Flying High (1931)

Hollywood, 1958. A devota batista Marla chega em Los Angeles para trabalhar com Howard Hughes. Lá, ela conhece seu motorista Frank, que está noivo e é um metodista extremamente religioso. Além de pôr à prova suas convicções religiosas, a atração dos dois também desafia a principal regra de Hughes.

Depois de receber a herança de seu pai, Howard Hughes passou a investir na indústria do cinema e ajudou a carreira de grandes nomes de Hollywood. Apesar de sucesso e riqueza, o pioneiro da aviação sofria de depressão e fobias paralisantes.

A made for TV movie in which Valerie Bertinelli portrays Florence Pancho Barnes, a bored socialite who decides to learn to fly

O jovem piloto Cliff Secord acaba encontrando, após sofrer um acidente aéreo em função de um tiroteio entre gângsters e o FBI, um protótipo ultra-secreto de mochila à jato escondido por um dos bandidos. Assumindo a identidade de Rocketeer, Cliff encontra todo o tipo de vilão, liderados por um ator de Hollywood, Neville Sinclair, que na verdade é um espião à serviço dos nazistas. Durante um vôo de exibição, Cliff usa o foguete para salvar um amigo de um acidente, passando a ser chamado de "Rocketeer" pelo público. Com sua foto nas primeiras páginas de todos os jornais, Cliff passa a ser perseguido pelo FBI, por gângsters e por espiões alemães, que sequestram Jenny, sua namorada, forçando Cliff a resgatá-la. O jovem piloto enfrentará diversas dificuldades para tentar derrotar seus adversários, que estão ansiosos em usar a mochila à jato para seus planos de conquista mundial.

The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.

Hedy Lamarr ficou conhecida por ser "a mulher mais bonita do mundo". Mas, entre outras peculiaridades, a austríaca queridinha de Hollywood foi também inventora da tecnologia sem fio nos anos de 1940.

F for Fake é um documentário ensaístico, um filme sobre a fraude, a mentira, nos seus vários ângulos. Centra-se na vida do famoso falsificador de arte Elmyr de Hory.Welles surge em vários locais, inclusive num restaurante, até numa suposta sala de edição, criando um filme dentro do filme.

Saara francês, 1933. Bill Lancaster, famoso piloto inglês, desaparece no deserto durante uma tentativa de record na travessia entre Londres e o Cabo. Sua esposa, a aviadora aventureira Marie Vallières de Beaumont (Marion Cotillard), tem uma única obsessão: encontrá-lo. Ao sobrevoar o deserto, a jovem é obrigada a aterrissar seu avião perto de um posto avançado de legionários franceses. O capitão Vincent Brosseau (Guillaume Marquet) a acolhe, mas se recusa a ajudá-la. Preocupado com as rebeliões tuaregs, o comando de Argel não autoriza o envio de ajuda. Confrontado com a determinação de Marie, o tenente Antoine Chauvet (Guillaume Canet) tenta dissuiadi-la da idéia de continuar sua busca desesperada em um local enorme e hostil como é o deserto. Nada funciona. Para continuar sua busca, ela se une a uma perigosa expedição pelos legionários em território Tuareg.

The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.

Em um filme escrito e produzido especialmente para ela, Shirley Temple vive Shirley Blake, uma menina cujo pai morreu em um acidente de avião. Enquanto sonha em ser aviadora, passa grande parte do tempo com seu padrinho num aeroporto enquanto a mãe trabalha na casa de uma família rica. Após ficar órfã de mãe também, seu padrinho luta para conseguir a guarda da menina.

Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.

Biography - Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. did more than dream. Yet behind the glamour, fame and fabulous wealth, there lurked a darker side: a sick, isolated and deeply unhappy man who hid behind his image and ended up a prisoner of his own insanity. This is his story. - Howard Hughes

O filme é baseado na vida do cientista indiano Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, quem leva o crédito de ter construído o primeiro avião não tripulado da Índia. É a história das dificuldades que ele passou durante a jornada da descoberta. Tudo se passa na era da pré-independência de Mumbai, em 1895.

Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.

Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.

A young Naval Aviator, Kevin, is killed in action just days before he was to be discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." When his partner, Tyler, arrives at his funeral unexpectedly, his father, Bill, finds out more than he wants to know about his son. Throughout their encounter, Bill wrestles with his own prejudices as Tyler tries to tell the truth about his son and their relationship. But, as Tyler finds out, the truth has consequences in a military that does not welcome gays and lesbians openly into their ranks. They represent the tens of thousands of brave men and women who daily fight for freedom, yet have none themselves.

A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.

A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.

Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.

Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's duties creates a relationship approaching that of his wife. Little does Larry know that sometimes literature mirrors life.

A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.

In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.

A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.

The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.

Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality.

A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours. Live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line.

Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madison's return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madison's sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.

A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.

A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.

An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.

A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.

Versão falada, de 1930, do filme mudo de Tod Browning: "A Trindade Maldita" (1925). Um trio de ex-artistas de circo se unem formando o grupo de bandidos "Trindade Maldita" e montam um esquema para roubar pedras preciosas. Único filme falado de Lon Chaney, aonde ele, conhecido por ser o homem de mil rostos, faz várias vozes diferentes.

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.