The wealthy Alice Stanton is saved from drowning by Jack, a fisherman who sees her in the water. They get to know each other and begin a romantic relationship. This comes to an end when Jack realizes that the people will never approve of their relationship. He fears that their difference in social status will cause a scandal. He ends their relationship and breaks off contact. Six months later, Ann...

When his granddaughter is born, debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken misses out on Aunt Roselaar's allowance of 20,000 guilders. Anxious to keep the money, his son-in-law telegraphs the aunt that a son was born, Frans, and the girl is brought up as a boy. Based on the novel by Anna L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint.

In the prologue, a boat with some shipwrecked persons is drifting at sea. Among them is Baron van Waldheim, who, before he dies of exhaustion, entrusts his little son Alfred to the care of his butler Hendrik. The evil Jan van Oort persuades Hendrik to give him the Baron's papers. When they put the boy ashore, he wounds himself on a nail (leaving a scar that will later prove his identity). For year...

An orthodox Jewish man refuses to accept the marriage of his daughter to a Christian man.

The story revolves around extortion and blackmail, with a notorious con artist making life impossible for everyone else.

Beppie, Margie and Lola, the three talented daughters of American millionaire James Brown, set course to Amsterdam with their art teacher ms. Polly Dewar. There all three of them fall for the charms of attractive tenor Adelqui, the boyfriend of famous diva Anny.