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- In Southern Bavaria, Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel insists his elder daughter Liesel marry first. Liesel is shunned as too brutal. Seppel suggests marrying Liesel first, ridding her, then wedding Gretel.
- The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
- A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.
- The story of the great German composer, from his childhood through his great triumphs in orchestral and operatic music.
- A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.
- The young bride Anna von Glassner receives mysterious letters shortly before her wedding with Count von Fahrenwald. The Count is said to be insane.
- In the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of striptease and opera, Adorée Villany in front of the camera crosses the boundaries of both genres.
- In the form of a shadow, Death emerges from the sea and convinces an unhappy woman to commit suicide by returning to the sea with him.
- Harry Travers falls in love with Margaret Booth, a nurse who is in attendance upon his invalid aunt. Offered a position in the Orient, he decides to accept it. Before leaving he tells Margaret of his love and obtains a promise of marriage. In his new location he speedily forgets the girl. Meantime the aunt dies. Margaret thus losing the friend and the home of years, takes a position as nurse to an invalid army officer. She waits in vain for a letter from her fiancé, who ignores her written pleas to be remembered. Dazed and hurt, she suffers in silence. Later there comes a letter to her ostensibly from her fiancé's employers, telling her of a serious accident which has fatally injured him. She takes this to be true, not knowing that the fickle lover has himself caused the letter to be written. The Colonel she has been nursing falls in love with her and asks her to be his wife. Believing her lover dead, she accepts and marries him and with him and his little daughter lives in idyllic happiness. One day the Colonel's son, a young fellow in the navy, returns to his father's house and at once succumbs to the charms of his step-mother and loves her as though she were really his mother. By a strange chance the step-son, Douglass, has met Travers in the east. He invited him to visit him whenever he returns to his own country. Travers calls at the Colonel's house and meets his old sweetheart. Returning to his hotel, he writes her asking her to meet him. Douglass finds his step-mother in great distress and hears the truth. Seeking out Travers, he demands reparation for the insult offered his father's house and later in a duel stretches him wounded upon the ground. Then, returning to his house, he is the means of reuniting his father and step-mother.
- After meeting an ex-lover Eva runs away from her marriage and family into a world of vaudeville and drugs. She becomes an actress that satisfies the men around her. Heavy addicted she understands where the path she has chosen leads.