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- In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
- A drunkard priest who has been cast out by his community struggles to atone and regain his honour and dignity.
- A young Sherlock Holmes seeks to bring down the criminal mastermind Moriarty as he solves a crime involving a blackmailed prince.
- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.
- About a group of office girls hardships in the male world set in 1907. A collective fighting for female solidarity, civil rights and the conflict between love and work.
- John Stuart Webster having prospecting in Death Valley prosperously, boards a train for Denver and rescues Dolores Ruey, a beautiful Central American girl who was reared in the United States, from a masher. Webster learns that his pal Billy Geary has discovered gold in Sobrante, Central America. He leaves to help, but develops ptomaine poisoning on the way. After recovering in New Orleans, Webster saves a man from being killed in a park. Later, the man, Ricardo Ruey, hides in Webster's steamer room and relates that his father, the former president of Sobrante, was assassinated by the present ruler, Sarros. In Sobrante, Webster finds that Geary is in love with Dolores, who arrived earlier. After sending Geary to marry Dolores while he develops the mine, Webster learns that Dolores is Ricardo's sister, although neither knows this. While fighting for the victorious Ricardo, who becomes president, Webster is wounded. He recovers to find Dolores nursing him, and when she says that she does not love Geary, he confesses his love and soon plans are made to marry.
- A series of events during a summer in Anna-Clara's life.
- Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes editor Matt Hayward's ( James Corrigan ) partner; and brings about a reconciliation between Hayward and his long time enemy, Mayor Gorham ( Lloyd Ingraham ).
- A town outcast, mistrusted by his sweetheart enters the ring and eventually wins the fight and his girl.
- A young Countess meets a young Count and they share a common interest in fast cars.
- 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.
- Vi Playfair confesses to her twin sister Tiny that she is planning secretly to meet Lent Trevett, who loves her, to say goodbye, on the eve of her wedding. Tiny, who herself loves Lent, meets him instead and passionately kisses him, leaving Lent, who thinks that Tiny is Vi, to assume that Vi loves him. The next day, after the marriage ceremony, Lent convinces the flighty Vi that her husband Joe is a bully and that she should leave with him. Tiny sees them embrace, and to teach Vi a lesson, she impersonates her sister and goes with Joe on their honeymoon. Vi, now jealous, follows, and in turn is followed by Lent. At the honeymoon cottage, Vi proves to Joe, by a mole on her leg, that she is his wife, and promises Tiny that she will give up flirting. After Tiny convinces Lent that it was she that he kissed, the couples are happily reunited.
- Vacationing in Germany, May falls for boatman Max. Her father disapproves and during a night of romance between the young couple Max drowns.
- Grethe decides to go the big city to find a job as a domestic help.
- Chancellor von Rallenstein forces Princess Irene to marry Prince Deima instead of her true love, Pawlow. The secret lovers seek to get married anyway, sending the Chancellor into a rage.
- A convent organist escorts a young lady, who has been boarding there,home to be married,but complications ensue.
- Kalle Utter is theologian student at Uppsala University sometime during the latter half of the 19th century.
- 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.
- The lighthouse keeper Lang has become a loner since his little daughter drowned in the sea.
- The Flying Circus was the largest traveling artist band in the country, and among its favorite artists were the rope-dancer, Laurento and the snake tamer, Ula Kiri. The hot blooded gypsy snake tamer is passionately in love with the attractive young man, hut he does not quite return her feelings. She is hasty and ill-tempered, and not far from being cruel to those depending on her. For the first time the Flying Circus pitches its tents in a small country town. The daughter of the mayor attends. The rope dancer meets her and for him it is a case of love at first sight, and he decides to do all in his power to win her. That night a great fire breaks out in the town, and the flying embers ignite the home of the mayor. The townspeople strive to deflect the flames, but all in vain. The mansion is doomed to destruction and it seems that the mayor's daughter must perish. At this juncture Laurento beats his way through the flames and scales the wall, and, picking up the frantic maiden, jumps to the mesh of telegraph wires outside the window. Carrying his burden over the fragile wires, he saves her amid the frantic cheers of the populace. The grateful mayor makes him a welcome guest, and he soon wins the heart of the young girl, but he has yet to obtain the father's consent. He worries continually about this problem, and not even at home can he rest in peace, for Ula Kiri, who feels that her beloved friend is sliding away from her, keeps tormenting him with jealousy and mockery. At last he plucks up his courage and goes to the mayor. The latter is friendly to the young man, but he compels the rope dancer to leave with a vague promise for the future. If circumstances, should alter. A capital idea strikes the young man to obtain money. He arranges to do a rope dance to the church tower. The circus director is delighted with the idea. The great day arrives, and the people of the town gather around the church. The rope dancer cannot forget Erna's sorrowful eyes and pale face as he walks along the flaccid rope towards the dizzy height. A snake has escaped and its body bars the way to the entrance to the tower. The snake tamer has, in her mad jealousy, forgotten all about her duties, and this negligence now proves fatal. Erna implores her in vain to call back the reptile, as she is the only one that can do it, but Ula Kiri will not listen to her in her storm of jealousy and hatred. But Erna overcomes all difficulties. Her great love teaches her what to do, and thus she saves her sweetheart. The mayor can no longer withhold his consent to the marriage and the same evening the Flying Circus goes away to the other regions, leaving a happy couple in the country town.
- A melodrama about the destitute Count lured into a circus environment and forced to show their daring high up in the circus dome.
- The story tells of Roger de Charmy, a wealthy count, who has lost his fiancee, Marie. He is so depressed after her death that he contemplates suicide, but his intentions are frustrated through the appearance of one who is a double of his lost love. Roger induces the double, Claire Revier, a beautiful dancer, to visit Marie's room and wear her garments. Claire falls in love with Roger, but he does not return the affection; so she endeavors to win his love, and through this means her old lover challenges Roger to a duel at her instigation. Her remorse after wards is terrible, and it is only when Roger finds her on Marie's grave that the light comes again to him, and the story ends happily. The appearance of the light is wonderfully illustrated in this film.
- Old optician Smith's foster daughter Elsa is out walking with her dearest Dr. Brink. No one suspects that the doctor is in fact the Crown Prince Balduin, nephew of the reigning Prince Oswald II. Now his uncle the Prince is dying and in this late moment he shows a secret document to Balduin that tells him that the regent has an illegitimate daughter.
- The sculptor Gabriel Toqurni lives entirely for his art and his sweet woman Carmen. Not far off lies the castle Klinholm, owned by the mysterious Ariadne Leifert.
- When architect Ernstein falls for secretary Paula, his wife makes sure, that she is fired and evicted from her apartment. When she finds herself pregnant, Ernstein offers her money, but she chooses suicide.
- Two crowned heads come to a mutual understanding, resulting in a signed treaty. This document is badly sought by the ambassador of another power, and he schemes to possess himself of its contents. The treaty is placed in the hands of Captain Brassor for safe carriage. Miller, an emissary of Count Hints," drugs Captain Brassor and his English sailor lad, and gets a copy of the treaty. Later he is chased through the fields after the English tar has cut the telegraph wires, and the water obliterates the copy of the treaty, rendering it useless. The treaty is delivered, but Count Hintz still schemes, and enlists a countess to get it from Count Berberlil. She manages to drug him, and Hintz and Miller are about to take it, when the English sailor puts in a claim with a revolver, and saves the situation.