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- A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.
- Adaptation of the Schiller play, about a Swiss rebel against the tyranny of Austria in the early 14th century.
- After his colleague and a mentor, Prof. Achenbach dies in a set-up accident, while trying to produce gold from the lead, Werner Holk seeks revenge. Meanwhile, a British millionaire suggests that Holk work on him on a similar project.
- This Nazi propaganda film focuses on the plight of a German unit in World War I that finds itself surrounded by British and French forces.
- A Nazi-era German reimagining of Ibsen's classic, as an adventure type vehicle for the popular heartthrob Hans Albers.
- A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.
- Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.
- Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.
- The film tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her boss's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
- This Nazi propaganda film tells about the "freikorps" movement in post-World War I Germany. Freikorps were armed extreme-right-wing paramilitary groups, often composed of street thugs, ex-convicts and unemployed veterans, who engaged in street battles and assassinations of political opponents, usually leftist or Communist groups. Many of these "freikorps" were absorbed into the S.A. (Storm Troopers) and, later, the SS after Adolf Hitler came to power.
- When the North Sea breaks through the Friesland coast, the mysterious rider of a white horse saves people's land from the disaster.
- Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her. With her help, he breaks through as a composer in Paris and becomes a famous man overnight. Now Constantia may have lost him, but the world of music has won him.
- Biopic of composer conductor Carl Maria von Weber, who championed the little regarded German opera instead of the then popular Italian opera, in the 19th Century.
- Jenny confronts her cousin Harry: Did he embezzle her fortune? No. But he escapes with married lover Germaine only to return quickly because her husband pursues them. Jenny is convinced Harry is his own double and arrests him at gunpoint.
- A story in which a monstrous figure steals all of the musical instruments from a small town in order to rid them of their happiness, only to find that music has a power of its own.
- Young sailor Kiwe buys a mysterious bottle which fulfills all his wishes for material wealth. The down side: From now on his soul belongs to the devil. Kiwe soon realizes his predicament and desperately tries to resell the bottle.
- On their honeymoon in St. Moritz,a new husband who is much older than his young bride is driven to despair when he thinks she prefers to spend her time with a younger man there, an actor.
- Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in love. Offered a contract for America, she doubts until she finds out that he is already engaged to a countess.
- An investigator uncovers sinister sabotage in the death of a scientist who was on the verge of producing an artificial version of mankind's most precious metal..Simultaneously filmed French version of the German film, Gold.
- Balmat, a mountain guide, reaches the peak of Mont Blanc in the hope of finding gold.Disappointed, he returns to find his child dead and decides to lead a simpler life.
- Capricious Lady Virginia has an unexpected double in a girl who works at a fair and wishes for a beauty salon. When the first one's eccentricities lead to her arrest, the second is paid for going to prison. There she meets Charles, Virginia's suitor. When out of jail she will have to fight not only for him but for going through with the leading role in a skating show.
- Political refugees from Communist Russia, during a 1928 civil war in Manchuria, use a train at night to escape to freedom.
- Two men meet at an accountant's office and each one makes the other think he is the actual accountant. Comedy ensues.