Wanda (1970)
Wanda movie storyline. In Pennsylvania, Wanda is down and out. She works sporadically, has abandoned her husband and children, sleeps on her sister’s couch, drinks and smokes too much.
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Pandora’s Box (1929)
Pandora’s Box movie storyline. Lulu is a beautiful young woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the men around her. She is currently being kept by the rich editor Dr. Ludwig Schön.
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A Woman of the World (1925)
A Woman of the World movie storyline. A sensual European countess arrives at a small American town where she quickly provokes moral outrage from the community.
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The Whirlpool of Fate (1925)
The Whirlpool of Fate movie storyline. Gudule, tranquil in her life on a barge in late 19th-century France, has her existence shattered when her father drowns in a freak accident.
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Quo Vadis (1924)
Quo Vadis movie storyline. In Rome, during the reign of Nero, a young pagan general named Marcus Vinicius falls in love with a beautiful Christian hostage named Licia.
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A Woman of Paris (1923)
A Woman of Paris movie storyline. Marie St. Clair, a French country girl, and her lover, Jean Millet, an art student, plan to elope to Paris. Her father locks her out of the house.
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The City without Jews (1924)
In the Republic of Utopia, because of the bad economic crisis ailing the nation, the Jews are made the scapegoats for the economic and social ills affecting the population; therefore, the government decides to expel them. Leo Strakosch is among the exiled. He is engaged to Counsellor’s Linder’s daughter. He gets into the Republic, in a clandestine way, to show to the society the wrongness of their anti-Semitic prejudice. Bettauer’s novel differs essentially from the film version. “Vienna” was named “Utopia”. Even a happy ending was provided.
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Street Angel (1928)
Street Angel movie storyline. In Naples, the young Angela needs 20 Lira to buy medicine for her terminal mother. She decides to sell her body to earn the money.
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Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis movie storyline. Freder, the young son of a ruling, aristocratic capitalist Master Joh Fredersen, discovers miserable life of proletariat when he notices a beautiful young woman Maria.
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The Kid (1921)
Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length film (six reels) as a director. A sentimental, charming semi-autobiographical tale with both humor and pathos about Chaplin’s famous Little Tramp character adopting an abandoned infant from a woman “whose sin was motherhood.” An inter-title stated that it’s “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.”
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