A Mercadora de Felicidade (1958)
You'll Laugh...You'll Love...
Gênero : Comédia, Romance
Runtime : 1H 41M
Director : Joseph Anthony
Escritor : John Michael Hayes
Sinopse
Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.
Per Olov Enquist's play about Selma Lagerlöf and Victor Sjöström after the shooting of The Phantom Carriage, one of Bergman's favorite films of all time, seemed tailor-made for the director. Director Victor Sjöström has been shooting Selma Lagerlöf's novel The Phantom Carriage. He has invited the author to Stockholm to show her a number of scenes from the film in the presence of the talented cinematographer Julius Jaenzon and the young actress Tora Teje. The meeting between Lagerlöf, an older woman and world-famous author, and a young and talented actress becomes the focal point of the drama.
Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.
Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
A young Irishwoman comes to the United States to live and work with her mother as a cleaning lady at Carnegie Hall. She becomes attached to the place as the people she meets there gradually shape her life. The film also includes a variety of performances from some of the foremost musical artists of the times: conductors Bruno Walter & Leopold Stokowski, solists Arthur Rubinstein & Jascha Haifetz, singers Lily Pons & Jan Peerce and bandleader Vaughn Monroe among many others.
Frances (Greta Gerwig) é a ambiciosa aprendiz de uma companhia de dança, que tem que se contentar com muito menos sucesso e reconhecimento do que ela gostaria. Mesmo assim, ela encara a vida de maneira leve e otimista. Esta fábula moderna explora temas como a juventude, a amizade, a luta de classes e o fracasso.
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
"Tres tristes tigres" é um filme chileno de 1968, o primeiro longa-metragem de Raúl Ruiz. É um drama inspirado na obra de teatro homônima de Alejandro Sieveking.
Com o Golpe Militar de setembro de 1973, o filme perdeu-se no Chile. Mas, graças a uma cópia guardada no Uruguai, pôde ser exibido no Festival Internacional de Cine de Viña del Mar de 1993. Três protagonistas (Tito, Amanda e Lucho) circulam pelos bares tentando ocultar suas misérias.
Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.
The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembered, small town America.
Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter proposes that the two form an alliance, but the men are not destined to get along together.
Two bureaucrats discuss the potential suicide of a man standing perfectly still in front of a door that opens into the night sky and a fatal drop.
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together...
A young man gets in over his head when he convinces a small-town girl he's a secret agent.
Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.
A young poet gets the brilliant idea to live in a department store, hiding by day, and courting his muse by night where it's quiet, and he can have all his needs met. But, to his surprise, he learns his brilliant idea's not exactly original; there are other residents who dodge the night watchmen, and who keep their existence secret at all costs. And one of them is a young woman who wants to leave, but is too frightened to go. And Charles finds that he wants to show her the larger world outside.
After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.
Immediately after Lisa declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert, he is reported dead in a plane crash. Secretly still alive, he convinces her to collect his life insurance, although she knows that it's a bad idea. Lisa must contend with the complications of the scheme, which involve an aggressive suitor, Robert's jealousy, and her own guilt.
A philosophy professor is investigating the sudden demise of one of his students, who had mental problems.
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.
Ephrain Cabot é um velho fazendeiro com três filhos. Eben, o mais ganancioso, quer herdar sozinho a fazenda e, para isso, compra as partes da herança de seus meios-irmãos. O plano de Eben fica ameaçado quando seu pai se casa com uma jovem italiana.
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
Jack trabalha com seu carro esporte e sonha voar. Sua vizinha Mary está apaixonada por ele, mas ele não parece estar interessado nela. Jack está aos encantos de Sylvia, mas não tem chances com ela porque Sylvia só tem olhos para David. Quando a guerra começa a ecoar, Jack e David são treinados para serem pilotos. Sua rivalidade logo se transforma em amizade, ao longo que eles lutam contra os alemães no céu da França. Mary se alista no esquadrão feminino para tentar ficar mais próxima de Jack. Primeiro vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Filme da história.
In the 1950s, Tab Hunter was number one at the box office and number one on the music charts and was Hollywood’s most sought-after young star. Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Sophia Loren were just a few of the actresses he was romantically linked to. He was America’s Boy Next Door and nothing, it seemed, could damage Tab Hunter’s career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab Hunter was secretly gay. Now, the secret is out.
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
A Russian spy is sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the help he can get from his "talented" partner Penelope Lightfeather as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendez-vous' while trying to avoid being caught by counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.
Um jovem idealista venezuelano foge de sua terra natal para escapar de uma revolução. Na esperança de encontrar a paz, ele vai para as montanhas e as florestas da Amazônia. Lá ele encontra Rima, a Garota dos Pássaros, uma órfã vivendo uma vida natural. É tudo um romance admirável contando uma história de 'Busca, Amor e Violência'. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Based on a true story, Donald Bashor robs and bludgeons two women to their deaths. While committing the crimes he maintans a normal existence with his girlfriend Florry.
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Um bombardeiro na Segunda Guerra Mundial tenta desesperadamente escapar da insanidade da guerra. No entanto, às vezes, a loucura é o único caminho sensato a lidar com uma situação louca. Ele tenta diversas vezes ser declarado insano pelo médico para poder voltar para casa. Catch-22 é uma paródia de uma "mentalidade militar" e de uma sociedade burocrática em geral.
Joseph K. é acordado por um inspetor de polícia na pensão em que mora. Ao saber que está preso em casa sem explicação e que precisa ficar à disposição das autoridades, ele parte em busca de respostas.
Marion Crane é uma secretária que rouba 40 mil dólares da imobiliária onde trabalha para se casar e começar uma nova vida. Durante a fuga à carro, ela enfrenta uma forte tempestade, erra o caminho e chega em um velho hotel. O estabelecimento é administrado por um sujeito atencioso chamado Norman Bates, que nutre um forte respeito e temor por sua mãe. Marion decide passar a noite no local, sem saber o perigo que a cerca.