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- Jule (Heidemarie Hatheyer), a 25 year old women is not having an easy life. Her cousin Stefan Rüdiger (Albert Matterstock) has left "manor Jobshagen" as an 18 year old and Jule has had to manage business since then. Her uncle, Stefan's father, never could get over the leaving of his son and isolated himself from the world. Jule, once a blithe youngster, became a tough woman by the time. And there are heavy debts on the manor Jobshagen, 6000 Marks. The innkeeper Meyer could give Jule the money, but he wants a big part of the estates of manor Jobshagen for exchange and that is the last thing that Jule would accept.
- A very young girl is married to a older Baron, the commissioner of the county. With the duty clashing with love, he can't give her the attention she needs. A retired Major, as old as her husband, is ready to give company. When the husband comes to know, the call of honor demands a duel, with tragic consequences.
- The first German sound film production of the fairy tale, on the other hand, is not shot on outdoor locations, but in the studio. At the same time, it is created in the shadow of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
- Biography of Paul Henlein, the man who invented the pocket watch.
- From the same Sudermann story that inspired Murnau's Sunrise: a villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident.
- After Richard Heuberger's operetta of the same name, Géza von Bolváry staged a high-spirited confusion about infidelity and amusing entanglements in Vienna at the turn of the century.
- The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first she wants to take revenge on Count René who stood up her best friend Charlotte. Janine wants him to fall in love with her and disappoint him afterwards. At a masked ball at which Janine pretends to be a Marquise they have their first meeting. Janine is very disappointed in the "good gentleman", but she does not suspect that this gentleman also makes a pretense. The man whom she holds to be count René is Pierre, a composer and pianist. Both, Count René and Pierre expect to gain mutual advantage by changing their identities. Rene wants to stroll and make conquests incognito, while Pierre hopes for a meeting with the powerful music publisher Pamion.
- 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.
- The young country doctor Dr. Robert Koch is desperate seeking a cure for a tuberculosis epidemic costing many children in his district life.
- In an updated version of the Butterfly story, a visiting American conductor leaves a pregnant singer in Italy, promising to return and marry her. Four years later he returns with a wife and hears his old love perform her swan song.
- Peter Roland wanted for kidnapping and murder meets star advocate Caesar J. Vandergrift during a flight that he manages to a secure landing . In turn Vandergrift promises to take over his case during Peters trial in New York.
- When vagabond Silo is seriously stabbed he is nursed by Maria in her village. They are attracted to each other, but Maria is married. Then her husband Alexander is found dead in the river, and Silo is suspected of murder.
- A meek Austrian civil servant, wrongfully accused of treason, is reunited with his Russian spy lover in the famous Hotel Sacher on the eve of World War I.
- Two vagabonds escape from jail and steal jewelry at a wedding to help a poor innkeeper pay his debts.
- Flashbacks portray the heroics of two German fighter pilots in WWI and then the two are shown heading out to attack the British navy at the start of WWII.
- Four school chums who meet yearly are missing their friend, who was working in a Stockholm bank and supposedly killed himself. But was it murder, instead?
- Marriage license official Hugo gets his second divorce, and his new landlady is trying to lure him into his third marriage, but with the help of his wartime buddies he escapes this danger. Due to the fact, that all of them had bad luck with women, they decide to rent an apartment together and they promise each other to give up women, but Hugo falls for their landlady again and is breaking the promise. To get his two buddies to break the promise also, he sets up a "trap" for them, with the help of his two ex-wives....
- Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.
- After arguing with her father about working for radio, a woman moves in with a girlfriend and gets to know a broadcaster, who makes her a hit.
- A dissolute man ignores his father's attempts to reform. However, one morning he returns home to find a small boy (Walter Schuller) in his room with a letter informing him that he is the boy's father; he is forced to change his ways.
- Rivalry develops among the three sons of Johann Strauss Sr. But their elderly music teacher reminds them of the importance of family tradition, honor, and common blood.
- The tribulations of a typical German mother sacrificing and struggling during the Nazi era. Having lost her husband in an accident, she toils as a laundress. When one of her four children may lose an eye, she donates one of her own.
- The setting is Lugano (Switzerland), where an apparently very important world conference takes place. The film tells the story of the young Kitty (Hannelore Schroth), who works as a manicurist at the Eden Hotel, and who in the course of events gets to know both a young journalist (Christian Gollong) and the English minister of economics (Fritz Odemar).
- Soledad and her battling mother work as laundresses in Seville. When Sole's lively godfather sends a photograph of her to a musical producer, an agent is sent to seek her and she is offered a contract in la Habana. Tempting fame and fortune mix with sighs for her beloved Spain.
- The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.
- Mariquilla, an Andalusian girl living with her uncle in a village near Seville, has a cheerful condition that brighten people's lives, but she is too shameful to sing onstage. Based on real life tonadillera Amalia Molina.
- Nazi propaganda film about Polish crimes against germans before WWII.
- A headstrong woman studying medicine ignores the advice of her surgeon professor to avoid romance, and falls for a fellow student who will whisk her away to Argentina.
- During the 18th century's Seven-Year War, a group of young Prussian army cadets are captured by Russian soldiers. After enduring brutal treatment, the cadets come up with a plan to escape their captors and make their way back to their lines.
- In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.
- A famed tenor from the US, relaxing on a farm near Naples and singing in the fields, is mistaken by a lady journalist for an unknown talent she has discovered. He plays along and even falls in love with her.
- A shoemaker has delusions of grandeur when he inherits from a baron whose life he saved.He prevents his daughter from seeing a mere carpenter, abandons humble old friends, and shows poor judgment by falling for a couple of poseurs.
- An older generation of Germans ridicules the suggestions of a forward looking young lieutenant in 1909 that the country needs to build new and more efficient aircraft for eventual military use.
- A valet tries to uphold the principles of the old aristocracy he serves, a bit difficult when his master the Earl falls for a sketchy lady while the son gets a commoner woman pregnant and then runs off to the Middle East.
- A farmer shelters his brother, a wood carver, from the police who want him for the murder of a local official.In a subplot, a mountain girl finds her soulmate in a young forester.
- An Austrian petty tyrant is brought to his senses by having to spend some time in jail.
- A German who settles with his family in Australia starts to become worried that his son is being turned "decadent" by the evils of democracy.
- Anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda film that "shows" how Jewish textile company owners are sabotaging the German linen industry by buying linen from Ireland instead of having it produced in "the Fatherland".
- Comedy about a young man whose marriage to a young lady is opposed by his three conservative, stuffy uncles.
- The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirers, and whose two husbands both died under mysterious circumstances, is giving a reception. When one of her admirers is found stabbed to death in a room upstairs, the police detains everyone in the house and begins an interrogation.
- After an explorer disappears and his wife dies on a Mongolia expedition, the man's mistress who was also with them returns to Germany and poses as the wife.When a savvy blackmailer threatens her, she is tried for murder.
- Presents Luftwaffe's fight against the enemy of the world. In a glorifying way, the use of the "Legion Condor" and others during the bombing of the city of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War is shown.
- Produced by the Nazis in honor of the 150th anniversary of Mozart's death: a celebration of his music, as the film shows him traveling to Prague for the Don Giovanni premiere and inspired by his wife to compose the finale.