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- A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.
- The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
- The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.
- On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?
- Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient.
- Society-lady Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed 25 cents to pay for gang 'protection.' She sends to New York City for a reformed gangster she had befriended, Frankie O'Fallon, and he hires the manpower needed from the usual Columbia hoods. Her gang hijacks the racketeers, recovers the merchant's money and returns it to them. Lila Thorne, engaged to Hattie's son Fred, throws in with her future mother-in-law when she sees that the old lady is fighting for the American principle of freedom of choice...and action. Lila frames the gang-leader, George Watson, and Hattie's big-city vigilantes kidnap him and extract the information that the town-mayor, Johnny "J.J." Jones, is the brains behind the protection-gang and is getting the big cut of the money. But Hattie must still rob a bank before she can secure the evidence needed to convict the mayor. All in a day's work for a crusading society dame.
- Gilles Mauvoisin, the only descendant of his late uncle Octave, inherits his entire fortune. Uncle Octave was poisoned with arsenic and suspicion focused immediately on his widow, Colette Mauvoisin. But Gilles has doubts about her guilt and conducts his own investigation.
- The favorite of Russian empress Catherine The Great, Count Orloff, is tasked with romancing a princess with claims to the throne, so that the empress can dispose of her more easily. Tragedy ensues.
- Raffaello Sanzio falls in love with Margherita, a maiden of the people. He becomes her lover and lives with her, but their relationship ignites the jealousy of an aristocrat who secretly orders the kidnapping of the girl.
- Gold is a millionaire tired of the hypocrisy that surrounds him. After saving a homeless man's life, he gets hold of his clothes by wandering around town in search of someone who appreciates him for who he really is, not for his money.
- Ercole Piazza, a rich widower, tries in every way to find a husband to the mocking daughter Adriana in order to live freely. The only one willing to accept the hand of the capricious girl is the smiling and patient Pio.
- Sadie owns a riverboat that gold-miners are using to travel to their claims, while gambling and drinking on the way. The Yukon Mining Company sends Thorne to take over Sadie's boat and then cheat the miners out of their claims.
- Many local dignitaries are gathered at an auction organized by the notary Dr Jan Karas (Oldrich Nový) at Lucín castle to sell off the belongings of the late count. Most interest is aroused by a portrait of a beautiful noble girl, but no-one buys it because it is said to be cursed. Until the young count arrives to decide what to do with the portrait, Karas keeps it at home. Fascinated by the beauty of the girl, Karas spends hours in front of the portrait. Then one day he kisses it and the girl (Lída Baarová) comes to life and steps out of the picture. The girl introduces herself as countess Blanka of Blankenberg, and has no intention of getting back into the canvas.
- A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
- The rise and fall of an aristocratic Prague family is the focus of this fine example of Czech filmmaking during the Nazi Occupation. A mill owner who hopes to arrange a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy American of Czech origin invests all his money in turbines to power his mill.
- The wife of a wealthy lawyer loses her memory of only her husband and the situation becomes more complicated when a psychiatrist tells everyone not to challenge her.
- Four heirs in a wealthy family, while waiting to see who gets the inheritance, squabble over a missing lottery ticket.
- Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves, Paolo, and who saved her from drowning during the shipwreck of the cruise in which they met, is at the gates of death because of a serious illness whose symptoms are similar to those of leprosy.
- A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.
- Beatrice meets the famous dancer Ruda and falls in love with him. But Ruda disappears with the circus. Beatrice gets a new engagement at another circus and makes a career as a dancer with tigers.
- The all-male inhabitants of an Australian mining camp send off for some mail order brides from Sydney. Two men refuse to join in, but their friend secretly arranges for two wives for them. Unfortunately one of them proves to be his own abandoned wife, who takes up with him again. This means a love triangle develops between the two men around the remaining woman.
- A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.