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- A young woman grows tired of providing for her family.
- A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
- In Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. He has a beautiful daughter named Romola. Tito flirts with a peasant girl in the streets, and for fun goes through a mock marriage with her -- but she takes it seriously. Romola doesn't really love him, but marries him because her father wishes it. When the Medici are forced out, Tito joins the new government and rises to be chief magistrate. His evil actions earn him the hatred of Romola and of the people, and he is killed by his stepfather. Romola ends up with sculptor Carlo, who has always loved her.
- Musidora wants the hero of her next film to be a young toreador who is reluctant to play for the camera.
- The struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.
- Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys "Boss'" happiness.
- A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.
- A count tries to charm Carmiña and invites her to join him in the city, where he abandons her. She decides to kill herself, but then Martiño comes into scene.
- Film based on variety shows of the 20s 'Arco Iris', 'La feria de las hermosas', and 'Las maravillosas', all of them created by Eulogio Velasco.
- A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.
- Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. The film depicts the cruelty of poverty and communism as a rescuing force that reaches Mutter Krause and the child too late.
- A story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating.
- In a small Pacific village, a widowed fisherman marries a girl young enough to be his daughter. Complications ensue when the new wife falls in love with her husband's son.
- A peanut and candy butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of owning his own boat.
- A successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.
- An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
- Angelina Ortiz, "an honest girl who knows nothing," is the daughter of a brigadier as pompous as ridiculous, ironically called don Marcial. On the day of her hand request, Angelina runs away with another man. Their father and Rodolfo, the abandoned boyfriend, chase them. Don Marcial beats a duel with his daughter's kidnapper and wounds him, realizing then that his wife, Marcela, was being unfaithful to him precisely with that same seducer. The brigadier, after seeing his honor stained, decides to take drastic measures.
- The story of the Slovak highwayman and folk hero Juraj Janosik.
- A charming scoundrel reflects on his exploits, from childhood through to manhood.
- Pablo is a boxer married to Aurora, a variety singer. One day, after walking through the park he returns home and surprises Aurora with her lover.
- When Renard the Fox's mischievous pranks go too far, King Lion is forced to attempt to bring the trickster to justice.
- The lives of two slum neighbors, one of a happy-go-lucky gambler and the other of a poor ronin, converge when the two get involved with the affairs of a powerful samurai official and his gangsters.
- A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.
- In 1808, the fight of a Creole officer against the abuses and injustice of a false viceroy.
- The story concerns an old globe-maker who is mysteriously killed while going through the town portraying Pere Noel ("Father Christmas" aka Santa Claus).
- An Argentinian architect arrives in Portugal claiming to own an inhabited family home.
- Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations.
- At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
- Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.
- A teenager involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case where the victims turn out to be his mother and his best friend in another hot rod.
- An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
- An African-American soldier stationing in Italy refuses to make a deal with local gangsters. However, when a girl he loves turns desperately to prostitution, Jerry is forced to change his mind to save her.
- Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.
- In 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.
- During World War II, several people end up trapped in a basement after an air raid in London, with air for only 90 more minutes.
- Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
- A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
- Literary adaptation: In the late 19th century a society lady takes pride in being a good Christian while she burns books she disapproves of, and arranges to have her daughter's lover whom she also disapproves of, executed.
- The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
- The director renders tribute to the Marquis of Sade without images. The screen is white when the testimonies speak, and black when they don't, in this experimental film.
- Melodrama about Dr. Alberto Robles, an idealistic city physician living in a rural community ruled by macho customs and feudalistic landowners, who falls for Soledad, a peasant woman.
- Machiko and Haruki are not allowed to meet. When at last they find each other, Haruki has to part for Europe.
- Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
- Postwar Tokyo. Pin (Jukichi Uno) and Toku (Taiji Tonoyama) live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
- A journey to the Spanish colonies in Equatorial Africa
- Pivoting around a shiny counterfeit gold sovereign freshly milled from the clandestine workshop of an otherwise honest goldsmith, four brief vignettes of human imperfection; seduction; fate; desire, and devotion inextricably interweave.
- Emotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labor Day picnic.
- A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
- After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish.