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- In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
- A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained.
- Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.
- A teenaged tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun, but discovers that being the opposite sex isn't as easy as she had hoped.
- The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
- 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.
- The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
- An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.
- The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
- A girl is kidnapped and held captive in an ancient Egyptian temple. She is rescued and flees to England, but soon finds that her mysterious captor is still haunting her.
- In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle story.
- Richard De La Croix has a brother, Andreas, who has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A man-about-town named Teddy takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets Richard, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas insane.
- Husband is hounded by his nagging mother-in-law who lives with him and his wife. After coming home drunk one night he is kicked out by the mother-in-law. He disguises himself as a servant and gets a job at his own house.
- A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
- Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.
- In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
- A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays his tune again with consequences.
- Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice.
- An effort to combat the anti-German propaganda promulgated by the Allies.
- A bumbling, self-indulgent husband goes on a vacation away from his wife. There he meets a popular, attractive young woman also on a vacation. Both go on a mountain climb which is going to be far from an ideal adventure.
- Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.
- 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.
- A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression.
- While making a movie in the Alps, the female star falls in love with a nobleman.
- The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the noble Henri von Reithofen. Henri kills himself ruined by the horrendous expenses for Lulu.
- When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
- The new director at the Hoftheater is popular with the ladies. A new ballerina arrives and causes a lot of attention.
- A young woman leaves the convent to go home and live with her father. Then she falls in love with a librarian, but her father doesn't approve.
- The physical exertions with the late hours he spends in following the pace lead to the utter exhaustion of a disciple of the tango till the time comes, one morning after an all-night dance, when he falls asleep at his work. His slumber is marked by pleasant dreams through which he discovers and captures the tango microbes. In his dreams he takes his new discovery before a society devoted to his favorite dance. On the way the microbe has developed to such a point that upon opening his bag he brings to light lilliputians, expert in terpisichorian art, who hold the spectators spellbound by their exhibitions on a table. From there the enthusiasts repair to a dance hall to revel in the pleasures of the tango in its several forms. During the evening a professional team enraptures the guests by their proficiency in its movements. Instantly all are bent on acquiring the grace and ease of their instructors. Some become quite expert and others less advanced, some are conservative while others disregard all restraint and give themselves heart and soul to the task. One man becomes a slave to the dance and is the last one to leave the ball. On his way home he dances on the street with all whom he meets. Even animals, objects of adornment, and conveyances are subject to his search for a tango partner. At the dance a lady leaves her husband because of her infatuation for one of the members of the professional team. The lady of this team in turn forms a quick attachment for the deserted man. There follows at once for both parties private lessons in the mysteries of the dance and when the dance breaks up for the night the lessons are continued in their individual homes. The dance-crazed man who has finally landed in an automobile is put down before a house which he enters. It happens to be the home of the girl who was accompanied thence by the professional dancer who had since left. An opportunity for a tango with such a charming partner is not to be lost and they dance till the lady falls from exhaustion, at which time her husband returns and throws the intruder into the street. But the shock of striking the pavement is too much and the dreamer awakes.
- Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.
- In WWI, women have taken over as barbers while the men are fighting. A young man, Ernst, played by the director, falls for the daughter of one of these female barbers.
- The people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a place where they can hold a picnic and a spring festival: ideally, a place where they can eventually erect dwellings and cultivate crops.
- An honorable Lord who is developing a drug with which he transforms himself into another, that is, dissociated from all social constraints. One of the first cinematic adaptation of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde material.
- Drama. When Hedda is about to appear on stage in Ostende she borrows a piece of jewelry from her fiancé, de Rochord. When a gang of thieves steals it, he calls off the engagement, but Hedda solves the crime singlehandedly and the two are reunited.
- Violetta Duclos is a poor Parisian girl. After being struck by an automobile, she falls deeply in love with a young playwright, Alfred Germont. Called away by a family emergency, Alfred leaves Violetta, who, falling into more dire circumstances, is taken under the wing of the Graf (Count) von Geray. Von Geray promises her wealth and comfort. She initially rejects her rich suitor, but then, surprisingly, runs off with him. Alfred pursues her, only to learn that she has abandoned him not for lack of love, but due to serious illness.
- To inherit, 18-year-old Jesta must pretend to only age 12 when her American uncle arrives.