1930s Spanish Movies

The film tells the story of Rosa, a single mother whose honor is called into question after being abandoned by her lover.

A social drama about alcoholism.

The young farmer Aalami leaves his family to find work elsewhere. He gets to know the country and its people, customs and traditions at Küste in North Africa: Market life in Tetuan, the art of craftsmanship, the life of the Moors, dances and festivities in honour of the caliph, white mosques, the call of the muezzin of the minaret and the music of the shepherd flutes. Aalami also follows Franco's call and flies from Morocco to Spain to fight at Bürgerkrieg. In the end Aalami comes back to his wife and children.

Ceferino is the train station chief o a remote town. A group of planters ask him to legit them the wagons to send the harvest to Buenos Aires, he agrees, but he gets fired.

Trini and her brother Regalito are two gypsy brothers stealing hams. At trial, the severe prosecutor Enrique accused them of the misdemeanor, although they do not understand the nature of their crime and the justice of non-gypsies. Trini ends up serving in the house of the prosecutor, who, discovering her good heart, eventually falls in love with her.

Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.

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A pro-Republican drama/propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.It tells the story of Manolo, a young worker who, after the military coup, joins the militias to fight for freedom.

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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 pro-Republican propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War. It combines documentary reporting and narrative elements.

Wine Cellars itself is a Spanish-French co-production. He shot the film in the Paris studios and also in Spain, Andalusia and Seville. According to the critics, his story of love, honour, revenge, bulls and vineyards masterfully captures the spirit of this region, the sun beating down on the parched earth, life on the farms and vineyards and the celebrations coloured by the famous flamenco dance. Wine Cellars was originally a silent film and its soundtrack was only added later.

Pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. Its purpose is to testify to the transformation of the old militias into a regular army.

Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of the Republican production "Spain 1936" (Le Chanois, 1937).

A journey through different places in 1930s Mallorca, the coast, the countryside, the city, in the company of the evocative music of Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909), to whom homage is paid.

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An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

A short documentary depicting the director's family.

A love triangle take place in the hostile environment of the urban slums of Barcelona in the 1930's.

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Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman. Spanish language version of the 1929 film "The Lady Lies".

One of Spain's earliest sound film successes. Now considered lost.

A Spanish documentary from Jean-Paul Le Chanois & Luis Buñuel made during the Spanish Civil War.

A blacksmith's son from Naples rises to become a celebrated opera singer, performing at La Scala in Milan.

Short documentary made from archive images from the Spanish Civil War: Social problems, the making of weapons, the syndicates CNT and UGT, the history of Spain... and even a bullfight by Rafael 'El Gallo'.

Spanish documentary made during the Spanish Civil War showing the damages suffered in Catalonia, Barcelona.

This documentary is the first of a series that dedicated 4 issues to the activity of the Durruti column in Aragon.

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Simultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly mistreated is sentenced for a crime a man who was part of her jury joins her on the trip to Siberia to expatiate his guilt.

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Pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It appeals to the population to fight against Franco's Nationalist forces.

A pro-Republican documentary short made during the Spanish Civil War.

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The first ever Paraguayan feature tells about the mass wave of European immigrants at the turn of the 20th century.

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This is a short film that, although a documentary in appearance, has very little to do with the generic conventions of that form. It would seem, then, that what we have here is the embryo of what he was subsequently to call the "elementary": an abstract or lyrical modality in the perception and exposition of the real.

A famous painter returns to Spain under a false name as he once had to run away, to meet his half gypsy daughter, who has become a flamenco dancer. He offers her his house, making popular rumors take flight.