A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.

A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.

At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.

During World War I, believing her fiancé to be dead, a young ballerina loses her job and is forced to turn to prostitution.

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.

A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, a young man's fervent devotion to the crown and to his sweetheart, a lady-in-waiting, lead him to battle for England's victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588.

During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.

Vivien Leigh's debut movie about a small village putting on MacBeth when a Hollywood star arrives.

Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.

A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.