Carlos Arniches

Ángela, a young orphan studying at a school abroad, decides to spend the Christmas holidays in Madrid, at the home of her guardian and closest relative, an unmarried lawyer with a somewhat dissipated life.

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.

Mauricio Garcés plays a composer who tries to seduce several women. The actor performs the song "Soy tan hermoso", which became a popular hit a t the time.

Don Sabino, a priest from the provinces who lives with his niece, Monica. Don Sabino is an arcane priest but his character changes radically when he is with Lucila, a girl whom he and Monica have raised since she was just a baby, when they found her abandoned at the door of their house. Don Sabino is a very helpful priest with his parishioners and life goes on without great upheavals until one day Tomasón appears, fleeing from justice after having committed a murder.

In Madrid during the fifties' the calm life from some neighbors will be changed since the arrival of Antonio, a man without scruples who lives running the risk.

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.

An orphan, taken in at the home of unscrupulous people who intend to use her in a shady business, flees with her cat and her canary. Accustomed by necessity, she enters a dressmaker's house with the intention of stealing, but the treatment she is given makes her give up her efforts. However, when she leaves the object she had stolen, a servant discovers it and denounces her. When Nena knows the situation of the girl, she welcomes her as a maid. The orphan will help the mistress of the house to solve her emotional problems.

Mr Froilán, "Padre Pitillo", is the parish priest from a spanish town. He has a reputation for cantankerous but bellow this appeariance has a kind and humanitarian spirit.

Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.

Mr Antonio is undergoing a bad economic situation that shares with his daugther Leonor, a lovely teenager who makes him happy and helps him sewing to make end meet. But its not enough and Mr Antonio has no other choice than working as a thug of a night club. A job that brings unexpected changes tto his life.

Don Juan Alcántara is ruined. He does not dare to confess it to the family, since the unanimous opinion of those who know him is that he is a weakling. His lack of character is remedied by his doctor - pretend that he is suffering from schizophrenia.

A shy man marries the daughter of a local warlord, works as a municipal chief of staff, witnesses numerous injustices and rebels himself.

The young Candelas, seduced and abandoned by Arturo, an unscrupulous womanizer, meets two soldiers, Tiburcio and Angelillo, who, in order to help the girl out of her predicament, organize a musical recital to raise money.

Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.

Carita finds herself forced to reject the advances of her wealthy godfather because she already has a steady boyfriend. Spurned, the godfather changes his will, stipulating that the five million pesos he leaves to his goddaughter can only be claimed once she becomes a widow. Hoping to inherit the fortune quickly, Carita marries Lázaro Bermejo, a dying indigent. However, the beggar makes a miraculous recovery and regains his health.

Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.

Guadalupe is an orphan as a child by Eulalio host and Euphrasia, who incite to steal and commit crimes. She opposes and decides to leave the house to avoid it in the company of a goldfinch and his trusty cat. The girl comes to live independently but failures will accumulate, until he accidentally meets Baby, a lady of good family, and among them emerges a sincere friendship.

An intrascendent man pretends to be crazy to stop his family's extravagance, which is about to ruin him, victim of two scammers.

Silvia Pinal stars as Beatriz, a woman whose troubles are brought on by the fact that she has two wildly different suitors.