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- In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
- Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.
- A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained.
- A teenaged tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun, but discovers that being the opposite sex isn't as easy as she had hoped.
- The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
- The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
- An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.
- The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
- The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
- A girl is kidnapped and held captive in an ancient Egyptian temple. She is rescued and flees to England, but soon finds that her mysterious captor is still haunting her.
- Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more 'upmarket' shoe salon, only to be fired again, before charming a rich benefactress to fund his ultimate dream: Pinkus' Shoe Palace.
- In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle story.
- A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
- Husband is hounded by his nagging mother-in-law who lives with him and his wife. After coming home drunk one night he is kicked out by the mother-in-law. He disguises himself as a servant and gets a job at his own house.
- Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.
- Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.
- A bumbling, self-indulgent husband goes on a vacation away from his wife. There he meets a popular, attractive young woman also on a vacation. Both go on a mountain climb which is going to be far from an ideal adventure.
- Bella is married to engineer Burk who meets with an accident. To provide an income she starts as a performer, but happen to meet an infatuated, intriguing composer. On the brink of marital ruin, she kills the composer.
- A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays his tune again with consequences.
- In WWI, women have taken over as barbers while the men are fighting. A young man, Ernst, played by the director, falls for the daughter of one of these female barbers.
- An honorable Lord who is developing a drug with which he transforms himself into another, that is, dissociated from all social constraints. One of the first cinematic adaptation of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde material.
- Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.
- Richard De La Croix has a brother, Andreas, who has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A man-about-town named Teddy takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets Richard, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas insane.
- A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression.
- Drama: Jenny is a cleaner. Seduced by a local boy, Edouard, her parents reject her. She finds a job as a vaudeville dancer, but winds up in the gutter and decides to take her own life.
- A woman betrays the regiment location in which the officer she is interested in is assigned because he despises her, only to regret it when he is caught and try to free him.
- When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
- An effort to combat the anti-German propaganda promulgated by the Allies.
- This story grips interest from the start by presenting a problem that has never, been satisfactorily solved, namely: "Would the sudden acquisition of great wealth make or unmake a man of average intelligence, unaccustomed to handling capital?" The question comes up for discussion at a millionaire's club and two members of the multi-millionaire class undertake to decide it by experiment, in spite of enormous difficulties in the way, not the least of which is uncertainty about the man to be selected for the trial. The one finally chosen is a sea captain unknown to any of the contending parties, who is out of work and has advertised for a position. Captain Palmer is lured into relations with a drunken sailor, none other than one of the parties to the wager in disguise, and is given honest labor before he is tempted by the drunken sailor's story of secreted gold. Palmer's cupidity is roused and he steals the gold planted where it was intended he should find it. The story breaks rather abruptly into a changed condition, showing Palmer as a man of wealth already self-opinioned and somewhat demoralized by his sudden accession to a higher position in life. He is not, however, inclined to spend money in riotous living. His cupidity grows in very natural fashion. He becomes a usurer, lends money to fishermen in dull season, and enters upon a line of business well suited to his past experience, that of ship owner. Minor issue is the love of an honest workman for Palmer's daughter, brought in to emphasize that change of character and point of view which almost invariably results from a sudden rise in fortune. Palmer attempts to wed his daughter to a title and loses her. She runs away with the man she loves and this wedding of hearts is secretly supported by Palmer's wife. When the captain finds that his plans have been thwarted and that the love match is being encouraged by his wife, he turns her from his door and is alone in the world. He is unaffected, not in the least disconcerted, when a captain of one of his steamers reports that she, "The Victoria," is not in fit condition for an ocean voyage. Palmer goes aboard, so, also, does one of the parties to the wager, discharges the captain and takes command in person. The steamer sets out on her voyage and we are given a remarkable view of men coaling her fires in the boiler room, a realistic picture, the more remarkable that it is a studio setting. There a terrible accident occurs, resulting in a leak that cannot be stopped, and a condition of suspense is created when stokers, stripped to the waist, attempt to draw the fires before they and the inrushing flood of water meet in disastrous explosion. This suspense is quickened by the sudden bravery of Captain Palmer. A gradual and consistent conversion occurs, a change of attitude toward his fellow creatures, when he joins his stokers in the desperate fight they are making. The man is manly, true to his calling, when face to face with peril. The Victoria's passengers have now become panic-stricken, and their rushing about is rather meaningless, until they are quieted by a wireless from a steamer coming to their rescue. Captain Palmer fights manfully to save his ship until he is exhausted and meets with serious injury. He is carried to his own cabin and becomes delirious. In his delirium, while he is being held by his men, the events of his past are swiftly reviewed, and he dies in an agony of remorse. The ship's passengers and crew are taken off. The party who wagered on the side of wealth's demoralizing influence returns to his club, and he, too, has learned a terrible lesson, has caught a glimpse of what a power for evil is vast wealth in bad hands.
- Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice.
- Drama. When Hedda is about to appear on stage in Ostende she borrows a piece of jewelry from her fiancé, de Rochord. When a gang of thieves steals it, he calls off the engagement, but Hedda solves the crime singlehandedly and the two are reunited.
- A young woman leaves the convent to go home and live with her father. Then she falls in love with a librarian, but her father doesn't approve.
- Vacationing in Germany, May falls for boatman Max. Her father disapproves and during a night of romance between the young couple Max drowns.
- Sally Katz begins a new job as a supervisor in the workshop of a garment maker where the boss's nasty daughter makes him advances. But the girl's father forbids him to flirt back.
- The new director at the Hoftheater is popular with the ladies. A new ballerina arrives and causes a lot of attention.
- Drama involving bull fighter Gayetano and his enamored girl friend Juanita. After a dramatic abduction by jealous rival Manuel, her following faithlessness to Gayetano climaxes with Manuel's death in the arena and her own demise by the hand of Gaeytano.
- In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
- A beautiful cigarette factory worker becomes the face of the company's new marketing campaign. Soon she attracts the attention of two men - a talented young composer and an old rich patron of arts.
- Jesta is engaged to marry uncle Peter. When a squadron of hussars have to spend the night at their farm, Peter demands that Jesta will dress as a 12 year old. However, four hussars fancies her, before Peter marries her.
- The general's daughter spies on her fiancé to achieve information.
- Erotic drama concerning Jonna and her affair with the chauffeur. Impending social disgrace is stopped by her daughter.
- In the role that brought him stardom, future director Lubitsch is a bumbling provincial who loses his clothing store gig after breaking a window.But moving on to classier Berlin, he becomes rich and dapper and marries the boss' daughter.