An American Widow (1917)
Gênero : Comédia, Drama
Runtime : 0M
Director : Frank Reicher
Sinopse
Wealthy American widow Elizabeth Carter plans to marry the Earl of Dettminster when lawyer Augustus Tucker informs her of a codicil in her late husband's will. The Carter fortune will go to nephew Pitney Carter, who is in love with Elizabeth, if her second husband is not an American. Elizabeth therefore pays penniless playwright Jasper Mallory $50,000 to marry her and schemes with actress Mme. Albani to provide grounds for divorce so that she may then make the earl her third husband.
Veronica e Boris estão andando nas ruas de Moscou e se amam. Veronica está rindo, porque eles são felizes juntos nesta manhã. Eles veem alguns guindastes no céu. Ao chegar à casa de Veronica eles falam sobre um encontro na margem do rio. E a 2ª Guerra Mundial começa em Moscou. Boris trabalha em uma fábrica e ele não tem tempo para falar com Verônica. Ele vai para a guerra sem se despedir de Veronica.
Wai (Winston Chao) é um homem de negócios jovem e bem sucedido de Taiwan que mora em um belo apartamento no Brooklyn com seu namorado americano Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). Seus pais não sabem que ele é gay, e com isso ele sofre constantes pressões para se casar, então Simon o incentiva a se casar com a inquilina Wei Wei (May Chin) por conveniência. Em troca, ela conseguiria o seu green card, já que Wai é naturalizado americano. No entanto, o belo plano dos três começa a dar bem errado e render engraçadas situações quando a família do noivo chega de Taiwan na véspera do casório.
Paris, Reino da França, 18 de agosto de 1572. A fim de evitar o início de uma guerra religiosa, a princesa católica Marguerite de Valois, irmã do fraco rei Carlos IX, casa com o rei huguenote Henrique III de Navarra.
A jovem órfã Tristana é entregue aos cuidados do experiente Don Lope. O relacionamento da jovem com tutor vai se modificando até que os dois se tornam amantes. Tristana se torna amarga e cruel até que a chegada do jovem Horácio vem abalar o relacionamento dela com Don Lope.
Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) é dono de uma sapataria de sucesso na cidade de Salford, no século XIX. Os motivos de tantas vendas são dois: Willie Mossop (John Mills), um jovem analfabeto que tem um talento especial para trabalhar com couro e uma de suas filhas, Maggie Hobson (Brenda De Banzie), que tem um dom especial para vendas. Apesar do seu talento para os negócios, Hobson não quer que Maggie se case, prefere que as duas filhas mais novas façam isso, enquanto ela continue nos negócios. Revoltada, ela decide tomar uma decisão crucial em sua vida.
In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so she won't be a virgin anymore and he'll have an excuse to get out of the impending marriage. But what he doesn't plan is to fall in love with the girl...
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they owe two million euros in back taxes, these proud aristocrats are understandably shaken to the core of their ancestral seat. Just how are they to find this amount of money when none of them has any capacity for work?
Shoko e Mutsuki se casam para satisfazer seus pais preocupados, mas ela já passou da idade em que uma japonesa "boa" deveria se casar, e ele está apaixonado por um jovem estudante. O filme é menos uma exploração realista da vida gay do que um conto de fadas de três jovens japoneses tentando construir uma alternativa aos papéis sexuais e familiares dados a eles por uma sociedade cada vez mais emocionalmente estéril.
Clarissa se casa com o marquês de Rohan, que a trata com cruel indiferença, porém sua amiga Hesther a apresenta a outro patife, o atrevido e imoral Rokeby.
Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair with a man she meets during a trip to Paris.
The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. Despite Martin's many efforts for the now femme-fatal Blanche, she is not able to chose between him and the rich consul De Laubry.
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Ayra comes home to bury her dead father and later discovers that her family's estate had been taken over by Edwin, her childhood sweetheart and the son of their former overseer. Though terribly disappointed, she agrees to marry Edwin just so she could keep her hands on what was supposed to be inheritance
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.