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- Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
- A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.
- A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
- The dramatic story of Lady Hamilton's rise and fall in European society during the 1700s and early 1800s, including the romantic love story with Lord Nelson.
- General Director von Ulrich is determined to introduce the American working pace at his office. The first to get fired is his secretary; she's replaced by stenographer Sui Sachs. On a business trip to Paris, feelings evolve on both sides.
- Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
- A scholar defends prostitution before the World Court.
- Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go. After Lulu shoots the doctor, his son has to make a serious decision.
- About the rebellion of the youth and the increasingly debated erotic exploratory experiments - a modern theme of the late 1920s.
- In order to win a bet, British gentleman Phileas Fogg attempts to circle the globe in eighty days, along with his French servant, Passepartout. Fogg is wrongly suspected of having robbed the Bank of England and faces the risk of arrest.
- When Elisabeth of Valois becomes engaged, she believes her fiancé is the crown prince of Spain, Don Carlos, a poetic and liberal young man who is the hope of those who would like to see freedom of religion. Instead she gets King Philip, his father, who is a promoter of the Inquisition and oppression both in Spain and in Flanders. Carlos, however, remains in love with Elisabeth.
- In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.
- Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself.
- Milada grew up in a brothel on Rothausgasse, but has not yet become a whore herself. Resigned to fate, she has always followed her mother Katherina, an aging whore who was unable to escape this milieu herself. Now this mother is dying and makes her daughter, who is now 17 years old and working as a chambermaid in Mrs. Goldscheider's new "salon", promise to do everything possible to escape from this environment.
- Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage.
- In ancient, Tsarist Russia. Fyodor Protasov's marriage to his wife Lisa is over. However, the Russian Orthodox Church does not approve of a divorce, and so Protasov fakes his own suicide, before Lisa move in with her lover Viktor Karenin. Fyodor himself becomes a "living corpse".
- A variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body.
- Clarina guards her daughter and kills her attacker. Daughter Angelica is engaged to a nobleman and Clarina leaves her daughter. As the nobleman is injured in a duel, he marries Angelica on his deathbed.
- Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
- The timid, myopic and rather portly composer Franz Schubert falls for the beautiful, blond Countess Maria Esterhazy. Franz nurture unrealistic fantasies about the two, as Maria only admires him for his music.
- Count Campana, an elegant young poet, acquires an estate near Rome, mainly because he loves Maria, the beautiful wife of the tenant farmer Mariano, and feels sorry for her, as she is obviously mistreated by Mariano. But Campana's love goes to Princess Sora, the estate's light-hearted neighbor, who turns him on his head.
- Dramatization of the lead up to the First World War blames Czarist Russia rather than Wilhelmine Germany for precipitating "the burning of the world."
- This film was shot in Ufa-Ateliers Neubabelsberg, intermittently from late January 1930 through early March of the same year. In all, the shooting added up to 15 days. On March 24th 1930, the Censors (Filmprüfstelle Berlin) authorize it for projection (document: B. 25457, Jf). Richard Oswald's first full sound film, it premiered on April 3rd 1930. Breaking with the then popular wine, women and song genre by filling most of the main roles with leading stars from Berlin's cabaret scene (in particular Max Ehrlich, Siegfried Arno, Paul Morgan and Paul Graetz), this film immediately met with enormous public acclaim. Steffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retailer, Ignaz Korn, wants her to marry one of his card playing buddies, the butcher Burgstaller. When the typesetter, Cäsar Grün, purposely misprints a winning lottery number in the newspaper, Korn and Burgstaller, thinking they have won, pay the drinks for everybody in the Bock Café and then give away their businesses. Once the misprint is corrected, there is great disappointment and despair. However, in the end, orderly relationships are re-established on all sides ...and, back at the musical instrument shop, Pepi and Steffi are sitting together blissfully, their wedding announcement in hand.
- The second syphilis film poses the moral question: namely how far an illness should be considered a human disgrace. The protagonist of this story, a young doctor, believes that only characterless people can contract the disease through reprehensible actions. At a meeting in honor of a venereologist, a violent dispute erupts between the doctor who applies moral categories and a colleague who argues more objectively. Two events make the dogmatic young doctor think: his sister marries a syphilitic who has not yet been completely healed, and he himself falls ill as a result of a kiss from a young woman who also suffers from syphilis. But the doctor is healed and reconsiders his previous attitude.
- Paul Mauthner, a painter, has syphilis. A quack who promises a cure cannot help. Paul seduces his brother's wife and infects her with syphilis. While he then flees, the young, infected woman dies of the disease. The daughter born of this liaison, also infected, is admitted to a special clinic and can be cured there.
- About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
- Georg Bertrand is a game addict. The son of the old landowner Geierstein had broken his word of honor to his father and was then expelled from his parents' house. In his distress, the young man wants to commit suicide. But things turn out differently: Georg encounters a traveling circus whose director, the clown Müller, takes him in and trains him as an artist.
- About unwanted pregnancies and abortions as a result of unprotected sexual intercourse.
- Actor takes revenge as Othello on the unfaithful woman.
- Vienna 1826. The love story of the young composer Franz Schubert and his attempts to assert himself as a composer. Schubert's circle of friends includes, among others, the young Baron Franz von Schober and the painter Moritz von Schwind.
- Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.
- A Viennese architect opposes the ambitions of his girlfriend to become a cabaret singer, turns away from her, joins the infantry and prepares to do his duty on the battlefront.
- An anarchist attempts to use a formula for artificial gold as part of a plan to flood the world market, causing an international crisis.
- The Devil decides to go and visit Kurfürstendamm, where all His clients seem to come from. He settles at "Pension Elvira", where everybody cheats and deceives Him. He comes to the conclusion, that Hell is a much better place.
- In the third part syphilis is also at the center of the action. This time a landowner falls ill. He proves to be a real fiend, tyrannizes his wife and seduces the daughter of the forester he employs. When the young woman thinks she can't find a way out, she seeks suicide. Finally, the despot also dies and, post mortem, takes his son with him into the misfortune. The latter believes that he too is suffering from syphilis and is soon obsessed with this delusion.