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It's amateur night at the local theatre, and a procession of bad acts comes and goes: various musicians, a magician, and some actors. But they keep getting interrupted by Egghead singing "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain".
Houses, now abandoned and empty, are being boarded up in Besence of the Ormányság. "Only-childism" is in fashion, due to the law that provides for the way in which landed properties are inherited. The birth of children that are "not desirable" is being prevented through illegal medical intervention, which is often responsible for the death of pregnant women. The happiness of János and Julis are also the victims of this attitude: their parents would not hear of another child.
About the construction of the Ferghana irrigation canal.
Four young artists who live in a boarding house fall in love with the new lodger.
Because his future wife abandoned him shortly before the wedding, an old baron has decided that he doesn't want any women near him anymore. The daughter of the flaky woman decides to take it upon herself to get the baron and her mother back together again and dresses up as a gypsy boy to use music from "his" violin to soften the baron's heart ...
Eva's aunt is jealous of her neighbor's excellent roses and wants to know the secret. To help auntie out Eva applies for secretarial work at the neighbor's house in order to find out the formula. Things get complicated when it turns out that Eva's brother is in love with the daughter of the house and also wants to get in there under false pretenses.
The story of the circus family Bohlin.
Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.
Arinka, a young girl who lives near the railroad, discovers a ring of spies who are preparing the terror act.
Samson Brown is a lazy and shiftless husband who lets his wife, Hannah, support the family. He is constantly insulted and annoyed by his in-laws, who live with them, and finally takes off for points unknown. At home, life goes on as usual with the exception of a former suitor who shows up to court Hannah when it is believed Samson is dead. While wandering around the desert Samson discovers a valuable radium deposit. The now-rich Samson plans to return home and sort out the family matters but first he buys a nightclub.
An adaptation of Machado de Assis' eponymous short story, preceded by a short telling of the author's life and works.
A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie discovers 25,000 Marks hidden behind a picture in the rail car. The money was put there by a Dutch couple, who tried to smuggle the money across the border during the train’s last journey. Sorely tempted to keep the money, Amalie turns it over to the authorities. The smugglers, who finally find the rail car after a long search, will be turned over to the cops, too.
A film by director Fuqing Wang.
Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justiniano Conquian . By chance, a taxidermist (Joaquin Pardavé) also named. His case is different: it is a millionaire heir heritage potential, but will only be legally recognized if it meets a peculiar condition in the will, having to spend a whole month in the gloomy castle Conquian, competing with other heirs of fortune. Dr. Jimenez is bribed by a cousin of Justinian to send the false Conquian scares Castle into thinking that is the sanatorium.
Dinky Duck wants to belong to someone, but no one wants him until a chicken falls into the water and heads for the waterfall.
The introduction of Lantz's little black-boy character, L'il Eight Ball, finds him going to bed in his small cabin and being visited by a baby ghost. He avers he is not afraid, and his isn't, so the little ghost transports him to a haunted mill where the adult ghosts hang out. They run the little hero through all the standard ghost tests and, while he is shaken, he still will not admit to being scared.
The border smuggler leader Lee Geum-ryong had a sweetheart Kim So-young, who was only looking for a chance to escape. Geum-ryong's subordinate, Jeon Taek-i, is in love with So-yeong, but helps So-yeong to escape from the smuggling lair. Geumryong's gang pursues and a fight breaks out, and Jeon-taek uses all his might to defeat the gang and crosses the border with So-yeong.
Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.
Three orphaned brothers and an elderly inventor, who live in the countryside, become acquainted with a young governess and her uncle, who live in a large estate nearby.
In this stunt-film, Hero Samar (Jairaj) singlehandedly takes on the might of the oppressive state led by the warlord chief (M. Zahoor). He falls in love with the chief's sister Ila (Mehtab) and fights his revolution from the tavern of Dulari (Shirin) with little more than a band of adventurers, a leatherface mask, his faithful dog Tiger, and his horse Bahadur.
A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam boats will be replaced by buses, but Captain Johansson and his daughter Eva are at the forefront of the protests.
Walter gets a ham radio for his birthday.
This film claims that the Germanic tribes predated the knowledge of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, then compares these findings with the contemporary German regime of Adolf Hitler.
At a cartoon studio, a drawing of a jitterbug comes to life and encourages the other drawings to dance and sing. Meanwhile, the cuckoo bird in the cuckoo clock is desperate for sleep.
A Japanese film.
Three women fled to Shanghai due to the war and rented a room in the back of a building. They met four homeless men, who, coincidentally, lived next door, and the seven became friends. When the landlord cut off the electricity to a tenant who couldn't pay their rent, the seven intervened and learned that the man of the house was serving in the army, leaving only the invulnerables in the family. To help them, the seven performed an open-air play in the city center square to raise funds.
The film takes place during a time of famine. Norway has been at war with England and Sweden, and times are tough. Gjest Baardsen has gotten into trouble with the law, apparently over a trivial matter. But Gjest breaks free, and instead it is the sheriff who is locked up in handcuffs. And Gjest continues to flee, with sheriffs and good people in tow.
