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- The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
- 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.
- The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
- A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
- "Die Deutsche Wochenschau" was a unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany. The coordinated newsreel production was set up as a vital instrument for the mass distribution of Nazi propaganda at war.
- The young country doctor Dr. Robert Koch is desperate seeking a cure for a tuberculosis epidemic costing many children in his district life.
- A young secretary quits her job and goes to Berlin to try to be a film star. She enters Gloria Films as an extra, there many German and foreign film stars appear as pictures in process are made. Musical dance numbers by La Jana and many others.
- Rousing biopic of Paul Kruger, the Boer guerilla fighter turned statesman and first president of South Africa.
- Annie is an illegitimate child brought up by her uncle, a fanatical priest. After her first sexual experience, Annie is so overwhelmed by guilt, it profoundly affects the lives of those closest to her.
- The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
- 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.
- Film adaptation of Johann Strauß's operetta "Die Fledermaus" transposed to the year 1937.
- Back in India after what happened at first part Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to carry on his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will get involuntarily involved having to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by traitor Prinz Ramigani.
- Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors thirsty for women and celebration.
- A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with Maria, the aristocratic opera manager, end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He is quickly engaged by another theatre and will become famous for his lavish stage productions and fine acting of operettas, which start their golden age with Suppé and Strauss.
- Nazi adaptation of Verne's Michel Strogoff: a Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them.Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way.
- During the opening night of a new play actor Theo disappears from stage without a trace. A detective steps up and starts investigating the case that turns into a crime comedy with new twists and turns in rapid succession.
- 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.
- Serbia, 1941. Serbia joins the war against Germany and persecutes German speaking residents. Vera helps refugees and the resistance by flirting with and diverting Serbian captain Rakic, but detective Subotic is on her tracks.
- The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines.On his way he encounters a number of adventures.
- The famous pilot Mabel Atkinson does not like reporters, and the famous reporter Jack Warren does not like famous women. He is looking for a nice, pretty, totally uninteresting girl.
- Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs.
- Dog owners in a town are asked to account for themselves when a muzzle is found subversively placed on a statue of the reigning duke.Leading up to a trial,the prosecuting attorney who was drunk at the time doesn't recall what he did.
- Two vagabonds escape from jail and steal jewelry at a wedding to help a poor innkeeper pay his debts.
- In New York, the boxer Eddie Steele has a steep career ahead of him. But that makes him reckless, and he's more into night clubs than training. His demanding way of life finally becomes his undoing.
- Friedrich Schiller - The triumph of a genius.
- Berlin, 1900. Comedian Lepke desperately tries to raise money for the bicycle he needs for his variety act while the operetta director Knoppe uses his influence in high places to get the chorus line's risky costumes accepted by the censor.
- The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a rich playboy that ultimately results in tragedy for the girl.
- Biography of Paul Henlein, the man who invented the pocket watch.
- Paris 1830. The story of the actor Debureau who with his art of acting and his mocking-songs on the hated King Karl X. enthuses the masses.
- Two women from differing classes of society trade dresses to see how the other side lives: a stewardess meets up with a police chief and an heiress finds her engineer.
- Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son Marcel is an art rider and does not know that Fernand is his father.
- Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris for the 1867 World Exhibition. As their reservation was lost they must be accommodated in separate hotels. The next day the mother has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her.
- 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 singer Loni Carell is on stage for the first time with the film tenor Will Hollers. Both are successful artists, they like each other, But they are competitors, because each is soliciting for the public's favor.
- An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and doesn't shy away from dark deeds to maintain his lifestyle.
- Wally is the daughter and only child to Fender, a rich, widowed mountain farmer in the Ötztal valley in the Tyrolian Alps. She is young, beautiful, intrepid and, most of all, strong-minded. When she at great risk catches a vulture's young from its nest she carries the respect of her father, but also the scorn of Bear-Jospeh, assistant hunter to the local squire. He mocks her as "Geierwally" (Vulture-Wally), as he thinks young women shouldn't wear pants and climb around in the mountains hunting. What he doesn't yet know is that Wally is almost mad with love for him - and too stiff with pride to admit the slightest idea of that. To make it complicated, her father wants her to marry Vinzenz, a neighbouring farmer. But Wally, loathing Vinzenz and burning with desire for Joseph refuses. Mad with frenzy, Old Fender bludgeons her with a heavy stick, and, as she still won't budge, he orders her away to a sole hut high up in the mountains, where she has to live in snow and ice beyond the clouds until she gives in. She leaves with Hansl, the vulture she's tamed, as only companion ...
- The Maharadscha vom Eschnapur hires a German architect to build a mausoleum. Burning with vengeance when he finds out his young wife has fallen for an adventurer he develops a deadly plan, while flattering the architect's fiancée and fighting ongoing treason.
- A lavish historical pageant about a Renaissance leader trying to unite a still feudal Italy.His band of black shirts anticipates the Fascists of a later Italy when the film was made.
- The young opera singer Carla is in love with the talented composer Michele, who is looking for success with serious music and who has written his first opera, "Odysseus' Return" for Carla. Unfortunately, Carla's a bit more successful than he is and becomes a cast member at Milan's La Scala. Using her connections, she is successful in finding a publisher for Michele's opera. But when Michele finds out what the publisher really thinks of his work, he leaves Carla and disappears.
- Backstage melodrama: The past of a star tenor's wife catches up with her when the unsavory father of her illegitimate child returns.The jealous wife of the father murders him.
- The divorced opera singer Peter (Harald Paulsen) wants to win back his ex-wife Vilma (Lizzi Waldmüller), also an opera singer. He offers her a false engagement for an opera in Venice. He finds a helping hand in the young Annemarie (Heidemarie Hatheyer) a secretary. Annemarie is supposed to distract Vilma's new fiancee Nikolaus (Hans Nielsen) and she really succeeds, cause he is falling in love with her. Peter, now can concentrate on winning back Vilma.
- Friedrich Mitterer is the eccentric and basically socio-phobic star of the Viennese Burg Theater. His prompter takes care of his social interactions. When Mitterer meets the young Leni he relies on the prompter to establish contact.
- Concha flies from his natal Rio to Germany to help his loved one, who has been caught after finding some diamonds in a mine already registered by a company. Amongst them is the impressive one which thanks to her will be known as The Star from Rio. She finds herself staying at the manager's home hired as a dancer to present the diamond at a fashion show. Then the lights go suddenly out.
- A boatload of 413 women is shipped to then underpopulated colonial Australia, so they can get busy with the men there to do some propagating.
- Konrad, an idealistic Polish student who courts disaster for his loved ones through his constant harangues against Russian impression. When his mother promises the authorities that Konrad will cease his protests, he is bound to obey her.