Charlie Chaplin treibt sein Unwesen auf einer Rollschuhbahn. Charlie arbeitet als Kellner in einem Restaurant. Nachdem er sich auf Arbeit amüsiert hat, indem er das Lokal gehörig durcheinanderbrachte, geht er in der Mittagspause rollschuhlaufen. Auf der Rollschuhbahn zeigt Charlie, was er kann. Herr Kräftig macht sich an ein Mädchen heran, das sich aber abweisend verhält. Dessen Vater und seine Gattin waren wie er schon vorher in dem Restaurant zu Gast gewesen, wo Charlie kellnert. Nach einem Ballett auf Rollschuhen, bei welchem Charlie als „Sir Cecil Seltzer“ den lästigen Verehrer trotz dessen körperlicher Überlegenheit durch Geschick und Eleganz austrickst, wird er zu einer Gesellschaft bei den Eltern des Mädchens geladen. Charly wirbelt auch diese Party gehörig durcheinander.
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
A young man falls in love with the daughter of the man who adopted him.
During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her to live with them.
A corrupt art patron finds himself in love with the same girl as his stepson.
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds that it's impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and athletic training. Soon the two face some difficult decisions.
A man pursues the vice lord who killed his daughter, but his journey leads to self-discovery and the desire for a better life.
Der Jazzsänger ist der erste Tonfilm in Spielfilmlänge. Unter der Regie von Alan Crosland wurde der Film zum Vorläufer des Film-Musical.
Stanley und Oliver versuchen, zuhause beim Damespiel einen entspannten Abend zu verbringen, aber die Eskapaden ihrer schelmischen Söhne unterbrechen ihre Entspannung.
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
Anna Christie ist ein US-amerikanischer Spielfilm mit Greta Garbo aus dem Jahr 1930 und der deutschsprachige Versionenfilm des gleichnamigen englischsprachigen Originals. Regie führte Jacques Feyder.
Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Eetu, a wealthy homeowner, attempts to seduce Leena Kosken. But when austere log boy Erkki meets her at midsummer dances, Leena falls in love with him instead. Jealous, Eetu turns the men of the village against Erkki and the Tukki people.
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
Annie, Obsthändlerin in den Straßen New Yorks, läßt ihre Tochter Louise, die ein vornehmes Konvent besucht, in dem Glauben, sie gehöre zur besseren Gesellschaft. Als die Louise eines Tages ihren Besuch anmeldet, muss die hochstapelnde Mutter ihr eine Komödie vorspielen und dazu auf die Hilfe ihrer zwielichtigen Freunde zurückgreifen.
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.