The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the old houses are being bought out, the residents given apartments in the new houses, and being cleared away. But Habryka refuses to sell.

A man escapes from a revolution in Ruritania and saves his beloved princess from her crooked brother.

After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with only some marshland while his nephew, Bruce Wilton, inherits the bulk of the estate. Wright is further enraged by the engagement of Vera Mather, whom he loves, to Bruce. Wright joins forces with Donald MacTavish, a pirate captain, and wins the affections of Bruce's sister, Alice, who becomes his victim. Vera, in an attempt to save Alice, becomes involved in the scandal, and Bruce takes back the rosary he has given her to pledge his love.

A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.

The psychological impact of the events of the war years on the lives, morals and destinies of people.

Rosary was the most powerful demon in hell, created by Satan to lead his armies in the war against heaven. But he feared her strength, and the threat she could pose to him, and tried to imprison her in the depth's of the abyss. Betrayed and furious, Rosary broke free from hell and sought refuge on Earth. The war between good and evil wages on, but Rosary now only has one mission, finding her way back to the gates of hell to kill her father.

An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.

A STRING OF BLUE BEADS is a slight little Christmas tale that was a pilot for an anthology series of short stories that never came to be. What makes this little film fascinating is it was one of the earliest color broadcasts on television and happily is one of the few early color productions for TV that can be seen in color now. Early color television productions seem to have had a limited color capability much like the early 1930's attempts at Technicolor. This actually adds to the charm of this little Christmas story giving in an "old time" feel.

The tragic fate of a mentally disabled girl with the mental capacity of a child, who is taken in by her older brother Ondrej after her mother's death. Ondrej resolves complicated and disharmonious situations in their coexistence by telling various stories.

Prayer Beads, also called "omoinotama" or "nunju" in Japanese, are the small wooden beads strung on a loop used in Buddhist worship. The number of beads is typically 108, corresponding to the 108 earthly desires or sins that the beads have the power to extinguish. "Prayer Beads" is a series of 9 episodes of 30-minute dramas strung together, with the characters in each episode designing one thread of fate. The short independent episodes are skillfully linked together to become one story. The protagonists' dreams and fears and feelings about this life are all taken up and spun around to reach a dramatic conclusion in the final story.