FR #702 | Movie | Horror, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Tod Browning
Writer
Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon
Cast
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
Plot
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.
FR #1205 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | USA | English, German
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones, Aladar Laszlo
Cast
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
Plot
A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.
A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling to clear his name and prove hi...
FR #2453 | Movie | Film-Noir, Horror | USA | English, Cantonese
Director
Erle C. Kenton
Writer
Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, H.G. Wells
Cast
Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen
Plot
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
FR #3693 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Tay Garnett
Writer
Wilson Mizner, Joseph Jackson, Robert Lord
Cast
William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank Mchugh
Plot
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
FR #3950 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Rouben Mamoulian
Writer
Samuel Hoffenstein, George Marion Jr., Waldemar Young
Cast
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette Macdonald, Charles Ruggles
Plot
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
FR #5693 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Burt Gillett
Cast
Clarence Nash, Esther Campbell, Pinto Colvig
Plot
A jealous stump threatens two trees that are in love by starting a forest fire. When the rain comes and puts out the fire the forest revives and celebrates the wedding.
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
FR #6980 | Movie | Family, Drama | France | French
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Jules Renard, Julien Duvivier
Cast
Harry Baur, Robert Lynen, Louis Gauthier
Plot
A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag ; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.
FR #9227 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France | French, Danish
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Georges Simenon, Jean Renoir
Cast
Pierre Renoir, Georges Terof, Winna Winifried
Plot
Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen.
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing prison cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but the tough but compassionate warden is able to effect change in him.
FR #11732 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Fantasy | Germany, France | German
Director
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer
Pierre Benoit, Alexandre Arnoux, Jacques Deval
Cast
Brigitte Helm, Heinz Klingenberg, Tela Tchai
Plot
Two French Foreign Legionnaires are lost amid the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert when they stumble across the entrance to an underground world. Searching this new found subterranean passage, our heroes are surprised to find t...
FR #11990 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Italy | Italian
Director
Mario Camerini
Writer
Mario Camerini, Aldo De Benedetti, Mario Soldati
Cast
Lia Franca, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zoppetti
Plot
Bruno, a young Milanese driver, falls in love with Mariuccia, dependent on a perfumery. Wanting to impress her, he shows up for their first date, in his employer's car.
FR #11995 | Movie | Comedy | Czech, Switzerland | Czech, English
Director
Martin Fric
Writer
Emil Artur Longen, Josef Neuberg
Cast
Vlasta Burian, Ruzena Slemrova, Jaroslav Marvan
Plot
True, Anton Spelec (Vlasta Burian) is by trade a producer of musical instruments, but in his heart and soul he is a sharp-shooter. In a little provincial town arrangements are being made for a large parade during which the worthy ...
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Commanded to "scram" out of town by a cantankerous judge, poor vagabonds, Stan and Ollie, slip into something more comfortable to spend the night at a sympathetic inebriate's home; however, is this the right house?
Stan convinces Oliver to adopt a baby to placate his wife, but upon returning home with the infant, they find a process server with a divorce summons, leaving the two buffoons to care for the squealing baby.
In need of funds, Hardy happens to meet an old friend, now a boxing promoter, and volunteers "Battling Laurel" as the team's prizefighter, only to discover their opponent in the ring is a fearsome old nemesis.
FR #16231 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Germany | German
Director
Ludwig Berger
Writer
Robert Liebmann, Hans Szekely
Cast
Kathe Von Nagy, Willy Fritsch, Amanda Lindner
Plot
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never met, but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance ~ not knowing who's who ~ and fall in love.
Sherlock Holmes must find someone to impersonate King Fernando XXIII of Puerto Rico, but the double he chooses doesn't prove to be as manageable as the great detective could have hoped.
FR #17232 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | Germany, France | German, French
Director
Karl Hartl
Writer
Walter Reisch, Curt Siodmak
Cast
Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann
Plot
An artificial island in the Atlantic functions as an aerodrome. A sabotage attempt is thwarted by a renowned aviator's intervention, securing the island's safety.
Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspi...
This film is about Chandidas, a legendary 15th-C. Bengali Vaishnavite poet whose biography remains obscure but was an influence on the better documented Chaitanya (1486-1533), a school teacher who promoted the Vaishnavite ideology...
Shady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife's boyfriend.
FR #22231 | Movie | Comedy, Music | Germany | German
Director
Max Ophuls
Writer
Curt Alexander, Robert Vambery, Karel Sabina
Cast
Max Nadler, Jarmila Novotna, Otto Wernicke
Plot
Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because of Hans, but the marriage arranger tries ...
FR #22933 | Movie | Drama | Japan | Japanese, English
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Shunyo Yanagawa, Kogo Noda
Cast
Yoshiko Okada, Shin'Yo Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba
Plot
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim - with the help of her gangster brother - the daughter she abandoned years before.
FR #24175 | Movie | History, War | USA | English, German
Director
George Archainbaud
Writer
Dick Grace, Wallace Smith, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Cast
Richard DIX, Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong
Plot
In hard times just after World War I, three ex-fighter pilots manage to land jobs as Hollywood stunt fliers working for dictatorial director Von Furst.
FR #24179 | Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
Director
William A. Seiter
Writer
Seton I. Miller, Josephine Lovett, Joseph Moncure March
Cast
Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott
Plot
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film. It depicts black men working in a field, walking in chains, sitting behin...
