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- Two couples' romances are fancifully intertwined.
- In the Kentucky hills, a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit.
- Helena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück.
- Guido Gurlino, head of the Pisan army, wants the Florentine Maddalena Pazzi, but she rejects him, in love with Vitelli, head of the Florentine armies. Gurlino then kidnaps young Giovanna and makes her his wife. When, during a duel, Vitelli is wounded, he will be healed by Giovanna, whom the Pisans call Monna Vanna and whom she worships as an angel for her kindness.
- One of the main works of the Age of Enlightenment, a powerful plea in favour of tolerance, humanity and freedom of opinion. Set in the age of the crusades, it deals with the relations between the three monotheistic religions. Lessing includes the historical figure of Sultan Saladin, the Jewish merchant Nathan is a portrait of his friend, the renowned philosopher Moses Mendelssohn - when the play was published in 1779, this was considered breaching a taboo.
- A sailor falls for a music hall performer with marital problems, after having been at sea a long 12 years, only to learn the distressing news that she is his own sister.
- Story of the Kreuzer (cruiser) Emden and his men during WWI, garnished with a love Story, rivalry and heroism.
- This adaptation of Arnold's 1861 Orientalist epic opens with documentary shots of tourists in Bombay watching street performers. Then a white-bearded old man sitting under the bodhi tree tells the tourists the story of Gautama (Rai), son of King Suddodhana (Ukil) and Queen Maya (Bala), who left his consort Gopa (Seeta) and became a wandering teacher credited with founding Buddhism. The religious epic, with its idealized figures, takes up the narrative in flashback and ends with Gopa kneeling before Gautama asking to become his disciple.
- Musical about a girl typist who leaves Berlin for Venice after winning a contest. A rich bachelor pretending to be poor takes a job with her and competes for her affections with a count and a tenor.
- Waterloo is a German made movie that depicts the soldiers of Belgium + The Netherlands; Brunswick; England, Ireland, Scotland + Wales; Hanover; Nassau; and Prussia's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
- A power struggle between mountain peasants who have been raising milk cows on common land and a village bailiff trying to gain power driving them off the land. Both have a ducal documents that states the opposite.
- A farmer shelters his brother, a carver, from the police who want him for the murder of a local official.In a subplot, a mountain girl finds her soulmate in a forester.
- Riccardo and his troupe travel around the world performing musical and dance numbers in vaudevillian and circus theaters. Dancer Kitty is so impressed when she hears him sing that she asks to enter the company, but is turned down by Riccardo. Then in the middle of a number at the Winter Garten she pops in and the audience loves it. Now she will try to win Riccardo's heart, although he has a secret from his past that might be an obstacle.
- A masked hero scales the walls of buildings and relieves burglars of what money or valuables they've stolen. He donates the stolen goods to charity and turns the criminals over to the authorities. An exotic dancer falls madly in love with this hero whose face she has never seen. But who is hiding behind the mask?
- When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
- A Venice city prefect's mistress saves his wife from a profiteer.
- In the middle of the mountains around the Lötschental is a lonely village that is exposed to the forces of nature. A state of excitement arouses when an international mining company discover a gold vein and acquired mining rights.
- A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson that would be badly needed three years later.
- A mountain girl gives birth out of wedlock.A hunter who loves her eliminates the poacher who had dishonored her.
- Father caught by his stepdaughter learning the foxtrot instead of hunting foxes. She keeps the secret quiet and in return he helps her to marriage.