The well-behaved Prosper De Leeuw from Lier is a grocer and, in his spare time, a member of a choir called "Het Ruisende riet" (The Rustling Reeds). Both at meetings and rehearsals, he shows admirable dedication to the cause. The choir wins first prize in Antwerp. Everyone celebrates heartily in the café until Prosper breaks a valuable vase. He is thrown out and, without a penny in his pocket, he stumbles back to Lier. On top of that, he contracts severe pneumonia. The whole town is shocked because Prosper De Leeuw is suddenly on his deathbed. Prosper confesses everything to his wife.
Nora, the wife of the architect Heinz Ottendorf, feels neglected by her husband. He is getting more and more engrossed in his work, but Nora, apparently a stranger to hard work, suspects that the real reason for her husband's diverted attention must naturally be another woman. Robert, the cousin of Nora's friend Marianne, has long been in love with Nora and sees an opportunity to win her hand. Heinz, for all his distractions in his work and the phantom lover he doesn't have, isn't quite ready to let Nora go. While he may be married to his work, his work is a fickle mistress: he makes a career error and this leads to near financial ruin. He begs Nora to be patient with him. Marianne, who for her part is in love with Heinz, spins a web of deceit and intrigue, which leads to Robert taking a potshot at Heinz and then eventually causing Robert to kill himself.
Hanna is deeply worried about her husband Thomas Bracht's fidelity because he had a rendezvous with the singer Jeannette Danieli. She leaves him and meets with the singer for a heart-to-heart. Very soon, she realizes that her jealousy was completely unfounded. Her flirtation with a travel companion is also quickly forgotten, and she returns to her husband, full of remorse. When Thomas learns of her affair, they decide to put the past behind them and face the future with confidence.
This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".
A village healer accuses a plastic surgeon who comes to the mountains to rest of being diabolical.
A down-and-out clerk happens upon a bag of money. Unknown to him, the money is all counterfeit, forcing the innocent man to become involved with gangsters, as well as federal agents.
Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in Valencia, falls in love with Miguel, a young sculptor. When Miguel leaves for Paris to complete his studies, the lovers promise to wait for each other. During Miguel's absence, however, the Duke of Montesino calls on Francisca's father and asks for her hand in marriage. Her father, pressed for money because of gambling debts, agrees to the match.
This is the story of a woman who returns to her neighborhood after a long absence and leaving behind dubious company. Her arrival causes misfortunes and revives dark forgotten feelings.
Conscientious middle-class clerk, Mr. Lahtinen tries to find the melody of his life.
Film starring Khursheed and Sitara Devi
Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's play on moral values, is adapted for a setting in Shanghai. Young wife Meilin mistakenly believes her husband is having an affair with a social butterfly and decides to leave for a suitor. Her reputation, about to be ruined because of a misplaced fan, is saved by the social butterfly who turns out to be …Unlike typical Chinese scripts on parental love, the understated familial love in the original play is aligned with Li's preference for the undramatic. Motherly love is portrayed indirectly while emotions run strong yet subdued in the film. Poking fun at social culture of the times, this is Li's earliest extant feature film in a modern setting and a showcase of his modernistic and crisp directorial approach.
Bikash never devotes enough time to his wife, Karuna. Soon, she begins to find solace in the company of her childhood friend, Ashok, destroying their marriage all the more.
All through the school-year with a teacher and his fifth-grade boys.
The Fisk Tire Company enlists the help of a stuntman to demonstrate the safety features of their newest tyres.
The "gentleman" is played by John King, but the star of the show is J. Farrell McDonald, cast as a chronic gambler named Coburn. When the old man loses every penny he has, wandering cowboy Pokey (King) comes to the rescue by grooming a wild stallion for a successful racetrack career. Everything comes to a head during the climactic Big Race, with the expected (but still satisyfing) results. Ruth Reece and Joan Barclay share the leading-lady responsibilities, while the villainy is in the capable hands of Monogram's ace utility actor Craig Reynolds.
The perverse owner of a cabaret gets redemption by sacrificing himself for the happiness of others.
Maurice Farinet, a young Swiss peasant, has found a gold deposit in the mountains and starts producing counterfeit money. He is arrested but manages to escape. The village people are on his side and shelter him. Arrested a second time, he runs away once again and is hidden and protected by Joséphine, the waitress of the inn, who is in love with him. But Farinet puts the mayor in an awkward situation. Should he bring him to justice or not?
Based upon true events and the novel by Gabriel Scott about terrible conditions in a foster family.
Ashour lives happily with his kind-hearted wife until one of her relatives tries to separate her from her husband Ashour, with the help of one of the girls who tames lions in the circus, who is able to make Ashour believe that he is a very attractive man to whom women are attracted.
The film shows a red fox looking for food in the wild. The fox is stalking across a forest meadow. Then it stops, undecided, to scent and secure its food. On its way, it carefully examines every track...
A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.
A fiery rivalry across two generations of gypsies sparks when a scorned love leads to tragedy. Decades later, a free-spirited young woman, unknowingly caught in the ancestral feud, must reconcile her wild heritage with bourgeois life when a passionate abduction reveals her true lineage and destiny.
Birgit Johansson works at the Match Factory in Jönköping. In a matchbox she puts her photo and address to find a partner.
Four school chums who meet yearly are missing their friend, who was working in a Stockholm bank and supposedly killed himself. But was it murder, instead?