Top 10 John Hughes Movies

John Hughes was born on February 18, 1950 in Lansing, Michigan, USA who was a writer and director. He is known for The Breakfast Club (1985), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). But most people began to know him due to the 1990s classic comedy series Home Alone which is one of the best comediese ever made in the United States.

Few individuals have had such a strong influence on the last two generations of filmmakers as John Hughes.There is no violence or extremism in Hughes's films, and that it is all about skipping school, going to college, falling in love  and parent-child relationship.Somebody said that there is no one can be comparable to Hughes in dealing with adolescent psychology.

Today chilimovie pick top 10 John Hughes Movies below.


Release Date
2024-05-20
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : Marvel Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment
  • Director : Kerry Lyn McKissick, Jon Watts, James Gunn
  • Stars : Tom Holland , Michael Keaton , Robert Downey Jr.
  • Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
Release Date
2007-08-17
  • Rate : 7.6
  • Production Companies : Columbia Pictures, Apatow Productions
  • Director : Greg Mottola, Scott Robertson, Ronit Ravich-Boss
  • Stars : Jonah Hill , Michael Cera , Christopher Mintz-Plasse
  • Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
Release Date
2001-12-07
  • Rate : 5.8
  • Production Companies : Original Film, Columbia Pictures Corporation
  • Director : Daniel Silverberg, Heather Harris, Joel Gallen
  • Stars : Chyler Leigh , Chris Evans , Jaime Pressly
  • On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
Release Date
1996-11-27
  • Rate : 5.7
  • Production Companies : Walt Disney Pictures, Great Oaks Entertainment
  • Director : Stephen Herek, Michael D. Moore, Toby Hosking
  • Stars : Glenn Close , Jeff Daniels , Joely Richardson
  • An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.
Release Date
2015-07-29
  • Rate : 6.2
  • Production Companies : New Line Cinema, BenderSpink
  • Director : John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein, Lori Grabowski
  • Stars : Ed Helms , Christina Applegate , Skyler Gisondo
  • Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.
Release Date
1997-11-26
  • Rate : 5.3
  • Production Companies : Walt Disney Pictures, Great Oaks Entertainment
  • Director : Les Mayfield, Angela C. Tortu, Peter Crosman
  • Stars : Robin Williams , Marcia Gay Harden , Christopher McDonald
  • Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.
Release Date
1997-12-12
  • Rate : 4.6
  • Production Companies : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Hughes Entertainment
  • Director : Raja Gosnell, Richard Oswald, Benjamin Rosenberg
  • Stars : Alex D. Linz , Olek Krupa , Rya Kihlstedt
  • 9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.
Release Date
1992-11-19
  • Rate : 6.9
  • Production Companies : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Hughes Entertainment
  • Director : Chris Columbus, Jacolyn Baker, Jan Evans
  • Stars : Macaulay Culkin , Daniel Stern , Joe Pesci
  • Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
Release Date
1990-11-16
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Hughes Entertainment
  • Director : Chris Columbus, Geoffrey Hansen, James Giovannetti Jr.
  • Stars : Macaulay Culkin , Joe Pesci , Daniel Stern
  • Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before Christmas Day.
Release Date
1986-06-11
  • Rate : 7.8
  • Production Companies : Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures
  • Director : John Hughes, Linnea Ebba Wicklund, James Giovannetti Jr.
  • Stars : Matthew Broderick , Alan Ruck , Mia Sara
  • 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 outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
Release Date
1985-02-15
  • Rate : 7.8
  • Production Companies : Universal Pictures, Channel Productions
  • Director : John Hughes, Bob Forrest, Robert P. Cohen
  • Stars : Emilio Estevez , Judd Nelson , Molly Ringwald
  • 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 chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.