Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.

A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.

An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.

A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister

Conniving con artist Mrs Oliver targets the family of Mrs Carruthers, seducing her husband and framing her son for the theft of a valuable necklace. With her family facing ruin and disgrace, Mrs Carruthers resorts to increasingly violent measures to protect them.

John Wynn returns to his family after serving time in prison for a crime they believed he didn't commit, or perhaps for an action they had largely moved past. His return creates a "thread" of tension that threatens to unravel the lives his wife, Amelia, and their children have built in his absence. The film focuses on the emotional and societal adjustments required to reintegrate a disgraced family member into a respectable British household.

In Switzerland an architect and a suffragist schoolteacher fall in love at a TB sanatorium.

The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.