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- Two boys are sent to reform school under the guidance of Father Fernando, a young and dedicated priest.
- Hassan, the Kadi of Bagdad, has a harem housing twelve beauties, but concentrates his attention on Zohara. A newcomer, Kyra, introduces rebellion into the by the unheard of act of complaining to the Caliph about the lot of the women in the harem. Hassan suffers a greater shock when his God-son, Ezar, asserts that women are the equal of men. They make a wager under which Ezar must settle down with a conventional harem unless Zohara can outwit Hassan within ten days.
- Elena, her mother and sister travel from Cáceres to Madrid searching for a better future and opportunities for Elena to make career as a singer. They make friends with a carriage driver and a young painter who also tries to succeed. Then their struggle with various ups and downs begins.
- There are nearly three dozen major televised, theatrical and cinematic productions paying homage to this revision of the original tale of Don Juan. Playwright Jose Zorillo y Moral's work, was first written and published in 1844, and it soon became one of the most popular plays of the 19th Century. Spanish Director Alejando Perla's own 1952 cinematic version is probably the best-known of several films made concerning Zorillo's take on the exploits of the immortal Don Juan-in just a 15 year period, (starting in 1936). His version stands out because it focuses on why Don Juan Tenorio should repent, after reflecting on a hedonistic life of drinking, followed by his enchantment, seduction and ultimate corruption of the innocent and married women he seduced then callously abandoned all throughout Seville. Uniquely, Perla also hired famous Surrealist, painter, sculptor and Catalonian native, Salvadore Dali as its Set Decorator for this film.
- Francisquita, owner of a pastry shop with her widowed mother, loves Fernando, but he only has eyes for Aurora, a temperamental artist. It's his father who courts Francisquita, despite her efforts to interest the son. Aided by Fernando's friend, she will follow the steps of the parallel story in the famed Zarzuela of the same name to make him jealous.
- A man plays Judas in the passion Easter play but he ambitions to play the role of Jesus.
- Six different stories belonging to the fantasy genre, directed by several filmmakers, which allude to death, the Devil, the afterlife and the supernatural.
- After failing as an insurance agent, Héctor Pelegrín gets a job in a school as a gym teacher. The problem is that he has no idea of physical education. To get out of the quagmire it occurs to him to organize a football match against another school. This will give him the opportunity to teach kids that football is just a game, a sport.
- Martin, a perfume seller coincide with his former classmate and bright, Roberto, who has left her lover planted tonight. Roberto Martin accompanies her home and meets his wife Berta, which falls in love. To get it, he will devise the perfect murder.
- Title changed to "Flamenco" when it was first released in the USA in 1954, this is a program of Spanish songs and dances with the emphasis on "flamenco" or gypsy contributions. The USA version has an English narrative written by Walter Terry, the dance critic of the "New York Herald Tribune" newspaper. Heading the cast are Antonio (I), Pilar Lopez and Maria Luz, three of Spain's foremost dancers of the time, accompanied by members of the Ballet Espanol. Filmed in Cinefotocolor in which orange and blue dominated, a combination that should appeal to the fans of Auburn University athletic teams. Distributed in the USA by Martin J. Lewis.
- A widower turned Catholic priest can't overcome his memories of his deceased wife Gloria Mairena, who seems to have found a duplicate in looks and voice in the couple's daughter.
- The Black Lagoon in Urbión, its dark waters surrounded by mountains, hides the secret of a murder and the curse it carried over the village people.
- A businessman arrives to the Spanish Sahara with the mission of building a landing field. The political conditions in Europe cause this field becomes a military objective that the Spanish troops will have to defend no matter what it costs. Andrade, a Spanish officer in love with the territory and its people, commanded by an indigenous harka and Lieutenant Ochoa, a military officer, will confront the enemy whose mission is to destroy the airfield and its landing field.
- A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces him is Antonio, a local fisherman. The latter does the job so well that he is chosen as a stunts man for the whole film. This does not please Lola,his fiancée; all the more as Antonio has fallen in love with Martine, the female star...
- A fisherman in the Balearic island of Eivissa fights against the practice of using dynamite, while he is courting beautiful Margalida.
- Andalusia, Spain, 1808: during the Napoleonic invasions Ventura young farmer is forced to kill shot a French officer to save the life of his father. Forced by circumstances, he will leave the village and not return until several years later, after regaining the throne King Ferdinand VII. But evil life led Ventura astray and he is no longer the same. His friend Pedro is married and has a young son, but Ventura attempt to seduce the wife of his friend. That's why Pedro and Ventura will face a fatal outcome.
- Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fired at a couple of trespassers, hurting the girl and killing her fiancé. Giving Catoune, the girl, the shelter of his home, Noguère was forced - however reluctantly it may have been - to break the bad news to the fiancée. For all that Catoune recovered, settled down and later married Juste. After a while Juste left for the war and was soon reported missing. Noguère comforted the distressed young woman so well that she became her mistress. But Juste had not been killed...
- A man wanted by the police who, on arriving in Tangier, finds a corpse from which he steals the money and documents, after which he escapes to Mallorca. He'll think he's safe there, but a woman follows in his footsteps.
- Story of a young man who returns to his village home after twenty years to avenge the murder of his father. He is helped by a gypsy girl with whom he falls in love.
- In the post war Barcelona penicillin traffic is a flourishing business for unscrupulous black marketeers. But when the child of one of them gets severely ill and he desperately needs the drug things acquire a different twist.
- Dominique Blanchar (billed as Dominique Blanchard in the American-released print) gives up her profession as a singer, with a promising career,to become a nun, over the protestations and objections of her wealthy family. She becomes a Sister in a hospital ward, and her unconventional methods of getting something done proves disconcerting to her superiors at first, but they discover her to be truly noble. To help a dying patient she "moves" Christmas up by two weeks, and in order for the hospital to get much-needed funds, she makes some records and sends the proceeds anonymously to the hospital. Later, as a Mother Superior, she volunteers to go to a leper colony in India, where she dies while serving others.
- Stephan, arrives in Spain with a letter from a friend who died in the prison camp where they were both interned
- Film freely inspired on old poems and legends about the Holy Grail and on the opera by Richard Wagner.
- Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attention, then she discovers a criminal attempt against the empress. Musical color version of a story previously played by Raquel Meller.