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- After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
- The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
- A young Chinese woman working in the kitchen at a London dance club is given the chance to become the club's main act, which leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love, and murder.
- Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
- During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.
- Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.
- A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
- An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
- A spoiled heiress defies her father by running off to marry her lover. However, Daddy has a few tricks up his sleeve.
- Two boxers compete for the love of a woman.
- A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.
- A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
- After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry, but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
- Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald Andre Dupont took almost a year to make Moulin Rouge at a production cost of $500,000, a huge amount for 1928.
- A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
- A series of nineteen musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself). There are two "running gags" which connect the sketches. In one, an actor wants to perform Shakespeare, but he is continually denied air-time. The other gag has an inventor trying to view the broadcast on television. Four of the sketches are in color (in shades of yellow and brown only).
- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- In 1920s Ireland, an IRA man betrays his best friend to the police, mistakenly believing him to be his mistress's lover.
- Drummond leads a black-shirted platoon of men from his former unit against foreign interlopers trying to pull England into dangerous overseas entanglements.
- Hai-Tang (Anna May Wong) is a dancer in the French Riviera who, after her act takes a deadly turn, finds refuge in the arms of a young painter.
- A mad scientist devises a formula that puts people into a zombie-like trance to do his bidding.
- A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
- Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
- A Chinese cabaret singer will do whatever it takes to save her brother when he is sentenced to death for trying to save her from a lecherous Duke.
- After committing a murder for his lover, Gloria, the famous painter Jack is forced to go underground. In the harbor district, he saves the poor Malaysian girl Song in front of two intrusive sailors. She loves him for it, and together Song and Jack appear in the tingle dungeon of the port, he as a knife artist, she as a dancer.
- The film spotlights famed composer Franz Schubert, who loves a woman from afar. He stands by in quiet desperation as his beloved is married to a dashing military officer, then pours his sorrow (and his love) into his work. To avoid royalty payments, most of the Sigmund Romberg score is jettisoned, replaced by authentic Schubert themes.
- A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
- Henry Hobson runs a successful boot-maker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three unruly daughters. When he decrees 'no marriages' to avoid the expensive matter of settlements, eldest daughter Maggie rebels and sets her sights on Will Mossop, Hobson's star boot-maker. Maggie and Will leave to start up in competition, and she then turns her mind to helping her sisters marry their chosen partners.
- A young fireman on the Flying Scotsman train falls in love with the beautiful daughter of the driver who is about to retire. The young fireman has replaced another named Crow who was sacked for drinking on the job and is planning to wreck the express on the driver's last trip.
- In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
- The Director General of the NBG is struggling with his staff as the complaints pile up on his programming.The staff put on a show that could turn the tide, if the DG can thwart a villainous agent and deal with his troublesome daughter.
- An old Jew is forced to hied the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
- A short sketch featuring winners of the 'Film Weekly' acting scholarship.
- A British army unit sets out to rescue the son of a maharajah, who has been kidnapped by a rebel group.
- In Ruritania, a princess's Cockney double is crowned to thwart rebels.
- A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play "The Magistrate", in which the son of a stern magistrate visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long, all of the characters are trying not to avoid each other.
- A vampish actress comes between a happily married couple.
- Faced with a Spanish conspiracy, Queen Elizabeth gives the pirate Drake carte blanche to raid a Spanish settlement and plunder that country's wealth.
- Murder runs amok in an English Manor house as the local vicar turns sleuth to solve the mystery.
- Comedy of Jewish domestic life depicts an impecunious old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need. He begins to gamble with his savings, but things don't seem to work in his favor.
- The story of a struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate whose love furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
- A British spy helps prisoners of war destroy Germans' secret tunnels.
- A young bachelor gets drunk on the eve of his wedding - and marries a dancer.
- The story of the infamous case against Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer, who was accused of high treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
- A betrothed artist loves a girl engaged to a jewel thief.
- George Winters is a self-made man, a wealthy unscrupulous businessman and M.P. for Middlepool who has married into the impoverished nobility for reasons of status. But when his wife threatens to divorce him in public immediately before a general election, a scandal threatens that could endanger his latest bit of shady dealing. Winters is a man used to winning, and he will do absolutely anything to make sure he keeps his seat in Parliament, his ill-gotten gains and his wife...
- A girl helps a composer win fame despite a flirtatious socialite.
- 1921: as Irish nationalists battle with British Forces, a young girl is torn between loyalty to her brother, unbeknownst to her an IRA leader, her fiance, a police inspector, and his comrade and rival in love, a British Army captain.
- An Earl loves a girl who models for shop window dummies.