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- A tuna fisherman marries a woman who doesn't love him.
- The story opens in Copenhagen in the year 1776 on the wedding night of the King and Princess Caroline Mathilde. But the marriage was a political alliance, and the Princess felt only repugnance for her dissolute husband. On the night of their marriage the King leaves Copenhagen on a pleasure trip abroad, but his fast life proves too much for his weak constitution. Summoned to attend him, an ambitious young doctor realises that here is a great opportunity. He revives the King and, tremendously impressed, the King takes him back to Copenhagen. A love affair develops between the doctor and the Princess - but it is to have terrible consequences.
- An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction.
- In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid faces resistance from the Young Turk party, while also becoming infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer.
- The film spotlights famed composer Franz Schubert, who loves a woman from afar. He stands by in quiet desperation as his beloved is married to a dashing military officer, then pours his sorrow (and his love) into his work. To avoid royalty payments, most of the Sigmund Romberg score is jettisoned, replaced by authentic Schubert themes.
- Fortuna and Amorosa, the protector of true love, make a bet with the devilish spirit Lumpacivagabundus that should finally bring the devil down.
- A young couple get into trouble when her father discovers that they spent the money he loaned them, is used to finance the production of an operetta written by the young husband instead of buying a big farm to make their living.
- Respectable married couple in small town get compromised and struggle to extricate themselves
- Miss Anita Liman is the sole owner of a coffee importing company, with offices in Hamburg, Genoa and Santiago. Anita's first competitor Benno Karden would merry her purely for business reasons, but he falls in love with her. Benno has not realized that his lover is a smart competitor. Complications follow.
- A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for.
- A musical comedy set in Vienna. The title refers to the name of a perfume. Two young women reply to newspaper advertisements but their replies are confused. The two young directors of the perfume company initially have different intentions towards the girls but it all gets sorted out in the end.
- A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's "La Vie Parisienne" which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a young Frenchman. But Mendoza's puritanical son forbids the marriage. Mendoza and the actress's friends conspire to change his mind and soon succeed in converting him to "Parisian life".
- While the original title, "Trailing the Killer" isn't a misnomer, it was a bit misleading since the "trailer" is a dog named Caesar (Caesar the Dog) and the killer is a mountain lion, aka a cougar or puma, as the narrator quickly clarifies. But the makers also pointed out that Caesar "is the most intelligent dog actor since Rin-Tin-Tin" which probably lured a few Rin-Tin-Tin fans with a show-me attitude. Caesar prowls around the Northwest woods, dispatches a rattlesnake, visits his she-wolf mate and their pups, pauses to watch a raccoon personally washing every morsel of food before eating it--and that raccoon had enough food to use up several minutes of running time--then saves sheepherder Pierre (Francis McDonald) from getting eaten up by one mean mountain lion. Rin-Tin-Tin he ain't, but then who was? Commonwealth changed the title to "Call of the Wilderness" when they acquired it for 16mm rental to the school market.
- Three brothers lead the life of bachelors and their rent is overdue. The landlord who also happens to be a matchmaker tries to marry off the oldest brother to a rich girl.
- Jeanne works at a millinery shop. She is sent to Louis XV's palace with a hat for Madame de Pompadour, then meets a musician at the park and they fall in love, despite the fortune-teller announcing she will become rich and live in luxury.
- On February 26, 1815 Napoleon leaves his exile on Elba. He is marching with 1 000 men towards Paris to rebel against the conditions imposed by the Congress of Vienna.
- In this comedy, a former Army sergeant tries to make it as a civilian.
- A Munich music instructor loses his wife to his greatest pupil, a tenor.In revenge he tries to keep the mother apart from her own daughter.
- A sideshow performer flees to the Danube after a misunderstanding with a deceitful gambler and finds refuge with two Bohemian men, one of whom is a handsome painter she falls for.
