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- Assunta Spina is a tragedy set in Naples at the beginning of the twentieth century. Assunta and Michele are in love but others come between them and there is much jealousy. They fight and Michele is sent to prison for two years for assault. Nevertheless, because Assunta still loves Michele she is vulnerable when Federigo offers to help Michele but only if Assunta becomes his mistress. Michele is released early from prison, finds Assunta and Federigo together and kills Federigo. When the police arrive, Assunta takes the blame for Michele's crime.
- An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day she is robbed of her meager savings.
- La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provincial bourgeois Armand Duval.
- Iza, a beautiful and sensuous charmer captivates a Prince, an Artist - all who come near the flashing of her luring eyes. And of one man's immense faith in her, and his desperate misery when he finds her false.
- Leonard, a poor cashier, is ardourously attracted to beautiful but despising Magdalena Dutertre. When time goes by and he becomes a powerful banker her elusiveness turns to fire. Last of the Seven Capital Sins (I Sette Pecatti Capitali) series of pictures made by Francesca Bertini associated with Italian producers Caesar Films.
- The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very evening of his triumph at the Salon des Expositions, he decides to marry her.
- Nelly, the dancer of the Black Tavern, is the girl, the gigolette, of the apache Zar-la-Mort, a notorious man of the Parisian underworld. She is forced by him to seduce the rich banker Albert, so that Zar can rob him of everything. Yet, Nelly falls in love with Albert, confesses the crime and repairs the wronging, fleeing with Albert to America. But even there they cannot escape the wrath of Zar, who tracks them down, kills Albert and forces Nelly to return with him to Paris. With equal, yet feminine cruelty, Nelly will take revenge.
- The dramatic events of the composer Mario Sirchi, falsely accused of murder, and his girlfriend Adonella who is revealed to have a secret sister: Nayda.
- A dancer and a Count have an adventure and a child is born. Some years after the mother will return and fight to have her daughter back, after being told out of pure envy that the baby had died in an accident. When she finds out the truth she threats the Count to tell everything about their past.
- Shy tenor Marcello is afraid to sing in public. Two of his friends think of having an elegant youth on the stage pretending to sing while Marcello sings behind the curtain. The scam is successful, but after a while Marcello summons the courage to go on stage himself.
- Marion is a famous café-chantant artist, daughter of art, and great beauty, the object of desire of many men. She only has eyes and heart for Mario, a penniless poet with whom she has a sentimental relationship.
- Engineer Ottavio Fortis returns to his homeland where nothing changes and laziness reigns, and there he meets Bianca again. Bianca, still unmarried, is considering a proposal that would make her become a duchess. Doubtful between love and wealthy, she will have anyway something to regret.
- Rosa is a woman with a tyrannical attitude. She is worried about her eldest daughter Anita, who is courted by Checco, a carpenter. Rosa is afraid her daughter will end up marrying a drunkard like her husband. He is a stubborn horse cart driver in a city (Florence) where everybody is turning to automobiles. Rosa's concern about Anita prevents her from realizing that her younger daughter, Ida, who is all by herself and resembles the still water of the title of the movie, is about to flee from home with Alfredo, a sort of journalist.
- A menaced politic leaves his child with another family who will raise her unaware of her true origin. When she grows up the son of a duchess falls in love with her, but the mother rejects her based on her supposed non-aristocratic origin. Little does she suspect what truth will unveil.
- A middle aged baroness thinks she is still young enough to have an affair with a military man the age of her son.She deserts her family and follows the youth to his post abroad.