1920s Spanish Movies

Pedro (played by a white actor in blackface), a son of a former slave, leaves Cuba (where he was being mistreated for being black) to seek his fortune in Paris. While working as a bellboy at a dance club, his dancing prowess is discovered and then he goes to become a famous dancer of the Charleston in the city. He falls in love with his dancing partner, who could not stand the thought of marrying him because of his skin color.

A 1924 film.

A 1923 film.

A poor fellow is dominated by his wife who is unfaitful.

Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, but he is shipwrecked and stranded on an island inhabited by cannibals who worship him as a war god.

A 1922 film.

Luis Candelas, the mythical bandit, just and generous, comes to the aid of a nobleman who saved his life. Adventure film directed by José Buchs.

Two navy ensigns, Manuel d'Astures and the Viscount of Brazza, nicknamed Boy, return to Spain after a long mission at sea. The latter is surprised to find his father with a woman he hates instantly. Soon afterward, he falls for a countess, whose lavish lifestyle ruins him. Unfortunately, the lender from whom he has just borrowed money is murdered and Boy is suspected.

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"The Confessor", attributed to the pioneering Baños brothers, is a curious and not very well known pornographic silent film that constitutes a true exception in the treatment of religion in Spanish silent cinema. In this way, the pornographic attraction of "The Confessor" is built through the perversion of the priestly vow of celibacy and the sacrament of penance. This film can be considered as another chapter in the cultural tradition of criticizing the vices of the clergy, and as a consequence of the environment and the new leisure culture that took place in the Europe of the so-called "frivolous twenties".

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In the celebrations of the recruits, Don Esteban rejects José Luis, the boyfriend of his daughter Luz María, who promises to kidnap her.

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A 1925 currently lost film.

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A 1923 film.

Chief Don Fernando seduces his son's fiancee and forces her to marry.

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Malvaloca is a rather foolish and beautiful girl living with her careless parents. After being abandoned by a man she has a daughter. Later she meets Salvador; when he has an accident she meets his friend Leonardo and they both fall in love. She will try to redeem herself from her past life. At the same time the two men, who have a forge, recast the convent's old bell which also needs to be "redeemed". Silent version of the Álvarez Quintero brothers theatrical play.

A young woman abandoned by her lover sells her body to his mentor, a renowned sculptor.

A 1924 film.

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A 1921 film.

The film revolves around a lower-class family: Doña Camila, the aging mother, and Elena and Carlos, her children. Carlos is, unbeknownst to her, a reformed thief. One day he meets Nora, a prostitute, in the park, and decides to bring her home after falling in love with her. Elena, who is being courted by a shady Don Juan, is given a ring as a gift, but Nora takes it away from her complaining that she knows men like Don Juan and the ring is probably stolen. This is evidenced when the police arrive in search for the ring, and Nora takes the fall for Elena.

In Madrid, Spain, Susana's flirtations with the old apothecary Don Hilarión arouse the jealousy of Julián, Susana's boyfriend.

Ricla, a village in Aragon, Spain, 1898. The imminent wedding between Jesús and Pilar, two young lovers, is frustrated when he is drafted to go to the war in Cuba.

In a Cordovan farmhouse, Soledad arouses a passion in two men, which will be cause of misfortune for both when the boyfriend of the protagonist in a jealous attack kills the rival in his presence.

The little orphan Lazarus is expelled from his home, flees from the master who takes him in and mistreats him, and arrives in a village that is in dispute with another neighboring village over the possession of a Virgin.

A 1924 film.

First film adaptation of the play by Enrique Pérez Escrich. Angela's brother is the most important bandit in Salamanca and is killed by Angela's husband. She does not say that he is her brother, and her husband believes that he was her lover, so the child she is waiting for is abandoned in the house of the village priest.

A 1924 film.

Don Casto Tordesillas is a widower who spends most of his nights partying in variety theaters and going out with chorus girls while, behind his back and to his disgust, Ramón courts his daughter Paquita.

Don Armando de la Peña, is the owner of a ranch located in a plain of the mountains of the province of Córdoba, administered by the loyal and honest Pedro Oria, a model of old Creole who lives with his wife and children Juan, Carlos and Maria. The former is lazy, gambling, and bad-tempered, while Carlos inherited the virtues of his father. Don Armando is not satisfied with his children. Mercedes, his favorite daughter, likes life in the big city, she is flirtatious and superficial even when she is in the ranch; she has an attitude of contempt towards Carlos, even after his life is saved, but that attitude hides a nascent feeling of love. His brother, also named Carlos, is what could be described as a bad person. With these characters various dramatic episodes unfold.

Rocío Dalbaicín is a singer who returns to Spain after a long stay in America. Now, she triumphs again in Barcelona, ​​but various love problems await her there.

The first ever Cuban feature film.

The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera, also responsible for Gaucho Nobility (1915), the biggest blockbuster of Argentinean silent cinema. De la Pera was a talented photographer, always willing to try new gadgets and techniques. This film experiments with microphotography in the style of Jean Comandon's films for Pathé and it is part of a series which included a film about mosquitoes and paludism and another one about cancer, which are considered lost. Flies were a popular subject of silent films and there are more than a dozen titles featuring them in the teens and early twenties.

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