Die Spielerin (1927)

Young Ellen is desperate. Alan, the father of her child, has gone to Monte Carlo and become deeply absorbed in his gambling. He is threatening to gamble away their home and everything they own, and Ellen seems powerless to stop him. She wants to win her lover back for herself and, at the same time, cure him of his gambling addiction. So Ellen, who has received a small inheritance, goes to the casino there to try her own luck and make up for her beloved's enormous financial losses. But, as everyone knows, the house always wins, and Ellen too loses again and again at the roulette table. When the tide finally turns, Alan really does return to her—temporarily. But then luck at gambling deserts Ellen as well, and just as quickly as Alan turns back to her, he leaves her again. For in the end, Alan is looking for none other than a woman who can finance his addiction in the long term. At rock bottom, Ellen finds in the chivalrous Ryves a gentleman through and through, who is genuinely interested in her and helps her out of her misery in her time of need. In the end, he is the one who saves her, the gambler, from herself. Ellen now knows that Alan is not worthy of her love, and from then on she will continue her life at Ryves's side.