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- A peace-loving prince and his followers dream of eternal peace. So far, they have been successful only within the realm. Is the vision of global peace just a naive dream, or will his followers be able to see it through?
- A group of researchers from Earth travel in a spaceship to Mars, where, to big surprise, they find a peaceful vegetarian and pacifist civilization.
- In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.
- A beautiful but imperious princess refuses all offers of marriage, often condemning her suitors to death. The prince of Denmark comes seeking her hand and, aided by magic objects given to him by a mysterious spirit, seeks to win her love.
- After Dr. Friedrich's wife becomes mentally unstable and his research papers are rejected, he leaves the country to respite.
- A judge sees his illegitimate daughter facing a trial for the murder of her newborn child, also out of wedlock. He is certain that she will be sentenced to death.
- The reporter Jimmie Brand at the "Daily Wire" solves the case of the Vibeleje murder. However, this put Brand in a terrible stressed condition and for this reason his boss decides to give him two weeks of vacation. But it will be a restless sabbatical because Brand will witness a strange crime in broad daylight in the Hill Park as he is looking through the window of his home. Brand decides to solve such a mysterious crime.
- Two men of high rank are both wooing the beautiful and famous equestrian acrobat Stella. While Stella ignores the jeweler Hirsch, she accepts Count von Waldberg's offer to follow her home, where she falls in his arms. At her party some days later Hirsch turns up uninvited. He says he wants to give Stella a piece of jewelry, but she repulses his advances. When Waldberg sees this he knocks Hirsch down. Hirsch challenges him to a duel by cards. Waldberg loses all his money, and in the end also has to sign a promissory note on 85.000, which should be paid within 24 hours. To help Waldberg solve his debt Stella goes to Hirsch to receive the brooch he has promised her. While he turns away, she steals a precious necklace from him, but he happens to see the theft in a mirror. He tails her to a park, where he sees Stella giving the necklace to Waldberg. Hirsch tells Stella to come to him at midnight, if she wants him to be silent about the theft. When Waldberg finds out that Stella is going to Hirsch in the night, he becomes jealous and goes there as well. By mistake he happens to shoot Stella, who reveals her sacrifice for him before she dies.
- After a petty crook is freed, he gets right back into trouble, first by stealing a fur for his former girlfriend and then by getting in fights with two different men who have tried to take his place with her, one of whom lands up drowning.
- Based on the 1918 novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.
- The clown Joe Higgins and the circus princess Daisy have grown up together and seem perfect for each other.
- A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
- A successful clown is abandoned by his wife for a count.
- An upperclass war widow marries again. The new husband is also an officer, and soon he has to go to the next war. At the outbreak, she's the only one who does not cheer about it. And the terrors of war soon bring almost all of her friends and relatives, among them generals and high government officials to the same conclusion: War does not pay.
- Young Elly lives in the fishing town of Whitley as the foster daughter of the greedy merchant Brown. When Brown suddenly raises gasoline prices, the local fishermen revolt. The events escalate to a huge gasoline fire, Brown's death and poor Elly's capture by pirates. Fortunately, John Elton heroically extinguishes the fire and, just in the nick of time, saves Elly, whom he has long admired. Will Elly and John finally find a peaceful life together after everything they've both been through?
- The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her boss's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
- Kuno Falkenberg, a handsome young naval lieutenant, is in love with his cousin Elly, who also happens to be the daughter of the colonel. Elly has met a swarthy and wealthy maharajah, who proposes marriage to her in a rowboat. She eagerly accepts. When Kuno finds the empty rowboat, he assumes that Elly has drowned - little suspecting that she has eloped to the Orient, or wherever wealthy maharajahs live.
- The Count and his daughter are in the former's study and he has just completed his last will and testament. Turning to Edith and her fiance, he informs them that he has made the will in their favor, and that all his property will pass to them at his death. The count then goes to his room, and locking the door, enters a wardrobe which conceals a secret door leading to his friend Pendleton's apartments next door. He descends into the basement of his house, and thence to the cellar beneath Pendleton's room, and by means of a staircase and trapdoor in the floor of his friend's drawing room, gains access to his presence. He informs Pendleton that he has been made executor under the will, and acquaints him of the fact that should his daughter die without issue, the property will pass to him. The Count returns to his own dwelling, falls down the staircase and receives serious injuries. Pendleton carries the Count back to his bedroom, depositing him on the floor, returns to his own house. Later, the Count's servant attempts to gain admission to his masters room, but finds the door locked. Soon after, he breathes his last. Pendleton then determines to win Edith for himself and secure the property. He is peremptorily dismissed by her. Undaunted, Pendleton arranges with a shady doctor to kidnap Edith, and by introducing him as an attendant at her wedding with Baron Sternberg, combines to put his plan into action. After the return of the bridal party from the church, the doctor poisons a flower in a vase, and handing this to Edith, she becomes unconscious. She is removed to her boudoir, and her old servant is left in charge of her. Whilst the latter sleeps, the doctor through the aid of a secret panel near Edith's bedside, drugs her medicine and this renders her in a comatose state for four days. In the belief that she is dead, her body is removed to the family vault, from which she is later removed by Pendleton and his nefarious accomplice and taken to Pendleton's house. Here Pendleton once more makes advances to her and a thrilling struggle takes place, in which Edith gets the better of matters. Left alone, Edith tries to escape, but finds that both the doors and windows are locked. She overhears Pendleton and the doctor plotting her removal to Constantinople and with the diamond in her ring, scratches a message into the windowpane. Meanwhile, the Baron has invoked the aid of Newton, the celebrated detective, who, from a glance at the Count's will, connects Pendleton with the crime. Going to the police, he finds the doctor's photo among the official collection and learns he is a desperate criminal. Pendleton arranges with the doctor to murder Edith and her husband, and in order to do this the doctor goes to the Baron's house. Newton is reposing in bed in Edith's old room, and the doctor, sliding the secret panel, puts his arm through and is about to stab him, when his arm is seized. He however gets away, with Newton and a posse of police pursuing him. A battle ensues, but Pendleton and his companion escape, and fly with Edith to the train for Constantinople. Newton discovers the message on the window pane and with the police sets out for the railway station, arriving just in time to see it leave the station. Newton hops in an automobile and rides to a bridge where the train passes under. When the train comes along, he jumps from the bridge onto the roof of the coach car where he dives inside the car that holds Edith. A struggle ensues between Newton and the doctor on the rear of the platform, and Newton hurls the doctor onto the track. Returning to the carriage, he arrests Pendleton and Edith is returned to her husband and Newton is the hero of the day.
- Ernest Des Tressailles, a young Bourbon officer, arrives with some companions at the castle of Trionville to marry Alaine de l'Etoile. While they are at the wedding feast, Republican troops arrive, but Ernest escapes only to be captured later. He is sentenced to be shot the following morning. He is paralyzed with fear and Alaine, though surprised and disappointed by his cowardice, determines to save her husband at any cost. She entreats Marc Arron, the stern Republican, to save Ernest. At last Marc Arron. influenced by her beauty and his love for her, accedes to her entreaties, and exchanges clothing with the condemned man. In the garments of the latter he sits down to await the hour when he must atone with his own life. Alaine is captivated by his courage. Marc Arron informs Montaloup, a member of the committee of public welfare, that he has permitted Ernest to escape. Montaloup pities him for his blunder, but Marc Arron rejects all sympathy. When Ernest later on returns voluntarily, Marc Arron refuses to accept the pardon offered, as he wishes to set an example for all true patriots. In the white and gold uniform of the White Hussars he strides to the window and commands the soldiers to fire, while he shouts, "Long live Alaine. Long live the Republic."