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Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.

A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.

A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.

General Director von Ulrich is determined to introduce the American working pace at his office. The first to get fired is his secretary; she's replaced by stenographer Sui Sachs. On a business trip to Paris, feelings evolve on both sides.

Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.

A scholar defends prostitution before the World Court.

The dramatic story of Lady Hamilton's rise and fall in European society during the 1700s and early 1800s, including the romantic love story with Lord Nelson.

In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.

Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go. After Lulu shoots the doctor, his son has to make a serious decision.

In order to win a bet, British gentleman Phileas Fogg attempts to circle the globe in eighty days, along with his French servant, Passepartout. Fogg is wrongly suspected of having robbed the Bank of England and faces the risk of arrest.

A variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body.

Count Campana, an elegant young poet, acquires an estate near Rome, mainly because he loves Maria, the beautiful wife of the tenant farmer Mariano, and feels sorry for her, as she is obviously mistreated by Mariano. But Campana's love goes to Princess Sora, the estate's light-hearted neighbor, who turns him on his head.

Milada grew up in a brothel on Rothausgasse, but has not yet become a whore herself. Resigned to fate, she has always followed her mother Katherina, an aging whore who was unable to escape this milieu herself. Now this mother is dying and makes her daughter, who is now 17 years old and working as a chambermaid in Mrs. Goldscheider's new "salon", promise to do everything possible to escape from this environment.

About the rebellion of the youth and the increasingly debated erotic exploratory experiments - a modern theme of the late 1920s.

Dramatization of the lead up to the First World War blames Czarist Russia rather than Wilhelmine Germany for precipitating "the burning of the world."

Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.

A Curse ? Every Friday the 13th dies a family member of the Family Eulenstein. The last victim is the Herbert von Eulenstein and his son engages the detectives Fix and Fox.They caught a crazy member of the Family who lives as Prof. Cardallhan in the same village.Cardallhan murders to get the money for himself.

In ancient, Tsarist Russia. Fyodor Protasov's marriage to his wife Lisa is over. However, the Russian Orthodox Church does not approve of a divorce, and so Protasov fakes his own suicide, before Lisa move in with her lover Viktor Karenin. Fyodor himself becomes a "living corpse".