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- 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.
- In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.
- The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
- Mathias Clausen is a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies.
- The famed composer Franz Schubert has romances with three sisters. He first loves Hederl who marries another man, then gifted singer Hannerl who is lured away to an opera career. Franz doesn't realize that it's Heiderl who truly loves him.
- Kara poses as a doctor to get close to the known murderer Abu Seif who also has kidnapped the daughter of Malek, a friend of Halef's. Halef falls in love with Malek's other daughter while they venture into a holy (and forbidden) city.
- The groom-to-be in an arranged marriage falls in love with a Gypsy singer en route to his wedding, while his best man is mistaken for him by his bride-to-be, who has never laid eyes on him.
- Eva is employed in a porcelain factory owned by Georg von Hochheim's grandmother, who asks him to take over the company and try to put it back into profitability. He takes on the project in the guise of a worker and falls in love with Eva. When his true identity becomes known, his motives and intentions are questioned.
- An opera singer has had one great love in his life, that for a devoted french-girl who died. He comes to Paris for his annual visit to her grave on the anniversary of her death, but is forced to go through with a concert his manager had arranged without his knowledge. The manager visits a shady night club and, while intoxicated, drops information to a hard-boiled entertainer and her gigolo of the singers' great sorrow and wealth. The wealth part impresses the pair. The girl meets and accompanies the singer to Naples, after playing on his sympathies with lies and deception. The singer and the girl announce their engagement, but he discovers her duplicity and she, now genuinely in love with him, flees the consequences. She is injured in an automobile accident and the singer, having learned of her repentance and true affectation for him, takes her for his bride.
- A circus drama in which the scheming relatives of an orphan girl are thwarted by her compassionate uncle, a liquor store clerk.
- A hotel proprietor now wants to buy back his wife's necklace, which he had secretly pawned, to help his niece pay for singing lessons.Since the wife holds the purse strings, he gets a job waiting tables.
- Sprinkled with music and dances, and dealing with financial and romantic difficulties, a young Grand Duke falls in love with a wealthy Russian princess, without knowing her true identity.
- Two down and out circus performers on a ship to South America get their hands on a lottery ticket and uncover the identity of a jewel thief.
- In a poor Berlin neighborhood, a horse used in the WWI cavalry is threatened with slaughter so two sinister types can make some money .But a flower seller, her grandfather, and some other nice people try to save the honorable steed.
- In 1908 Berlin, two men have their eye on a widow, who is bringing up three children on her own.
- When a poor tenant in a Berlin tenement is suspected of stealing coal from a cellar, she sets a trap to find the real thief.
- A former Austrian officer, dismissed from the army for killing his friend in a duel, returns to Vienna with much mystery, sporting a black mask.The dead man's sister falls for him while her father,a general, swears vengeance.
- Two country husbands become real men by turning the tables on their wives.
- A struggling composer gets one of his pieces into a film program and his wife captures the lead part in the production as well.
- An elderly choir master loves his young housekeeper, but steps aside so that a student from the young generation can marry her instead.
- A young woman is deeply moved by the shipboard singing of a widower who has been left with only his young son.
- The actor Florian Reiter flirts with the countess Beate against the etiquette of the 18th century. She arrives at the court of the duke, who delegates his affairs to unscrupulous minister von Creven.
- Two clowns kidnap a young American woman, so that she can capture the heart of a young man.
- Ilona Ratkay, musical revue star, has a manager with imagination to create alluring stories for publicity purposes. His last one unintentionally entangles a rich farmer and his son who are visiting the capital and taken by Ilona's charm.
- An Austrian officer falls in love with a Polish girl at a Saint Petersburg New Year's Party in 191, but war soon breaks out.
- In this short farce, vaudeville actor Rudi Mahler tries to keep his fiancée and future mother-in-law from discovering a mysterious woman who has forced her way into his home just prior to their visit.
- The marriage of director Willy Hofmann and his wife Eva is troubling. Both rely on their closest friends for advice on how to restore family happiness.
- The mustached ruler of a mythical principality, learning that his people dislike his spending so much time going hunting, allows his twin brother to take his place.
- A small town official in pre Weimar Germany stands in opposition to any progress in his area, but is challenged when a stage impresario who looks just like him, arrives.
- 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.
- Trouble in a British castle: While the Lord is away, a detective is assigned to find a stranger supposedly hiding in the household.