Fueros humanos (1933)
IT SETS FREE THE GIRLHOOD LOVE STORY IMPRISONED IN EVERY WOMAN'S HEART!
Género : Drama, Romance
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 15M
Director : Frank Borzage
Sinopsis
Melodrama ambientado en Estados Unidos en la época de la Gran Depresión.
En el Guanajuato de mediados del siglo diecinueve, la belleza y simpatía de la joven heredera Amalia conquistan al humilde capataz Ricardo con resultados funestos. Impedido para consumar su amor, Ricardo se va de Guanajuato adonde vuelve tiempo después convertido en el rico dueño de una mina. A su regreso, el destino le tiene preparado un trágico reencuentro con Amalia.
Lily es una mujer que llega a Nueva York con el firme propósito de convertirse en una modelo. Las cosas le van bien y triunfa en su carrera. Además se siente atraída por un hombre casado con una mujer que se ha quedado inválida.
Ambicioso largometraje que engloba a tres generaciones de la familia Nordholm en sesenta años de historia. Una saga que arranca con cierto toque de western, al presentar una granja de Dakota del Sur, donde el joven Orin marcha en busca de mejores oportunidades de vida. Una vez instalado en Chicago alcanza un gran éxito al inventar un sistema de refrigeración para automóviles. Cuando todo parece irle sobre ruedas (nunca mejor dicho), el crack del 29 le golpea duramente.
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
A nun is ostracized by her superiors after a brutal encounter with a rapist leaves her pregnant.
James Cagney interpreta a un agente de prensa que se convierte en promotor de un maratón de baile.
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire, but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac.
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. Also on the boat with the four "mail-order" brides (Americans Mame Smith, Flo Lane, and Gwen from England and Lena from Europe) is Mary Lee, a frightened and innocent girl, who has come to see the mine's brutal supervisor, Von Luden, about a job.
El pasado de una mujer vuelve a asediarla cuando el proxeneta que ayudó poner tras las rejas es liberado y busca venganza.
After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Then she finds Jean-Michel, a charming young man who will lead her to prostitution.
Un hombre, con la ayuda de sus dos mejores amigos, ayuda a su tercer amigo a fugarse con su amante. Sin embargo, cuando la pareja se separa, deciden darles una lección.
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
The fatalism caught up and the amorous tragedy between Teresa de Albuquerque and Simão Botelho, who survives the intolerant litigation of her noble families.
Adaptación de una obra teatral de John Frederick Ballard, en la que se abordaba el tema de la delincuencia juvenil.