- A famous Hungarian revue star travels to the countryside to rest. Upset by a conversation against actresses, she decides to impersonate an unsophisticated peasant girl -and so well does she, that she gets trapped into her own trick.
- After meeting up with a charming blonde and her female orchestra on a Danube river steamer, a nobleman who had aspired toward the classics turns to popular music instead.
- Lilli, daughter of a large family, finds job at a jewelry shop, and is taken to Montecarlo by her boss to, under a false identity, make the jewels appeal to rich customers.Only they are stolen,seemingly by the young man she has fallen for..
- Therèse Krones is a young maiden who works as laundress but yearns for singing and acting. She admires Ferdinand Raimund, who will give her her first opportunity. Musical score by Franz Grothe, loosely based on the Austrian actress life.
- Beautiful movie star Edda Vivian has an eccentric idea. She puts one of her kisses up for auction at a charity ball. Among the interested parties is Wiesinger, the owner of a record company, who, without his wife's knowledge, hastens to withdraw a considerable sum from the family safe. As for the philologist Franz, who lives with Wiesinger, he is not at all interested. But mistaken for someone else, he - wins the auction.
- Famous 1930's tenor Jan Kiepura doubles as a singing shop-assistant who stands in for a famous but lazy singer, mixing up each others love-lives in the process.
- In this Cinderella style romance, a working class blonde introduces samples of a new perfume her father has made, to the rich and powerful at a fancy Baden Baden hotel, by pretending she is a socialite.
- What will happen to a little girl, when her parents divorce, is the subject of this comedy.
- In this satire on pompous British nobles, a nouveau riche whisky maker settles at a country estate with a former maid as his wife.The servants of the nearby nobles who shun the whiskey family pretend to be nobility themselves.
- A new member of the Vienna Boys Choir shoulders the blame for a theft.
- A South American businessman's daughter follows for a while in her mother's footsteps and abandons marriage and a family for a stage career.But then she decides to do what her father wants and raise a good German household.
- Life for Hanna Bollova has never been easy. No matter what she did in life, how hard she worked, there never seemed to be any money. That is, until one day her fortunes changed distant relatives of hers pass away and she inherits a hotel.
- Capricious Lady Virginia has an unexpected double in a girl who works at a fair and wishes for a beauty salon. When the first one's eccentricities lead to her arrest, the second is paid for going to prison. There she meets Charles, Virginia's suitor. When out of jail she will have to fight not only for him but for going through with the leading role in a skating show.
- The film asks, Can a princess marry a man who is just an ordinary citizen.
- An enhanced and sentimentalized story of love, honor, rivalry, and retreat. The traditional laws of the patriarchal environment and severe conflicts of the heart. The action takes place in Herzegovina and Stolac, Bosnia. The film depicts the Bosnjak from a German point of view.
- A shy, awkward Japanese girl taking singing lessons in Vienna is courted by both an elderly composer who finds her inspiring and the composer's young nephew who is the orchestra conductor.
- The tailor Florian Kerzl is immersed in the Middle Ages. When he spoils the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the founding of the town of Zdislavice, he is banished from the town. So he moves in his armor to the nearby ruins of a medieval castle. Where Florian has several interesting adventures and even falls in love with the film extra Hanni. Eventually he finds a treasure in the cellars of the old castle, containing the will of the former castle lord.
- A student at St. Petersburg Smolny Institute wants to follow in her mother's footsteps in opera but her fiance,an imperious count, objects.Another student whose boyfriend is a grand duke accuses her of stealing jewelry.
- To escape dreary country life, a count travels to Italy with a friend every year. Instead of the alleged purchase of horses, the reason he gives to his mother as to why he needs to travel to Italy, he spends his time chasing after the ladies.
- Maria, an astounding singer in a music school , is discovered by an impresario who engages her for a concert in Nizza. A nobleman wishing to leave his gambling debts behind accepts money to fake suicide for unrequited love, for publicity's sake. He heads for Paris, not knowing that she is also going to sing there.
- 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.