In 1916 the Santiago society shuddered with the crime of a wealthy businessman. Corina Rojas, his young wife, was the first woman sentenced to death in Chile and her story inspired the first national feature film.
William Dale, a servant for Lord Barradine, marries Mavis, a maid. Dale wants to move up in life, and with Lord Barradine's influence, becomes district postmaster. When he vents his anger at a soldier however, Dale is in danger of losing his job.
Big Bill Branigan, one of the tough characters of London's Limehouse district, falls in love with Curlytop because of her sweet innocence. He leaves his sweetheart, Bessie, for her and resolves to go straight. When he sets out to find a job, the jealous Bessie gets Curlytop drunk and hacks off her long curls.
New York society member Priscilla Maine is troubled by strange dreams in which she vividly sees members of the underworld involved in a murder. She confides this to her admirer, Dr. Philip Fosdick, who undertakes to solve the mystery.
Bhadon, an aged chemist, actuated by the decree of Buddha that in America the secret of making artificial diamonds would be discovered, gives his life to the cause and succeeds. Elated at his titanic success. Bhadon sends his trusted Hindoo servant to the high priest in India, pleading that Shedah might be spared to assist in disposing of the product. Shedah, the powerful emissary for the cause, is dispatched with her two bodyguards to American soil, where, through her wiles and marvelous beauty, she is enabled to effect sale after sale to the wealthy. This monstrous flooding of the American market with gems of astonishing brilliancy and value alarms, to a marked degree, the Kimberly interests, who controlled this outlet.
About the booming of smuggling alcohol across the Baltic Sea between Estonia and the neighboring and alcohol prohibited Finland. Fiery love relationships are another theme of the film.
Businessman Leonardo, loves women especially model/student Francesca, who appreciates the attention but refuses to succumb to his charms. He then meets writer Emanuelle, who offers him a true sexual challenge.
A man carries his dead wife to the trunk of a car in front of their 4-year-old daughter. All together they drive to a lake far into the forest, where the father plans to dump the body and end the lives of himself and his daughter. However, everything is not what it seems...
After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the lineage of the Baskervilles, Henry, returned to the old family mansion. The charismatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, investigating the case, and discover the existence of a supernatural hound that in addition murderer according to history, killed many years ago Hugo Baskerville, the first of the line, and it seems that the curse stalks his descendants.
An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced to take a harsh sentence; and a mother and her two children wander the countryside in search of some kind of redemption.
When Elisabeth, a woman of faith, host of a radio show on a Catholic radio station, devoted to her family and the suffering of the world, is confronted with the pedophilia of priests and the suicide of her son, belief gives way to rage and to violence.
A woman is ready to take her revenge against the people who murdered her brother. By any means necessary.
Kings should be treated courteously! At least, that's what famous music critic Georg thinks. But he finds himself counting pennies when his chief editor suddenly fires him from the Viennese newspaper for which he has been writing for decades. While keeping his dismissal a secret from his psychotherapist wife Johanna, whose mind is occupied solely by getting pregnant, Georg begins to plot his revenge.
A three-card-trick player wins at strip-poker.
The film tells the story of a man's quest for revenge after his father is killed in a land dispute.
The film tells the story of a man who witnesses a major drug ring. Kemal is a middle-class employee at a company. One night, Kemal's car breaks down on his way home, so he leaves it where it is. That night, a murder is committed by a major drug ring at the spot where he left his car. Kemal did not witness the murder. However, Commissioner Murat tells him that the network can be dismantled thanks to his testimony. Nevertheless, the network has already killed everyone who has testified against them. Kemal agrees to testify. However, the network has already taken action to silence him.
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Two lovers fall into a passionate love affair in the underworld.
During WWI, soldier Calvin Price dreams of returning home to marry his sweetheart, Janie. Upon his return, he finds himself shunned because local rivals, the Sparklin brothers, have framed him as a coward and a drunk. Janie has even engaged herself to one of them. Calvin tracks down the brothers, forces a public retraction of the lies, and restores his reputation as a town hero. When a regretful Janie tries to win him back, Calvin rejects her and chooses Rosy, a loyal childhood friend who supported him all along.
After the death of her father, Nelia (Jaclyn Jose) goes to find her mother and discovers that she owns a whorehouse.