John Hughes films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 9 films on Boxlist

Known for The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

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The Breakfast Club
1985 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a...
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to...
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower ring curtain salesman, Del Griffith.
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Sixteen Candles
1984 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A teenage girl deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
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Uncle Buck
1989 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and...
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Weird Science
1985 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa...
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She's Having a Baby
1988 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is...
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Curly Sue
1991 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into...
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John Hughes films, ranked by your taste

Starring John Hughes

Directed by John Hughes