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- A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
- A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
- A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
- Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Etzel, King of the Huns, and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but she loses more than she bargained for.
- Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
- In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
- A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
- A pair of borrowed pants are an obstacle to a sailor's romance.
- An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
- A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
- Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also as a relative complete bio of Hearst.
- A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
- Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
- After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.
- Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.
- Two girls are invited by the tight boss of the boyfriend of one of them for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, policemen, and a brat make getting the ice-cream even close to the car where the rest are waiting impossible.
- Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
- A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
- The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
- Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
- Mickey, Donald and Goofy run the "Ajax Ghost Exterminators" agency. They receive a call from lonely and bored ghosts to come to their house where they are scared silly by the hilarious haunts and taunts of these spirited pranksters.
- Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
- Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.
- A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.
- A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.
- Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
- A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.
- About the last years of the life of the great artist Modigliani. A poor Italian artist suffering from alcoholism and opium addiction falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents are categorically against it.
- Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and Sally, an old girlfriend he hasn't seen in years, are expecting him at the dock, but because of unfortunate circumstance, they are mistaken about each other's identities but meet not knowing this. Jimmie decides that he must find that girl. Finally, after annoying a policeman and much of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. To get her attention, he dresses in rags to meet her, but his way of introduction causes more confusion.
- A nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star.
- When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
- A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
- Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to gives him the name of his partner.
- A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
- This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.
- A junk man travels to Africa to find a rare metal-eating bird.
- Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue of Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work, the husband of one of them rehearses his part in a play (reading a 20th century philosophical text about totaliarism) at the theater. Returning home, the couple decide to go on vacation in the mountains.
- A few moments before Charley is to marry, a "friend", who is jealous, gives him an anonymous note stating that the bride has a wooden leg. Charley cancels the wedding, but agrees to leave her his very expensive engagement ring. His "friend" sees his chance to get the ring and tells her otherwise. But when he tries to hide the ring in his top hat, Charley finds out that he has mistakenly taken the wrong hat--the ring is in Charley's. He decides to go on a cruise. The bride, who has found out the reason for Charley's change of mind follows them on her father's yacht. Aboard the liner, Charley is fooling around with his top hat, and it takes a while 'til he finds out about the hidden ring and starts wondering about the situation.
- This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a non-Jewish dancer, and marries her. In the end he chooses success on the stage.
- Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.
- When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
- Swashbuckling adventures of young army recruit Fanfan la Tulipe during the reign of King Louis XV in 18th Century France.
- After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.
- A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
- The history of dance depicted on film.
- An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.
- Annette Eldrige is sentenced to three years in a reformatory after being caught with stolen jewels. The sadistic woman in charge of the reformatory makes life terrible for everyone; furthermore, she's embezzling money. A member of the board of trustees falls in love with Annette, and for her sake he tries to change things at the reformatory.
- Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to this behaviour his father bans him from his family. Baruch, who joined a small burlesque troupe is discovered by an Austrian Erzherzogin (archdutchess) who introduces him to the director of the most important Theater in Vienna, the Burgtheater. Baruch receives a contract there and becomes more and more an assimilated jew. But his relation with the Erzherzogin isn't approved by the Austrian court, so they have to end it. When an old friend of his father, who is always traveling from one Jewish community to the next (and has told him first about the theatres in the world), Baruch becomes a little bit homesick and returns for a holiday to his old shtetl to see his folks and to pick up his childhood sweetheart. But his father wants him not to enter his house, so he returns to Vienna, with his bride. But his old friend does not stop trying to convince his father of his errors.
- Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest. Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
- A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.