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- The old carpenter Geppeto manufactures in his workshop a wooden puppet that will soon come alive. For an hour the doll will live a thousand and one adventures: he will be judged, hanged, swallowed by a whale, taken prisoner by the Indians, saved by Canadian soldiers and, even, returned home mounted on a cannonball that flies through the sky.
- Rosario and Manuel have gotten married, but Paco is jealous because of the marriage, since he is also in love with Rosario. Driven by rage, Paco commits a murder and leaves the evidence of the crime, a knife, at Manuel's house. The police arrest him and lock him in prison. Rosario doesn't stop crying and Paco tries to win her over, although without success. Nobody believes that Manuel is the murderer and all suspicions begin to point to Paco. Rosario plans a strategy to get Paco to confess and, with the help of wine, he ends up confessing everything. The police enter the house and arrest him, so Manuel is released.
- Rolando, head of the Republican party, saved the young queen Alexia from an accident. Both fall in love, but the principles of the man prevent him from showing his feelings. The Grand Duke hopes to marry his son with the queen and conspires to impose a conservative government. Alexia goes to Rolando and offers to form a ministry to arrest him, but he does not accept to rule with a monarchy.
- In a boarding school for girls Margarita is called to reception: the duchess widow of Santauro, mother of Margarita, has gone to take her out. Her friend Laura, the daughter of Dr. Reyes, is very sad at the departure of her companion. When Margarita comes in contact with sociable environments, the young girl will be exposed to many temptations in the halls. Like Luis de Castro, a soulless seducer who had already conquered her mother, and now is about to do the same with her daughter.
- A young man from a good family named Gyuri falls madly in love with a girl he can't marry. Desperate, and despite the maternal opposition, he enrolls in the army and goes to the front. Some years later, his mother and sister do not know that their long-absent son and brother has been killed in the war. Gyuri's soldier best friend goes to tell them the news, but in the event he can't bring himself to tell them the truth, and introduces himself as Gyuri, whom they haven't seen in many years. But things grow difficult when he finds himself falling in love with his "sister".
- A famous bullfighter falls in love with the maid of a hostel and also with a foreigner woman who visits Spain and who will provoke the servant's jealousy. Musidora, the most mythical vampire and muse of surrealism, co-directs and plays the two protagonists roles of this film.
- The life of the clown Riquet and his young wife, the dancer Ralda, is threatened by the despotic owner of the circus where they work together. He wants the girl and will not hesitate to try to kill her when Ralda rejects him. But love is stronger than cruelty.
- Set before the French Revolution, the film tells the story of Bernard De Mauprat, a noble orphan, raised by despicable aristocrats, who is saved from the gallows by his cousin Edmée and his father, the knight Hubert De Mauprat. The return of Bernard causes tensions within Mauprat's family since him tries to win the heart of his cousin Edmée (Knight of La Marche's fiancée) after obtaining her pledge of loyalty under a certain threat of rape.
- Pilar Guera, the young teacher from the town of Aráceli, maintains a romantic relationship with Luciano, the mayor's son, who does not accept the couple's love affairs. To separate them, he decides to send Luciano on a trip and gets Pilar to be transferred to her destination. But the force of love is stronger than what a simple village chief can decide.
