Norma Varden

Juliet Forrest está convencida de que a morte de seu pai em um acidente de carro nas montanhas não foi um acidente. Seu pai era um proeminente cientista trabalhando em uma receita secreta de queijo. Para provar que foi assassinado, ela contrata os serviços de detetive Rigby Reardon. Ele encontra um pedaço de papel com uma lista de pessoas que são "Os Amigos e Inimigos da Carlotta". Procurando por respostas, Rigby se encontra com diversos personagens do submundo: homens e mulheres perigosos que foram as principais personagens dos clássicos filmes de detetive dos anos 40 e 50. Filmado em preto e branco para permitir o uso de cenas de filmes antigos entremeadas com as do novo. É através deste recurso que o assistente de Rigby não é outro senão o próprio Philip Marlowe.

An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can't resist butting in with comic results.

An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbul Express.

John Dolittle é um veterinário consagrado e mundialmente famoso. Seu sucesso é por um detalhe especialmente peculiar: ele tem o dom de poder conversar com os animais. Primeira versão para o cinema das histórias criadas pelo escritor Hugh Lofting. A história ganhou uma nova versão em 1998, estrelada por Eddie Murphy, e mais duas continuações.

No final da década de 1930, na Áustria, quando o pesadelo nazista estava prestes a se instaurar no país, uma noviça (Julie Andrews) que vive em um convento, mas não consegue seguir as rígidas normas de conduta das religiosas, vai trabalhar como governanta na casa do capitão Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer), que é viúvo, tem sete filhos e os educa como se fizessem parte de um regimento. Sua chegada modifica drasticamente o padrão da família, trazendo alegria novamente ao lar da família Von Trapp e conquistando o carinho e o respeito das crianças. Mas ela termina se apaixonando pelo capitão, que está comprometido com uma rica baronesa.

When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for her husband Thad McCloud. He, as First Husband, must take over the job as The First Lady, in the women's groups and garden parties.

Ótima comédia sobre um cineasta que pede a um gangster para financiar um filme sobre Adão e Eva. Steve Blair é um vigarista cujo parceiro Paul é um escritor alcoólatra que está fazendo uma série de desenhos animados. Steve se propõe a gerar um pedaço cinematográfica bíblico de Gênesis. O apoio financeiro é fornecido por um gangster, não satisfeito quando vê o resultado final. Então, Steve e Paul estão escondidos em uma ilha grega. Lá, Steve tem outra ideia brilhante para cometer uma fraude que pode funcionar, assumindo que o babaca pode aparecer mais cedo ou mais tarde. Grande atuação de Walter Matthau como bandido.

While attending a Swiss school for diplomats' daughters, the teenage daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to engage in espionage.

Prudence, uma jovem professora americana, pede demissão da escola depois de ser criticada por dar para uma aluna a sua cópia de um livro sobre romance. Ela viaja para a Itália de navio, aceita um emprego em uma pequena livraria em Roma, e encontra Don, que acaba de romper com sua namorada. Prudence e Don viajam juntos pela Itália e, naturalmente, surge o romance.

A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works.

A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.

Em 1812, durante a luta contra a invasão inglesa, o general americano Andrew Jackson conta com um punhado de caçadores e homens destreinados para defender a cidade de New Orleans, quando é informado que a frota britânica está chegando, com sessenta navios e milhares de homens para tomarem a cidade. Diante disso, uma ilha perto da cidade se torna estrategicamente importante para os dois exércitos, porém ela é habitada por Jean Lafitte, o mais impiedoso e temido corsário dos mares. Embora nunca tenha atacado um navio americano, o governador da cidade o detesta, pois Lafitte vende suas mercadorias sem pagar impostos e por isso, é adorado pelos cidadãos. Mas, quando o grande combate se aproxima, Lafitte se vê preso entre os dois exércitos. Seu coração pertence aos Estados Unidos, mas seus homens querem lutar ao lado dos ingleses.

The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.

Quando Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) é preso sob a acusação de ter assassinado uma rica viúva de meia-idade, Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton), um veterano e astuto advogado, concorda em defendê-lo. Sir Wilfrid está se recuperando de um ataque do coração quase fatal e "supostamente" está em uma dieta, que o proíbe de ingerir bebidas alcoólicas e de se envolver em casos complicados. Mas a atração pelas cortes criminais é algo muito forte para ele, especialmente quando o caso é bem difícil. O único álibi de Vole é o testemunho da sua esposa, Christine Vole (Marlene Dietrich), uma mulher fria e calculista. A tarefa de Sir Wilfrid fica praticamente impossível quando Christine Vole concorda em ser testemunha, não da defesa, mas da acusação.

Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal. While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus, plots a defense against Hannibal's armies, Fabius' fiancée, Amytis, is curious about the fearless conqueror. Amytis travels to Hannibal's camp just to get a look at him, but she ends up being captured. However, she is instantly smitten by the Carthaginian commander, so she tries to shift his attentions away from Rome -- and to her instead.

Garotas americanas sonham em encontrar romance em Roma, mas isto não é para secretárias, diz Anita. Mas Maria logo conhece o príncipe Dino de Cessi em uma festa na casa de seu chefe, que a convida a voar para Veneza em seu avião particular. Frances, que está em Roma há 15 anos como secretária de um escritor americano de sucesso que fala muito como George Bernard Shaw e é tão ilusória quanto o professor Henry Higgins em "My Fair Lady", diz a ela para dizer "não" e depois decide que juntos eles podem lidar com o homem apelidado de príncipe predador. Moedas jogadas na Fonte de Trevi podem realmente funcionar como mágica.

