The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.

A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.

When the villagers of Klineschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop.

Eric Gorman returns with his wife Evelyn from a trip to the Orient collecting zoo animals, having killed a member of his expedition who happened one day to kiss Mrs. Gorman. On board ship Evelyn meets Roger Hewitt, who falls in love with her. After delivering his animals to the zoo, Gorman plots a way to dispose of Hewitt using one of his latest specimens, then continues using the zoo's non-human residents to do his beastly work.

Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

故事发生在二战期间，在瑞士科学家图贝尔博士发明了一种炸弹装置。福尔摩斯非常有技巧的把他从盖世太保眼皮底下救出来回到伦敦，可图贝尔博士又落到了莫利亚蒂教授的手中。图贝尔画了一张暗号图，福尔摩斯经过努力终于把那些跳舞小人的信号图解开了，并冒险闯入了虎穴。

影片通过一系列片断回忆一位老人所迷恋的一位极其高傲的女性。故事背景是幻想中的西班牙狂欢节。在咖啡馆中，老人把经历对游行中遇到的年轻朋友娓娓道来，这位年轻人同样是个伤心人。尽管他发誓不会重蹈老人的覆辙，但是却依然对傍晚与情人的约会期待万分。美艳绝伦的西班牙女郎，令男人神魂颠倒；位高权重的军卫被逗得心痒难耐，为她大洒金钱，只落得被玩弄摆布，与情敌决斗更差点赔上性命。
同一小说，在布纽尔手中成了超现实的《模糊的情欲对象》（1977）；史登堡亲自掌镜，双面娇娃的勾魂媚态，在如梦似幻光影下更教人欲拒还迎。是女人变幻无常，还是男人执迷自虐，才是情欲嘉年华的真实色相？大导与女神最后一次合作，虽面对外交风波与道德批判（十七分钟片段被剪），玛莲德烈治却自言是最心爱电影。

Doctor X (1932) is a First National/Warner Bros. horror and mystery film. Based on the play originally titled The Terror (New York, February 9, 1931) by Howard W. Comstock and Allen C. Miller,[1] it was directed by Michael Curtiz and stars Lee Tracy, Fay Wray, and Lionel Atwill.
The film was produced before the Motion Picture Production Code was enforced. Themes such as murder, rape, cannibalism and prostitution are interwoven into the story. The film was one of the last films made, along with Warners' Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), in the two-color Technicolor process. Black and white prints were shipped to small towns and to foreign markets, while color prints were reserved for major cities.
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施特劳斯（Fernand Gravey 饰）热爱音乐，将音乐当做毕生的理想，然而，现实是残酷的，为了生计，他不得不坐在办公室之中，为老板打工。因为上班开小差写曲，施特劳斯遭到了解雇，然而，女友波蒂（路易丝·赖纳 Luise Rainer 饰）成为了他最坚实的后盾，在波蒂的帮助下，施特劳斯来到了咖啡馆，在那里演奏自己的作品。
一次偶然中，施特劳斯邂逅了当红歌星卡拉（米莉莎·科耶斯 Miliza Korjus 饰），卡拉的存在激发了施特劳斯的灵感，令他创作出了许多不朽的名曲。波蒂对于施特劳斯和卡拉之间的关系充满了嫉妒，但是，当她看见他们两人在一起珠联璧合的美好景象之后，接受了现实，而卡拉则感动于波蒂的高洁品质，选择了离开。

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.