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- During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
- A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies.
- When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.
- Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
- Wealthy, heavily-insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend."
- Central Italy in the Late Middle Ages. Federico, a virtuous nobleman from an impoverished family, is brought into service by autocrat Cesare Borgia. His promiscuous sister Lucrezia seems to have an amorous interest in Federico and wants him as her lover though Federico is in love with Diana, the Duke of Alva's daughter, whom he has saved from being raped. When he learns about Diana's feud against the Borgia clan, he becomes aware of their infamous deeds.
- In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is supposedly murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard's prime suspect.
- A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out to be something of a family curse, as each generation thereafter bears the same sign, which in turn leads to blackmail and murder.
- A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.
- In the town of Pompeii, 79 A.D., a few weeks before the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, a Roman lady Hélène meets and falls in love with a young Greek man Lysias. He is betrothed to another woman who, to win him back, acquires a potion to make him love only her. The potion was prepared by the Egyptian priest, Arbax, who has a grudge against Lysias, and is not what it seems, it is intended to drive whoever takes it insane. Hélène's new slave is also in love with Lysias. She steals the potion and gives it to Lysias, who hurries away in a mad rage. When the slave girl confronts Arbax, she is killed by the evil priest, and Lysias is charged with her murder.
- When her father dies, a young woman helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
- 1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
- A woman gains success on the stage by pretending to be a female impersonator.
- As a child Maria already has the ability to foresee future events and impose her will on others. She is the illegitimate daughter of an Austrian count, and when she wants to marry an officer, she forces her father to recognize her as a child. After the wedding, she foresaw the assassination of Sarajevo and the outbreak of the First World War.
- Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
- Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...
- Nationalist drama that revived Germany celebrates after the First World War and is interspersed with anti-Semitic tendencies in the original version.
- Captain Richard and a small band of soldiers return home to France to discover the country ruled by horrible nobility.
- Violin virtuoso Fedor Varany meets on the train from Nice to Vienna Helene Samboni, the lover of the CoC President Alexander Grabner and still-wife of the artist Samboni know. Fedor falls in love with her without betraying his identity.
- Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkmann wants to expose the slave trade, disguises herself as an available dancer.
- A love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I.
- In 1635, Jacques du Parquet, the nephew of the well known explorer Belain d'Esnambic, enters a tavern in Dieppe, and falls in love with the daughter of the bartender, Marie Bonnard. He knows his noble family would disaprove such a marriage; besides, he is nominated for the post of governor in Martinica. He promised never to forget Marie, but as time goes by, she will accept to marry a rich and unscrupulous man, Monsieur de Saint-André. When her husband is appointed to serve in Martinica as General Commissioner, Marie demands to go with him. At her arrival, all sorts of trouble arrive: pirates take action against travellers and goods, rotten deals set the two officers against each other, and finally jealousy settles to make things worse.
- Peter Hagen, Broadway band leader, applies for the job of classical music teacher at a strict boarding school in the German mountains. He encounters a classroom filled with rascally students and fellow teachers who object to him playing jazz on the side.
- To prevent loosing her property to creditors baroness Margit von Bardy, conscious of her gifted voice, opens up an Autoczardas road inn with music and singing to attract travelers. One of them is Hans Berend, whom his aunt has made believe has lost his fortune and needs a serious work now. He takes Margit for a plain innkeeper, both soon feeling attracted to each other, and has the brilliant idea of opening a gas station to complement the restaurant. Now he only needs the baroness'approval. Not wanting this nice but poor young man to know the truth about her, she arranges a meeting with her maid as baroness. Problems will soon appear.
- After having lost her mother Magdalena was brought up on strict boarding school disciplines. When returning to her father, she is looked after by an educator who lacks the ability to guide the longing for love of an adolescent girl.
- When a railway bridge collapses and causes many casualties engineer Mario wants to kill himself though it was not his fault. In the Alpes he meets Angela whose affirmative love for him helps him reconsider his destiny.
- When a rich aunt from a distant country comes visiting, a dysfunctional family must pull together and live the pretense of a rather different, larger and far happier and wealthier family than they really are.
- After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.
- Documentaire au sujet de Les Petites Soeurs de la Sainte-Famille a Sherbrooke, Québec. ******Documentary on a Catholic nun's order in Canada, Les Petites Soeurs de la Sainte Famille, created as a domestic service organization for the priesthood.
- Three young penniless musicians travel to San Remo to work as hotel clerks and to get a chance to show their talent on the San Remo festival.
- Hugo Wiederkehr, as a dutiful bank employee, has to deal with all kinds of customers. Among other things, with the industrialist Meissen and his pretty daughter Christine, with whom he falls in love.
- Viennese jest versus North German reserve: in a winter holiday resort in the Austrian mountains, an aristocratic clan from Vienna and a merchant family from Bremen meet and fight over the best hotel suite. There is a conflict of different mentalities and all sorts of slapstick. But in the end the hostile camps have to be reconciled, because the count's nephew and the Hanseatic's daughter take a liking to each other.
- Company owner Seibold has an affair with the younger Rita. When his wife starts having suspects due to a purse lost in a taxi, he comes up with the excuse she'd be his companion Max' girlfriend. This leads to the idea to generally "enhance" Max' past, to make him more interesting to Seibold's bold daughter.