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The Vampire of Capital follows the lives of a young couple and their baby in a gridlocked megalopolis. Mutual suspicions of infidelity, the alienating routine and insolvency are resolved in a dynamic montage of contrasts and contradictions, expressed in different cinematographic formats in the Kino-eye style.

Two brothers - fishermen - fall for the same girl. So one decides to kill the other. But the attempt fails.

John Cromwell escapes from a gang of "pirates" to Havana, where he meets Kentucky Colonel Hamilton and his daughter Grace. Though threatened by his former captors, Cromwell has a chart showing the whereabouts of a sunken treasure ship, which they set out to find. When he is accosted in his diving gear and the Hamilton party is marooned by pirates headed by Chipman, Cromwell escapes, boards their submarine, and, after the villains are killed in an explosion, rescues the party.

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.

Two lovers spend a holiday on an Italian island and make the acquaintance of a Swedish psychologist and his wife, who stay at the same hotel. The middle-aged professor seems suspicious of the couple's openly sexual relationship. His wife is troubled by old memories of snowy Sweden.

Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and further more, he's interested in Mllie. John Woolfolk has lost his wife in an accident and tries to forget by sailing in his yacht aimlessly on the ocean. By chance he drops anchor in a bay of that island. He soon finds out that something is wrong on that island, and furthermore, he falls in love with Millie, who sees in him a chance to get off that island. But Nicholas has threatened her with rape and murder if she tries to escape, and he has found out about her plans...

Aspiring actress Louise Mauban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her co-student Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.

Based on the "Little Iodine" two-panel cartoon strip by Jimmy Hatlo, which had evolved from his "They'll Do It Everytime" strip, Little Iodine was the most-scheming kid in comics aside from Hans and Fritz of the "Katzenjammer Kids" and "The Captain and the Kids" strips. Played by Jo Ann Marlowe, she stays true to form most of the way in this picture, in which she does her best to break up the marriage of her parents (Hobart Cavanaugh and Irene Ryan), ruin a romance between Eve Whitney and Marc Cramer, and cost her father his job. But, unlike her comic-based character, Iodine has a change of heart and sets out to right the wrongs.

A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12-year-old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three Gotham tales.

Danny, a cop, meets and falls in love with Theresa. They get engaged, despite sneaking around behind his mother's back, but when push comes to shove, he can't quite quit worrying about his mother long enough to be any kind of lover to Theresa.

Two escaped convicts join forces with a seductive femme on the trail of a long-forgotten gold mine.

John Herzfeld deftly welds together a multitude of subplots-- a loser hitman and a cool assassin involved in an insurance scam; a washed-up director, turned suicidal, if only he had someone to care for his beloved dog; a snooty art dealer, wracked by kidney stones, cared for by his devoted assistant; a grungy deranged vice cop, now partnered with a fresh-faced rookie; and two beautiful and jealous women entangled in their deadly scheme.

Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.

Maria is a 15-year-old poor teenager who works as a servant in a rich family and develops a romance with their youngest son. Will the class differnce and their adversaries separate them?