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- The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
- When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.
- The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.
- The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
- A German-born Swiss citizen emigrates to the United States in search of a better life and making fortune. Based on the story of John Sutter, gold rush pioneer and founder of what would become the city of Sacramento.
- Pierre (Pierre Richard-Willm), a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence (Marie Bell), and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement (Charles Vanel). Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche (Françoise Rosay) who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma (Marie Bell), one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre. Near the end of his contract with the Legion, Pierre receives news from France. He has inherited a fortune. He asks Irma to come to France with him, and they make plans. But Clement tries to rape Irma and Pierre has to kill him.
- A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.
- The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two man try it on the same day with two different teams and then disaster strikes.
- Vienna, at the height of the Great Depression. Like so many others, Hans has no work, no money, nowhere to live. Having lost his livelihood as a taxi driver, he decides that the only solution is to kill himself. But just as he is about to drown himself, he sees a young woman dive into the river, obviously with the same intention. Without a thought, Hans pulls the woman out of the water and does his best to comfort her. Her name is Anna and she is only 18, but like Hans she no longer has the strength to go on living.
- Polish agent Helene persuades American traveler Arthur to pose as a married couple when they arrive at the Czarist Russian border. Arthur quickly realizes that he is now part of a desperate plot to free prisoners from a notorious fortress.
- A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.
- Expressionistic devices depict the nervous breakdown of a young physician whose patient has died,on whom he had tried out a new serum contrary to his superior's orders.
- A patriotic military man foils a plot by anarchists against the government of an unnamed country, in this Nazi era propaganda drama.
- It's grand premiere at the Revue Theater in Vienna, not only for a new spectacular revue in the large scale, but also for a new star: Carmen Daviot. In his office the theatre manager Frank listens to the former star Lydia Loo, who is complaining bitterly for being thrown out of the revue, because the financier Reinhold has rejected her in favor of his new protégée. When Reinhold arrives to the office, she pulls a pistol, but the actor Fred Nissen takes the gun away. Nissen visits Carmen in her dressing room, wanting them to be lovers again, just as in the old days in the Western-Varieté. Reinhold enters, gets furious when seeing Nissen, who responds by pointing at him with Lydia's gun. It's time for Carmen Daviot to make her spectacular entrance in the revue. This ends with her, Nissen and the ballet performing a choreographed shooting act. During the act someone shoots Reinhold in his box from the stage, without the audience noticing it. Inspector Helder, who is in the theatre, immediately starts investigating the murder. Carmen believes that Nissen committed it, and tries to protect him, now knowing for sure that she loves him.
- Prague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town, in amicable rivalry with his friend Dahl for the affections of Lydia, the innkeeper's niece. While the students are celebrating Lydia's birthday, the opera singer Julia Stella arrives at the inn - and Balduin's life begins to unravel. He is immediately infatuated with the glamorous singer - but she is already kept by an admirer, the wealthy and foppish Baron Waldis. How can a poor student hope to compete? The mysterious Dr. Carpis, who also has ties to Julia and is jealous of the Baron, intervenes. But the price will be higher than Balduin can ever imagine. He risks his sanity and his life - perhaps his very soul - haunted by his own reflection.
- Mathias Clausen is a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies.
- Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors thirsty for women and celebration.
- Rabe travels to Vienna in hope of a great inheritance from his aunt. But there are only 13 chairs waiting for him, which he sells. Then he finds a letter from the aunt announcing that she has hidden her money in one of the chairs.
- Kara poses as a doctor to get close to the known murderer Abu Seif who also has kidnapped the daughter of Malek, a friend of Halef's. Halef falls in love with Malek's other daughter while they venture into a holy (and forbidden) city.
- The story of the Slovak highwayman and folk hero Juraj Janosik.
- The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
- Nazi adaptation of Verne's Michel Strogoff: a Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them.Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way.
- Story of princess Victoria who became queen of England at the age of 18 and soon is asked to marry due to political reasons which she did not want.
- A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the French and caused the deaths of countrymen.
- Professor Higgins determines to transform an uneducated flower girl into a great lady.
- Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
- A Berlin songwriter and showman wins away a popular music hall star from an undeserving country nobleman.
- Art instructor Schrack transforms his sketch of lightly clad student Gussy into a painting, now imagining her nude. Against his wish the painting is included in his exhibition which causes a scandal when it becomes known who his model was.
- Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer - but war is imminent...
- Vehicle for the popular Austrian comic Hans Moser, as a dogcatcher in the poor part of town whose life changes when he befriends an abandoned youth and a stray animal.
- A resourceful young lady saves her father, a baron, from jail for misappropriation of bank funds, with the help of a handsome doctor who can cover the debt.
- Baron von Goren is a ruined landowner whose estate is about to be expropriated. Therefore, he wants his son Hermann to marry the wealthy Helga. But Hermann falls in love with a farmer's daughter Dorothea.
- A story of the romance of Maria Baschkirtzeff and Guy de Maupassant beginning with their first meeting leading to other meetings and the development of their ill-fated romance.
- When a young woman loses her mother's money due to a bank failure, a middle aged benefactor comes to her protection.But the man has hired an attractive ex officer to tutor his sons.
- Dog owners in a town are asked to account for themselves when a muzzle is found subversively placed on a statue of the reigning duke.Leading up to a trial,the prosecuting attorney who was drunk at the time doesn't recall what he did.
- Paul loves actresses but avoids to get hitched. Businesswoman Katja manages to get a singing part on stage, this way attracting him to her. Deli employee Franz is mistaken for an actor and gets a leading part - with disastrous results.
- An indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe triangle develops among the expatriates.
- The actor Florian Reiter flirts with the countess Beate against the etiquette of the 18th century. She arrives at the court of the duke, who delegates his affairs to unscrupulous minister von Creven.
- Officials and royalty flock to a popular tavern on the Polish-Russian border,the lady owner scours the visitors for a prospect to marry off to her unwed daughter.
- A young lady tries to save the struggling Vienna dress shop she works in by turning to a wealthy man she had once had trouble with, for a loan.
- A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing and marry her.Instead, a future of scandal and tragedy awaits her.
- A farmer opposes his daughter marrying a young music teacher (who a visitor from town also has eyes on) and prefers she marry a rich shopkeeper.The drama culminates with a fire in a barn where the touring Vienna Boys Choir are rehearsing.
- Operetta adaptation : in nineteenth century Saint Petersburg, villains threaten the true love of a heartfelt couple.
- Annie is an illegitimate child brought up by her uncle, a fanatical priest. After her first sexual experience, Annie is so overwhelmed by guilt, it profoundly affects the lives of those closest to her.
- A Prokurist in a bank is suspected of murdering her boss and refuses to take the stand in her defense, because she believes she has to cover for the boss' nephew.
- In a Near East land, a German company building waterworks and mining copper is threatened by foreign interests.When the chief engineer is framed for a murder, the nephew of the ambassador makes a heroic sacrifice.
- Turn of the century comedy about a German professor who sees a classical tragedy he wrote in his youth turned into a farce by a shyster theater producer.