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Angela (Mary Pickford), who tends the lighthouse in an Italian fishing village while her two brothers, Antonio (Jean De Briac) and Mario (Eddie Phillips), are fighting at the front in World War I, finds a foreign sailor (Fred Thomson) washed ashore who pretends to be an American. Angela cares for him, and they fall in love and are secretly married. In aiding his escape, she realizes she has helped a German spy and caused her brother's death through the spy's actions, but, after being caught, the stranger jumps to his death over a cliff. A child is born to Angela and, temporarily deranged when her sweetheart Giovanni (Raymond Bloomer) returns blind from the war, the nuns at the convent give her baby to Maria (Evelyn Dumo), who has lost her own child. Maria is drowned in a storm, but Angela rescues her child from the same shipwreck and finds happiness in marriage with Giovanni.

A young socialite struggling to control her necrophiliac urges is torn between her affection for a kind businessman and the mortician who supplies her with bodies.

Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and imagines that he is related to a king who goes incognito.

A British nobleman heavily in debut to a moneylender agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her know that the marriage is strictly a business matter and that he could never have romantic feelings for one of "her kind".

Sally Clayton commits suicide when she is betrayed by Steven Saunders, and the tragedy kills her mother. Determined to revenge them, Janis Clayton becomes Saunders' personal secretary and encourages his attentions when he sends his wife to Europe aboard a ship directed by him to take a dangerous course. During a supper at his home, Janis reveals her plan to ruin him. He then attempts to kill her but is shot by a Bohemian artist whose wife and child have gone down with the ship. Janis becomes an outcast until she finds refuge in a clergyman's home and is reunited with her former lover, Bud.

Mary Lane and her cousin Claiborne want to sell some land left to them by their family. Real-estate agent Roland Manning falls in love with her, and prepares a deal that will make money for both of them. However, shady land speculator Wade Dempster plots to get Claiborne drunk and swindle him out of the land. In order to get the honest Roland out of the way, he has him framed for a murder that Wade himself committed. Things look hopeless for Roland.

In France, artist Arthur de Sivry, also known as the Marquis of Savoy, falls in love with Marie Gautier, a peasant girl from the country. His depraved uncle, Count de Baudine, who leases his farm to the Gautiers, makes unwelcome advances on Marie until she joins a troop of entertainers in Paris. Arthur follows her to the city and offers the use of his vacant apartment. Upon learning of their arrangement, the count spreads rumors to ruin Marie's reputation and claims that Arthur is engaged to another woman. Marie's father returns from a visit to Paris and, believing the rumors to be true, tells his wife of their daughter's downfall. However, Arthur finally proposes to Marie and all ends happily.

A group of young twentysomethings face a fall in their lives undergo a major transformation when the time came to take on adult responsibilities. David is 27 and has long been working as a messenger, enough to know it's time to quit.

A rich man, whose only friend is his dog, loses his money and goes to jail, through the dirty work of his enemies. The dog finds refuge with another pup for a while but ends up with out a home of food. Upon getting out of jail, the dog's master spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.

A scheming Police inspector tries to defraud an insurance company in a complex plot of murder and prostitution. His plan is ruined by a young outlaw bent on revenging his sisters' disgrace.

When the humiliation and grief of his eldest son's shooting rampage and subsequent suicide threatens to pull him under, a brokenhearted father (Rasmus Lyberth) leaves his family and tight-knit community and heads into Greenland's bleak landscape. As he journeys forth on an antiquated dogsled with no destination, he eventually finds solace -- and the soul he lost long ago -- in the form of a mystical hermit (Anda Kristiansen).

Lupin (referred to as "Rupan" in AnimEigo's translations) must rescue his companion Goemon's bride-to-be after she is kidnapped by a ninja clan intent on stealing her family's ancestral treasure.

The story of Bertha, a young immigrant woman who cleans the homes of the rich and is largely ignored by them, except for a young poet who considers her a muse.

Griffith lifted this sequence from Intolerance and edited it into a complete feature film in its own right. It's the Old Testament story about the destruction of Babylon and includes the spectacular Feast of Belshazzar and the Battle at the Walls.

In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.

César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded inventor. The latter comes to propose a new type of carburetor to the company when César has to hand in the day's takings to his superior.

Florentine Fair, a famous actress who is satiated with theatrical life, falls in love with Roger Dent, an unsophisticated youth with a passion for writing plays. Taking him to New York as her protégé, she encourages him to write. Although her lover Mortimer is insanely jealous at first, he finds merit in Dent's new play and finances him on Broadway. The young dramatist offers his hand in marriage to the actress, but she refuses him and accepts Mortimer.