一场意外让宾虚（拉蒙·诺瓦罗 Ramon Novarro 饰）沦为了可以被随意买卖的奴隶，他被卖到了一艘兵舰上，成为了一名水手。某日，兵舰遭遇海盗的袭击，就在这生死存亡的紧要关头，身强体壮的宾虚成功挽救了兵舰司令官的性命，司令官感谢宾虚的救命之恩，不仅赋予了他自由，还将其收为养子。
之后，宾虚成为了一名角斗士，在竞技场里的英勇表现很快便为他赢得了名声与荣誉，然而，他的扶摇直上亦遭到了旧有梅瑟拉（弗朗西斯X·布什曼 Francis X. Bushman 饰）的妒忌。梅瑟拉提出要和宾虚来一场战车竞赛，实则想要暗害宾虚，没想到奸计没有得逞，自己的战车却翻倒在地。

一个年轻人义无反顾的爱上了一个女人，不顾一切的想要和她结婚。拿他没有办法的家人建议这个年轻人去找主教汤姆（加文·戈登 Gavin Gordon 饰），年轻人就此知道了汤姆身上发生过的旧日情事。
在28岁那一年，汤姆在一场派对上邂逅了名为丽塔（葛丽泰·嘉宝 Greta Garbo 饰）的歌女。美艳不可方物的丽塔很快就吸引了汤姆的注意。然而，丽塔在名利场里浸淫了太久，早就已经不再相信这世界上真的有爱情了，也没有结婚的打算，因此，丽塔对待汤姆的态度非常的轻佻。然而，汤姆的深情渐渐地改变了丽塔，让她的内心荡起了涟漪，然而，这注定是一段充满了曲折的恋情。

一次偶然中，青年军官卡尔（康拉德·纳格尔 Conrad Nagel 饰）邂逅了美丽的女子塔尼亚（葛丽泰·嘉宝 Greta Garbo 饰）。塔尼亚的风韵和神秘深深的吸引了卡尔的注意，令他深陷情网之中无法自拔。之后，卡尔前往柏林执行任务，在此期间意外的得知塔尼亚的真实身份竟然是正在遭到通缉的俄国间谍。
很快，卡尔就因为泄露了情报而遭到了逮捕，只有他的好友埃里克（爱德华·康奈利 Edward Connelly 饰）知道他是无辜的。在埃里克的帮助下，卡尔越狱前往华沙寻找塔尼亚，这个世界上只有塔尼亚一人能够还他清白。实际上，塔尼亚早就已经厌倦了整天提心吊胆的双重生活，而且她也深深的爱着卡尔。

Fabien des Grieux, a divinity student, comes to the rescue of a beautiful girl, Manon Lescaut, when her brother tries to "sell" her to the lecherous Comte Guillot de Morfontaine. Fabien and Manon fall in love and he abandons his priestly ambitions. But de Morfontaine has no intention of giving up his desire to possess Manon. She again falls into his clutches. Fabien, borrowing on his father's wealth, transforms himself into a gentleman gambler and moves into court society. But there he discovers that Manon is endangered not only by the cruel de Morfontaine, but by the King of France himself.

A girl has been murdered. A woman cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Her uncle hosts a radio murder mystery show called "The Unsuspected". Who killed the girl? Why? And who is this mystery husband?

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.

This silent movie is based on Melville's classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister's daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding the harpooners, bearing many scars of failed attacks. Can our hero Ahab succeed where others have perished?

The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

1935 film by Roy Del Ruth

Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York. En route, she is involved in a train wreck in which another woman is killed. Katherine finds the woman's purse and, among its contents, discovers an invitation for the woman to spend 6 months in an unoccupied luxury apartment in Manhattan. Katherine seizes this opportunity and sets up housekeeping in the elegant suite, living well and dressing in the newest fashions.

An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.

Gerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Gerry is determined to remain practical. As she mothers her wounded, heartbroken friends, she stalwartly but foolishly resists the advances of the good-hearted and affluent Tony Jardine.