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Yu is a young man who has a past he desperately wants to forget. His present is that he is a superhuman top agent for Arcan, an organization dedicated to protecting ancient artifacts to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. However, he receives several bloody messages, culminating in the suicide of a friend, telling that Noah would be his death. In response, Yu travels to Turkey to visit the Arcan dig at Mount Arrat, where Noah's Ark is supposed to have rested. Along the way there and at the destination, he learns of forces of his past have returned to stop him and sieze control of the Ark, which turns out to be an alien device of ultimate power.

George Otis, a dishonest promoter who uses his wife to forward his schemes, finds himself in danger of arrest for embezzlement and seeks to cover himself by borrowing from John Howard, his wife's former suitor. Failing, he sends his wife to visit Howard and obtain the loan, but the unhappy wife goes to her mother instead for the money. Caught by a second financial disaster, Otis tries again to persuade his wife to borrow from her former lover. Realizing at last his weakness and deceptiveness, she arraigns him for his liaison with Grace, a society girl, and he threatens to blackmail Howard; but Howard's denunciation renders him helpless, and Florence leaves him for a happier life.

A dancer, Vera, is married to a nuclear scientist, Tasos. She suffers from multiple sclerosis and is in very bad condition. In a little church on Aegina, according to rumors, supernatural things happen. True miracles. The President of the community is Tasos' father, and so Tasos himself has the chance to experience from up close many remarkable incidents. Bedridden Vera reads the biography of Saint Nektarios, patron saint of the island, whose life we follow in parallel. This strengthens the religious faith of both the heroine and her husband. A new diagnosis, however, changes the facts, and Vera, after a surgical operation, is completely cured.

This legend drawn from the Asokavadana stories is set at the time of the Maurya empire (3rd C. B.C.). Kunal (Sandow), son of Emperor Ashoka (Athanavale) amd Queen Padmavati, has beautiful eyes but a prediction says he will go blind. The villainous Tishyaraksha (Yakbal) gains Ashoka's confidence and plots to have Kunal blinded and killed. The official executioners spare Kunal and he becomes a wandering singer accompanied by his favourite wife Kanchanmala (Moti). In Pataliputra, Ashoka hears Kunal's song, realizes that Kunal's misfortune may have been a punishment for some past sin of the emperor himself and condemns Tishyaraksha to death, restoring Kunal to the court.

Bret Harte's story of Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl who is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the Stagecoach.

A social film critiquing decadent urban values, it tells of Sundarlal who leaves his wife Lalita and children to make a living in the city where he succumbs to depravity and vice. His son dies and his beautiful daughter Sarju defends her virtue and tries to support her mother in conditions of extreme misery. Dressed as a man and accompanied by the blind Baldev, she scours the city in search of her father, encountering difficulties, including a drunken millionaire she rescues with whom she falls in love even though he mistakes her for a boy.

This is the story of the war that altered Spanish history, the struggle between the supporters and opponents of the Spanish Second Republic, which raged between 1936 and 1939. During the war, new names were written large in world history; names such as the Republican supporting International Brigade and the Nationalist General Franco, who led his side to ultimate victory. Features archival film and location footage, plus dramatized eyewitness accounts. With many photographic images, the program also features expert interpretation and analyses to provide historical and political background to the war.

Nina Graham, left penniless by the death of her father, takes a job as governess to Derek Jesson, the son of Filmer Jesson, member of Parliament. Jesson's wife, Annabelle, is secretly in love with an army officer and is planning to leave the country with her lover. But she is killed in an automobile accident before any of this can be revealed. Nina stays as governess, and finds companionship in helping little Derek. Geraldine, who is Jesson's sister, looks upon Nina with disfavor. But Jesson, seeing Derek's fondness for Nina, asks her to marry him. The two go to Paris on a honeymoon. There, Nina meets Jesson's brother Hillary. When Nina asks her husband to take her to a fancy dress ball, he refuses, reminding her that Annabelle would never indulge in that kind of activity. But Hillary offers to take her, and she wears a striking costume which wins first prize. Jesson becomes enraged at this, and plans an immediate return to England. When the pair return home, Jesson becomes more and more critical of his wife. Nina then overhears him telling Hilary that he made a mistake in marrying her. Nina prepares to leave, but then some old love letters which show Annabelle's infidelity fall into Jesson's hands. He realizes he has made a mistake, and finally turns all his affection to Nina.

A biographical look at the life and contemporary impact of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). At Radcliffe a student of William James, to Paris with her brother Leo: they take up residence at 27 rue de Fleurus and buy their first paintings by Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, and, later, Picasso. Saturday evenings become salon night. She begins writing, influenced by Cezanne's idea to let each part be as important as the whole. She meets Alice B. Toklas. Hemingway comes under her spell. She contrives to purchase Bilignin. After World War II, she has a triumphal tour of the USA. Friends and acquaintances speak; her words and those of Toklas make up the rest of the narration.

Business had been bad with "The Winsome Widow" musical comedy company and press agent Cutey was worrying how to keep the ghost walking when he read in the daily paper of the coming to New York of Miss Cissy FitzGerald, a musical-comedy star with a famous wink. He contrived to meet Cissy before she landed and persuaded her to join the company and changed the name to "The Win(k)some Widow" musical comedy company. Things are now considerable brighter, but Cissy's world-famous wink plays havoc not only with the public but with members of the company, including Cutey, her manager Hughie, and her orchestra leader Tosco, to say nothing of millionaire Gotrocks and wealthy clubman Jack. The show started on a prosperous run. Cissy tires of hotel life and rents a house. She invites her admirers for a house warming and they arrive, each bringing some animal as a pet, including a tame bear and a monkey; and each proposing with a ring. The next day she receives a 'phone call from her five admirers and suggests a quiet little supper after the show. Her husband arrives before she can warn her expected guests, compelling her to hide them. As they try to make their escape, their sudden appearances keep Cissy's heart on the jump, until Gotrocks, hiding in the fireplace, gets an idea from the soot on his face, sneaks a lambrequin from the mantel, wraps it around his head and is presented to Cissy's husband as her Hindoo servant. The other four get an idea from Gotrock's costume and appear in turn. Hughie as "her aunt from the country," Tosca as a chef, Jack as a maid of all work and Cutey, who is hiding in the piano, as a piano tuner. Tosca, as the chef, is ordered to cook a special dish for the husband. His efforts to make good causes the stove to pour forth a dense volume of smoke. Neighbors, thinking there is a fire, call the fire department who flood the house with water, giving Cissy's admirers opportunity to escape. Husband and wife are now left alone with the exception of the various pets, who are peacefully floating about with the real maid.

It's not often you see a British film with four black leads. Co-writer Mark Tonderai stars as west London posse leader Rooster, who dreams of landing a top DJing gig with his mates. But what with obstructive bouncers, disgruntled porn barons and elusive girlfriends, achieving this proves more difficult than they'd hoped. Clearance of some underlying rights may be needed for this title in NAM.

A dog named Thunder, the weakling of his brood, is born in a lumber camp in the North Woods, operated by Anita Baker. The cowardly dog is cast out of the camp and adopted by forest ranger Allen Gregory. Meanwhile, Bill Martin, the brutal camp superintendent, covets both Anita and her property. When Bill attacks Anita, Thunder comes to the rescue and proves his courage by warding off the villain.

A footballer is sold to a rival club and wins the match despite a broken arm.