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- Acrobat assumes identity of jailed fellow-artist to take over a theatre which had been bequeathed to him. He is suspected of murdering the acrobat but is cleared in the end.
- In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cruel and wicked count Stefan Oginski, whose lover she unfortunately becomes, Antonia has no other choice but to pass for dead in order to escape him. She then returns to Italy where she joins small theater companies under various aliases. Until one day she is overtaken by her fate...
- While awaiting her unjust execution at the hands of the treacherous Queen Elizabeth I, the tragic Mary Stuart reflects at the series of cruel political machinations that set up her path to the scaffold.
- 1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.
- A German youth group, during the flag waving days of Nazism, spend periods in the water, on hikes, or enjoying nature in the summertime.
- Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for different reasons. This leaves the heroine who has a change of heart and decides to forgo the business and marry the instructor after all.
- 1885. For the opera festival it has organized, the small town of Imlingen has invited a famous singer, Maddalena Dall'Orto, who will not only sing at the local opera but will also perform the part of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion at church. The lady is welcomed by an enthusiastic welcome committee comprising the Prince of Imlingen himself. After a while Maddalena, who has come with her friend Rohrmoser, reveals that they are both of German origin. In fact, Maddalena is Magda von Schwartze, a citizen of Ilmingen who has left home in anger a few years before...
- Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
- Set in the Napoleonic period, a humorous Sevillian gypsy uses her singing and dancing charms to entertain. But little does she knows that her charisma will bring her something more than love and seduction.
- Two women from differing classes of society trade dresses to see how the other side lives: a stewardess meets up with a police chief and an heiress finds her engineer.
- An old fashioned high school principal in a small late 19th century Prussian town realizes he has been living in a dream world, and wakes up to reality when a favorite student has a bad experience at a shady night club and commits suicide.
- Respectable married couple in small town get compromised and struggle to extricate themselves
- Turn of the century comedy about a German professor who sees a classical tragedy he wrote in his youth turned into a farce by a shyster theater producer.
- Early morning romantic excursions in a North German village under the thumb of a crusty old mayor.
- Fred Sponer, a taxi driver in Budapest, has great aspirations in life. One day, he finds a dead passenger in the backseat of his cab.
- A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for.
- The story of the German princess Liselotte and her arranged marriage to the French duke Philippe of Orleans.
- Lowbrow peasant comedy, a genre popular in Germany, about excitement in the country when a sheriff tries to collect a tax on a prize pig.
- A leading Berlin singer of light opera makes a find in Sicily, a future Caruso.
- German girls from differing walks of life come together to serve the Fatherland in the Bund deutscher Maedl, by harvesting crops,doing housework,acting as midwives, helping with handicrafts, and even singing songs.
- The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
- Emotional upheavals transpire when three girls enter a boys' school, to study for an important exam: a teacher and a student both fall in love with one of them.
- Hungarian peasant Julika is discovered by an impresario in a hamlet, soon gaining fame as dancer and gifted singer. In Berlin she leaves the train to escape his attentions, meets a young composer and his friends and tries to help him.
- The ruler of a Ruritanian kingdom falls in love, in this Weimar era operetta.
- At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
- Vehicle for one of Weimar era 's most beloved actresses: as the popular Prussian queen in 1806-1807,she presides over the humiliating Peace of Tilsit which Napoleon forces on the defeated Germans.
- A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess.
- Fred, a journalist, faces an international intrigue to protect the mysterious Nelly.
- A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess.
- A young singer at the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
- A young singer in the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
- During a test run for a large race in Sicily the racing car driver Bettina Bang gets into an accident and is saved by a secretive person unknown to her. It later turns out that the unknown man is the race car driver Harry Bredow.
- Countess Maria (Henny Porten), a world famous stage performer, is blackmailed by a former lover, a frivolous stage poet (Robert Scholz). The ex-lover threatens to publish former love letters. When she visits the man to claim the letters, a wild bacchanal is going on at the house, which compromises the countess. Her husband, Count Tamar (Walter Janssen) divorces her and dumps their child (Annemarie Winkler), accorded to him, in a convent. Maria's reputation is lost, so she is refused any stage engagement. Physically and mentally broken, she collapses. Just when a friend tells her where her child is located, she dies without seeing her child again.
- Drama about Prince Myschkin - known as The Idiot. His philandering ways makes him discard his lover Nastasja in favor of a younger girl.
- Andreas Rellnow decides to leave his troubled parents and pursue an artistic career. As a violin virtuoso, he quickly became popular and a first-class heart-breaker.
- Insane doctor Ten Brinken, using the semen of a dead man, artificially inseminate a prostitute. The resultant child grows up to be a beautiful but evil woman who turns against the man who created her.
- Werner Krafft is a self-made man that has worked his way to become a business partner at the Kleinschmidt factory. He is engaged with Erika, who also have an emotional relationship with Heinz Kleinschmidt.
- There are problematical natures that do not fit into any situation and who remain always unsatisfied. For them there arises a terrible conflict that consumes life without enjoyment.
- Inge, an orphan, is employed by a well-to-do fisherman in a small village. As is customary, she is treated as one of the family. Jan, the son of the fisherman, falls in love with her and wins her. His mother has other aspirations for her boy. The girl's lover is approached by his neighbors, who engage in smuggling, and is told he can make money by joining them. He yields and casts his lot with theirs. Inge, seeing them leave in their motorboat to meet a smuggling vessel, requests to be taken along and is granted. The contraband goods are no sooner removed from the vessel to their motorboat than they are pursued by the revenue men. The young fisherman and his companions have barely landed when the revenue cutter overhauls them. The young men escape among the cliffs and are pursued. Meantime, Inge has escaped with the motorboat and signals the smugglers from the water. By her assistance the smugglers escape the revenue men and return. Jan is informed by his father of the receipt of a letter from the magistrate of the place, calling attention to Jan's engagement to his daughter and that it is only because of the engagement that he has refrained from foreclosing a mortgage on his home. Alarmed by the threat, Jan's father takes him to the magistrate's house and plans for a speedy marriage. Meantime, Inge informs Jan's mother he has promised to marry her, and she is an expectant mother. Infuriated, the old woman turns her out of the house. The poor girl seeks refuge with her aunt. Jan refuses to have anything to do with her, even when the baby is born. The day of the wedding arrives. Jan is driving his father and mother to the magistrate's house. Inge tries to stop him and listen to one last plea. He refuses and strikes her with his whip. Inge goes to the revenue inspectors and tells them of the cave where the smugglers store their goods, revealing the guilt of Jan. She soon repents this and informs one of Jan's friends that the revenue men are on his trail. Arriving a few minutes before the revenue men at the magistrate's house, the friend warns the bridegroom-to-be and the wedding guests see with consternation Jan leave in haste, while the final words of the ceremony are yet to be pronounced. Inge meets Jan, takes him to a sail boat, and together they escape. Pursued by the revenue cutter, they fail to stop and Jan is shot down. Left without anyone at the tiller, the little boat is capsized, and the girl and her betrayer drown in each other's arms.