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- When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
- The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
- At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
- Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
- Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
- Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
- A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
- A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
- Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.
- A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl who he thinks resembles the painting and she wants him to become famous he has the idea of robbing the painting. Based on the 1911 real robbery.
- Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards they find themselves fighting on different sides. The plot also features references to the Mines on the Italian Front (World War I).
- In WW1, Captain Stanhope is the commander of a British company fighting against the Germans. The young Lieutenant Raleigh admires the older man who he knows from the prewar days. While Stanhope tries to keep up the image of an exemplary soldier, in fact he is thoroughly disillusioned and fights his despair with alcohol, all the while waiting for the signal to start the foray against the Germans. When it comes, it leads to disaster.
- General Director von Ulrich is determined to introduce the American working pace at his office. The first to get fired is his secretary; she's replaced by stenographer Sui Sachs. On a business trip to Paris, feelings evolve on both sides.
- Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father.
- Popular comedy about a flower seller who cannot afford to pay a tax for having a little dog as her companion, and the new candidate for the post of burgomaster she endangers.
- Family Brandt has lost its fortune in oil speculation, and they have great debts at the local bank. This one is threatened with its own crash due to lack of money. The only hope is Brandt's uncle Thomas Hoffman, an American millionaire, who is coming for a visit. Bank Accountant Schmidt uses his own money to welcome him properly, presenting himself as Brandt's daughter's fiance, but it turns out, that Hoffmann never was a millionaire, in fact he still owns the city of Chicago about $100 for medical treatment. Yet with his existance alone he starts a big scheme to bring back prosperity. Surprisingly it works, yet there are some problems: 1st: Chicago wants the money back, asking at the foreign office in Berlin for help, and 2nd: Hoffmann does not like the sheme at all, and tries to go back to his quiet and peaceful Chicago...
- Scotland Yard receives anonymous letters at regular intervals, which contain precise details about planned jewel thefts or wanted criminals. Inspector Elford believes that the informant is the so-called Zinker.
- In the very oldfashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem, that is non-existant in Ostend, this soon lets the people forget about O.F.
- An innocent Russian student in Paris has her first affair, with a mature man who comes to realize he truly loves her and it is not just one of his brief flings.
- Semi documentary co sponsored by several organizations combatting sexually transmitted infections: three stores of people who become infected with syphilis, "the enemy in the blood."
- A small time crook keeps trying to reunite with a woman who briefly sheltered him while he was on the run from the law.
- Célestin, the organist in a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody-goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover--the Mother Superior's brother - To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée whom he's never even met yet.
- Documentary using animated maps,recreations and period footage, on conflicts around a French stronghold which the Germans briefly captured during the battle of Verdun in WWI, between February and October of 1916.
- Caught by Archduke Max in an embarrassing situation with Marie-Charlote, Captain Rudi is forced into marriage. Yet he approaches actress Josefine, the Archduke's girlfriend, being outright transferred as punishment. Then both girls appear.
- An English rich woman travels to Naples seeking distraction. She finds it in her Italian guide, who has such a voice for singing she decides to make him famous, taking him with her to London and offering help for an operatic career.
- About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.
- During World War I, five soldiers from different nations end up together in some ruins in no man's land and decide to stick together.
- German version of French boulevard farce: A flirtatious Polish relative is brought to a country estate and complicates relations among a recuperating cuckolded banker, his wife, and her painter lover.
- An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years travling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.
- About trafficking. A nightclub in Buenos Aires is advertising for blonde women for glamorous jobs.
- In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric ( a good role for the popular actor later known as S Z Sakall) tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiance.
- A vivacious girl seeks an office job in hard times in the hope of landing a rich man. The director of the bank she lands up working at, flirts with her while hiding his identity, so at first she rejects him.
- The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
- Fritz is in love with artist Glay, who stays at the Grand Hotel. Even not having money he gets to know her, invites her to supper and after dancing a tango, even hires the royal suite. How will he get out of this is a mystery to himself.
- At the height of the French Revolution, the fanatic Robespierre brings the popular but more moderate leader Danton to trial and demands his execution.
- The stenographer Inge and her fiance Karl go on a joyride and commit a hit-and-run after running down a child in the road. The landlady of a dubious inn, who finds out about their flight, turns over Inge to an Argentinian pimp and lets Karl get arrested by the police. In the "Casino International" in Rio, Inge is housed in a chapel and , like all the other girls there, has to prostitute herself to guests on demand. Karl, who in the meantime has been released from jail, finds out Inge's whereabouts and helps her flee.
- The Marquis de Sévigné is put in a difficult position when he falls for the lovely Lady Falkland, a married woman whose husband, the strict Lord Falkland, subjects her to constant abuse.
- A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he traveled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to place themselves under his command. He then declared the town hall to be under military law, ordering the arrest of the mayor and treasurer and confiscating all the funds in the bank.
- Riccardo and his troupe travel around the world performing musical and dance numbers in vaudevillian and circus theaters. Dancer Kitty is so impressed when she hears him sing that she asks to enter the company, but is turned down by Riccardo. Then in the middle of a number at the Winter Garten she pops in and the audience loves it. Now she will try to win Riccardo's heart, although he has a secret from his past that might be an obstacle.
- A pretty young princess, incognito, has a romance with a handsome young lieutenant who is pretending to be a clerk in a delicatessen.
- A small town bank official, entrusted with taking money to Vienna, spends some of it.On his return to admit his guilt he learns that his boss,the director, has run off with even more.
- An exhilarating view of skiing the German Alps, with a load in your pants.
- German Clärenore Stinnes as the first woman ever drives around the world in an Adler in 1927-1929. With her on the trip was Swedish photographer Carl-Axel Söderström. During their trip they built their own roads and also their future together. Sound was added after they came home as the talkies were not invented when they left Germany.
- 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.
- When both husband and wife find romance outside their marriage, it's a shock to everyone. Sims and Maurus break up to elope with their respective lovers, only to be thrown together again when they show up at the justice of the peace.
- Musical extravaganza, also filmed in a French language version, based on the life of Johann Strauss.