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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
- A man from a rich family gets into trouble when his parents come to visit him from a foreign country expecting to see his noble girlfriend since he has actually none. Since the parents are going to stay only for a short time, he hires a supposed countess to play the role of the girlfriend. Things complicate when the parents change their plans and decide to stay longer.
- After his wife tragically dies in a car accident with a wealthy industrialist, a world comes crashing down for a simple bank clerk. But he decides to create something new out of the grief and changes his life in a radical way.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Joselito plays an orphan a shrew treats badly.But he takes a job in a gypsies ' small circus as a singer of course .
- Private detective Felipe Malboro is hired by a woman to search for his missing boyfriend, Macho Jim, this will lead Malboro down a spiral of strange occurrences and betrayals in the sleazy Shit City.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
- 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.
- Jose has lost his father and his wicked cousin rejects him, until he learns that the boy's late father was not much poor. The boy's music teacher receives the orphan in her home where her mother, who is still alive, thinks that it is the return of her grandson, who was kidnapped.
- A Mexican business traveler falls for a chorus girl who wants to become a zarzuela singer in turn-of-the-century Madrid. Together they will become part of the history of one of the leading zarzuela theaters, Teatro Apolo. Jorge Negrete sings famed zarzuela arias along with clear-voiced soprano María de los Ángeles Morales in one of her few films.
- 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.
- Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife, Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, it feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to do not lose permanently her husband or even fall into madness.
- 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.
- Palma de Mallorca is the stage where Marisol and her father make their living by singing and dancing for the tourists who come to the island. Suddenly an attractive, elegant, wealthy American named John Morrison comes into Marisol's life.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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.
- Pablo, a young draftsman, falls in love with Angela, a co-worker, while Blanca, his wife, is with the children outside Madrid.
- The lives, dreams and hopes of a neighborhood in Madrid, both the men and their women on the shade.
- 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.