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- Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
- When Charmion Winship is left penniless by her father, she travels to New York and there is hired by a gang of crooks to pose as a princess who is selling her jewels for relief money. A rich suitor and former admirer are rivals, and the latter, who once saved her life, wins her hand.
- The grandson of an elderly fisherman was killed by a hit-and-run driver. The guilty party is an influential magistrate well out of reach of such a poor wretch. The old man shuts himself away in a deserted military baracks close to the boy's grave. One day however, one of the magistrate's young daughters wanders into the dunes and befriends the misanthrope. Nonetheless, the terrible hermit refuses to come to aid of his enemy's wife, who seeks out his help for their second daughter, struck down by a poison which the fisherman can cure. But the influence of his young friend puts an end to his unassuageable thirst for revenge.
- Bruce Randall is injured after a fight with Mortimer, who has attempted to rob his home, and is reported dead by the police. They bury a man they believe to be Bruce, while Bruce wanders about, unable to recall his past. Two crook lawyers find him, hire him to impersonate Bruce so as to get some pearls in the Randall mansion, and Mrs. Randall believes he is really her husband. He regains his memory in time to defeat the crooks and save his wife's happiness.
- Claire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself.
- Anne, a young orphan, comes to Bruges to find shelter with relatives. During a procession there she gets to know Jean, a hunchback, who falls in love with her. The trouble is that Pierre, Jean's only friend, also develops tender feelings for Anne. But neither of the two lovers is given satisfaction. Actually, it is Georges, a painter, who wins her heart. But their happiness does not last long as Flore, George's former lover, reappears in his life and soon supplants Anne. The young orphan is heartbroken. To make matters worse, she is kicked out of her relatives' home. The helpless girl sees no other solution than death and throws herself into the waters of a canal. Jean manages to save her and brings her to a convent. When Pierre and Jean visit Anne, she has become a nun and they realize she is dying of despair.
- Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord.
- A motorcycle cop (played by Billy Sullivan) falls in love with a pretty girl (played by Rose Blossom) when he gives her a speeding ticket, and she realizes that she loves him at the dinner she stages, with the help of her uncle, a judge, as a joke on the policeman. Instead of being disgraced, Billy recognizes a silk thief (played by Francis Ford) among the guests and arrests him.
- Suzette, the daughter of a miserly farmer, loves Henri, a villager who is the son of a convict. But Susan's father won't hear of her union with Henri.. During a raucous fair Henri surprises the lord of the manor making advances to Suzette. Mad with jealousy, he hurts his rival with a knife and is sent to jail. When he is released, Henri returns to the village only to find out that Suzette died while giving birth to a little girl - whose father he is. He goes to see the lord and his wife, who raise the kid. His first reaction is to claim his child but plagued by his conscience, he decides to disappear from his child's life.
- As Max types a scenario for Ko-Ko and Fitz, a cartoon cannibal headhunter steals his head. Ko-Ko and Fitz leap into Max's globe in search of the cannibals, while Max's headless body fumbles around in his office.
- "Patriotic film about the Belgian woman hero Gabrielle Petit - ""Madame Legrand"" - during the First World War in Belgium."
- A young man buys a pearl for his fiancée. He walks out of the jewelry store that opens onto...a forest. He counts the pearls and realizes one is missing so he gets back to the store. On entering he catches sight of an alluring saleslady sitting on...a showcase with her skirt lifted. On one of her stockings, close to the garter, another pearl necklace is tied. The young man takes it away from her. Outraged, the jeweler fires the assistant, who goes away with the man sitting on the handlebar of his bike. After this, the pearl is lost, found, lost again.
- On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the World War: Eddie, a Broadway star, marries Helen and almost immediately goes to the front. Gassed while saving the life of a German soldier (Hummel), Eddie cannot find work when he returns. Helen finds a job, and Eddie grows more despondent. One day he finds Helen in Hummel's arms, and in his rage Eddie shoots the man. The trial proceeds with the revelation by Defense Attorney Burke, Eddie's wartime commander, of Helen's secret: she pretended to be single so as to get work; Hummel, who was searching for Eddie, really loved Helen and was ignorant of her relationship with Eddie. The jury finds Eddie not guilty.
- Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
- An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
- A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
- Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.
- When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
- A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
- A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
- Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
- A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
- Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
- A Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.
- The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
- Betty Boop (with dog's ears) can't sleep on a scary night, so she sings the title song and meets the gentleman in question... a surreal version of Bimbo.
- No mercy for a woman who has been living in sin for six years.
- A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
- A sailor falls for a music hall performer with marital problems, after having been at sea a long 12 years, only to learn the distressing news that she is his own sister.
- THE 1930 FILM THAT SKYROCKETED HANS ALBERS TO FAME!
- Lighthouse keeper Uwe Bull lives with his wife Hanne and the assistant Jens in a secluded, small world. When the only survivor from a shipwreck, young Margot from Reeperbahn, is washed up on the island, Uwe's feelings arouses.
- To protect the honor of a married lady, a grammar professor pretends to be a singing teacher and falls in love with the real professor's daughter.