The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.

Two school teachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.

A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.

In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

A newspaper man, his ignored fiancée, and his former employee a down on his luck reporter hatch an elaborate scheme to turn a false news story into the truth, to stop a high-society woman from suing for libel.