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- A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
- Pickpocket Libby gets support from street performer Charles, and her dancing leads to her invitation to theater patron Harley's party which in turn launches Libby's stage career while Charles keeps on struggling in the streets.
- A young Chinese woman working in the kitchen at a London dance club is given the chance to become the club's main act, which leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love, and murder.
- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- In the Dutch islands, the sister of a pious missionary attempts to reform a womanizing, drunken beach bum.
- A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court to find out who framed his father and why.
- A penniless brother and sister move back into their childhood home, a rundown country manor. Their plans to launch his journalistic career by faking her murder go awry when they fall foul of a gang of jewel thieves trying to find the loot stashed somewhere in the house.
- 1921: as Irish nationalists battle with British Forces, a young girl is torn between loyalty to her brother, unbeknownst to her an IRA leader, her fiance, a police inspector, and his comrade and rival in love, a British Army captain.
- A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
- Rudi goes to Vienna to arrange a marriage and save his bank. He meets Steffi and they fall in love. His bride-to-be Lucy neither wants to marry him, as she loves a musician. The four team up. English version of Es war einmal ein Walzer.
- Lady Diana attempts to seduce her young chauffeur only to later charge him with assaulting her.
- In old Heidelberg the marriage of a student to a princess is nearly compromised when the landlady pays his debts from the kindness of her heart.
- A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
- Misunderstandings abound when a penniless young man lets his flat to an engaged couple.
- An heiress poses as a marquise's companion to avoid fortune hunters.
- A flirtatious husband tries to steal a dancer's necklace from his wife. So does a crook.
- A church vicar tries to come up with 1,000 pounds to fix the church's crooked steeple. After a variety of schemes fails to raise the required amount of money, he decides to bet what little savings he has on Dandy Dick, a nag running at the local racetrack who's a 10-to-1 shot.
- Which soldier will the naive, impressionable Raina choose to love - the unromantic, hard-nosed, tough Bluntschli, or the handsome, dashing, reckless (and extremely stupid) Sergius?
- Ken Douglas wants to marry Betty Norman, but her father says not unless he earns at least 2,000 pounds a year. Douglas, a reporter, gets an assignment to get a story on Sunville where sun worshipers less clothes than perhaps they should.
- Future Connecticut governor John Lodge stars in the British crime drama Sensation. Lodge plays a hotshot reporter who devotion to his job is messing up his private life. Despite warnings from his girl friend that she'll walk out if he follows up one more hot scoop, Lodge tries to flush out the murderer of a waitress.
- Through the use of newsreel footage and re-enacted sequences, this B.I.P. production, modelled along the lines "The March of Time" shorts, presents a record of the highlights of the previous twenty-five years, to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. It depicts incidents starting with his coronation. and on through political problems, woman suffrage, strikes, trade expansion, World War I, and the depression, while also showing the changes in living style and progression.
- Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker (Jessie Matthews) is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale (Gene Gerrard), but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela (Kay Hammond), who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
- In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid faces resistance from the Young Turk party, while also becoming infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer.
- Two acrobats compete for their beautiful female partner, until one of them decides to leave the circus.
- A whimsical spectacle of a little boy's adventures with a gang of bandits who are terrorizing a small southern European town.
- George Winters is a self-made man, a wealthy unscrupulous businessman and M.P. for Middlepool who has married into the impoverished nobility for reasons of status. But when his wife threatens to divorce him in public immediately before a general election, a scandal threatens that could endanger his latest bit of shady dealing. Winters is a man used to winning, and he will do absolutely anything to make sure he keeps his seat in Parliament, his ill-gotten gains and his wife...
- Ricardo is a brilliant singer struggling for success in Venice. He gets a contract in a recording house and his voice becomes famous, but his short stature makes performances still elusive. When he meets Nina he makes her briefly believe his tall and handsome friend Rico is the singer. English version of the original German release the previous year also played by tenor Joseph Schmidt, one of his few pictures..
- Nautical comedy in which several girls aboard a boat have to be concealed, the farce features typical scenes of characters running in and out of rooms.
- Comedy from 1933 providing an early film role for Leslie Fuller, seeing the popular, rubber faced actor and entertainer once touted as Elstrees own Clark Gable playing identical twins with very different ambitions, one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
- (1930) Jameson Thomas, Muriel Angelus, Jack Rain. Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
- A Southern Maid is a 1933 British musical film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Bebe Daniels, Clifford Mollison and Hal Gordon. It is based on the operetta A Southern Maid by Harold Fraser-Simson. A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure. It was part of the cycle of operetta films popular in Britain in the mid-1930s.
- Silly ass Jimmy (Claude Hulbert) gets drunk in a nightclub, and is then confused with the leader of a gang of robbers.
- A recently engaged girl invites her parents to meet her fiance. They learn that he also loves another woman.
- Bill, a bumbling, dim-witted fellow and his shrewish wife win a holiday to Spain at a Whist tournament. Along the way, he and a famous Matador named Tormito get into an altercation, leaving Bill in the bullfighter's clothes. Seperated from his wife, he's taken for Tormito by the natives, and forced into a match at the local arena.
- A bird's-eye view of life in a City of London office.
- An actor is bribed by a rich man to ruin his son's touring review.
- A nerdy scientist comes up with a formula that turns him into a strongman.
- A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.
- A girl with amnesia believes she is a bachelor's wife.
- British groom-to-be Billy Milton is labeled a "beast" by French floozy Ellen Pollock as Milton marches down the aisle. The groom's father, Robertson Hare, endeavors to prove his son's innocence. Removing his trademarked monocle, Hare poses as the boy's maiden aunt to get the goods on Pollock.
- The estranged son of a newspaper owner, who returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
- An author marries a married whore because she resembles his dead fiancée.