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- The flight and pursuit of the robber murderer Rudolf Hennig over the roofs of Berlin. Henning had made friends, robbed and later killed the waiter August Giernoth.
- An 'Apache dance' was performed for the off-beat crowd of the Parisian underworld, who called themselves Apaches. This had nothing in common with the Native American tribe in North America.
- A young girl reads an ad in the newspaper and enthusiastically shows it to a young man, who cares for her. She leaves on the train; the young man gives her a carrier pigeon. At the end of the journey, she meets with a lady, who takes her to her house. The girl is given an evening dress and taken to a salon filled with bachantians.
- About an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians, the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from the present day Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island - parts of an area also known as Acadia.
- A film in four parts. The first at Gustaf III's pavilion at Haga, Stockholm with Bellman singing., followed by Ulla Winblad outside the Inn of Gröna Lund, at Djurgården, Stockholm. The third at Huvudsta gård, Solna, with a masques man in black cape, Klas Horn and Anckarström, followed by the wings of the Stockholm Opera House, with the ling Gustaf III shot.
- Anna, a young girl from a poor but honest household, is offered an attractive position as a lady's companion in London. Her childhood friend Georg is worried, but she goes anyway. To Anna's horror, the "distinguished house" turns out to be a brothel and her first customer soon awaits her. She manages to smuggle a letter for her parents out of the country, but what she doesn't know is that Georg is already on his way to save her. Will Anna ever escape the white slave trade?
- Close to Elverhøj lives the superstitious farmer's wife Karen with her daughter Agnete. Agnete and knight Ebbesen love each other, but to their great sorrow, Ebbesen is promised away to the noble-born Elisabeth Munk. But not everything is as it seems.
- Karl of Riise must say goodbye to his beloved Rigmor when he's summoned by King Valdemar. He must take a message of reinforcements to the oppressed warriors in Estonia. Shortly after his arrival, Karl is captured by the pagan enemies, and King Valdemar quickly sets off with his best men to free his countryman.
- A wealthy estate-owner travels to Copenhagen to experience what life is like in the city. Once there, he happens upon the beautiful young Clara and her brother, who take him to various pubs, to the Copenhagen Zoo, the airport and Tivoli Gardens. However, it comes to light that Charles is not Clara's brother, but rather her fiancé, and that they are two of the city's most notorious con-artists.
- Consul Bjørn is urgently called to a company meeting in the city. He rushes off leaving his wife Ingeborg alone in their villa. The thief that has lurking outside the house enters through a window. The first thing he sees on is a large portrait of the consul. He eyes the face, discovers a resemblance and decides to become the consul.
- Life in prison when Winston Churchill's Reform Bill passed.
- Four good friends are so engrossed with their card game that they are late to pick up their wives at the theatre. So why not continue where they left off? The four gentlemen embark on a wild trip through the Copenhagen night life, a cornucopia of hot chicks, strong drinks and daring dances.
- Erotic drama concerning Jonna and her affair with the chauffeur. Impending social disgrace is stopped by her daughter.
- The evil Lucas List has seduced Ruth Wright, and desires her cousin, conservative school teacher Ruby Wright, but she is engaged to Robert Ray, a lieutenant in the merchant marine. List arranges it so that Ray gets drunk and is persuaded to marry Ruth, who refuses to break it off with List.
- A wealthy young man, Edgar, sees a shop-girl, Ellen, and is immediately attracted to her. He buys her flowers. They meet next Sunday and, presumably, often thereafter. Three months later Ellen is pregnant. The couple decide to marry, and Edgar tells his mother. His father convinces him not to marry.
- Ernst Lange has recently inherited his deceased father's business. Ernst lives a quiet life. But one evening he walks into a restaurant and meet the cabaret artist Marcella. He falls in love.
- Trader Sivertsen was involved in various business deals. No-one knew what or with whom. His pretty daughter Edith dreamed of being on stage. When she met an accommodating vaudeville manager she was hooked. But her parents disapproved of her choice of trade. Especially when they got to hear about the character "Venus".
- Marian Best, a poor English governor, is out of work. The need is great, but she still helps her sick brother. She accepts an offer to become an English spy. Her first mission is to copy a Russian fortress.
- Blonde, gentle Edith and dark, wild, Yvonne are the guest house's prima donnas. They live the happy days of life until Edith's mother comes with a message of sorrow. Edith's father has died and she must therefore interrupt her summer stay to support her mother.
- In front of the salvation Army headquarters. An old man who is being teased by a flock of children, is almost run over by a car. Out of the headquarters gates march singing and playing female Salvation Army soldiers.
- Cecil Brown is the manager of a Tea plantation in India. He works hard, drinks heavy and is entertained by the Indian girl Profula. Brown is called back to the London office and looks forward to meet his long-time love Miss Violet. But Profula is not happy. She wants to accompany Brown to London.
- Aase's fiancee Tage is deeply in love with his future bride. At his birthday party he misses her in the reception rooms and goes looking for her. Tage opens the door to the ladies boudoir and find Aase there, almost naked. He can't hold back his love and throws himself over her.
- In a small tavern, the gypsy Luini plays his violin as in a trance. The bear hunter Carlo comes in thirsty for beer and love. He sees the beautiful Marietta who sings and dances in the orchestra. Soon she rests in his arms, which makes Luini react.
- Raoul meets Elvira. He becomes fond of her and they start a relationship. Elvira's daughter has also fallen in love with Raoul. She commence a relationship with him. This leads to a deadly conflict of jealousy.
- The white clown is very unhappy because his pretty wife is not faithful. It is the director of the circus that tear them apart. The clown has told his wife to stay away from the director, but she doesn't listen. In the circus there is also an artistic rider. She likes the clown a lot.
