FR #1712 | Movie | Documentary, Short | France | English
Director
Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo
Writer
Jean Vigo, Boris Kaufman
Plot
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
FR #2176 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Marquis De Sade
Cast
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad De Laberdesque
Plot
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
FR #3687 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale
Writer
Marshall Neilan, Joseph Moncure March, Howard Estabrook
Cast
Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow
Plot
Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
FR #4203 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Josef Von Sternberg
Writer
Jules Furthman, Benno Vigny
Cast
Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou
Plot
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
FR #4972 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | English, French
Director
Rene Clair
Writer
Rene Clair
Cast
Albert Prejean, Pola Illery, Edmond T. Greville
Plot
Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.
FR #5232 | Movie | Documentary | Russia | Ukrainian, Russian
Director
Dziga Vertov
Plot
How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
FR #7963 | Movie | Documentary | Russia | Sign, English
Director
Mikhail Kalatozov
Writer
Sergey Tretyakov, Mikhail Kalatozov
Plot
Story of distant mountainous region in Georgia that depicts folklore, lifestyle and daily routines of Svani people, focuses on the scarcity of salt in Svaneti region. Rich with documentary value, the movie also served for Soviet p...
FR #10483 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French, English
Director
Augusto Genina
Writer
Rene Clair, Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast
Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini
Plot
Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw...
After far too many break-ins on his watch, an ineffective policeman approaches the unsuspecting vagabonds, Laurel and Hardy, with a preposterous proposition; one that would get him off the hook. But, are the boys up to the task?
FR #11697 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
John Monk Saunders, Dan Totheroh, Howard Hawks
Cast
Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton, Frank Mchugh
Plot
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
Harald Bergstedt, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Oleg Leonidov
Cast
Igor Ilyinsky, Anatoli Ktorov, Mariya Strelkova
Plot
Satire of religious charlatanry where priests, police, and stock market officials conspire to fleece pilgrims who've come to see relics of a supposed saint. A pair of con men hatch a scheme to pass off one of the duo as the saint ...
FR #12489 | Movie | Drama | Russia | English, Russian
Director
Abram Room
Writer
Henri Barbusse, Valentin Turkin
Cast
Boris Ferdinandov, A. Filippov, Karl Gurnyak
Plot
"The Ghost That Never Returns" is an outstanding Soviet film by Abram Room, the director of Bed and Sofa (1927). Released to little notice in 1930, it joins other very late silents to show the screen still developing high eloquenc...
FR #12690 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
James Parrott
Writer
H.M. Walker, Nat Hoffberg, Leo Mccarey
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns
Plot
In winter-time, the boys fail to earn any money by playing their musical instruments in a bad neighborhood but their luck seems to improve when they find a wallet full of money on the street.
FR #12692 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Japan | English
Director
Yasujiro Ozu
Writer
Kogo Noda, Oscar Schisgall, Oscar Shisgall
Cast
Mitsuko Ichimura, Tokihiko Okada, Chishu Ryu
Plot
A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. He begins to feel remorse though, which makes him question his decision.
FR #13203 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French, English
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Noel Renard, Emile Zola
Cast
Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie, Andree Brabant
Plot
Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a positi...
Chandrakumar, son of a rich man in Travancore is kidnapped by the villain Bhoothanathan to Ceylon. The efforts of his parents to find him do not succeed and Chandrakumar is brought up as a laborer in an estate. The estate owner, w...
FR #17994 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Arnold Fanck
Writer
Arnold Fanck, Carl Mayer
Cast
Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet
Plot
In the Mont Blanc Observatory works Hannes. The only contact to the outside world is a pilot and Hella over the morse-code-radio. As Hella climbs the mountain with her father, the father dies. Also Hannes gets endangered as his fi...
Pierre Alcover, Julien Bertheau, Alexandre Mihalesco
Plot
Victor Berthier, a good man but also a very jealous one, killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. After serving a few years in a chain gang, he is released for good behavior. He feels very happy to be able to return to Paris and to m...
FR #19997 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Robert Siodmak
Writer
Emeric Pressburger, Irma Von Cube
Cast
Brigitte Horney, Aribert Mog, Emilia Unda
Plot
Peter Winkler's new job offer is about to take him away from his lover Hella, but he has been keeping it a secret from her. Mutual lack of trust and vicious gossip threatens their relationship as they plan to make their farewells.
Bimbo is seen late at night, trying to steal a chicken. He runs away from a policeman and enters a haunted cemetery. Various ghosts and monsters tell him that he will be punished for his sin.
FR #21959 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Jack Conway
Writer
Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins
Cast
Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent
Plot
Professor Echo, a ventriloquist, forms a burglary ring. He disguises himself as an elderly pet store owner selling talking birds to the wealthy, using his skills to make the birds seem to talk while casing the homes for robberies.
Three department-store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than $20 per week. Jerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich ...
