His Uncle's Wives (1913)

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.

Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls in love with his friend's sister, Julia. However, as his ties to the Flytes deepen, Ryder finds himself at odds with their strong Roman Catholicism.

To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.

A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

A Catholic New Yorker falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her, but he struggles to accept her past and what it means for their future.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.