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- 10 years ago Wolf and Sabine Palfy got divorced. Since then, their daughter Charlie grew up with her father, and her twin sister Louise lived with her mother. They never knew anything about each other until they met by chance at boarding school in Scotland. At first they cannot stand each other, but after a while they start gathering information about their origin. Realizing their relationship, they plan to bring their parents together by Charlie visiting their mother pretending to be Louise while Louise goes to their father pretending to be Charlie.
- When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.
- Sükran who works at pay box of Haydarpasa is around 40 ages. She has a son whose name is Veysel. He works in a factory. She suffered from her husband's political actions, so she wants to keep away Veysel from political actions. Veysel get lost. She tried to find him but she did not. She called upon the competent authorities to find him but she was refused.
- Chingachgook, son of the chief of the Delaware Indian tribe and faithful friend of Hawkeye the Deerslayer is raised by his tribe after being orphaned
- Insane doctor Ten Brinken, using the semen of a dead man, artificially inseminate a prostitute. The resultant child grows up to be a beautiful but evil woman who turns against the man who created her.
- After a quarrel Henny leaves the apartment. New fellow-lodger of Robby and Kalle becomes Paul. The three guys couldn't be more different, but nevertheless all of them have the same problem: women. When the mysterious Malu appears, each of them wonders if she may be their dream-woman.
- A mad scientist "creates" a beautiful but demonic woman, the result of a forced sexual union between a woman and a mandrake root, a plant said to have magical powers due to its uncanny resemblance to the human body.
- After the tragic loss of her husband, a young woman reconstructs the circumstances which caused his death. During this attempt to find her own way in daily life again, more and more recollections and occurrences appear on the surface, seemingly to foresee a tragic end. Looking back, events appear to her like signs, chance meetings like disregarded warnings. On her search for meaning between yesterday and tomorrow, reality seems to split like a labyrinth, like an awakening after a nightmare, with no way out.
- Their eyes heavy with grief, Edith and Violet, dancers, return from the funeral of their sister, Grace. They find a letter marked, "To be opened after my burial," which encloses a photograph. This, the dead sister identifies as the man who has wronged her and through his falseness has brought her to her death. Her request is that her sisters seek him out and avenge her. Strangely enough, she omits to mention his name and address. Conjuring before them the image of the beloved departed, Edith and Violet swear to find the unknown and wreak their worst upon him. Assuming new names to aid their search, the sisters are engaged to dance in a music hall. Here comes Viscount Henry, and a party of friends. This count is peculiarly attracted by the mysterious masked sisters. He asks the manager to introduce him. Violet's beauty is the source of particular attraction. The other sister fears danger and recalls to her her sister's fate. This count persists, although a likeness to the dead Grace, to whom he once promised marriage, causes him uneasiness. Edith, calling upon the viscount to learn the purpose of his attentions, accidentally finds her late sister's portrait. Returning with the portrait of the viscount the sisters compare the one which the sister had enclosed in her last letter. They are identical. Edith reminds Violet of their oath of vengeance. It falls to Edith's lot to execute the oath. She goes to the viscount's house and confronts him with his guilt. He orders his servants to arrest her. She escapes. Keenly anxious, the other sister, Violet, comes to the house about this time. She is daunted by the onrush of the pursuers who are chasing her sister. Mistaking Violet for Edith, they pursue the former, and a stern and exciting chase it is. Edith, in the meantime, returns to the house, where she meets the Viscount, now unprotected by his servants. A shot from Edith's revolver, and a long fall down a secret passage ends his evil life.
- Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of Lieutenant Colonel Munro, are traveling with Major Duncan Heyward from Fort Edward to Fort William Henry, where Munro is in command, and acquire another companion in David Gamut, a naiive singing teacher. They are guided through the forest by a native named Magua, who leads them through a shortcut unaccompanied by the British militia. Heyward is dissatisfied with Magua's shortcut, and the party roam unguided and finally join Natty Bumppo (known as Hawk-eye), a British scout, and his two Mohican friends, Chingachgook and his son Uncas. Heyward becomes suspicious of Magua, and Hawk-eye and the Mohicans agree with his suspicion, that Magua is a Huron scout secretly allied with the French. Upon discovery as such, Magua escapes; and in the (correct) belief that Magua will return with Huron reinforcements, Hawk-eye and the Mohicans lead their new companions to a hidden cave on an island in a river. They are attacked there by the Hurons; and when ammunition is exhausted, Hawk-eye and the Mohicans escape, with a promise to return for their companions. At length, Magua and Hurons capture Heyward, Gamut, and the Munro sisters, and Magua offers to spare the party if Cora becomes his wife; but she refuses. Upon a second refusal, he sentences the prisoners to death; but Hawk-eye and the Mohicans rescue all four, and lead them to a dilapidated building. They are nearly attacked again; but the Hurons leave them unharmed, rather than disturb the graves of their own fellow-countrymen. The next day, Hawk-eye leads the party to Fort Henry, past a siege by the French army. Munro sends Hawk-eye to Fort Edward for reinforcements; but he is captured by the French, who deliver him to Fort William Henry without the letter. Heyward returns to Colonel Munro and announces his love for Alice, and Munro gives his permission for Heyward's courtship. The French general, Montcalm, invites Munro to a parley, and shows him General Webb's letter, in which the British general has refused reinforcements. At this, Munro agrees to Montcalm's terms that the British soldiers, together with their wounded, women, and children, must leave the fort and withdraw from the war for eighteen months. Outside the fort, the column of British prisoners is attacked by 2000 Huron warriors; in which massacre, Magua finds Cora and Alice, and he leads them toward the Huron village. David Gamut follows. After the massacre, Hawk-eye, the Mohicans, Heyward, and Colonel Munro follow Magua, and cross a lake to intercept his trail. A canoe chase ensues, in which the rescuers reach land before the Hurons can kill them, and eventually follow Magua to the Huron village. Here, they find Gamut (earlier spared by the Hurons as a harmless madman), who says that Alice is held in this village, and Cora in one belonging to the Lenape (Delaware). Disguised as a French medicine man, Heyward enters the Huron village with Gamut, to rescue Alice; Hawk-eye and Uncas set out to rescue Cora; and Munro and Chingachgook remain in safety. Uncas is taken prisoner by the Hurons, and left to starve when he withstands torture, and Heyward fails to find Alice. A Huron warrior asks Heyward to heal his lunatic wife, and both are stalked by Hawk-eye in the guise of a bear. Soon after revelation of his identity to Heyward, Hawk-eye accompanies him, and they find Alice. They are discovered by Magua; but Hawk-eye overpowers him, and they leave him tied to a wall. Thereafter Heyward escapes with Alice, while Hawk-eye remains to save Uncas. Gamut convinces a Huron to allow him and his magical bear (Hawk-eye in disguise) to approach Uncas, and they untie him. Uncas enters the bear disguise, Hawk-eye wears Gamut's clothes, and Gamut stays in a corner mimicking Uncas. Uncas and Hawk-eye escape and the Hurons vow revenge. Uncas, Heyward, Alice, and Hawk-eye travel to the Delaware village where Cora is held, and where Magua demands the return of his prisoners. Tamenund, the sage of the Delawares, frees the prisoners, except for Cora, whom he awards to Magua. To satisfy laws of hospitality, Tamenund gives Magua a three-hour head start before pursuit. The Delawares vanquish the Hurons, but Magua escapes with Cora and two other Hurons; Uncas, Hawk-eye, and Heyward pursue them. In a fight at the edge of a cliff, Cora, Uncas, and Magua are killed. The novel concludes with a lengthy account of the funerals of Uncas and Cora, and Hawk-eye renews his friendship with Chingachgook. Tamenund prophesies: "The pale-faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the red-men has not yet come again....".
- Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not long until the charming swindler Avi steals all her money - but she doesn't give up: She hunts him down, follows him around, demanding her money back.
- A dancer who is a member of a secret revolutionary society gets revenge on her straying lover by implicating her rival as a traitor.
- Dancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them the English ambassador. But the leader of the "Carlist - Movement", a gang of desperados, kidnaps her, she falls for him and he proposes. But the English ambassador is trying to improve the Spanish-English relations and sent his spies after her, getting the information about her future groom, and the Spanish government is very interested in getting his head...
