Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' lives more bearable but incurs Lowrie's wrath when he fires him for smoking in the mine. Bent on vengeance, Lowrie is beaten when he picks a fight with Fergus, then defiantly smokes in a mine tunnel. There is an explosion, Joan rescues Fergus, and their love triumphs over their class barriers. −

Melodrama about high school life.

A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.

A young woman is married to a much older man. She is not happy as there's something missing in her life. Meanwhile a masked rapist is attacking women in the area and one day attacks her.

An Englishman goes undercover posing as an Egyptian sheik in order to infiltrate a conspiracy to throw off British rule. An English woman complicates things by falling in love with the sheik, unaware of his true identity.

James Gordon, Sr., owner of the Gordon syndicate, dispatches his roughneck son Jimmy to investigate why production has fallen off in his opal mine on an island off the coast of lower California. After an argument with his fiancé, socialite Lucy Andrews, Jimmy leaves for the island where he is met by Juan, McCool's servant who, along with Jasper Sneedham, has been cheating the company. On the launch, Juan tries to eliminate Jimmy by hitting him over the head, but escapes and swims to shore where he is rescued by Sneedham's stepdaughter Nadine. Nadine takes Jimmy to the hut of mine foreman Fred Haimer, the only honest man on the island. When Nadine overhears her stepfather's plans to take his ill gained fortune and flee, Jimmy and Haimer team up to defeat Juan, Sneedham and McCool. After a number of grueling skirmishes, Jimmy, Haimer and Nadine escape to the mainland where they notify the police who return to the island and arrest the gang.

Terence O'Rourke an adventurer, has been courting Princess Beatrix long enough to ask her to marry him, but he realizes that, with no steady income, he has no right to propose. Then, the Pool of Flame, a huge ruby that adorns a statue of Buddha, is stolen, and officials in Rangoon offer Terence $500,000 to find the jewel and return it. In tracking down the gem, Terence must outwit such longtime adversaries as Chambret, Princess Karan, and another of Beatrix' suitors, Duke Victor. Finally, Terence manages to complete his mission, and then, with his fortune assured, he ends the long wooing phase of his romance with Beatrix and marries her.

Cléo d'Aubigny, a music-hall star, once had a love affair with the rich Lord Sedley and had a son from him. But Cléo, putting her career first, has always neglected little Hugues, letting Lord Sedley take him with him and educate him. Now she feels terribly guilty and tries to resume contact with her son.

For nine weeks, thirteen contenders will have to compete in a beautiful villa to try to seduce Marc, an airline pilot, looking for love. Which of these women will manage to light the flame?

“Her life was so short, yet so intense that, because of the abundance of what she experienced and saw, and because of how much she fought and suffered, it seemed quite long – and in the end could only consume itself like a flame.” The series recounts the life of Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942) over six chronological episodes and is the first fictional story about the Swiss journalist and author since the film ‘The Journey to Kafiristan’ (2001): Annemarie Schwarzenbach comes from a very well-respected and affluent Swiss industrialist family and her mother Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille (1883-1959) is related to the Bismarks. Annemarie fell out with her mother at an early age due to her anti-fascist views. She travels to Berlin where she becomes friends with Klaus (1906-1949) and Erika (1905-1969) Mann and begins to live as a homosexual. She travels the world, works as an archaeologist and writes novels and journalistic articles. She marries the homosexual French diplomat Claude Achille Clarac (1903-1999). From time to time, she takes drugs and suffers from depression. She tries to commit suicide on several occasions. She dies at the age of 34 in Engadine following a cycling accident.