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- The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
- A scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility.
- Charlie, the emotional violinist, flees to a gipsy camp, only to find himself playing for an abducted girl. Soon, a unique birthmark will pave the way for an unexpected rescue and a marvellous new life. But, will she forget him so easily?
- 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.
- The Tramp is tricked into impersonating an embezzling floorwalker in a department store.
- Dedee is a prostitute who works in Monsieur Rene's nightclub on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy until she meets Francesco, an Italian sailor. They fall in love and Dedee starts to dream about escaping her daily dull grind.
- A woman finds herself all alone in a remote harbor with the man responsible for the murder of her father. With seemingly nobody around to protect her, she has to be resourceful.
- M. Martinet has two daughters Floflo and Lulu, and a passion: boxing. He hires a new boxer named Jim Bougne, who has just arrived from the USA to give lessons to his daughters. He also happens to expect the girls to marry a boxer. When he surprises Lulu with her sweetheart Maurice, who hates boxing, Lulu pretends he is actually Jim Bougne. And when the actual Jim comes along, she locks him up in a closet. Martinet, suspicious, warns Maurice that he will stick with him until the evening when Jim Bougne is supposed to fight with Professor Orino and Marcel Dantesse. Maurice will fight bravely to win the fight and his girl.
- Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St. They confuse the addresses. The difficulties of delivering the piano by mule cart, and most of the specific gags, appeared later in Laurel and Hardy's "The Music Box".
- A Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
- Adapted from a one-act Grand Guignol play based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether', the film portrays a visitor to an insane asylum where it becomes clear that the inmates have taken control. Telling the visitor that a cure for insanity has been found by cutting out an eye of the patient and then slitting his throat, the "director" hurries into another room, reemerges with blood all over his hands and, as blood seeps from beneath the door, incites other inmates who now surround the visitor.
- Joel Shore is made captain of the whaling schooner formerly headed by his courageous and admired brother, Mark, who was lost at sea. Accompanied by his bride, who suspects Joel to have a cowardly heart, they set sail for a whale hunt.
- A little English girl, abandoned in India and raised by an Indian swordmaker, learns of her true origin and returns to England to seek out her birthright.
- Before she parts from him for a while, a woman falls in love with a composer, working on a symphony, who she encounters in the forests of Canada.
- When bachelor friends David Clark, Dick Porter and Jerry Mathers agree to adopt Belgian war orphans, David unexpectedly finds himself the guardian of a little girl, Rene Lescere. After David is pursued by Mrs. Hardwick, a divorcee, Rene is determined to find him a more suitable wife and introduces him to Emmeline Warren. David and Emmeline are engaged, but the engagement is broken after Emmeline meets Jerry, her old beau, and their romance is rekindled. David, sad but resigned, sends Rene to boarding school and retires to his hunting lodge with Dick Porter. Later, Emmeline and Jerry, now married, visit the lodge and suggest that Rene accompany them on a trip abroad. At the moment of parting between Rene and her guardian, both realize that they love each other and Rene becomes David's wife.
- In late 19th century Spain, a civil war plays out in the Basque region between supporters of the pretender Carlos VIII and the republican government, with the feisty Allegria inspiring the Carlists.
- A famous bullfighter falls in love with the maid of a hostel and also with a foreigner woman who visits Spain and who will provoke the servant's jealousy. Musidora, the most mythical vampire and muse of surrealism, co-directs and plays the two protagonists roles of this film.
- In a small fishermen's village love affairs are in turmoil, amidst political meetings and revolutionary activities. Nature adds drama to the human passions with its wind- and sea-storms.
- Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fired at a couple of trespassers, hurting the girl and killing her fiancé. Giving Catoune, the girl, the shelter of his home, Noguère was forced - however reluctantly it may have been - to break the bad news to the fiancée. For all that Catoune recovered, settled down and later married Juste. After a while Juste left for the war and was soon reported missing. Noguère comforted the distressed young woman so well that she became her mistress. But Juste had not been killed...
- The tragedy of a man, about to kill himself, who contemplates his past in a series of flashbacks.
- Minnie Penelope Peck, the village scamp of Yaptank, accompanies her father to the bank to demand the $9 owed him for his work as a night watchman. When the bank president refuses to pay Peck, Minnie posts a sign which states that the bank is insolvent, so all of the depositors immediately demand their money. The fire department is called in to quell the mob, but things get worse when Minnie accidentally turns on the fire hose. Minnie is saved from reform school by a new woman in town, Hortense Martinot, who hires the tomboy to model clothing in her shop. After falling in love with jewelry-store proprietor Dick, Minnie discovers that Hortense, in league with two gentlemen from the city, is planning to rob the bank. With the help of Dick, who is actually a detective, Minnie captures the crooks, then accepts a wedding ring from her jewelry salesman.
- Madge Nelson is ordered to move to the countryside for health reasons, but her finances prevent her from making the move from the city, so she answers an advertisement for a mail-order bride for miner Hugo Ennis in Nevada. However, Hugo has been the unwilling victim of a humiliation attempt by a scorned lover, and when Madge arrives in Nevada, she learns that he knows nothing about a bride or wedding plans.
