Narrador
Animated biopic of mexican president Benito Juárez.
Don Felipe González
Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old don Felipe, an acquaintance, is very sick and is alone and without money for a decent funeral, they decide to ask for a loan to help him, but, as they do not grant it, they decide to rob the savings bank. To do this, they will plan everything thoroughly and manufacture a homemade explosive.
Rosillo
San Ginés de la Sierra is a small village lost in the mountains in southern Spain. It is known throughout the region for two peculiar characteristics: its "persistent" drought and a "Home of the Vanquished". This "home" is an institution that houses some twenty old people, to whose care are eleven nuns and crosses a distressing economic situation. The nuns are desperately seeking a solution and decide to hold a charity bulls run.
El Suspiros
Galindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come just before the fake ones.
El Poca
수녀원에서 생활하던 비리디아나는 수녀가 되기 전 마지막으로 후원자인 아저씨를 방문한다. 후원자는 비리디아나가 신혼 첫날 밤 안타깝게 죽은 아내를 빼닮은 것에 마음이 흔들려 그녀를 잠재워 겁탈을 시도한다.
<최후의 만찬>을 패러디한 장면으로 유명한 루이스 부뉴엘의 설명이 필요없는 걸작.
Secretario del Tribunal
Jeremías
Tiburcio
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.
Súpito (as Luis de Heredia)
The famous soprano Marta Vélez decides to retire from the operatic stages to rebuild her marriage. Her husband, a heartless scoundrel, tries to swindle a large sum of money from her. But when his scam fails, he devises a plan to kidnap their daughter and get her mother to pay a ransom. Before the inevitable divorce of her parents, Mari-Tere, the child, is in an unexpected "no-man's-land", waiting for someone to love her.
Picavea