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- A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
- Princess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple of yuppies, so that she can imbue them with evil and conquer the world.
- In 19th century Valencia, Spain, a gunslinger begins to develop a conscience after he and his brother are hired by a ruthless landowner to kill the leaders of a local labor movement.
- Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate. Soon his whole life spins out of control.
- Brazilian singer Laura Monteiro is murdered in her dressing-room by her jealous lover João Fernandes de Oliveira when he discovered she was cheating on his with Assis and planning to escape from him and go to Buenos Aires with Assis. Meanwhile, Belén Moreira, who lives in Favela do Salgueiro and is a dead ringer for Laura, goes to Copacabana with her boyfriend Paulo. Two members of a gang that smuggles precious stones sewn in Carnival costumes see Belén and force the President of the Salgueiro Samba School to invite her to perform Chica da Silva in the Carnival parade in a costume that is adorned with genuine precious stones to be smuggled to Europe.
- A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
- A 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.
- Australian famer Kit Kelly and his new bride Anna are driving through Europe when they help a stranded motorist. They discover he is Antonio, a famous dancer. Upon learning that Anna was a ballerina before she married, Antonio attempts to persuade her to join his company.
- In 1808, Spain is occupied by Napoleonic troops and a beautiful gypsy's heart holds love for both a Spanish rebel and a French officer.
- A nun serving in a women's prison confesses to an inmate about her turbulent past as a cabaret singer, single mother, and convicted murderer.
- The narrator of the film explains to us that the Madrid of today keeps its old structure. To confirm it, the film begins with a story based on modern characters, but soon jumps 70 years back into the past and the argument follows the spanish "zarzuela" "La Verbena de la Paloma".
- The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
- Pastora, una cantante española, es contratada para filmar una película en México. Después de descartar varios galanes termina por seleccionar a Pablo, un mariachi poco conocido. Durante el rodaje las peleas entre ambos van dando lugar a un profundo amor.
- 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.
- General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, imposes taxes on the people and terrorizes them with his henchmen.
- The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa, Pampinea and three villa girls are hiding following the rape of their home city, Florance, Italy, by the Duke of Lorenzo. The recently-widowed Fiametta spurns overtures of love offered by the philandering Boccaccio who, in an effort to win her, spins two of his stories: The first is "Paganino the Pirate", a spicy tale of a young wife, married to an elderly gent, who prefers astrology to martial bliss, permits herself to be captured by a young pirate, to teach her husband a lesson. The second tale is "Wager on Virtue", concerning an elderly merchant,who loses faith in his beautiful young wife, on the strength of circumstantial evidence present him by a daring young rogue, who has previously goaded him into a bet on his wife's virtue, or lack thereof. The characters in this segment include Nerina, The Sultan, the Merchant Captain, a Merchant in French Inn and George and Bert Bernard as messengers. The third story, told by Fiametta, is "The Doctor's Daughter," concerning a delicate matter of matrimony when a wife, Isabella , finds herself spurned by the man, Bertrando, who has wed her at the command of his King. Characters include Maria, The Old Witch, Father Francaisco, and Signora Bucca.
- The adventures of Robert Lafleur, alias Scaramouche, are the sensation of his time, thanks to his talent as an actor and charm as an incorrigible seducer. He becomes the enemy of the Marquis de la Tour when he makes a conquest of his mistress, the ravishing Madame de Popignan. His world is thrown into a turmoil when, one day, the Marquis de Souchil recognizes Scaramouche as the illegitimate son of the Duke de Froissard.
- Marisol's parents are dead, and she must sell everything she has and go to Madrid to live with her Uncle Ramon's family. Her aunt Leonor is a very bad woman who doesn't like her or treat her as one of the family, forcing her to eat her meals in the kitchen with the maid, Herminia. She only lets Marisol stay because she brought a lot of money with her and the family is not doing well at the moment. The family includes two adult cousins and a younger girl cousin, and Marisol secretly brought along a little friend she met on the train into Madrid.
- A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
- Sara, son of fishermen, flees from her village and in Madrid she meets Rafael, who helps with her artistic career, but ends up fleeing to Italy where she meets Miguel, a sculptor she falls in love with.
- Vincent, a young man from Paris, arrives at the small Spanish village of Caldeya. where his has been loaned a home by his friend, Reginald. He meets Pascal Regnier, a novelist engaged in pursuits of drinking and love affairs, who spends his summers in Caldeya with his son, Daniel. Regnier introduces Vincent to Jenny, local nightclub owner, who has already received a wire from Reginald asking her to look after his friend. Vincent and Jenny fall in love and plan a trip to Barcelona together, a trip they take in spite of Reginald's arrival. However, the shadow of Reginald comes between them and they accept the fact that their love is doomed to failure.
- A man and woman have secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor, struggling actress and singer. One day, he decides to tell his family that he's married and flies to their home in Italy, but the plane crashes and he dies. When his brother goes to Spain to identify the body, he meets his now-widowed sister-in-law for the first time and discovers that she's pregnant. She asks only that the family finance the child's education. Years later the child, a girl named Marisol, is about to turn 10 years old. Hermother and uncle visit her at her boarding school once a year. Her mother has told her that she is a rich, famous actress so Marisol would not be shy with her friends about her origins, but that means the mother can never take Marisol with her in the summer or she'll know the truth. But Marisol's grandfather, who hates the mother for "stealing his son," wants to meet his granddaughter, so he asks her uncle to bring her to Italy for the summer. When she arrives, the old man and his servants think she is a happiness-bringing angel. As the summer goes by, the old man comes to love her very much. Will he try to keep her from returning to Spain?
