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- Taken from a short story by Maupassant, the action revolves around a middle-class couple. The husband borrows a pearl necklace from a jeweller friend for his wife to wear to a party. It is much admired at the party, but she is followed home by a burglar who breaks in and steals it. The next morning, the friend needs it back. It belongs to a customer he had been repairing it for. Excuses are made and they promise to return it later. They try to borrow money from friends to buy another, but without much success. Eventually, driven to desperation, the husband steals money from where he works and buys a replacement, which is returned to the owner. The husband, however, was seen taking the money from the safe at work, and is duly fired. The couple descend into poverty, and the wife reproaches herself for her vanity which has led them into such straits. The husband finds work and things improve. His supervisor, incidentally, is the husband of the lady who gave the party where the whole story began. This supervisor is, however, being blackmailed, and when the husband finds out, he follows the supervisor and saves him during a physical attack by the blackmailer. While the supervisor is in hospital, he is visited by his saviour and his wife, and their wives, old friends, meet. The husband describes their situation and how it began with the loss of the pearl necklace. The supervisor is guilt-stricken. It turns out that he had noticed how impressed his wife (at the time he was one of her suitors) was impressed at 'that' party by the pearl necklace. He had paid a ruffian to steal it and bring it to him, so he could present it to her and win her heart. This it did, since they are now married, though he has regrettably ruined the other couple's lives in the process. He now offers help, and though his agency, the husband takes over the supervisor's job at the factory, and by selling the necklace, is able to purchase back his original house. All is back as it should be, though the wife has vowed to never let her vanity lead her astray again.
- The first silent adaptation of the Chinese legend of the White Snake. The film is considered lost.
- Bandits Lu and Zhang agree to deal with the Thirteenth Sister. They plan to lure her into Zhang's nest, but she doesn't fall into the trap. The girl fights them until Ji comes to the rescue with government troops.
- The first Chinese sound film. It tells the story of Hong Pion (Red Peony), a singer-songwriter who, after her marriage to the depraved Faxiang Chen, not only tormented and suffered, but also endured the decline of her artistic career.
- The story of a farmer's son sent to study in the city, where he marries a wealthy heiress. In the end, his wife leaves him, and he is forced to return home to his village, where he learns that his family is ruined and starving.
- To please his dying father, Hong Yu, a college student, is forced to abandon his girlfriend, Little Hong, and marry his cousin, with disastrous results.
- The story of a young novelist who is supported by a loving and hard-working wife. The novelist, however, is drawn to the decadent life of a socialite who introduces him to the dance halls that dot Shanghai.
- A primary school teacher rallies the citizens of a small town to resist the corruption of the local government and unite to build reinforcements against an oncoming flood.
- Actress Su Lanying said goodbye to the stage and got married, believing that a woman should have reliable support. But having experienced all the "charms" of family life, humiliated and insulted by her husband, she returns to the stage.
- Screen adaptation of Han Tian's play "Dance of Fire". Farmer Qi Agui and his cousin Areng have been in love with each other since childhood, but Areng was vain and dreamed of marrying a rich man.
- The story of a poor family living in China's slums. The daughter is forced to work at the docks. When it is learned that the slum's landlord is preparing to demolish the entire tenement, the daughter is forced to give up her body to her landlord's son in exchange for a delay in construction.
- The entaglement of a deserted child Qiling who start to work for his biological father Menghua's construction company 24 years later.
- This film for the first time in Chinese cinema dared to touch upon the theme of the armed struggle of the peasants against the landlords with such force, shown with unprecedented courage and interspersed with a touching love tragedy.
- A hostess in Shanghai invites her secondary schoolmates to a reunion. They each reminisce about their lives, with some having difficulties in marriage or career. Some led destructive lives, while others contributed to the country.
- Through the misfortune of the heroine Ying Yang's family living in a foreign land, the film truthfully describes the miserable life of the northeastern compatriots who fled to a foreign country after the incident of September 18, 1931.
- About the trials and tribulations of the family of a poor fisherman.