Duas dançarinas, Lorelei e Dorothy, embarcam num cruzeiro rumo a Paris, a convite do noivo de Lorelei, que é um milionário. O pai do noivo contrata um detetive para segui-las e conseguir provas de infidelidade da futura nora. Em consequência, criam-se uma série de confusões em alto-mar.

The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.

The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.

Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becoming convinced that Valerie is innocent so Sister Mary sets about to clear the girl and bring the real killer to justice.

Haines é um tenista famoso, casado, que gostaria de se divorciar para casar novamente com Anne Morton, a mulher que ama, e que é filha de um senador estadunidense. Para isso Haines viaja até Metcalf, sua cidade natal, com o intuito de conseguir a assinatura do divórcio de sua infiel mulher, Miriam, e fica furioso quando não consegue. Encontra no trem um psicopata chamado Bruno Antony, que o reconhece dos jornais e sabe de toda sua história. A certa altura, durante a viagem, Bruno propõe um pacto: ele mataria a mulher de Haines e em troca Haines mataria o pai dele. Embora Haines não tenha aceitado, Bruno realiza a sua parte e insiste em cobrar o pacto de Haines.

Arthur Tyler (Bob Hope), um ator americano na Inglaterra representando um mordomo Inglês, é contratado por Effie Floud, uma mulher nouveau riche do Novo México, para refinar o marido e Aggie (Lucille Ball)), a filha teimosa. As complicações aumentam quando a cidade acredita que Arthur é um Conde, e o presidente Teddy Roosevelt decide fazer uma visita para conhece-lo.

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.

Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.

A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...

In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.

A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.

An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.

With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.

An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.

A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.

An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.

A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.

A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.

Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test.

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.

An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.

During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.

An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, muitos fugitivos tentavam escapar dos nazistas por uma rota que passava pela cidade de Casablanca. O exilado americano Rick Blaine encontrou refúgio na cidade, dirigindo uma das principais casas noturnas da região. Clandestinamente, tentando despistar o Capitão Renault, ele ajuda refugiados, possibilitando que eles fujam para os Estados Unidos. Quando um casal pede sua ajuda para deixar o país, ele reencontra uma grande paixão do passado, a bela Ilsa. Este amor vai encontrar uma nova vida e eles vão lutar para fugir juntos.

Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with several pretty young ladies. Marjorie Woodworth plays the girl who helps Marshall in his escape, pausing occasionally to participate in a some lively but forgettable musical numbers.

A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.

Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.

Encalhados na África, Chuck e seu amigo Fearless (Sem Medo) vivem versões cômicas de aventuras na selva, com duas atraentes vigaristas. Chuck e seu amigo Fearless fogem de um carnaval sul-africano quando seu show causa um incêndio. Depois de várias escapadas semelhantes, eles finalmente economizaram o suficiente para voltar aos EUA, quando Chuck gasta tudo em uma mina de diamantes 'perdida'. Mas isso é apenas o começo; Em pouco tempo, uma dupla de mulheres atraentes enganam nossos heróis para financiar um safári cômico, com inúmeras aventuras burlescas na selva. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

Em Londres, durante os bombardeios da Primeira Guerra, o oficial Roy e a bailarina Myra se conhecem na ponte de Waterloo e logo se apaixonam. Porém, Roy precisa partir para o front de batalha. Myra promete esperá-lo. Meses depois, ela recebe a notícia da morte de Roy. Desiludida e sem recursos, Myra toma uma decisão drástica. Mas será que o seu grande amor realmente morreu?

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them reopened.

A Chicago gangster steals jewels and frames his band leader double.

A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.

Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.

Durante o reino da Rainha Elizabeth I, na Inglaterra, as tensões militares com a Espanha são evidentes. Em meio a um ambiente de amor e guerra, um espião é enviado à Península Ibérica para investigar possíveis suspeitos e futuros ataques ao seu país.

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.

The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with the wife of a notorious criminal.

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.

This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band.

An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means - fair or foul!

A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.

Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continually flirt with other people. Sir Duncan is appointed to the board of clothing retail chain. On his tour of inspection, he encounters a successful store run by the efficient Mr. Bullock. By contrast, a neighbouring shop is filled with unhelpful staff overseen by an incompetent and lazy manager, Raymond Penny, who is more interested in horseracing than running his shop. Craggs is unimpressed by Penny and summons him to a meeting in London. Both Bullock and his domineering wife travel up to London as well, fearing that Penny will tell Craggs malicious stories about them.

Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.

A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.

A Student's Romance was based on the operetta I Lost My Heart in Heidelburg, which in turn owed a lot to that old chestnut The Student Prince. In 1825, impoverished composer Max (Patric Knowles) enrolls at Heidelburg University. Local girl Veronika (Carol Goodner) falls in love with Max, helping him to finance his education and clear his debts. Alas, Veronika is left out in the cold when Max becomes enamored with gorgeous tourist Helene (Grete Natzler). Little does he know that Helene is the daughter of the Grand Duke (Ivan Simpson), meaning of course that their romance is doomed to disappointment. Leading lady Grete Natzler later changed her screen name to Della Lynd, and under that cognomen co-starred with Laurel & Hardy in Swiss Miss (1938).

Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington

Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.

A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.

A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished concert performer whose innocent presence in the house leads to a series of misunderstandings.

Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.

Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.

An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.