- The love of Jim Dolan for Grace Wellington incurs the hatred of Ed Jones, who is trying to win the affection of Grace Jones, a foreman on the Brown ranch, and Brown, himself, call upon Dolan and request that he sell his little claim, which is bordering the ranch of Brown. Jim refuses to listen to them and his demands of Jones to keep quiet tend to intensify the latter's anger. Seeing a chance to get even with Jim, Jones puts a malignant motive into effect. One night he steals a number of branded hides from Brown, which he buries on the claim of Jim. He then reports that a number of the hides have been stolen and with the aid of the sheriff discover the missing skins. Jim is arrested and sentenced to ten years in the town calaboose. Grace, believing that there has been foul play, smuggles a saw and a note, which tells him of the relay of horses to help him escape. It is not long before Jim is urging the steeds to great speed. The sheriff and the posse soon discover his flight and are soon upon his trail. When Jim comes to the last relay he makes the alarming discovery that the horse is lame. Breaking his rifle, he runs cautiously to the river, submerges himself and breathes only through the barrel of the gun. His ingenious tactic effectuates his escape from the posse, but he is later captured on the river bank by Apaches, who tie him to the tail of a wild horse as a sort of amusement. He is rescued by a prospector and nursed back to health. Around some supplies that the old prospector has bought in town is wrapped a newspaper stating that Ed Jones, who has been wounded in a saloon fight, confessed that it was he who stole the hides and cast the blame upon Jim Dolan. Jim tells his story to the kind-hearted prospector, and it is not long before he is in the arms of his sweetheart, Grace.
- Melodrama about love and deceit.
- In 1914, a novelist is declared unfit for service but he regards it his duty to plow the land that others defend. The farmer that he helps leaves for the front after entrusting his fiancée and his estate to his care. The young woman loves the writer but does not yield to his desire. When the young peasant comes back, he is disabled but he finds his sweetheart untarnished and his land flourishing. His mission accomplished, the novelist can go back to town.
- A French film star visits Coimbra and it's old university, and breaks a poor local girl's heart, as her fiancee turns his attentions to the foreign girl. In a play within the story, one is told the sad love story of Don Pedro, king of Portugal, and Inês de Castro.
- Maurice impersonates a piano tuner so he can seduce a girl.
- In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs himself from a branch of the calvary. But was he the real culprit? Angélique Barrodet, an old maid , who had been Gustave's fiancée before he abandoned her on the very day of their wedding, leads the investigation in her own way.
- An actress has been so hardened by youthful disappointment that she becomes a deliberate heartbreaker with men.
- The red night was set within the space of a few hours and in two locations - the rich madam Lesparre's old castle (where celebrations are underway to mark the marriage of her daughter Ginette to the handsome Robert) and the sinister mill 'Moulin-Maudit'. The young couple leave to their honeymoon driven by a mysterious chauffeur. Following a breakdown in open country they are forced to seek refuge in the mill, where untold horrors wait: blood oozing from the ceiling, a body wrapped in a tarpaulin, a menacing dumb figure and an old woman, etc...
- The film is based on the bitter rivalry of two pigeon racers, Fred, the bell-ringer of Bruges and Neel, the fiancé of Fred's partially sighted sister. Following a major tournament, won by Neel's bird, Fred's resentment drives him to mount an attack upon his rival so ferocious that he believes he has killed him. Seized by remorse, he intends to throw himself from the belfry, but his disabled sister risks her own life to mount to the tower and try to save him.
- Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes her off as his niece. A seasoned master like him, wise enough to ban alcohol use on his ship, should have known better : a beautiful girl on the deck cannot but unleash the savage instincts of all those men without women...
- Mrs. Sherwood hates her life with her husband, who is drinking increasingly as a result of his own unhappiness in the marriage. Mrs. Sherwood is in love with Le Roy Scott, who encounters a woman of astonishingly identical features to Mrs. Sherwood. He contrives to substitute the other woman, Marion Roche, in Mrs. Sherwood's place while he and Mrs. Sherwood escape for a tryst. But Marion is much more the wife that Sherwood dreamed of, and he falls in love "anew" with his "wife," and she with him. She determines to find some way to permanently replace the real Mrs. Sherwood.
- A squire's adopted daughter rides her beloved's horse when her mother bribes his jockey to lose.
- Raffles reads in the newspaper of the return by the police to the Earl of Essex of a valuable diamond. He determines to obtain this prize ; at the same Lime, another shady character comes to a similar resolve. Raffles writes to the Earl telling him he will come and take the diamond at 2 o'clock that night. Tapping the telephone wire, he overhears the message the Earl sends to a famous detective and lays his plans accordingly. The detective hails a motor-car and fills it with policemen, but on the way to the Earl's house it breaks down, and while everybody looks for the cause, the chauffeur, who is no one else but Raffles in disguise, goes off at express speed, and in one of his secret haunts, transforms himself into a creditable imitation of the detective and several of his confederates into policemen. Greeted cordially by the Earl, Raffles posts his men at various points and then lies down on a sofa to wait until 2 o'clock. An unexpected adventure occurs with the arrival of the other thief with two confederates, but Raffles and his men soon overpower them. The Earl thinks he has Raffles captive, and the latter leaves with his profound thanks-and with the diamond, which he has abstracted from the case when it was entrusted to him by the Earl's daughter.
- Maurice returns out of habit in the apartment from which he has just moved and turns the lives of the new tenants upside down.
- The love between two abandoned youths: A poor orphan girl who becomes a seamstress, and the son of a historic castle's lord, returning after many years to his strict father who has now become a bishop.