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- In Southern Bavaria, Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel insists his elder daughter Liesel marry first. Liesel is shunned as too brutal. Seppel suggests marrying Liesel first, ridding her, then wedding Gretel.
- The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
- A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.
- The sisters Ellen and Sabine are dancers. Ellen marries a banker, Sabine is left by her lover. Sabine earns her living as an entertainment lady at the Blue Lantern.
- A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.
- The story of the great German composer, from his childhood through his great triumphs in orchestral and operatic music.
- The young bride Anna von Glassner receives mysterious letters shortly before her wedding with Count von Fahrenwald. The Count is said to be insane.
- 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.
- The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman Marquis de Grillet and has mortgaged his property.
- Clare Bradley, the daughter of a minister, receives a letter from Jack Langdon stating that he is to return to his parents' home on the estate adjoining the rectory. Clare is overjoyed when her old playmate, now a young man, appears and together they visit favorite haunts on the old grounds and in a room dissolve into those of children and back to the adult characters of Clare and Jack. The young man fulfills the promise of his boyhood by asking the minister's daughter to marry him. She accepts him and following this a love scene in the garden is witnessed by a servant in Jack's household, who hurries to tell his mother. Mrs. Langdon wants her son to marry his cousin Dora and to prevent the growth of the love affair she disapproves of, invites Dora to visit them. Clare's father, who has watched the lovers from a window, warns the girl not to think of Jack as a possible husband. Dora soon succeeds in winning her cousin's love and Clare, guessing the truth, is miserable. When she sees her rival in Jack's arms she gives way under the strain of several weeks' unhappiness and is carried unconscious to her room, where she is confined with a serious attack of brain fever. Meanwhile, the engagement of Jack and Dora has been formally announced and Clare's father is asked to perform the marriage ceremony. The minister's daughter receives her strength sufficiently to follow the wedding party to the church and she is seen on a balcony while her father marries Jack and Dora. The intense misery she experiences is depicted in her face and by her actions and before the service has been read an uncontrollable cry attracts the attention of those below. The minister bravely continues until the pair have been pronounced man and wife and then hurries to his broken-hearted daughter, who dies in his arms.
- In the form of a shadow, Death emerges from the sea and convinces an unhappy woman to commit suicide by returning to the sea with him.
- Diether von Brake is addicted to gambling. He has been away to Berlin for weeks. His wife Martine is worried. Diether explains his gambling as a way of paying back his debts, but Martine suspects there's also other attractions in Berlin.
- After meeting an ex-lover Eva runs away from her marriage and family into a world of vaudeville and drugs. She becomes an actress that satisfies the men around her. Heavy addicted she understands where the path she has chosen leads.
- The scene opens in a railway station in France. Henri Marteau, the station master, Marie, his wife, and his little daughter are living happily. War is declared with Prussia and Marteau is one of the conscripts called out. A message is received from the War Department appointing Marie as station mistress during his absence. When leaving, Marie gives him a small photo of herself and little daughter. In a battle Marteau is mortally wounded. When dying, he gives the photos to the Prussian officer, who gave him his wound, with the request that he forward them to his wife with news of his death. Before he has time to give the officer the address, he dies. Later the station house is attacked and the officer in charge of the attacking force is wounded and left in charge of Marie. One day he gives Marie the photos of the dead soldier's wife and daughter with the request that she forward them. She discovers she has been nursing the man who killed her husband. The station house is used as a divisional point by the Prussian invaders, from which they send orders and information to their troops. Marie, faithful to her own country, taps the wires and learns all the plans of the attacking forces. Owing to the message she carries to the French commander, one division of the Prussian army is cut to pieces. Suspecting that the wires have been tapped, the Prussians watch and discover Marie in the act of taking word of the plans to the French. Marie is tried by court-martial and sentenced to death. The little girl goes to the Crown Prince to plead for her mother's life. She finally persuades him to pardon her mother, but before the messenger arrives the firing squad have done their work. Completely prostrated by the loss of both her parents, the little girl collapses on the grave of her mother.
- When an Indian Maharaja, infected by Western culture, surrenders to emancipation, it is not without consequences. He has to enter a convent because his wife, a European, threw herself into the sea in her madness. She had given herself to an enemy Maharajah.
- In the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of striptease and opera, Adorée Villany in front of the camera crosses the boundaries of both genres.