to defend them.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsAntonio CasalIsabel de PomésGuillermo MarínIn 19th-century Madrid a young man plays roulette. A mysterious character helps him by pointing with his walking stick the next number on which the ball will fall; the protagonist is the only one able to see him. The mysterious man turns out to be the ghost of an archaeologist and asks the young man to defend his niece from a gang of hunchbacks.
- DirectorJuan de OrduñaStarsRafael DuránJosita HernánRoberto ReyArturo Salazar, a rich business man, is looking for an aristocratic bride to accomplish his dream of entering nobility. Diana, daughter of the Dukes of Hinojares, meets his expectations as much as he meets hers solving the family's financial problems. They agree that love will be kept out of the contract. Yet Diana is determined to enamor Arturo.
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsRafael RivellesAntonio VicoJuan CalvoMarcelino is an orphan who grows up in a monastery. One day when he eats his small meal in a room full of old things, he gives a piece of his bread to an old wooden Jesus figure--which actually takes the bread and eats it. Getting a wish granted for his donation Marcelino wishes to see his mother.
- DirectorJosé María ForquéStarsXan das BolasModesto CidAntonio El BailarínA composer decides to give up work to care for his wife after having written a ballet for the famed bailaores Antonio and Rosario. When an old flame of the wife reappears tragedy develops as well as in the ballet.
- DirectorJaime CaminoStarsManuela VargasMark StevensMarianne KochDr. Foster (Stevens) returns to Spain for the first time since serving as a doctor for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War three decades earlier. He meets the daughter (Vargas) of an old girlfriend (also named Maria) who accompanies him while he is attending a conference in Barcelona. He remembers the war while re tracing his steps from thirty years earlier in much the same way Alvah Bessie did while working on the film as an actor and writer.
- DirectorJuan de OrduñaStarsSara MontielArmando CalvoEnrique VeraThis is a musical drama featuring a tragic love story that relates a torch singer's rise to fame, and then her downfall because of her lover's death. She manages to return to the stage, but after only one public performance, she passes away.
- DirectorLuis César AmadoriStarsSara MontielRaf ValloneFrank VillardIn the year 1899, Soledad makes her living peddling violets in the streets of Madrid. Her life changes when she meets and falls in love with Fernando, an aristocrat who is engaged to a countess. When Fernando announces his intention to marry Soledad, the affair becomes a social scandal.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalFrancisco RabalFernando ReyViridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsLuis PeñaMaría AsquerinoFrancisco ArenzanaThe struggles of a Spanish family as it emigrates from the country to Madrid circa 1950.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsFernando Fernán GómezMaría Rosa SalgadoDina StenJavier is used to make the best of his military life. When a companion is killed in his place, he makes up his mind and enters religious life. Reencountering his rich and spoiled family will show him that not all the battles were fought during the war.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsAlberto ClosasFolco LulliJosé Marco DavóAfter serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation on a child abandoned by his father, a millionaire.
- DirectorManuel Mur OtiStarsMarisa PradoAlberto RuschelEnrique DiosdadoThe story of rivalry between the Mendozas and the Alzagas recommences as the two heirs fall in love.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsLucia BosèAlberto ClosasBruna CorràA couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsBetsy BlairJosé SuárezYves MassardA couple of friends decide to have a good time and play a trick on an unmarried woman. Therefore one of them has to pretend to fall in love with her.
- DirectorMarco FerreriIsidoro M. FerryStarsMary CarrilloJosé Luis López VázquezConcha López SilvaRodolfo and Petrita live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, and each is looking for a little apartment ("pisito" in Spanish dialect), but their low salaries keep them in their old hovels. Rodolfo's co-workers start encouraging him to marry the frail old Doña Martina, the main tenant in his apartment building; according to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsJosé IsbertPedro PorcelJosé Luis López VázquezSeventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.