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- A girl and a prince fall in love and plan to elope. But the prince's father dies, and the prince must ascend to the throne. The prince is forced to marry someone with royal blood. The girl attempts suicide. The prince, believing her dead, never sees her again until she rescues his baby from a 360-foot chimney, where it has been taken by a crazed circus chimpanzee.
- Mario, an unknown painter, remains struck and obsessed with meeting a famous poet, already married, who will be able to charm him, so that he will no longer have the talent created to be able to paint.
- A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.
- Frau Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future. She was married to a revolutionary and the matrimony ended in tragedy.
- The story of the life of Christ.
- 19th century Sardou period melodrama turned into a vehicle for diva star Lyda Borelli: an aristocratic French lady leaves her unfaithful husband and becomes involved with a member of Robespierre's revolutionary regime.
- Elayne Chalmers goes to Italy to finish her musical education, and there meets and falls in love with Peter Marsant, an artist. The girl's head is turned by the reception she gets from Italian nobility, and she casts Peter lightly aside to carry on a flirtation with a duke. The affair gets serious, and Elayne asks the duke to marry her, and he, laughing, says that wasn't at all what he meant. Peter and the duke fight a duel in which Peter is seriously wounded. Elayne, realizing her love for him, goes to the room where he lies unconscious, and nurses him back to health. Thus far the story runs along conventional lines, but it ends in a realistic manner; for these twain do not, as usual, "marry and live happily ever after," but are sundered by a sentiment forcibly and artistically depicted.
- Based on Théophile Gautier's novel of the same name, the film tells of the tragic love affair of Ottavio de Saville. He falls madly in love with Madame Prascovie Labinska, a woman very faithful to her husband, the Polish count Olaf Labinski. Alarmed by the growing physical and mental weariness of the desperate young man, his relatives and friends decide to turn to Doctor Balthazar, who has just returned from a trip to the Indies where he was initiated into the secrets of Brahman.
- The love between the apache Za la Mort, here in his fourth film, and Hesperia, the woman Who has killed his girlfriend...
- Giannello was the son of a goldsmith, who had been commissioned to set some jewels for Monna Biancaone, one of the great ladies of Pisa, and mother of the beautiful Vanna. Father and son set out together to take the jewels to the lady. Vanna is gathering roses and loses her ring. Gianello finds it for her, and she binds up his hand, which has been torn by the thorns. From that day the young people think of nothing but each other, though their station in life is so far apart. Vanna, however, is betrothed to Sir Guido Colonna. Gianello, divining that another will gather the sweet flower, climbs the wall of the palace to see Vanna once more. He is surprised by some of the palace retainers and taken for a thief. He is led into the presence of Vanna and her mother, and the young girl identifies him as the goldsmith's son and asks to have him taken back to his father. This is done, Gianello protests to his father that he is not a thief, but says that no one shall ever know his secret. His father is angry and determines that his son shall become a soldier. The captain of a band of adventurous soldiers is glad to accept Giannello as a recruit. The goldsmith's son makes a willing soldier. Pisa in the meantime is rejoicing in the marriage of Vanna and Sir Guido. But their happy days do not last long. The Florentines move against the Pisans and Pisa is invested for a long siege. The siege lasts a long time and the people of the city are nearly starving. At last Guido is forced to send an envoy to the Florentine general to beg tor peace terms. Prinzivalle, as he is now known, is none other than the goldsmith's son, Giannello, who has become commander of the Florentine forces. He dictates the following terms: "Pisa shall have peace and victuals only if Monna Vanna comes to me this night bringing the fairest roses in her garden." Vanna accepts the terms for her people's sake. In the meantime Prinzivalle has sent the food supplies to the city. The signal of acceptance of the terms glows from the tower of Pisa, and Vanna comes to the tent of the general. They talk together and at last Vanna recognizes in him the son of the goldsmith. He tells her that Pisa is already fed, and she gives him the roses she has brought. Vedio, his lieutenant, comes to warn him that the Florentines are furious and are coming to arrest him. Vanna promises him that Pisa will save him out of gratitude. He goes with her. But Guido proves unworthy of his noble wife. He refuses to believe in her innocence and Prinzivalle is sent to the dungeons. Here Vanna joins him, declaring that Guido's outrageous words severed the tie between them, and that she is free to follow her heart. Vanna unlocks the door and they leave together.
- Thea is sculptor who is diagnosed with tuberculosis before she marries Filippo. After abandoning him, her health begins to decline. She organizes a final party, inviting along her estranged husband.
- Carmela becomes the obsession of the young Count Luigi, heir to the recently deceased's estate, who moves into the decrepit villa nearby. The count is an inveterate womanizer and ends up snatching Carmela from her boyfriend, deceiving her with his lies. Wounded in a duel over another woman, the nobleman is assisted night and day by Carmela, who witnesses a number of moments of delirium in which the man accuses the butler, Giangrande, of an unspecified blunder.
- A king of a southern European country wedded a princess at royal-blood, who, however, displays no love for the monarch; in fact, she resembles a wall of ice in her frigidity. The crown prince heir to the throne knows of the gulf which separates his parents, and resolves that he will not make a similar mistake. He meets a beautiful young girl named Gloria, an adopted daughter of a fisherman, becomes infatuated with her, declares his love, and they are secretly married. The king is a king in name only, and the destinies of the nation are controlled by his ministers. The latter are an unscrupulous set, whose only mission in life is to benefit themselves, at the expense of the people. Exorbitant taxes are imposed upon the populace, who rise up and form a secret society called "The Idealists." led by a voting agitator named Sergius Thord. In the same organization is a mysterious woman called Lotys. The king, wishing to become acquainted with the grievances of his subjects, goes incognito to one of the secret meetings, and becomes a member of the Idealists, under the name of Pasquin Leroy. Here he learns of the wrongs that have been perpetrated by his advisers. The latter, in order to enrich themselves, enlist the sympathies of the puerile press, and decide that the king, who has now become a strong arm, must go. An attempt is made upon the monarch's life by one of the king's advisers' secretaries but he is caved through the intervention of Lotys, who throws herself between the assassin and the king and receives the thrust intended for the latter. She, however, recovers and the king later on declares his love for Lotys. At a meeting of the Idealists one night, lots are drawn to see who will do away with the monarch. It fails to the lot of Pasquin Leroy-the king himself. He then discloses his identity, and states his intention of carrying out his attract immediately. He is, however, prevented from doing so by Lotys. Ultimately he decides to right the wrongs of his people, and his "advisers'' are dishonored and replaced. The story of Lotys and her love for the king, who declares to her that he has at last found the happiness he so long sought, ends in a tragedy, in which Lotys perches at the hands of Sergius Thorn. She commands that her body will not be committed to earth, but that the body be placed upon a boat, and left to the mercy of wind and waves. The King faithful to his Lotys even when she is dead, leaves his palace and goes to join her in the mighty deep. But the great world goes on just the same, and the heir to the throne returns with his wife to control in peace the destinies of his people, who have now become reconciled to the throne, and abide by its ruling. The cry of "The King is dead: long live the King." is taken up by the multitude, and peace reigns supreme in the happy southern kingdom.