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- An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.
- Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
- Balduin, a student of Prague, leaves his roystering companions in the beer garden, when he finds he has reached the end of his resources. He is scarcely seated in a quiet corner when a hideous, shriveled-up old man taps him upon the shoulder and whispers vaguely of a big inheritance for Prague's finest swordsman and wildest student if he will enter into a certain agreement. Balduin rebuffs him, satirically asking his weird companion to procure him "the luckiest ticket in a lottery or a doweried wife." The old man goes off chuckling and thence onward persistently shadows Balduin, exerting a sinister influence over him, while Balduin is still disconsolate under the frowns of fortune. The Countess Margit Schwarzenberg, hunting with her cousin, to whom her father has betrothed her, meets with an accident. She is thrown over her horse's head into a river, but Balduin, who has been directed to the spot by his evil genius, plunges in and rescues her. Subsequently Balduin calls to inquire as to her condition at the castle of her father, the count, but be makes a hurried departure when Baron Waldis arrives, the contrast in their appearance discrediting him. His desire to win the countess and to humiliate the baron becomes so pronounced that he readily accedes to the compact suggested by Scapinelli, the old man, who has so pertinaciously dogged his footsteps, particularly when he learns that untold wealth and power will be his when he assigns to the other the right to take from his room whatever he chooses for his own use as he desires. The agreement is signed. Balduin receives a shower of gold and notes as his portion; Scapinelli takes Balduin's soul exposed in concrete form by his shadow. Balduin prosecutes his love affair assiduously and with apparent success, till the baron is informed of it by a jealous gypsy girl. He challenges Balduin to a duel, and the latter, assured of his superiority as a fencer, readily agrees. Count Schwarzenberg learns of the impending duel and appeals to Balduin not to kill "my sister's child, my daughter's future husband, and my heir." Balduin gives his promise, but when he goes to the venue of the duel he meets, his own counterpart stalking away derisively wiping his gory sword on his cloak. Balduin turns and in the far distance sees the dying victim of the deed he swore he would not do. He rushes from the spot horror-stricken. When he regains sufficient composure he makes his way to the castle of the count, but is refused admission. Determined to explain that he had no complicity in the death of the baron, Balduin climbs into a room in which the countess is seated. She receives him coldly, but soon succumbs to his ardent wooing. Just as he seeks to leave her she notices he has no shadow and that the mirror gives no reflection of him; and she drops back affrighted, the ghastly apparition of himself which takes shape in the corner of the room sends Balduin scuttling away from the castle in a paroxysm of terror. He makes a frenzied flight through a woodland estate and the streets of Prague, but wherever he stops to recover his breath he is haunted by the counterpart of himself. He reaches his rooms and draws a murderous looking fire-arm from its case. As the phantasmagorical figure strides towards him with a sinister grin, he fires, and in a few minutes the blood gushes from his own side from a fatal wound.
- In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first husband, three years ago. So he is rather undesirable. But Oetsch stays; arguing he is not the murderer and will find the real one...
- An antiques dealer finds a golem, a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a rampage.
- A shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.
- Genuine is an ancient and cruel divinity, who seduces men and induce them to kill as a proof of love.
- A hated and bully patriarch is murdered. The investigating judge falls in love and marries the daughter, and then she confesses to have killed. Did she? Or she was protecting some one?
- The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins...
- The story about musical rivalry between Joseph Länner and Johan Strauss and their respective waltz orchestras during Quenn Victoria's reign is finally set on a public trial. With pieces by both composers.
- Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
- A three-part historical film, with episode one taking place in ancient Egypt, the second is based on the Hugo novel, and the third episode takes place during the 1917 Russian revolution.
- Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage.
- The prosperity and career of a Norwegian ship builder who has founded the town's hospital are revealed by an innocent wanderer to have been based on deceit and corruption, in this theatrical adaptation.
- During the shooting of a jealousy scene on a soundstage, one actress is murdered. Due to the fact that the male star of the movie had a relation with the victim and the female star is now his fiance, he is suspected by the police.
