The Devil's Roundup
Divided in several episodes, this film presents different stories that share the fantasy theme.
José Antonio Nieves Conde
Edgar Neville
Edgar Neville
Camilo José Cela
Antonio del Amo
Arturo Ruiz Castillo
Enrique Gómez
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Gumersindo Montes Agudo
Also Directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde
An old and seriously ill man, who lives with his son, meets an older woman, who is suffering the same cirumstances like he, and soon starts to fell better and becoming sane.
A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.
Sergio falls in love with Federica, the maid of the house whom everyone calls "Volvoreta" ("butterfly" in Galician). Aware of the situation, the mother of the young gentleman dismisses the maid, who has no choice but to go to the capital city. But Sergio's love is so strong that he will follow her wherever she goes.
Rich Spanish landowner Alvaro is torn between his wife Elvira and two other women in his life. He's also worried about the fact that both his father and grandfather were murdered by Spanish revolutionaries in the house he's inherited.
Begoña and Pedro are stuck. Despite having been married for many years, now the only thing they have in common is a son obsessed with basketball. A new conjuncture will cause love to resurface.
Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night, along with Carlos, Hugo's 19-year-old son. When they decide to lean over the cliffs of the coast to observe the wild dance of the turbulent waves down below, an unexpected event tragically happens.
A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.
Also Directed by Edgar Neville
Biographic film about José de Salamanca
Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even he nor finds stables nor has time to attend to it. This way the things remedy will not have any more that to look for any solution.
After burying his late husband, a young widow leaves his pronvincial life and heads to the city. It was a very hard stage in her life, and she had to bear it with resignation, but now she's willing to make up for lost time. In the train she's travelling to the city she meets a fortune-telling lady.
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.
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.
A Spanish propaganda documentary showing young men parading.
The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris .
Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves.
Also Directed by Antonio del Amo
Joselito is a naughty boy that sings like the nightingales. He lives in a little town near Sevilla. He has a great success due to his magnificent voice and then he can practice charity with a girl from his town.
The racing stables of Gandia family go to auction. Tomy, son of the owner, manages to save his favorite horse, "Cantador". Now, his only obsession is to resolve the problems of his father, providing him a new wife and riding his horse at the races. After a while, in the Official Prize, "Cantador", ridden by Tomy wins. This fact causes everyone to be interested in the horse and eventually Tomy will be forced to auction it to liquidate their debts. But the new owner is the father of Luchy, Tomy's classmate , and he will do everything possible to recover it.
It is the story of two brothers who have rented a boat to survive. Juan Ramón sings like an angel and an entrepreneur decides to take him to Madrid to succeed.
Joselito is a shepherd who lives happily taking care of his sheep in the mountains. From time to time he goes down to the village where his parents live. His mother always expects him but his father is never there. When Joselito discovers the real reason for this absence (his father spends all the money the boy carries home in drinking) he decides to quit everything. Then he associates with Pepino a sympathetic rogue who believes that the voice of the shepherd is going to provide them a lot of money
A poor child, who does not know his parents, joins a caravan of puppeteers to escape from the house where it is received and try to find his mother. Although living in extreme poverty, the child has, however, something that helps you get ahead: his great voice. One day, when a producer heard her singing in the street, receives an invitation to go to television.
London, England, World War II. During a bombing, several people are trapped in the basement of a building where the air will run out in only ninety minutes…
Also Directed by Arturo Ruiz Castillo
A court-martialed soldier saves a fort and the major who had dishonestly testified against him from an Indian attack.
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.
Mrs. Sagrario Rivero is facing Rafael Montoro by the noise made at his forge. Rafael has a daughter who sings very well and Mrs. Sagrario takes this occasion to get rid of her annoying neighbor. She launches Maria Dolores artistically,and then, Rafael will be rich thanks to his daughter and will leave the business.
A young fisherman wishing for a better life will become a smuggler and even involve his friends if necessary. He will make it even worse with his improper concern for his brother's beautiful wife.
The stationmaster