- A gardener runs a nursery. His son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery. The gardener, who has a good eye for daughter, runs furiously his son out of the house.
- "The Black Masks", a secret political society, involves the beautiful agent Lydia to apprehend an important official document. Lieutenant von Muehlen is a trusted member of another secret society. He is on the same mission.
- Anny works in a cigar-shop. Wholesaler Willmann fancy Anny and hire her as his housemaid. Soon the two have an intimate relationship. But Anny finds someone new. At a carnival. Her next step is to get Willman's son to get to his father's safe. Together they steal the family's fortune and have a great time doing away with all of it. Anny sink deeper and deeper in misery.
- At a Variety show, Count Raoul de Saligny spots the singer Elvira Sylva. He immediately becomes attracted to her, makes her acquaintance and begins a relationship with her. But Elvira's daughter fall in love with him as well, attracts him and initiates a relationship with him.
- The young woman, Nina, works as a singer at a Copenhagen variety, but when her contract expires, she is suddenly without an income for herself and her old mother. When she sees an ad in the newspaper looking for singers for a theater in St. Petersburg, Nina strikes - a few weeks later she leaves. It turns out, however, that she has been tricked and she ends up in a notorious brothel instead. She fears that all hope is gone, but at the same time her sailor friend goes ashore and set sails to find his Nina.
- General Bogdanewitch and his wife is about to say goodbye to their little son and watch the nanny drive the stroller towards the beach. Suddenly the nanny is assaulted and the child kidnapped. Twenty years later during a war in the Balkan's the General comes across a young man called Boris in company of a beautiful mysterious woman.
- Engineer Holm has fallen in love with the young porcelain painter Martha. He accompanies her both to and from the factory. Manufacturer Brenner's daughter Anna admires Holm. One day she sees him on his way to the factory with Martha. He kisses Martha, which arouses Anna's hatred.
- A blind woman's lost sight is restored in a Cathedral. Among the nuns there is one younger, Beatrix, more beautiful than the rest. Among the pilgrims is a handsome knight, Ritter. The two are attracted to each other during the service.
- Swedish author and playwright August Strindberg (1849-1912) died on May 14, 1912, in Stockholm. The funeral march, five days later, was accompanied by 60 000 mourners.
- A group of acrobats saves a girl from a burning windmill.
- Old optician Smith's foster daughter Elsa is out walking with her dearest Dr. Brink. No one suspects that the doctor is in fact the Crown Prince Balduin, nephew of the reigning Prince Oswald II. Now his uncle the Prince is dying and in this late moment he shows a secret document to Balduin that tells him that the regent has an illegitimate daughter.
- The spoiled daughter of a respected lawyer have excessive desires and wild expectations of life. Desires without giving up the mysterious in itself, the sphinx-like, is overwhelming, and only it gives the young woman a kick. Her last attempt to dare something new brings her to a noble painter for whom she wants to model.
- When Jim beats Buddy for stealing some apples, it begins a bitter feud between their two families. Soon afterwards, at an auction, Buddy takes a shot at Jim, and accidentally kills Jim's mother. Sally and Jim are in love with each other, further complicating the situation. As feelings become inflamed on both sides, a full-scale blood feud erupts.
- 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.
- The well-known Lord of Clewe suffers from a serious psychological condition, kleptomania. Despite living a rich bourgeois life among friends, he falls deeper and deeper into the ruin of the disease. He simply can not keep his fingers away from expensive jewelry.
- Young Adele find her father dead at the poorhouse. She is inconsolable and is taken care of by the gypsy Serena. Six years later Adele returns to the city as an attractive woman with a beautiful voice. The famous composer Lorien becomes her protector, but the Gypsy Pablo has other plans.
- During a hike, Erik and his younger brother Olaf come across Mrs. Willing. She has just lost her son and the meeting with Olaf raises a thought. 18 years later, Olaf is about to become a doctor and newly engaged. But then he meets the circus girl Annie and falls in love with her. But his brother Erik is also in the circus company.
- The shipowner Nick Watson, in financial crisis due to the crazy expenses induced by his lover Leona, commits suicide when he learns that his last vessel the "Florida", has plummeted. Before he dies, the man entrusts his daughter Mary with his brother Tom. But this, upset by the death of her father, who is locked up in an asylum. Leona then decides to take the place of the young woman.
- The future film director plays a matchmaker for fastidious gentlemen in this short slapstick style comedy.
- The work is a series of ornate tableaus that successively portray the arrival of the first steamboat, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, the discovery of the electric battery by Alessandro Volta, the invention of the telegraph, the opening of the Suez Canal, the first attempt to build a canal across Panama and the tunneling under Mount Cenis that linked Italy and France in 1871. The last of 11 scenes, ''Apotheosis,'' is a festival of nations with flag-waving dancers decked out in symbolic costumes.
- Georges Monk is the man who emerges from the underworld, changes shape like a chameleon and stages lucrative crimes. Now he has heard about military secrets and valuable secret transactions that he intends to get hold of through his accomplices.
- Count Strehlenau has an affair with a dancer who is not viewed favorably in his circles. She believes the count is seriously in love with her and intends to marry her. But she is just a temporary object soon consumed. When she becomes pregnant the count look elsewhere for entertainment leaving the young girl in total misery.
- The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very evening of his triumph at the Salon des Expositions, he decides to marry her. But, having become rich and famous, he soon falls in love with the Princess of Chaban and abandons the woman to whom he owes his success.
- A crooked lawyer schemes to dispossess the heir to a baronetcy.