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- Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
- A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
- The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
- A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
- A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
- Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
- Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.
- Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
- Maud Gregaards travels to China in search of a fabled treasure said to have belonged to the Queen of Sheba. Once there, she is taken captive by an evil man and nearly killed in the belief she is a witch.
- A re-edited version of the 'modern' story from Intolerance (1916).
- A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression.
- Jewish life in Poland before World War II. The Vladimir Medem Sanatorium stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.
- An innocent Russian student in Paris has her first affair, with a mature man who comes to realize he truly loves her and it is not just one of his brief flings.
- Botto, a world-famous circus clown, is negative towards females, because a beautiful woman he once loved laughed at him for his job at the circus. André, a young artist, is Botto's opposite. He loves women. His current love is Hanna, who also works in the circus. That's when Botto meets Blanche, a middle-class girl.
- Melodrama directed by Eugeniusz Bodo, star of most popular per-war Polish movies. The daughter of a booth worker, Mania, falls in love with Zygmunt, a painter. The woman taking care of Zygmunt does not approve, and tries to buy Mania off.
- A prostitute in an act of pity is keeping chaste company with a condemned man through the night before he is to be hung.
- Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.
- Country gent sends his singing, dancing, tomboy daughter to stuffy finishing school, where she promptly sets about enlivening the dorm and makes friends with the city's 'Bohemian' crowd.
- An immoral small-town girl steals money from her drunk lover in order to go to a big city. There she becomes a cabaret star and seduces a wealthy married entrepreneur.
- Pola is a beautiful but poor girl, a locksmith's daughter. Unexpectedly, she's successful as a stage dancer. After her success, she breaks with her fiancé and becomes the lover of a rich admirer. However, the fiancé does not accept her departure.
- Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
- A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.
- Stefcia Rudecka starts working as a governess in an aristocratic house. Waldemar, the young heir, falls in love with her but his well-off family is not eager to accept the woman he loves.
- Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music, while the other is a younger man addicted to swing music. The niece of the older man arrives for a visit and gets into the wrong apartment. Complications arise.
- Prince Kasatsky is a just and proud youth, shock and disappointment with the world bring him to church, he becomes father Sergius. It is a story of his piety and temptation.
- The teenage girl is first seen confessing and warned about having any impure thoughts or feelings. Her family has boarders and one day a young man moves in and they fall in love.
- A young nobleman, pursued by Satan since childhood, yields and signs a pact for his soul in exchange for marriage to a woman he loves who is in love with another.
- One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion, this film tells the story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war World War II Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by severe poverty and the turmoil of war, she and her children make their way to New York and turn to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society for help.
- A flirtatious coquette is hired as the new star of the major Warsaw theatre to the terror of Varsovian women and amazement of the city's male population.
- The famous revue star Lidia Relska receives a telegram during the performance and leaves the theater feigning illness. He arrives by plane to Lviv, where he stays in a hotel with his father, an oilman. By a strange coincidence, she is mistaken for his wife, which causes a number of funny misunderstandings. The oil tycoon, Baron Karcz, lives in the same hotel. Lidia, or rather Hanka Zarska, accidentally meets his secretary Stefan and falls in love with him, and Stefan, of course, does not leave her without reciprocity. But their happiness is hindered by the fact that Hanka is Zarski's wife. After a few days, Relska returns to the stage, where she is partnered with the dancer Lulu Bilska, Stefan's former love. There are scenes full of misunderstandings, and finally, during the dinner organized by Zarski, everything is explained - Hanka is happy beyond her life and has her dream boy.
- While walking the streets of Damascus, Georges Hanet, French artist, hears a woman's screams. He rushes to the place and finds Kora tied to a whipping post and swaying from the unmerciful beating of her master. He rescues and frees her. This wins her love and she follows him until he takes her into his home. Their love dream is finally interrupted by a letter from Hanet's mother. His father has been killed in an earthquake and it is necessary for him to return home. Kora pleads to be taken. Piqued by Hanet's secluding her in the cabin of the ship she eludes him and carries on a flirtation with Count Ceretti. When they arrive at Triest, Hanet goes to his mother. This further enrages Kora, who wants his entire attention and she leaves with the Count. Crazed with love and grief, Hanet searches until he finally finds Kora living in a palatial mansion as Ceretti's mistress. He effects an entrance, sees Kora in Ceretti's arms, and shoots, wounding Kora in the face and badly disfiguring her. At the trial Kora lies in testimony, and Hanet is sentenced to five years hard labor. At the end of three years he makes his escape. Under the name of Fred Jevons he wins a reputation as a painter and teacher. One of his pupils is Suzanne, daughter of the Marquis De Rives. Their love is mutual and Suzanne becomes his wife. During this time Kora has come to Paris and under the name of Madame Des Champs conducts a gambling house. The Marquis is a frequenter of the house. An important message takes Hanet to the resort and there he and Kora meet again. Kora tells Hanet that she has always loved him and demands that he come every night to her home. Otherwise she will denounce him to the police and thus force him to return to jail. The Marquis and Suzanne are amazed at Hanet's actions. Unable to endure the burden of her grief, Suzanne goes to Kora. She is followed by Hanet. Kora tells Suzanne of her relations with Hanet, declares that she will not allow them to be happy and sends a letter to the police. Before the letter can be mailed her insane jealousy and rage, long indulged, result in madness and she dies. The Count reads the letter, realizes Hanet's suffering and destroys it. Thus Hanet is freed and he and Suzanne find true happiness.
- A female medical student is torn between the rational science of her professor-lover and the mystical pseudo science of her amateur doctor father, who says you can diagnose a patient by simply looking into their eyes.