- Joselito makes a trip from Spain, when his Grandmother, who lives in a Mexican Village, demands his presence. While in the country, travelling on a Stagecoach towards his destination, the vehicle is attacked by bandits. However, the boy escapes, and meets Antonio, who becomes a good friend.
- 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.
- A young French cabaret showgirl spends a few days in a provincial Spanish city recovering from an operation, altering with her brash self-confidence the narrow-minded customs of the place and awakening passion in the local physician and in a young teacher as well.
- The island paradise of San Felipe has undergone a revolution and the charismatic General Siqueiros has assumed control. Those assisting him though have an agenda far beyond a simple dictatorship of a inconsequential banana republic.
- 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.
- The lives of 3 singers during their last few months working at a venue called "The Moon's Balcony".
- Rosa is a Spanish singer hired for a Mexican show. With her travels his twin sister, Estela, but goes incognito to give a surprise in the show. The twins also use their resemblance to confuse Germán, a young man in love with Rosa.
- A young boy goes in search of his father, who has left for America to make a fortune. He ends up in Mexico and meets an orphan.
- At the end of the 19th century, Soledad Romero, a well-known singer, is accused of murder. During the trial his tragic story is revealed.
- At Tuset Street in Barcelona, Violeta, a show girl and prostitute falls in love with Jordi, a bored rich playboy. Later she discovers that her love affair with Jordi is just a scam playing for the amusement of Jordi's friends.
- A company of soldiers under the command of Captain don Álvaro de Ataide arrived in the Extremaduran town of Zalamea de la Serena, in Badajoz (Spain), due to the war in Portugal. The captain is staying at the home of a rich farmer, Pedro Crespo, mayor of the village, whose daughter Isabel is seduced by don Álvaro. Pedro Crespo tries to remedy the situation and ask don Álvaro to marry Isabel, but don Álvaro rejects her because she is not a member of the nobility. This contempt hurts the honor of the entire Pedro Crespo family. So, even without possessing jurisdiction over the military, Pedro Crespo orders to arrest him and have him executed. Finally, King Felipe II reviews the mayor's decision, ratifies it and names Pedro Crespo perpetual mayor of Zalamea.
- Joselito plays an orphan a shrew treats badly.But he takes a job in a gypsies ' small circus as a singer of course .
- Three different stories whose central axis are radio listeners: several contestants have to get to a radio station studio dressed as Eskimo, a thief answering a call in the house which is stealing and a school teacher who participates in a contest to get money to cure a child of his village. The stories are linked by the love story of a speaker and his fiancée and through interviews of real celebrities from the time of film.
- A young woman working as a maid for a big time stage performer is mistaken for the star in Buenos Aires and becomes a great success in the land of the tango.
- An Argentine on the flight to Spain causes so much trouble for a stewardess that she is fired. She decides to try her luck with an artist representative. There you will meet the guy who got you fired.
- Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
- Pablo, a young draftsman, falls in love with Angela, a co-worker, while Blanca, his wife, is with the children outside Madrid.
- 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.
- Leo travels with his mother to a touristic Mediterranean spot in order to marry his girlfriend Loli. However, the funny and open minded girls from Northern Europe make Leo reconsider his plans.
- Twin sisters Marisol and Mariluz live separately: Mariluz with their uncle in Rio de Janeiro; and Marisol with their mother in Madrid. Marisol's mother has desperately tried to get money to see Mariluz in Brasil, so she and Marisol have worked in all kinds of places, but they never get enough money until one day Marisol's mother decides to sell everything to get the money to go to Brasil and reunite the family. Once there they discover that Mariluz's governess and her lover have devised a plan to get the twins' uncle's money. But now that Marisol and her mother have arrived, the schemers must think of how to get them out of the way.
- Alberto, "Zanahoria" ('Carrot') and "Jabato" ('Brave Wild Boar'), three students from the Parachute School of the Spanish Army, form the "Trinca del aire" ('threesome of the air'): friends, good companions, but rivals and competitive in love affairs. When Nati, a beautiful foreign woman with whom Alberto falls in love, appears, jealousy will cause situations that will endanger their great friendship.
- Karina arrives at a mansion to work as a governess for a group of singing children: Mari Nieves, Blanca, Carlos, Javier, and Santi, known in Spain as "La Pandilla". She must take care of their education, and she decides to use music to teach them. Meanwhile, the record company where the children work is busy with another project. Their biggest star Marta is preparing a song to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971. Carlos, the composer of the song, titled "En un mundo nuevo" ("In a new world") meets Karina in the mansion and has feelings for her, upsetting Marta, who is his girlfriend. Marta is also jealous of Karina's musical abilities. One day, when Marta catches Karina with Carlos singing a song he composed for her, she gives him an ultimatum: If Karina doesn't leave the mansion at once, she will break her contract with the record company and won't sing "En un mundo nuevo" in the Eurovision Song Contest.
- Naive small town girl, Benita, moves to the capital to start a new life, but things don't go as planned - until she meets Don Carlos, a handsome doctor.