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- A loose and unofficial silent adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau.
- Depicts Africans as cannibals and subhuman and white females as objects for sexual desires.
- Christian Wahnschaffe, the spoiled son of an industrialist, meets Iwan Becker, a leader in the Russian Nihilist movement. Impressed by Becker's concern for society's weak and poor, Christian develops sympathies for the movement's ideals.
- Two scientists get entangled in the theft of a Holy Tibetan document, a Sutra. As they rescue a Tibetan girl, one is apprehended and the other recovers the Sutra.
- Toni wants to become an opera-singer. Her mother was once simple chanteuse. Toni marries the brutal industrialist Liesegang. An Italian doctor falls in love with Toni. He want's to see Liesegang dead.
- Weryha throws his wife out into the street in jealous rage. When struggling the woman gives out a cry of pain and despair. This terrible scream remains in Weryha's ears forever and haunts him constantly.
- Theater director Hassenreuter has housed his stock of costumes in a place where all sorts of outcast live. Drug addicts, prostitutes, and criminals symbolizing dirt, poverty and decline of morals of society.
- Cardinal Richelieu gives the order that the twin brother of France's King Louis XIV should be removed from the court and taken to the country. There he is educated, without knowledge of his true ancestry, and kept as a prisoner.
- A janitor has three daughters. Amelie is employed in the fashion shop of Leopold Siedentopf who seduces her, Annie works for a photographer and Martha is a launderer and is in love with Franz, a chauffeur who uses the boss's car to drive the three girls to work every morning. When he reports late to work one day, he clumsily tells his boss, Mr. Brandstetter, that he ran over a young girl. When he demands to see the victim, Franz introduces him to Annie and he falls in love with her. They soon get married. Annie's mother, who feels ashamed of her social condition, uses an apartment in her building whose lodgers are on vacation as her own when her son-in-law visits her and pretends she is the widow of a secret service agent. However, when Mr. Brandstetter surprises his chauffeur speaking too casually with his wife, not knowing that he is actually her brother-in-law, gets the wrong idea and Annie, upset with the whole thing, goes back to her mother's. Brandstetter decides to drown his sorrow and goes out to a party where, by chance, he meets Amelie and Martha. When Franz sees his girlfriend with his boss, he too gets upset. Annie and Martha are soon joined by Amelie at their mother's because she also left her husband who, it turns out, was unfaithful. The next day, Brandstetter comes back to the janitor's building where everything is explained. He embraces his new family. Franz and Martha make up and Amelie also finds happiness with Emil the bartender, an old flame of hers whom she always loved.
- A wealthy industrialist's son who dabbles in radical politics in the Weimar era meets up with a pimp while slumming in a miserable working class rooming house.
- A countess, paying a rare visit to her estate, clashes with its manager, in this opera adaptation.
- Two poor musicians rise from rags to riches. Money, fame and their love for the same woman begin to crumble their friendship, revealing the true natures of both men--one noble and kind, the other a greedy, ruthless beast.
- The actress Marion de L'Orme visits the racetrack alongside the industrial magnate Jan Bracca, where the crowd awaits the main race with the favorite Maximum in feverish anticipation. The precious animal belongs to Achim von Wehrstädt, who was once in a relationship with Marion. It is a disaster for von Wehrstädt when his horse loses the race because he had bet all his money on winning. When Achim meets Marion, she makes him a strange suggestion. Since she would like to be a wife instead of a lover for a change, but Bracca is married, Achim is supposed to give him a reason for a divorce, since Jan's wife Daisy would not voluntarily agree to a separation.