The Wonderful Chance (1920)
Género : Crimen, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 52M
Director : George Archainbaud
Sinopsis
Upon leaving prison, an ex con vows to go straight, but circumstances force him to return to crime. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks kidnaps a visiting British aristocrat, but the ex-con has an incredible likeness to the Englishman, and his intended hosts take him home to their mansion.
In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit has two affairs which don't work out, and one lesbian friendship which she retains. She is looking for a husband, though, and thinks she has spotted a candidate in her fellow factory worker. As she contemplates marrying him, her story is told in a series of flashbacks.
Vampire hunters track down a vampire and attempt to steal the ashes from his coffin in order to stop him from reviving nightly.
El Dr. Caronte y su grupo de científicos locos construyen una bomba de neutrones con la que intentan chantajear al mundo libre para obtener el poder global. Pero aparece el héroe, Neutrón, que, con ayuda del Dr. Thomas y la reportera Nora, echan a perder tales planes.
Otto Scheidel (Manfred Krug) has been captain of the Elbe steamer Jenissei for over twenty years, but his ship, the last of its kind, is going to be converted into a floating restaurant. Otto, whose his strong attachment to the ship has already cost him his relationship with his girlfriend Caramba (Renate Krößner), refuses to take another job and instead joins a railway construction brigade.
In order to stop a vampire from terrorizing the countryside, some locals decide to break into his coffin at night and steal his ashes. Complications ensue.
Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confidence."
"Man is absolute ruler. Woman is working slave.” Such are the rigid attitudes framing this tale of a country boy’s beliefs about chivalry that lead him to try to escape a brutal father with the girl he loves
A young man pursues a young lady with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing.
En Hawái, Hula Calhoun, hija de Bill Calhoun, propietario de una plantación de piña, pone el ojo en un ingeniero inglés casado. Basada en la novela: Hula, un Romance en Hawaii de Armine von Tempski
Heath Haldane (Houdini) tracks down a vicious gang of counterfeiters, narrowly missing death several times. He must rescue Adele Ormsby, whom he loves despite her pending marriage.
On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
While serving as a journalist in World War 2 for the Imperial Army of Japan, "Takahashi Minoru" (Pak Ki Ju) sees first-hand the impact on Koreans who have had their national identity forcibly taken from them by the Japanese occupation of their country. It's at this time that he adopts a mantra of viewing an incident before writing a newspaper editorial on it. Several years later he once again visits Korea as a war correspondent during the Korean War and takes home with him several more memories that have a great effect upon him as well. Years later he becomes a respected writer and while giving a speech on the Juche system has his perspective challenged by a young man in the auditorium. Having never seen North Korea he realizes that in order to meet his own high standard of journalism he must travel there and see for himself whether his opinion is valid or not.
A young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese and becomes embarrassed living there. By dropping his Go stones, he happens to meet an old Japanese woman who sells vegetables on the street. They become familiar with each other. The young Chinese Go player, the old woman named Igarashi and her grandson Shoichi then live together.
"A Forest is Swaying" is the story of a former soldier (Pak Sŏng-ryong) who struggles to plant a pine forest and raise and orphaned child in an area devastated by American bombs in the Fatherland Liberation War (Korean War). A young agricultural expert comes to judge the work Pak has been doing. She finds that it is impossible to have a pine forest in this area, and surmises that he should plant other trees instead. He continues to plant pine trees regardless of her advice.
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
Tom Brown (William Haines) es un joven de buena familia que se trasladará hasta Harvard para iniciar su andadura universitaria. Hombre jovial y despreocupado, su encanto le lleva a ser codiciado por las chicas, y esa personalidad arrogante y extrovertida le llevará a permanecer ligeramente enfrentado con los estudiantes más significados, intentar estrechar su relación con Mary Abbott (Mary Brian), y mantener una estrecha amistad con su compañero de habitación.
La infancia no fue un camino de rosas para George Jorgensen. Los niños del colegio se divertían con cosas que él simplemente aborrecía. Con el paso de los años, sus problemas de identidad sexual se vuelven cada vez más acusados; emocionalmente es una mujer pero físicamente es un hombre. Después de un desagradable incidente con uno de sus jefes, George contacta con el profesor Estabrook, que le enseña que el sexo es una cuestión química y que muchas desviaciones sexuales pueden ser corregidas con tratamientos hormonales. La historia de Christine Jorgensen no ha hecho más que empezar. (FILMAFFINITY)
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
Molly is a wife of wealthy Britisher Sam Thornhill. Though devoutly loyal to her husband, the capricious Molly can't seem to avoid getting herself into compromising situations. The limit comes when a pair of Molly's stockings find their way into the boudoir of another man.
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.