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- The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
- The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
- The life and military conquests of Alexander III of Macedon (July 20/21, 356 - June 10/11, 323 B.C.), commonly known as Alexander the Great.
- Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently established in Turkey. CIA agent Leyton receives a mission, to discover and destroy an ennemy group operating in the vicinities of that residence. He will manage, with the help, and sometimes extra zeal, of a number of the young women recruits.
- The story of Judas's betrayal of Christ.
- After losing all his money playing cards, Don Mendo Salazar, Marqués de Cabra go to the house of his beloved Magdalena, daughter of a friend of the King. There, they are discovered by her fiancé, Don Pero, Duque de Toro. Don Mendo thief poses as not to stain her honor and is enclosed. Although Don Mendo promised he would not say anything about their affair, she asks her father to be executed. Don Mendo escapes with the help of his friend Moncada, and tries to carry out his revenge against Magdalena, posing as a minstrel to approach her.
- During the time of the Spanish-American War, the commandant of a Spanish detachment in Baler, in the Philippines, realizes that the native people of his district are planning an insurrection. He orders his troops to entrench in the village church. During their stay, which is prolonged for nearly a year, there are several incidents which show the tenacity and heroism of the Spanish.
- 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.
- The wife of the Perú viceroy travels back to his husband and falls in love with the ship's captain, although they both know their duty.The viceroy serious condition makes him travel back to Spain, facing storms, mutiny and death along an ill-fated trip.
- An episode in the life of Spanish pianist and composer Isaac Albéniz.
- Joselito, the only son of a Spanish noble gone to the Americas, lives peacefully with his servants and tutors in his estate near Seville. But when he ends up under the care of his ambitious and ruthless uncle, he might have to fight to survive.
- The stay in the prison of Eudosio and Carlos, accused unjustly, prevents them from getting a job when they go free. As much as they intend to explain that they were locked up for no reason, nobody will listen to them. So they decide to steal to stay alive. His house is a whole building in ruins, without any closed window and with the walls that are barely standing. Esperanza will try to turn that space into a home, where she works with enthusiasm. But life is very hard and coexistence is also difficult.
- After a society lady abandons him for a cad, a sensitive young painter becomes a monk.But when his former beloved is later destitute with an illegitimate child, will he now be able to help her?
- A priest is accused of dishonest behavior with a woman of his parish by anonymously written verses published in the local press.
- Two villages plan to build a bridge between them as a good will symbol, but none of the majors has asked the man whose land is needed.
- Antonio Modesto, a real estate employee, is ruined by fraud at the company where he works. Antonio has no money to deal with his debts, so he accepts a peculiar job to get money: doorman for a music club.
- A movie on Alfredo di Stefano, the acclaimed football player, is to be shot. Its American screenplay has written such a fantastic plot that di Stefano refuses. It is agreed instead to make only a real life documentary about him. Yet everyday life events have its own interest and comic touches.
- A rich and famous painter dies leaving a secret that kept him apart from the woman he loved. Suspecting a family plot, she will try to unveil it keeping his death from the greedy relatives who are called in the middle of the night. She will try to find the truth before the dawn comes at last.
- A young man nicknamed "El Cordobés" wants to become a famous bullfighter, but he is jailed after becoming involved in a foreign woman's murder. When he finally completes his sentence and gets released, his life changes.
- The story of doctor Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who adapting Golgi's silver staining method enabled the visualization of the real structure of the central nervous system, based on individual cells, the neurons. For which both were bestowed the Nobel prize in 1906.
- 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.
- During the Napoleonic invasion of Spain Dolores, singer and dancer at a venta (inn), uses her position to help the Spanish resistance.
- A high class woman and a nurse are involved in a trial to judge legal rights over an infant who was left in a charity hospital and is now claimed by the mother.
- A famous artist is willing to return to her home country where she left her daughter as a child.
- Carmen is a Spanish emigrant in Stockholm who does not have the money to run her business or buy a ticket back to Spain. Thanks to a misunderstanding she meets Dr. Petersen who has an invitation to a medical congress in Seville and does not plan to attend. Carmen uses the ticket and impersonates the doctor just enough time to get to the city, but then she will be forced to keep the lie.
- Conservative and liberal morals clash in the Spanish society of the 1880s.