Year by year: 1931

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

Maurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship with him.

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.

Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.

A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.

Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.

Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.

At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.

A prostitute's self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I.

Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.

On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?

An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.

Marius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.

A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.

Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.

A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.