- Depicts the memories of the author, published in 1907 as an anonymous biography under the pseudonym NOBody, but was, following the taste of the time, dramatically oversubscribed. A child born without a clear gender is raised by the father as a boy, later by the uncle as a girl and dissected after death.
- The entangled love affairs between a group of Germans in their twenties provides the basis for this sudsy drama. During the course of the story, the friends attempt to cope with their feelings about commitment and to sort out their feelings about each other. Radio host Robert is living with Sara whom he plans to marry if they can ever leave their busy work schedules long enough to plan it. Nick, a budding actor has just returned from New York after getting tossed out by his latest girl friend. He begins courting Sara and his old flame Katherine, Sara's boss, simultaneously. Nina, a waitress copes with a female cab driver and poor Felix, brother of Nick, is too dumpy and goofy to have a girl friend.
- Harry Wright, visiting Lord Chester, expresses admiration for his picture, "A Glance Into the Past," which tells of a moment, tragic terrible in the life of a celebrated fortune teller. Lord Chester tells the story of the picture. "In the town of X lived Zira, an old fortune teller, with her servant, Harel. In the same house lived Alice Janere, who begged her to reveal the secrets of her future, but Zira's lips were sealed. She had promised Alice's mother that never would she tell the girl what might befall in the tomorrow. 'I will be your fortune teller,' said Alice's mother, 'and your fortune is both spiritual and my material. The savings of lifetime are for you,' and the mother went to a picture on the wall and released a spring which allowed the portrait to open outward. In the cavity lay a humble treasure of jewels and money. There were other ears who heard, other eyes that saw. John, the betrothed of Alice, coming to visit her, paused in the doorway. He closed the door softly again and went away, the light of avarice in his eyes. The next day brought evil doings. An unscrupulous woman with whom John had been intimate, blackmailed him for twenty-five hundred dollars. John, weak and dissolute, went to the home of his fiancee in the dark of the night. His knife mutilated the picture. He stuffed the treasure into his pocket. A sound at the door, Alice's mother entered. A struggle. Out of the door fled the criminal. On the floor was stretched a dead woman. The shock and the fight had stilled her heart for evermore. John returned to his apartment. The blackmailer called and demanded the hush money. A struggle outside the door. Alice, having discovered her mother lying dead on the floor and the domestic bank rifled, went to her fiance for aid. Rushing into the room she attempted to embrace him. He repulsed her. Alice noticed the pearl necklace and locket which belongs to her mother on the blackmailer. The truth came upon her. 'You are the murderer of my mother,' she cried as she fell unconscious. Zira adopted the bereaved Alice. A short time later Zira died. Going to another town Alice led a double life. As Ethel Landier, she was sought and respected as a wealthy and beautiful young woman. As Mera the teller of fortunes, she was the talk of the community. Mera learned much as to the inner lives of people while in her pose as an heiress. Eavesdropping at a reception one evening, she overheard a young girl telling a friend about her sweetheart. His picture was in a locket. It was loose and when the girl rose it dropped to the floor. The features were those of John, the false lover, of John, the burglar, of John, the murderer. John's new fiancee was eager to visit Mera, but John was averse. He decided to visit the fortune teller himself to learn how much she might know. He went to the house at 13 Mysteria Street. Mera entered her residence, which connected with the fortune telling house by a secret passageway. In a mirror's reflection Mera studied the features of her betrayer. Mera was guarded in her readings, her object being to allow him to think that she had little ability in telling the past or the future. She said that at the next masque ball at midnight a black domino would appear. At the masquerade ball at midnight the woman of the black domino walked quietly and silently into another room. He followed in doubt and in fear. He tried to pull the masque from her face. A revolver flashed in her hand. 'Do not look into my face,' said the woman behind the domino, 'for it conceals death, death to you.' A faintness came upon him. A few minutes later he was found unconscious. The black domino had disappeared. John, anxious that his bride-to-be should be given a roseate reading by the fortune teller went to Mera again and sought to bribe her into giving a false reading to the girl. 'I will paint you as you deserve,' said the seer sternly. His money lay untouched on the table, but John believed that it had accomplished its mission. He took his fiancee to the house of mystery. 'Your future will be clear to you if I expose the past,' Mera said, and by a manipulation of cards, she called back to John's memory the things that had been. Enraged, John rose to his feet and grappled with the medium. He pulled the wig and the concealing spectacles from her face. A shot rang out from the rear from the revolver of Harel. 'To look upon my face was death to you. I told you,' murmured the medium. This is the story of a wonderful picture."
