Robert Hichens

Одиль знакомится с двумя молодыми людьми, Артюром и Францом, на курсах английского языка. Они убеждают её принять участие в ограблении.

A young man's passions are stirred by a beautiful Sicilian after his physician-wife is called away on an emergency.

Блестящий молодой адвокат Энтони Кин берется за защиту очаровательной Маддалены, вдовы полковника Парадина, обвиняемой в убийстве мужа, слепого калеки. Сверхуверенный в себе юрист, он предсказывает ей быстрое и легкое судебное разбирательство. Постепенно ее гипнотическое обаяние полностью подавляет его волю и способность критически мыслить. «Она не может быть убийцей, она СЛИШКОМ прекрасна как женщина», — этот вывод очень расстраивает его красивую и ревнивую жену. Убежденный в невиновности мадам Парадин — Алида Валли, он пытается доказать в суде, что убийство — дело рук слуги покойного, молодого красавца Андрэ Латура. Тот ведет себя очень странно, что-то скрывает, путается в показаниях, но Маддалена заявляет, что если Энтони и дальше будет строить ее защиту, обвиняя невиновного, она возненавидит его…

After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.

Их встреча предрешена. Она потеряла близкого ей человека, и, в желании найти успокоение от тревожащей пустоты, вернулась в монастырь, где получила образование, но наставница сказала, что только пустыня сможет развеять ее тревоги и дать успокоение. Он, пересмотрев свою прожитую жизнь, прервал свой обет молчания и скромного образа жизни, бежал из монастыря в поисках любви и приключений. Они встретились у границы «Садов Аллаха», так арабы называют пустыню Сахару, и с первого взгляда полюбили друг друга. «В день, который был непохож на другие», — как и предрек седой предсказатель, они обвенчались, и пустились в путешествие без цели, где каждый осознал свое предназначение в жизни…

That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.

A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen

Father Adrien had taken the vows of eternal silence, prayer and, of course, celibacy, when he entered the Trappist Monastry of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria. One day, he chopped down a tree that blocked a part of the Monastery wall, but as it fell it knocked a young girl senseless. As Father Adrien bathes her face she regains consciousness and in a mischievous mood embraces him. The embrace was seen by another monk but the Monastic discipline imposed is as nothing compared to the torturing penances of mind and body which the contrite Father Adrien has imposed upon himself. In the end it is all too much for poor Father Adrien and he abandons his vows and escapes into the desert, resuming his secular name Androvsky. On the way to the oasis of Beni-Mora he encounters Domini Enfilden who has been brought up as a Catholic. Androvsky rescues Domini from a rioting crowd and she finds herself deeply attracted to him.

During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is derailed when she goes over to his apartment and finds the vampy Fifi (Nita Naldi) there. Fay goes down to Algiers, where she marries a former sweetheart, Dr. Alan Mortimer (Edward Earle).

Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.

Lord Carlyle governs a province in India. Although he weds the beautiful Adrienne, he can't make her love him. And no wonder -- he's not only cruel, he's unfaithful. Adrienne leaves him and boards a ship with the intention of returning to England. But on the boat she meets Andrew Fabian, who is studying for the clergy. They fall in love, and he convinces her to accompany him on a pilgrimage to Damascus.

An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.

Arriving with her husband in Arabia, Katherine Wyvrne is ready for romantic times in the exotic Middle East, but her aristocratic husband prefers to be out hunting "Barbara sheep" than fulfilling his wife's desires. She soon meets up with the dashing Arab chief Benchaalai and falls for his charms, but he has a much more sinister goal in mind for her than romance.

When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah

Bella Donna falls for the exotic Baroudi and plots to poison her husband.