A comedy about life during the 1970's. A father refuses to accept his son marrying a girl from a different religion, thus leading to several comical situations.
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
Kapina laivalla (Mutiny on the Bounty, Suomessa myös nimillä Kapina laivassa ja Kapina kannella) on Frank Lloydin ohjaama yhdysvaltalainen seikkailuelokuva vuodelta 1935. Se perustuu James Norman Hallin romaaniin Kapina laivassa, joka perustuu HMS Bountylla 1789 puhjenneeseen kapinaan. Pääosia esittivät Clark Gable ja Charles Laughton.Kapina laivalla voitti parhaan elokuvan Oscar-palkinnon ja oli ehdolla viidessä muussa kategoriassa. Gable, Laughton, ja Franchot Tone olivat kaikki ehdolla parhaasta miespääosasta. Se on toistaiseksi (Oscar-gaala 2009) ainut parhaan elokuvan Oscarin voittanut elokuva, joka ei voittanut muita Oscar-palkintoja.
Täältä ikuisuuteen on yhdysvaltalainen elokuva vuodelta 1953. Elokuva perustuu James Jonesin vuonna 1951 ilmestyneeseen samannimiseen romaaniin. Elokuvan ohjasi Fred Zinnemann ja sen pääosissa olivat Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed ja Frank Sinatra. Elokuva kertoo Havaijilla olevista sotilaista toisen maailmansodan aikaan. Elokuva on erityisen kuuluisa rantasuudelmakohtauksestaan, josta tullut osa länsimaista ikonografiaa.Elokuva oli ehdolla kolmeentoista Oscar-palkintoon ja voitti niistä kahdeksan.
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the one person there for him during his last season with the club. Throughout the course of the season, Henry and his teammates attempt to deal with Bruce's impending illness, all the while attempting to make his last year a memorable one.
Jade Goodale on talkshown kykyjenetsijä, jonka vaappuva rakkauselämä saa hänet tutkimaan tarkemmin miesten omituisia pariutumistapoja. Tutkimus saa huimaavan seksikkäät seuraukset, kun ne tekevät Jadesta kunnioitetun rakkausgurun - ja hän päätyy kahden komean sydäntenmurskaajan käsittelyyn.
The sleepy little village of Loubressac is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. To save the town, the local citizenry hatch a plan to attract tourists. To their horror, the plan misfires when a group of hippies are the first to move in. The hippies' free and unconventional ways quickly upset the staid lives of the locals. Then one of the locals is found murdered, and suspicion inevitably falls on the newcomers. Eventually, the locals and the hippies join forces to solve the mystery, and in the course of their adventures learn to respect each others' ways.