- Two old friends lose their jobs as bargemen on the Elbe.
- George Neville, son of Professor Henry Neville, an eminent professor of medicine, received a letter from Hedda, a former flame, reminding him of past promises. Neville, meeting Hedda, tells her that his engagement to marry another girl quite interferes with Hedda's plans, but that he will adhere to his word to make an experiment in manufacturing artificial diamonds, which experiment, by its publicity, will be of great aid to her. Elvira, a famous dancer, is playing at the same theater, and she and her manager are angered by the publicity given to Hedda through the heralded scientific endeavor. Elvira, noticing that a mysterious masked man (Neville) has several times visited Hedda's dressing room, determines upon discovering his identity. Hedda is waiting for Neville to come to her with the final solution for hardening the artificial gems when she is alarmed by the arrival of an attendant bearing the visiting card of Professor Neville. George arrives. Warning Hedda not to allow a vial of powder to get into connection with a powerful acid lying in a shallow pan, he is nearly finished when he is startled by seeing his father's card. He attempts to flee. Begging him to complete the experiment, she struggles with him and in so doing upsets the acid into the powder. A revolver lying on the table is exploded and Hedda falls dead across a couch. Professor Neville and several other men of science had been knocking at Hedda's door. Hearing the shot, they all rush in, to find the actress dead, and to see a man running down the fire escape. In the dead girl's hand is found a locket, wrenched from the chain of the man with whom Hedda had struggled. It contains the photograph of George Neville. George is arrested at his home. Professor Neville begs permission to interview him alone. George, stumbling into the laboratory, overturns a vial of chloroform. He falls. His father enters. Suicide? The Commissioner of Police enters, and thinking George is dead by his own hand, goes away. Shall he allow his son to die? Shall he give him back to life as a felon? A Spartan father is the professor. He telephones for the police and revives the boy, who comes back to consciousness to find himself a Prisoner. The police, unconvinced of George's guilt, begin an investigation. How the truth was found presents a train of intensely interesting incidents, revelation rather to be seen than written.
- Nina, who has fallen into evil ways, and has sunk into degradation, reads of the success of her twin sister, Cleo Valiere, a journalist, who has written a novel which has won great success. The sisters long have been estranged. Cleo has sought to hide from her wealthy and aristocratic husband the ignominy of her sister's profligacy. When she sees the wanton girl about to enter her house she is terrified lest the kinship become known. She pleads with Nina to go away and tries to smooth the difficulties of that course with the lubricant of money. While they are conversing the factories of Cleo's husband are burned. In attempting to rescue work-people he is badly injured. As he is carried into the house, Cleo hurries out her sister, wrapped in a cloak given to her by her husband. Nina is mistaken for Cleo and against her will brought to the bedside of the injured man. In his semi-delirious condition he does not perceive that she is not his wife. Nina, frightened, flees from the house. She is seen by the doctor, who follows her to the door of her low dive. Suspicious and indignant that Cleo, of whose identity he had no doubt, is carrying on an illicit love with her husband near to death, the doctor confronts Cleo on the following day and demands an explanation. She begs him to cease his questionings. Unfortunately, the husband has overheard. Staggering from his bed, he denounces her. Nina goes again for money to Cleo's house that night. She wears the cloak Cleo had given her. A terrific storm comes up. Henry, the husband, consumed with anxiety, has in vain searched for his wife. Fascinated by the magnificence of the tempest, he is standing by the window. A vivid flash of lightning illumines the grounds. He catches a glimpse of the familiar figure of his wife enveloped in a familiar cloak, entering the house through a French window. There is a deafening peal of thunder, a blinding zigzag of electric flame. Dazed, Henry staggers toward the storm refugee. Dead, seared, blackened by the fury of the heavens she lies. In anguish he rises to his feet. The door opens. A woman enters. He stares in bewilderment. It is his wife.