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- In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
- Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.
- Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
- Vignerte, a preceptor at the court of a German principality, falls in love with Princess Aurore, whose first husband died under mysterious circumstances. Vignerte suspects the deceased's brother to be responsible for the death.
- A young girl new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
- Two friends enlist in the British army during World War 1 and take part in the Gallipoli campaign.
- Family Brandt has lost its fortune in oil speculation, and they have great debts at the local bank. This one is threatened with its own crash due to lack of money. The only hope is Brandt's uncle Thomas Hoffman, an American millionaire, who is coming for a visit. Bank Accountant Schmidt uses his own money to welcome him properly, presenting himself as Brandt's daughter's fiance, but it turns out, that Hoffmann never was a millionaire, in fact he still owns the city of Chicago about $100 for medical treatment. Yet with his existance alone he starts a big scheme to bring back prosperity. Surprisingly it works, yet there are some problems: 1st: Chicago wants the money back, asking at the foreign office in Berlin for help, and 2nd: Hoffmann does not like the sheme at all, and tries to go back to his quiet and peaceful Chicago...
- An old Jew is forced to hied the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
- Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new husband home alone. Seeking distraction from his troubles, Freddy enters a vaudeville theater where Undine, "the diving Venus," and her trained seal, Bubbles, are performing. Outside the theater, Freddy meets Undine's fiancé, George Fitzgerald, and becomes involved in George's effort to hide Undine's seal from a bill collector armed with an order of attachment because of an unpaid hotel bill. Complications arise when Freddy Wetherill's dying rich uncle, Cato Dodd, notifies him that he wants Hyla to nurse him. To insure he stays in his uncle's will, Freddy substitutes Undine for Hyla and takes George along to act as his "valet." Naturally, Bubbles comes along, too. Hyla soon arrives in jealous pursuit, just in time for a nearby dam to break. As the Dodd home and other houses float downriver, various swept-away circus animals, including an alligator and a rhinoceros, find shelter with the humans on the roofs. The cab driver that brought Hyla to the house is also swept away, but he keeps the meter running in hopes of getting her back in his taxi. Bubbles rescues everyone with a floating telegraph pole, Freddy reconciles with his loving wife, and Uncle Dodd remains kindly disposed to his heir.
- Hungarian peasant Julika is discovered by an impresario in a hamlet, soon gaining fame as dancer and gifted singer. In Berlin she leaves the train to escape his attentions, meets a young composer and his friends and tries to help him.
- A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it, mainly because he's in love with her.
- In this crime drama, a girl gives her sweetheart, a robber, up to the police but then runs off with one of his assistants.
- In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
- A vivacious girl seeks an office job in hard times in the hope of landing a rich man. The director of the bank she lands up working at, flirts with her while hiding his identity, so at first she rejects him.
- At the height of the French Revolution, the fanatic Robespierre brings the popular but more moderate leader Danton to trial and demands his execution.
- A man in the Tylorean Alps gives up his sweetheart and becomes a priest, after his fanatic mother has died trying to convince him to sacrifice his life for God.
- A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
- The beautiful dancer Barberina lies at the foot of Europe. Frederick II, King of Prussia, too, wants to engage her in his opera house. When she refuses, he lets her take her under military surveillance to Berlin, forces her to appear, and tries so eagerly for her that a love-story seems to arise between them. However, when Friedrich goes to war with Austria, Barberina falls in love with the secretary baron of Cocceji. After a concert on the occasion of the King's return, she wants to flee abroad with Cocceji.
- Musical extravaganza, also filmed in a French language version, based on the life of Johann Strauss.
- A sound film that features highlights from earlier silents. While at the studio, Mae and her Hollywood friends explore her collection of stills. They reminisce about movies from yesteryear as the stills come to life.
- A young singer in the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
- Hollywood star Irma Gladden piles up the haters as she goes along her merry way-until she's found dead in her car.
- An Alpine adventure-romance.
- Dramatization of the lead up to the First World War blames Czarist Russia rather than Wilhelmine Germany for precipitating "the burning of the world."
- The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.
- Weimar era screwball comedy about a floor model who is required to go out evenings to escort VIPs while her boyfriend has to wait at home.
- A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
- A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
- Toni Lechner, innkeeper at the small Tirolese village of Heiligenblut, sings in church and is happy with his mother and his girlfriend Leni. One day an impresario arrives after an auto failure and hears Toni sing, tempting him into an operatic career. Toni accepts but with time he misses his people, not knowing his jealous prima donna has kept them apart from him.
- A widow moves to New York City, and falls in love with a man who wants to marry her--but only for the fortune he thinks she has.
- A dance teacher helps his ten well-bred student sisters when they leave home as a protest against their father's intended wedding. They form a café group called Die lustigen Weiber aus Wien (The merry Viennese girls).
- Two newly married carnival performers head to New York to make it big on Broadway, but after they get there the wife finds that a wealthy playboy has designs on her.
- The title refers to a New York City boarding house for vaudeville performers, none of whom have any steady work including a divorced dancer, Hal Skelly, who has custody of his young son, Jackie Jordan. Olive Borden, is a nightclub dancer who witnesses a murder and takes refuge in the boarding house. Skelly and Borden fall in love while the former tries to keep his ex-wife from taking custody of their son, and Borden is hoping the killer doesn't catch up to her.
- Along with his horse Boomerang, British captain William Ballard travels in South Africa to meet a native king, Karin, in the hope of arranging a treaty with him on behalf of the British government. Along the way, William meets his Scottish friend, Sandy McGregor, and Fritz van Roon, an intractable Dutch Boer who refuses to acknowledge British rule and seeks to undermine it. William also meets Katryn, a Dutch farmer's niece, and she falls in love with him after he rescues her from a savage native attack on her wagon. William is wounded during the melee and Katryn is mistakenly told that he has died. Although Katryn's uncle considers van Roon a coward, the Boer kidnaps her. William soon learns of van Roon's actions and, accompanied by a friendly native king, finds Katryn and rescues her. Van Roon is left to the mercy of the vicious veldt beasts.
- When an attractive maid in a garrison town becomes pregnant, she reveals that one of three soldiers stationed there who had been chasing after her, is responsible.
- A woman meets a conceited young novelist aboard a yacht, and decides to teach him a lesson he won't forget.
- Continental farce in which a just married doctor is embarrassed by the arrival from elsewhere of a son and is afraid to tell his wife.
- The legion of the streets are the youth who sell the different newspapers published every day in Warsaw.
- Musical comedy full of funny gags. The song written by a poor musician, suddenly becomes a hit. It's his opportunity to make a career, and win the hand of his beloved.