La importancia de llamarse Ernesto (1952)
They don't come any wilder than Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, morals and morality!
Género : Romance, Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 35M
Director : Anthony Asquith
Escritor : Anthony Asquith
Sinopsis
Para Jack, el nombre de Ernesto significa poder vivir a su aire, en la ciudad, lejos del campo, donde está Ernesto, su irreverente hermano, al cual ha de vigilar continuamente. En realidad esto sólo es una treta para poder escapar del campo siempre que le apetezca, ya que Jack y Ernesto son una misma persona. Todo va bien hasta que un día su mejor amigo va atando cabos y descubre que Ernesto no existe. La situación se complica cuando su prometida le confiesa que lo que más le atrae de él, es su nombre.
La película comienza cuando se prueba un par de brillantes zapatillas de color rosa, ella y su mejor amiga, Hailey, son llevados a un mundo fantástico ballet. Allí, Kristyn descubre que ella tiene que bailar en sus ballets favoritos para derrotar a una malvada Reina de las Nieves.
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
Un hombre y su mujer se han ido alejando con el paso de los años. Él vive en el suelo, ella vive en el techo y el matrimonio pende de un hilo. (FILMAFFINITY)
A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom he marries off to a wealthy man.
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive. There's anger all around, leading to Harry's arrest. He's jailed while awaiting trial in front of Betty's father, a judge. She visits him in the clink. He escapes and disguises himself as a cabman. The police are looking for him, as are his fiancée and her mother. Will it get straightened out in time for wedding bells to ring?
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.
Esta clásica historia gira en torno a Su-dong y Ok-ran que están juntos por la promesa de matrimonio hecha por sus padres. Sin embargo, esta promesa se rompe por Mu-ryong el hijo del jefe de la aldea que se siente atraído por Ok-ran y trata de hacerla suya. Cuando ella se resiste, Mu-ryong da un paso más con la intención de abusar de ella, pero es descubierto por Su-dong, que llega justo a tiempo para liberar a Ok-ran. Mu-ryong en su ira les dice a sus hombres que castiguen a Su-dong con severidad. Después de que Mu-ryong hace otro intento abominable de tener en sus manos a Ok-ran, ella y Su-dong no ven otra alternativa más que fugarse ...
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Adapted from a popular 'three dime novel' the story revolves around two down-and-out buddies, one streetwise and quick-witted the other naïve and kind-hearted. This oddball duo go through up and downs and eventually get their break in life.
Maisie está agobiada y su jefe le ordena tomar dos semanas de vacaciones. Al ir a subir al autobús con destino a Reno, donde cantará en una banda, conoce a una chica y un soldado, que le da una carta para su mujer, quien ha ido a Reno para pedir el divorcio. Pero la mujer no es la verdadera, y Maisie se pone a investigar.
Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into a clear image of the man waking up to his nagging wife.
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it to the poor.
Un hombre puesto recientemente en libertad condicional viaja a Sudáfrica. Tras un largo vuelo, el hombre escoge el coche equivocado y pronto se da cuenta de que se ha convertido en el blanco de la policía local, que utilizará todos los medios necesarios para detenerlos a él y a la mujer "pasajera" que descubre en el maletero. Su propósito es llegar a la Corte para testificara contra una poderosa trama de corrupción.
An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, trying to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve their problems and doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart. Meanwhile, daughter Virginia is dumped by her boyfriend because she cannot help him with his career. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
Les Bingham takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie has a new love in life. What he doesn't know is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer. When Katie's sister Sally arrives and tells the two about her new, hip '70s marriage contract, Les and Katie decide to try to get together again under a more liberal marriage contract, like Katie's sister. But, unfortunately for the couple, the contract is planted with the seeds of self-destruction.