John Hughes

Cientistas de uma estação de pesquisa do Ártico descobrem uma nave espacial enterrada no gelo. Após um exame mais detalhado, eles descobrem o piloto congelado. Todo o inferno surge quando o levam de volta à sua estação e ele é acidentalmente descongelado!

Musical biography of Marilyn Miller, who overcame heartache to become a Broadway star

A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.

Dois vagabundos e um garimpeiro grisalho descobrem um verdadeiro tesouro em ouro, mas a ganância e a paranoia vai rapidamente se apoderar de todos neste clássico sobre o poder da riqueza escondida nas montanhas e a avareza que se esconde no coração dos homens. e 12.

Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.

Ascensão de George Gershwin, de uma editora musical em Manhattan aos píncaros da fama internacional. O excesso de trabalho cobra seu preço e Gershwin falece aos trinta e nove anos, de hemorragia cerebral, em 1937.

Robert L. Scott sonhou toda a sua vida de ser um piloto de caça, mas quando a guerra chega ele encontra-se voando em aviões de transporte na China. Na China, ele convence general Chennault para deixá-lo voar com os Tigres Voadores, famosos pilotos que estavam lutando contra os japoneses muito antes de Pearl Harbor. Scott consegue a sua chance de lutar, em última análise, enfrentar em combate o piloto japonês conhecido Tokyo Joe.

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

A tripulação de um bombardeiro da Força Aérea chega em Pearl Harbor no rescaldo do ataque japonês e é enviado para Manila para ajudar com a defesa das Filipinas. Em 6 de dezembro de 1941, nove bombardeiros B-17 partiram em um voo de San Francisco para o Havaí. Um dos bombardeiros, o Mary Ann, é comandado pelo "Irlandês" Quincannon. O bombardeiro, Tommy McMartin, tem uma irmã vivendo no Havaí e o copiloto, Bill Williams, está apaixonado por ela. Os homens são todos altamente profissionais, com exceção do artilheiro Joe Winocki, um homem amargo que tem toda a intenção de deixar a Força Aérea do exército. Eles chegam ao Campo Hickam na manhã de 7 de dezembro, na mesma hora que os japoneses estão atacando Pearl Harbor e outras instalações militares. Todos os homens se preparam para enfrentar o inimigo, inclusive Winocki cuja atitude muda rapidamente. O bombardeiro e sua tripulação participarão de muitas missões, mas nem todos sobreviverão.

Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

Alvin Cullum York (Gary Cooper) vive é um soldado pacifista que terá que deixar suas crenças cristãs de lado para participar do front na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Ator (Gary Cooper) e Melhor Montagem, indicado a outras nove categorias.

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Director William Keighley's 1940 film adaptation of S. N. Behrman's stage hit, about an aspiring playwright who finds himself an overnight Broadway success, stars James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin, Louise Beavers, Charles Ruggles and Allyn Joslyn.

Joe Fabrini (George Raft) e Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart) são dois irmãos motoristas de caminhão que levam uma acidentada e explorada vida como caminhoneiros. Joe sonha com o dia em que terão seu próprio negócio. Eles acabam sendo demitidos do serviço de um patrão corrupto. Um acidente com Paul mudará os sonhos dessa dupla, e para tentar manter um emprego, Joe se vê envolvido em uma trama de crime com a mal-intencionada Lana Carlsen (Ida Lupino), mulher de seu patrão.

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.

In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.

Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.

Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.

Em 1853, enquanto os impérios britânico e russo competem para ganhar e manter seus lugares no terrível Grande Jogo de intrigas e alianças políticas cujo maior prêmio é o domínio da Índia e dos territórios fronteiriços, o Major Geoffrey Vickers deve suportar várias traições e infortúnios até poder se vingar nas Colinas de Balaclava, em 25 de outubro de 1854, o dia mais glorioso da Guerra da Crimeia.

Nos anos 30, na paisagem desolada do nordeste do Arizona, na região conhecida como Floresta Petrificada, o jovem viajante caronista Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) para para jantar. No lugar ele conhece a garçonete romântica Gaby (Bette Davis), que logo se interessa por ele. A mãe de Gaby se mudou para a França, onde mantém um estúdio de artes e lhe envia postais de lá. Gaby sonha em um dia se mudar para lá também. Alan se diz um "escritor fracassado". Ele vê as pinturas de Gaby e acha que a garota tem um imenso talento. Alan acaba por confidenciar à Gaby que sua viagem aquele lugar isolado, deve-se a um desejo de se suicidar. Não demora muito e o local se agita com a chegada de Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart) e sua gangue. Perseguidos pela polícia, eles mantém as pessoas da pousada como reféns. Alan vê a oportunidade ideal de realizar seu plano e ao mesmo tempo ajudar Gaby. Ele assina uma apólice de seguro fazendo-a sua beneficiária, e pede para que Mantee o mate.

Os antigos camaradas da Primeira Guerra Mundial, os pilotos Jake Lee, Tex Clarke e Dizzy Davis, reencontram-se vinte anos depois, trabalhando em uma companhia governamental do correio aéreo americano.

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.

Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam

A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

James Cagney interpreta o jovem advogado criminalista, Brick Davis, que tenta resistir as tentações do mundo do crime, embora sua educação tenha sido paga por um gângster. Sua vida dá uma reviravolta quando um amigo e agente federal tenta recrutá-lo para o FBI, e é assassinado por um gângster.

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.

Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.

Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.

A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.

Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.

Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.

A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.

A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.

Ellen, a young American girl who married a European prince and moved to his country, is preparing to return to the US, after having paid off all the debts left by her now-deceased husband. However, when she returns early, no one recognizes her and even her aunt Kate mistakes her for the princess' dressmaker. Her ex-boyfriend Joe, who recognizes her immediately, suggests that Ellen continue with the charade and have some fun, but a series of misunderstandings causes trouble for her.

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.

A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.

Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail.

1928-29 film directed by Frank Lloyd. It was an Oscar nominee for Best Director in the second year of the Academy Awards. The story concerns a man's family life, especially his wife's parents and their impact on his peace and solitude. it is a light comedy and supposedly is available at, at least, one unknown archive. It has been shown in recent years at one film festival in LA. This is an important film due to its Oscar status and because it is in existence somewhere and deserves to be mentioned.

A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.

In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.

The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as 'Jerry Cleggert', a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday - otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune. Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven (Mildred Harris) and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when Jerry's cousin, the dastardly lawyer Reginald Maltravers (Snitz Edwards) claims Agatha as his own. The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.

Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York freely. He meets Max Ginsberg, an old Jewish junk dealer with rheumatism, and the two strike a partnership and a close friendship.

An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.