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- The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
- After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
- 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.
- Two boxers compete for the love of a woman.
- Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
- A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
- 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.
- After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry, but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
- A spoiled heiress defies her father by running off to marry her lover. However, Daddy has a few tricks up his sleeve.
- An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
- 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.
- A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.
- 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).
- A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Drummond leads a black-shirted platoon of men from his former unit against foreign interlopers trying to pull England into dangerous overseas entanglements.
- 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.
- In 1920s Ireland, an IRA man betrays his best friend to the police, mistakenly believing him to be his mistress's lover.
- 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.
- 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.
- Faced with a Spanish conspiracy, Queen Elizabeth gives the pirate Drake carte blanche to raid a Spanish settlement and plunder that country's wealth.
- In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
- The transatlantic liner hits an iceberg and passengers realize that they are left only three hours to live.
- 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.
- The story of a struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate whose love furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
- 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 short sketch featuring winners of the 'Film Weekly' acting scholarship.
- 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.
- Through the use of newsreel footage and re-enacted sequences, this B.I.P. production, modelled along the lines "The March of Time" shorts, presents a record of the highlights of the previous twenty-five years, to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. It depicts incidents starting with his coronation. and on through political problems, woman suffrage, strikes, trade expansion, World War I, and the depression, while also showing the changes in living style and progression.
- A mad scientist devises a formula that puts people into a zombie-like trance to do his bidding.
- A girl helps a composer win fame despite a flirtatious socialite.
- 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.
- A British workingman's (Phillips Holmes) wife (Diana Churchill) insists on having a life of her own.
- A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
- Bill, a bumbling, dim-witted fellow and his shrewish wife win a holiday to Spain at a Whist tournament. Along the way, he and a famous Matador named Tormito get into an altercation, leaving Bill in the bullfighter's clothes. Seperated from his wife, he's taken for Tormito by the natives, and forced into a match at the local arena.
- Gene Gerrard stars as the king of a tiny European country who has a night out at the home of an English duke, falling in love with his daughter after being mistaken for a jewel thief.
- Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
- Exiled King Karl marries penniless Helen, then is recalled to his country.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- A British spy helps prisoners of war destroy Germans' secret tunnels.
- A frugal coal miner in the north of England turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools.
- 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.
- Murder runs amok in an English Manor house as the local vicar turns sleuth to solve the mystery.
- In order to win back an old flame whom he jilted to marry a singer, a British lord resorts to skulduggery. When his wife enters the hospital for treatment of a serious ailment, he finds that his old flame is now a nurse there.
- A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.