El fugitivo

Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...

Divorced Dad's planning to remarry, so Daughter #1 notifies Mom and Daughters #2&3. Then parents, daughters and boyfriends act out for 80 minutes.

A freeloader goes through a case of mistaken identity after a man tries to blackmail a married woman and he's caught in the middle of everything.

Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

Venice Film Festival 1948

Flirty young farmgirl has five or six suitors to choose between.

Gas-station owner, his paralyzed wife, and the guy that runs the diner next door butt heads and/or bump uglies with a female drifter.

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

Elena #2 has been working at seducing her daughter's boyfriend away from her, without realizing that the two young people were romantically involved. Just before she makes a huge grotesque mistake, her mother takes here aside and narrates a long long long flashback about the unhappy things that happened in her love life thirty-odd years back. That story connects to the modern-day one in curious ways...

Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich widow and her paid escort, lesbian seduction scenario, etc etc...