- Drama involving bull fighter Gayetano and his enamored girl friend Juanita. After a dramatic abduction by jealous rival Manuel, her following faithlessness to Gayetano climaxes with Manuel's death in the arena and her own demise by the hand of Gaeytano.
- The gift of seeing into the hearts of others is given to a young artist by Brandis. He now looks at the people he comes into contact with and realizes they are not what they appear.
- A dramatic look into the life of an institutionalized child from East Germany in the 1980s. He spends three years of his childhood in a youth work court of former GDR and grows up without love and compassion.
- A Polish captain serving Alexander during the Czarist rule of Warsaw in 1830 gives up his love for a Russian lady and joins his compatriots in the liberation struggle.
- A woman betrays the regiment location in which the officer she is interested in is assigned because he despises her, only to regret it when he is caught and try to free him.
- Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections of a store manager, he too changes character several times and there are other locals who do this as well.
- Kind-hearted Thekla helps her frivolous brother and hides him on a remote farm.
- Nanon, landlady in a road inn, has fallen in love with a pretended captain who mocks his own arrest to avoid marriage. She will follow him to Paris to make a plea to the king, aided by Molière himself.
- The sole thing giving hope to a German flyer downed over France in the Great War, as he longs for his return home, is the love from a young woman.
- A Russian ballerina sacrifices her life for that of a Finnish sculptor who is fighting as a soldier to liberate his country from the Czar.
- Miss Weisenthal portrays the favorite wife of a sheik, having found favor with him owing to her grace and beauty and her poetry of motion. Being the favorite wife, she is allowed the privileges of the harem, with a retinue of slaves, and she lives like a princess. One day, while taking her daily ride accompanied by several of her slaves, they are set upon by bandits, and Kadra Safa is taken prisoner. She is, however rescued by an American doctor and botanist, who, together with a party of his friends, is exploring the desert. The doctor is surprised and startled to find so beautiful a woman in this far-out-of-the-way place. The doctor accompanies Kadra Safa back to the palace, where he is received as a guest. He is not, however, permitted, according in the Mohammedan custom, to see Kadra Safa. The sheik extends to him the courtesy of the palace, and sets aside slaves to do his bidding. Some time later the doctor and his attendant, wandering through the gardens, suddenly behold a beautiful sight. Kadra Safa is entertaining her lord and master with one of her dances. The doctor is enthralled, and, forgetting himself, tosses her a rose. Love is blind? How would it be possible for this man of culture and refinement to successfully carry off this oriental woman? The way is opened up to them. Kadra Safa feigns illness and the doctor is sent for. He slips her a note, saying that on the morrow at high noon, the day set for the massacre of the Christians, and probably the palace will be thrown into a pandemonium, if Kadra Safa meet the doctor near the great wall they shall escape to civilization. Things go well until the lovers are discovered. Everything is forgotten, even the massacre, to avenge this desecration of the Mohammedan harem. The doctor and Kadra Safa seek refuge in an old well. They are discovered and vengeance is meted out to them. Water is turned in upon them. Kadra Safa and the doctor die like rats in a trap.
- A wholesome youth returns from Canada to the Fatherland, to rescue his father's business from a crooked accountant and a scheming lawyer.
- Tim Nissen, whom everyone just calls "Evinrude", has made a fortune in the Wild West. In his private life as well as in his business policy, his approach is anything but sensitive, the powerful man of power takes what he wants. One day Evinrude smells big business when he learns that the engineer Addison has developed a revolutionary "dynamite engine" and steals it. Evinrude has big plans. To do this, he must first ditch his lover Margaret so that he can devote himself entirely to the young Ellen Wentheim, the daughter of the influential and powerful Colonel Wentheim.
- Max works as a plasterer and is very fond of alcohol. Although he is a family man, he cannot bring himself to say no to unknown pleasures and he gradually deteriorates deeper. In addition, he has a lover who pulls him away from the family, becomes work-shy and ends up in prison.
- A drama of intrigue and sabotage set during WWI, this Nazi supported production was banned in post WWII Germany.