- Ali Baba was a poor woodcutter of Persia who witnessed the visit of a gang of forty thieves hiding their treasure in the forest in which cutting wood. The thieves treasure is in a cave whose mouth is sealed magically: it opens with the words "Open Sesame!" And closes with "Close, Sesame." When the thieves leave, Ali Baba enters the cave and takes part of the treasure home. Ali Baba's brother, who had become a millionaire by marrying the daughter of a wealthy merchant, finds sudden wealth of his brother, he tells his discovery of the cave despite not having helped to overcome their poverty. Cassim goes to her to take some of the treasure, but their greed and nervousness about the riches forget the magic words to get out of the cave and the thieves are in it, carving him up. When Cassim not return, his brother goes to the cave to look for him and found his body in pieces at the entrance of the cave, carrying the pieces home. With the help of Morgiana or Night Light, a slave family list of Cassim, and the old tailor Baba Mustafa they manage properly rebuild the body for burial without arousing suspicion about his death. The thieves saw Cassim's body disappeared, warn that someone else knows your secret and set out to locate it. The first attempts are thwarted by Nightlight, now serving the family of Ali Baba, but finally manage to find out the location of the house of Ali. The head of thieves posing as a trader needed oil hospitality of Ali Baba, bringing with him mules loaded with forty jars, one filled with oil and the other thirty nine robbers band. The thieves plan to kill Ali Baba when he sleeps, but again Nightlight discover and thwart the plan, killing the thieves hidden in pots of boiling oil filling them. When the boss will look to his men, he discovers that all are dead and flees. Ali Baba expressed his gratitude to Moon Night freeing it from its status as a slave. In revenge, some time after the head of the thieves is established as a merchant and befriends the son of Ali Baba (who is in charge of business Cassim now). He was invited to dinner at his home, but Nightlight recognizes and executes a dance with a dagger in honor of the guests, sticking it to the thief in the heart while he was unprepared. In appreciation of his loyal friend Nightlight, Ali Baba decides to give the hand of his young and beautiful child. Ali Baba remains as the only connoisseur of the secret treasure of the cave and the magical words to enter it.
- The only existing cinematographic document about the important bailaora from Barcelona Carmencita García, who performs two dances in front of the audience: "Córdoba", by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz, and some sevillanas with castanets.
- A humorous monologue by Ramón Gómez de la Serna in which the Spanish writer theorizes, with enormous vehemence and wit, on apparently absurd topics such as the importance of knowing how to wear a monocle without a glass or what a false hand is for.
- A young man has a strange adventure on a hill as he returns from the village festival where he has performed as an actor: a giant snake frightens villagers, but the farmer finds out that the monster is vulnerable to nicotine. He achieved convincing other neighbors to the attack and end with her. In the mountains he will find a Buddha who will beg help and thanks to which he will become rich.
- Veronika is a candid teenager who lives with her parents in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian Tyrol. As they are poor, her aunt pays her the expenses to do the Christian Confirmation and invites her to the vibrant city of Vienna. But nobody knows that her aunt really works in a brothel.
- Pompeyo Pimpollo and Rodolfo Bambolino, two lino-type artists from El Heraldo de Madrid, want to be movie stars, so they take a test conducted by the American filmmaker E. S. Carawa. When rejected, they decide to attract attention by planning a false murder that is complicated to the point that Rodolfo is sentenced to death.
- Documentary poem of Madrid, in twelve images and to the rhythm of a barrel organ, in which the writer Ernesto Giménez Caballero offers different views about the most typical festivals of the Spanish capital: San Antonio, San Isidro, San Lorenzo, el Carmen or La Paloma.
- Musical animated Short Film about the daily life of a Japanese girl named Chameko. Since she gets up until she goes to sleep, we will follow through fun songs the different activities that occupy her time, from brushing teeth to attend class, to the films she watches in the movies, her favorite pastime.
- A policeman is killed when he tries to investigate a case involving cocaine traffic. The only evidence of the crime is a white female's bloodstained glove found in an abandoned taxi and a revolver. After thorough researches, the police will be tightening the circle around a woman of Polish origin.
- In Pontus, the land of the Amazons, gender roles and natures are completely reversed: men stay at home and take care of the children and women are the strong sex, thanks to the sacred girdle of the Roman goddess Diana. It is in the care of Queen Hippolyta and her sister Antiope, the commander of the female armed forces. Only Sapiens, Queen Hippolyta's new husband, advocates women's rights.
- Sankô is the typical loafer and sleeper who ignores his wife's complaints. One day, a neighbor pulls Sankô out of bed to show him a map showing an island in front of whose shores a ship carrying a treasure sank. Sankô the greedy will hasten to go in search of it, but as he plunges into the waters he runs into a severe problem: a giant octopus and his family inhabit the cave in front of which the treasure rests.
- Francisquita is in love with student and would-be poet, Fernando. He, however, is infatuated with the fiery actress Aurora la Beltrana, who in turn is the lover of Lorenzo Pérez. When Francisquita tries to flirt with Fernando, he ignores her. His friend Cardona takes him to task and suggests that he would be happier with her than Aurora. At first, Doña Francisca mistakenly believes that she is the object of don Matías' affections. Francisquita pretends to accept the elderly man's advances, hoping to make Fernando jealous.
- Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up eventually engage in luxury prostitution.
- Angelina Ortiz, "an honest girl who knows nothing," is the daughter of a brigadier as pompous as ridiculous, ironically called don Marcial. On the day of her hand request, Angelina runs away with another man. Their father and Rodolfo, the abandoned boyfriend, chase them. Don Marcial beats a duel with his daughter's kidnapper and wounds him, realizing then that his wife, Marcela, was being unfaithful to him precisely with that same seducer. The brigadier, after seeing his honor stained, decides to take drastic measures.
- Angelillo is a young and handsome cantaor in love with Carmen, the daughter of the town's undertaker. After getting caught up in an absurd tavern brawl, the man is wrongly blamed for murder and imprisoned. Carmen, pregnant with Angelillo, flees in shame from her parents' house. Some time later, a woman shows up with the baby and the news that Carmen died giving birth.
- A little love drama between Julián, an honest typesetter, and 'chulapa' Susana, adapted from a famous Spanish 'zarzuela'.
- A young samurai accepts a job to clear out a haunted castle, only to find it inhabited by beautiful women. The women are secretly a group of tanuki that try to divert the young warrior from his mission.
- Baher is a rich Egyptian merchant who is madly in love with his beautiful slave Wedad. But when he loses all his fortune as a result of an ambush by a rival merchant, the girl, in order to help him, decides to sell herself as a slave and singer to another richer man.
- The famous soprano Marta Vélez decides to retire from the operatic stages to rebuild her marriage. Her husband, a heartless scoundrel, tries to swindle a large sum of money from her. But when he can't get it, he devises a plan to kidnap their daughter and get her mother to pay a ransom.
- Trini (Imperio Argentina) and her brother Regalito (Miguel Ligero) are two gypsy siblings stealing hams. At trial, the severe prosecutor Enrique (Manuel Luna) accused them of the misdemeanor, although they do not understand the nature of their crime and the justice of non-gypsies. Trini ends up serving in the house of the prosecutor, who, discovering her good heart, eventually falls in love with her.
- An idyllic description of that french area, including quarries, vineyards and the most typical issues from Bourgogne's region.
- When returning from holidays with his family, a worker is fired. After a hard search of work, Juan feels disappointed and acquires a certain social restlessness. His wife, Marta, is forced to accept a humiliating job in order to feed her children. Juan reacts by sending Mata and their kids to a little village, while he wanders around Barcelona. Outraged by the conformism of the people, Juan assembles a rally, while organizing a Hunger March among the unemployed. When he goes with his colleagues to protest before the authorities, and precisely when he passes through the village where his family is, the revolution breaks out. Juan takes a riffle with the others and they all march forward, hoping that a better future will dawn.
- Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital.
- Report produced by Laya Films (production company belonging to the Propaganda Commissioner of the Republican Generalitat) on material and human damages caused by the bombing that German and Italian fascist aviation carried out in several Catalan cities such as Barcelona, Granollers or Lleida during the Spanish Civil War. The script and the talk were directed by Jaume Miravitlles.
- Two Muslims, members of rival families, fall in love with the beautiful half-cast Aixa at the same time.
- Conceived as a sum of the main events of Spanish Civil War, this film assembly is divided into four sequences, classically arranged around the concepts of foundational Franco's mythology: The traditional Spain; Spain The "Red"; The "conquest" and predestination of victory.
- Three poor but good-natured gypsies find their way to a temporarily better life when a millionaire engages them on Christmas Eve to play son, daughter and tutor as his sister from America paying him a visit expects to find a family man.
- During the Spanish Civil War, a Falangist assigned to the University City is ordered to tour Madrid disguised as a Republican militiaman to deliver a message to a leader of the Resistance. Once the order is fulfilled, he takes the opportunity to visit his girlfriend, who lives under the protection of the father of his maid, a faithful Republican. But when the Falangist returns to the University City, he is seriously wounded and takes refuge in a hollow in which a wounded militiaman is also hiding. Together they will spend the last hours of their lives, understanding the futility of a fratricidal war.
