Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves, of course, in various guises and eras. Four of the stories are literary horror stories (one by Poe, one by R. L. Stevenson), and the last one is a comedy involving a fake haunting.

In 1432, while François Villon is still an infant, his father dies as a martyr to his devotion to France. François grows up to be a renowned poet, an ardent patriot, and a notorious carouser who is not above criminal acts. During the revels of All Fools Day, he insults Duke Charles of Burgundy, for which King Louis XI, who is afraid of Charles, banishes Villon from Paris. In exile outside the city walls, François looks for ways to protect France from Burgundy's plots. When Charles plans to have one of his associates marry the king's ward Charlotte, Villon successfully disrupts the engagement, but for so doing is sentenced to death. But Villon finds a way to exploit Louis's superstitious nature long enough to give him another chance to serve France, while at the same time seeking the hand of Charlotte.

聲譽日隆的醫生與妻子漸行漸遠，繼而戀上了跳舞女郎，和她搬到鄉下雙宿雙棲。兩人遇上失明的畫家，醫生治好了畫家的雙眼，而女郎則愛上了復明的畫家，直至畫家的眼睛再度失明……北海岸邊對比強烈的光影，襯托着生死愛戀的掙扎。茂瑙不斷反覆講述的三角戀愛和良心角力故事，在他這部最早的傳世作品中已經可見。改編自丹麥劇作家夏里亞‧布洛的作品《勝利者》。

In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke's castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke's sister, which complicates everything.

A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.

第一次世界大战，瑞典是中立国，法、英、德等国在这个国家都有他们的谍报组织。玛德琳以做服装生意为名穿梭于巴黎和斯德哥尔摩之间，她将绣有法国军事情报的高档女装带给斯德哥尔摩的德国情报组织、德国发现玛德琳的情报有假，开始怀疑她的身份，玛德琳从容面对一切，但她的生命已受到威胁。法国情报部门以她出卖法国假军事情报为由要求瑞典警方将玛德琳驱逐。玛德琳在瑞典警方的严密监视下视下踏上回法国的旅途，德国情报组织将在船上暗杀她，麦里维其上校将她带离商船，原来她是个优秀的法国谍报人员，而一直暗中帮她的麦里维其上校则是德国和法国情报组织的双重间谍，玛德琳成功逃脱，上校却生死难料……

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.

A prosperous man encounters a sleazy blackmailer who discovers that he is gay. Released in 1919, this film is an amazingly frank depiction of a homosexual relationship. Banned at the time of its release, later burned by the Nazis, the film was believed lost for more than forty years

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.