O Vale da Decisão (1945)
The Book That Thrilled Millions!
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 59M
Director : Tay Garnett
Escritor : Sonya Levien, John Meehan
Sinopse
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?
John Rowe Moyle walked the 22 miles from Alpine, Utah to Salt Lake City to fulfill his calling.
Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park fence to get a better view but hit some cable lying on the ground and find themselves in the past - on May 8, 1949, a day which they seem doomed to relive over and over again.
Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her manager.
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: at first she takes her son abroad with an excuse and then has her grandson kidnapped making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
Sob um baobá, um velho conta às crianças a história da amizade entre Maki, de apenas 10 anos, e Zarafa, uma girafa órfã. O animal foi dado ao rei francês Charles X por Muhammad Ali, do Egito. Em meio a uma longa jornada que vai do Sudão até Paris, Maki e Zarafa vivem diversas aventuras.
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.
O filho de um casal de apreciadores do escritor Machado de Assis é batizado com o nome de um de seus personagens e cresce com a ideia fixa de que viverá a mesma história do livro "Dom Casmurro", o que o leva a chamar sua amiga de infância, Ana, de Capitu.
O filme é baseado no livro Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia por Dr. David Lamar Cook, um psicólogo que recebeu um Ph.D. em Esporte e Performance Psicologia da Universidade de Virginia.
Anna Karenina, casada um alto funcionário do governo russo, envolve-se com o Conde Vronsky, oficial da cavalaria, chocando a alta sociedade de 1874. Ela pede o divórcio, mas o marido, além de se recusar a concedê-lo, ainda a impede de ver o filho.
Em 1940 um rico, mas recluso, escultor de peças metálicas, Thomas Hudson (George C. Scott), vive numa ilha das Bahamas, onde se diverte, bebe e pesca. Invadindo o paraíso de Thomas chegam os três filhos de suas ex-esposas. O mais velho, Tom (Hart Bochner), é o mais próximo do pai. Andrew (Brad Savage) e David (Michael-James Wixted), que são de outro casamento, são bem diferentes um do outro. Andrew mostra afeto, já David mostra uma certa raiva em relação ao pai, que vem à tona numa inocente luta de travesseiros, quando David começa a socar o pai. No entanto esta raiva aos poucos se transforma em afeto. Paralelamente as notícias que vêm de fora não são nada boas, pois a 2ª Guerra Mundial se intensifica e a França se rende. Ao final das férias os três partem e Tom vai lutar na R.A.F. Um dia Hudson recebe a visita de Audrey (Claire Bloom), uma ex-esposa, que lhe dá uma notícia que modificará sua vida.
In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what you do, you can't avoid the spectre of the pit forever.
No ano de 1850, um menino de 13 anos se torna marinheiro para ajudar sua família financeiramente. No entanto, o navio onde ele trabalha naufraga, e ele vai parar numa ilha onde terá que enfrentar o maldoso pirata Merrick.
A vida de um pequeno cordeiro é virada de cabeça para baixo pelo lobo que matou sua mãe. Ele quer vingar a sua mãe, mas, a fim de derrotar o lobo, ele deve tornar-se um.
Após a morte de Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep), uma proprietária rural do interior do Iowa, seus filhos descobrem, através de cartas que a mãe deixou, do forte envolvimento que ela teve com um fotógrafo (Clint Eastwood) da National Geographic, quando a família se ausentou de casa por quatro dias. Estas revelações fazem os filhos questionarem seus próprios casamentos.