- Italian propaganda documentary that tries to magnify the role played by the Italian troops during the conquest of Catalonia at the Spanish Civil War. The film, one of the most successful among those produced from fascist Italy, was made in 1939 by the film section of the Corpo Truppe Volontarie, the only to cover the campaign in the north of Barcelona and the last starring by this squad. The two civilian cameramen of the section worked closely with the military. The camera also stood in the line of fire, which gives us a larger catalog than ever of the machinery used in the conflict.
- Cinematically, "¡España una, grande, libre!" is one of the achievements of ideological found footage most successful between all Italian fascist films. Using images filmed in Barcelona by the anarchists during the popular uprising in July 1936, the movie carried out an exercise in counter-complaint against the excesses of Spanish Republicans.
- Rogelia, the orphan of an Asturian miner who died in a work-related accident, marries Máximo, a man as robust as jealous, drunk and violent. But when her husband is jailed, the woman will take advantage to escape with the doctor of the village so as to see the world and perhaps to form a family.
- Marianela (Nela) is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with him, knowing that he loves her only because he can't see her ugly face. But one day a famous doctor appears and promises to operate him so he can see. His father is happy to know this way he will be able to marry his rich cousin while Nela gets desperate knowing his luck will turn into her disgrace when he finally see her face.
- On the hacienda of El Soto lives Doña Raimunda and her daughter Acacia as well. After being widowed, Raimunda married Esteban, who is secretly in love with Acacia and her, in turn, feels a deep rejection of him. Meanwhile, some young are courting Acacia. But the worst comes when Esteban tries to get rid of all the men around Acacia.
- Matthias is the illegitimate son of a factory worker. The child, who has been separated from public life, lives in the house of his aunt, who often mistreats him and barely takes care of his maintenance. After the death of his cousin, the boy escapes from home in search of his mother.
- In Morocco, 'Harka' was the name for the military expedition of native troops or irregular organization of Moroccan rebels revolted against Spanish dominion in the area. Captain Santiago Balcázar is distinguished as one of the most seasoned Spanish officers in the fight against insurgents. Lieutenant Carlos Herrera will emulate him, but he should be struggle between military duty and his love for his fiancé Amparo before that.
- Anselmo, a school teacher in the small Spanish village of Luján, is fired for accidentally hypnotize his students trying to learn them the lessons. However, the news that, after the death of his relative Joe B. Martin, he has inherited a fortune in America it's any consolation for him and decides to go to the United States.
- Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves, Paolo, and who saved her from drowning during the shipwreck of the cruise in which they met, is at the gates of death because of a serious illness whose symptoms are similar to those of leprosy.
- Head of household in the Spain of the forties, Fortunato is a poor man who will try his luck in all the trades he finds after having lost his job. However, it seems that his name ('Fortunate', in English) is not in line with his situation, because, no matter how he tries, fortune refuses to smile at him.
- The pusillanimous architect Federico Solá is a thirty years man who life seems determined not to smile: no job, no girlfriend, no friends, one day decides to stand up and stand up to life. And he do not think of anything better than to publicly announce his intention to commit suicide during a lecture on the virtues of cement. From that moment on he checked with satisfaction that all doors seem to open for him without much difficulty, as people, knowing the little time remaining for him, just yield to his claims. A new Federico is born and Solá is the man of the moment: "The man who wanted to kill himself."
- In North Africa, in a detachment of the Legion (the 4th Flag), El Grajo ('the Rook'), the most courageous legionnaire, and Mauro, who have just joined, become close friends. Mauro, from whom only the name is known, gives the impression of hiding some disturbing secret. One day, when the two friends celebrate a party, an unfortunate circumstance leads to the death of a man. The suspicions fall on Mauro, who is put on trial. Meanwhile, El Grajo will begin to investigate the facts on his own.
- From early childhood, Luisa and Miguel have always been close. But several years later, as adults and being Spain at the beginning of the civil war, the two young persons give their support to ideologically opposing camps. The communist Miguel and Luisa the Falangist not they will agree, but the tragic events that loom over the country will make them pay a high price: she is stopped, after a house search, in a red hordes cheka and he eventually is searching her desperately.