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- Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
- A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- When Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade, her father exploits the mishap and blackmails Steve's father into supporting an illegal contract in city affairs.
- It tells the story of two hillbillies who arrive in São Paulo. Naive, they are deceived by rascals and fall into a vicar's tale, believing they bought a tram. They end up without money, having to return to the countryside.
- In a European kingdom, Princess Orsolini is to have a state wedding, arranged by her mother the Queen, but she is in love with Captain Kovacs of the horse guards. She is forced to break off their affair, but the Captain, outraged by this treatment, plots his revenge by convincing them he is actually a well known swindler and will expose his affair with the Princess, ruining her. To avoid scandal, the Queen agrees to his price; to let him spend a night alone with the Princess in his apartment.
- On the eve of her divorce, a mother enlists her sister's aid in smuggling her young son out of the house, fearing that she will lose custody of him and hides out in the apartment of her husband's bachelor lawyer, who has just left town for a month. Complications arise when the lawyer's parents unexpectedly pay him a visit, and the woman is forced to pose as his new wife in order to be able to stay hidden out in the apartment.
- The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
- After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
- This rich Gopinath ignores his beautiful wife Giribala, preferring the company of the stage actress Labanga. Tired of his only pastime, dressing up in narcissistic solitude, Giribala one night follows her husband to the theatre where a new world opens up for her. When Gopinath runs off with Labanga, Giribala joins the stage in Labanga's place and becomes famous. The hypocrisy of men's moral double standards is revealed when Gopinath recognizes his wife on stage when her veil drops.
- A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
- A clerk embezzles to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.
- Leftist proletarian drama of a young woman who is assisted by a working class youth in finding justice and avenging her seduction by a rich man.
- Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
- Maurice, a humble Parisian junk dealer who sells some of his wares at the Flea market, saves a boy from drowning. The boy's aunt Louise is grateful and wins Maurice's affections, but the lad's grandfather despises him. The jaunty junk man gets a great offer to sing in an important show and launch a theatrical career, but Louise is against it and at length, he must choose between the two.
- A lawyer spends the weekend with a married actress at the same hotel as his wife and her lover.
- How a funny Sunday is spent in the area of Paris and its surroundings.
- The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting a letter of recommendation from a "grandmother".
- In Spring is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema avant-garde, a non-fiction film made by Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and co-author, along the lines of the avant-gardist theory of «cine-eye». The film shows Kyiv in 1929, almost unknown today. Pictures of wakening city, its resurging life resonate with lyrical views of reviving nature. Kaufman's attentive camera dwells deliberately on smiling faces of children, lyrically depicting a declaration of love to Kyiv. In In Spring, Kaufman used the method of «hidden camera» for the first time.
- A nobleman marries a gypsy woman, but while at court he falls in love with a princess.
- Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany; the young man is ill.
- Archive footage from the 1920s juxtaposed against a film-within-a-film parodying the melodramatic excesses of popular cinema of the day.
- Film producer Winston L. Jaune gives his brother J. Lee a job in his company. J. Lee promptly steals company funds, spends lavishly in cabarets, at wild parties, and on women. Hw thereby put the company in financial difficulties.
- Hai-Tang (Anna May Wong) is a dancer in the French Riviera who, after her act takes a deadly turn, finds refuge in the arms of a young painter.
- About the rebellion of the youth and the increasingly debated erotic exploratory experiments - a modern theme of the late 1920s.
- Womanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him. Sometimes she encourages his advances, then she rejects him. Furthermore, there's a portrait of a young man in her room. When he offers her money her mother urges her to accept, she runs away. Some months later he discovers her dancing flamenco in a sleazy cabaret. She notices him, flirts with other customers, then with the young man from the portrait, before she starts talking again with Don Mateo. But the manager asks her to prepare for the next number. Don Mateo soon realises, that that next number is not on the stage, but in a different room. There she dances in the nude (shown!) for rich tourists. He interrupts her dance and asks her to quit. She half accepts and starts dancing in a different place. A rendez-vous with Mateo is again used to make him mad with love and jealousy. When he learns that the man in the picture is paid by Conchita to act as her lover, he gives up and decides to move to Paris with a friend. But then Conchita shows up to confess her love and they start a real romance...
- A spirited Norwegian Lass is torn between two suitors and two cultures.
- Mary Hopkins leaves her husband to study painting in Paris. A former sweetheart persuades him to go to Paris for a divorce. Jack wants wife back after she confesses an imaginary affair. Rhea is discredited, and Jack and Mary are reunited.
- Soviet film about the role of Frunze and Furmanov in suppression of the 1928 uprising in Fergana.
- Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.
- In his last film, silent star William Russell plays the motorcycle policeman father of one of the restless and reckless new generation of late 1920s youth.
- Biography of Joan of Arc from her departure from Domremy until her death in Rouen.
- A Parisian playboy living beyond his means falls in love with a beautiful society woman fleeing her husband. He turns to robbing and swindling the wealthy to pay for their lavish lifestyle but his past finally catches up with him.
- A vaudeville magician and his lady assistant break up their team, when he becomes infatuated with a socialite, only to get back together when she is almost killed in her new act gone wrong.
- The romance between a Czarist officer and a passport-less girl obliged to share a sleeper compartment on a train in early twentieth century Russia.
- Propaganda film about the 4th party convention of the Nazi Party.
- 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.
- The quest for a sparkling pearl necklace stolen by a beggar under the gaze of a prostitute, who persuades her unemployed friend to steal it back, with tragic consequences.
- Salesgirl Frances is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a friend who also works at her store. Just as she is getting ready to leave home, handsome young plumber Dave arrives to repair a leaky faucet. Her vacation turns into a bust when it rains at the beach, but a hunky lifeguard shows up to brighten her day. Then, of all people, Dave the plumber shows up, too. Complications ensue.
- A couple of boy gangs in Budapest constantly fight over the neighborhood turf. One of the Paul Street gang members is a highly sensitive youth that is humiliated and taunted by members of his own gang as they consider him somewhat of a sissy. In order to prove that he is not yellow and as part of a battle preparation he has to get wet in an icy pond. He does so, his gang wins, and they are about to confer an honor on him the next day, but he has died from getting wet the previous day.
- A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
- Looloo (Polly Walker), owner of a seaside coffee shop, falls in love with sailor Bilge Smith, who is on shore leave, but her sudden wealth sabotages the romance.
- A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.
- A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.
- On an island off the coast of Brittany four isolated men collect seaweed. Two young best friends have a quarrel and when one's thumb becomes infected his friend must risk his life on the ocean to bring him to the doctor.
- Famed playwright Donald's latest work flopped because fiancée Betty is too unsophisticated to play the lead. It's time for the flower of Magnolia Gap, Virginia to travel to Gotham for some experience. However, her next-door neighbors are gangsters.