FR #221 | Movie | Adventure, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Writer
James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose, Merian C. Cooper
Cast
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Plot
A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Louis Calhern
Plot
Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side th...
FR #1919 | Movie | Documentary, Short | Spain | French
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Rafael Sanchez Ventura, Pierre Unik
Cast
Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Plot
A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
FR #2948 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Burt Gillett
Writer
Pinto Colvig, Albert Hunter, Boris V. Morkovin
Cast
Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Marcellite Garner, Marcellite Garner
Plot
The Three Little Pigs each build a house of different material. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and blows away the straw and stick homes, but is unable to destroy the house of bricks.
FR #2994 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Max Ophuls
Writer
Curt Alexander, Max Ophuls, Felix Salten
Cast
Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Carl Esmond, Magda Schneider
Plot
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff howev...
FR #3440 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Rouben Mamoulian
Writer
H.M. Harwood, Salka Viertel, Margaret P. Levino
Cast
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen
Plot
Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.
FR #3450 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred E. Green
Writer
Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola, Darryl F. Zanuck
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, John Wayne, Robert Barrat, Douglass Dumbrille
Plot
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.
Frances Marion, Herman J. Mankiewicz, George S. Kaufman
Cast
Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore
Plot
As an aspiring New York socialite prepares for a lavish dinner party, her guests find themselves consumed by a tangle of business, romantic, and personal crises - all of which come to a head on the big night.
FR #3480 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Czech | Czech, German
Director
Gustav Machat12
Writer
Robert Horky, Frantisek Hork12, Jacques A. Koerpel
Cast
Hedy Lamarr, Zvonimir Rogoz, Aribert Mog
Plot
Eva has just got married to an older gentleman. She leaves him, and one day, she meets a young man, and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.
FR #4230 | Movie | War, Drama | Russia | Russian, German
Director
Boris Barnet
Writer
Konstantin Finn, Boris Barnet
Cast
Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov
Plot
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, national...
FR #4690 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Portugal, France | Portuguese, French
Director
Jose Cottinelli Telmo
Writer
Jose Cottinelli Telmo, Jose Galhardo
Cast
Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, Antonio Silva
Plot
After flunking in medical school, the young and bohemian Vasco need to trick his aunts, the main financers of his studies, preventing them to know that he is not a doctor.
FR #5233 | Movie | Documentary | Germany | German, Italian
Director
Leni Riefenstahl
Writer
Leni Riefenstahl
Cast
Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess
Plot
Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith, Victory of Faith, or Victory of the Faith) (1933) is the first propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which oc...
Student Hans is so appalled by decadent Berlin and the schemes of the Communist Party that he inspires the Nazi cohorts of his fellow storm troopers to actively fight the Communists who in turn conspire to assassinate him.
FR #7722 | Movie | Animation, Short | France, USA | French, English
Director
Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker
Plot
Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A chil...
FR #8194 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA, Japan | English
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Earl Baldwin, Daniel Ahern, Robert Presnell Sr.
Cast
Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips
Plot
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.
In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
FR #8730 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Germany, India | German, Hindi
Director
Reinhold Schunzel
Writer
Reinhold Schunzel
Cast
Renate Muller, Hermann Thimig, Hilde Hildebrand
Plot
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her...
FR #8984 | Movie | Crime, Mystery | France | French, Latin
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Georges Simenon, Louis Delapree, Pierre Calmann
Cast
Harry Baur, Valery Inkijinoff, Gina Manes
Plot
Willy is broke and his mistress always wants more money. A stranger in a pub agrees to murder his aunt, but everything will not go as planned. Maigret will try to separate fact and fiction.
FR #9450 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel
Writer
E.C. Segar
Cast
William Costello, William Pennell, Bonnie Poe, Mae Questel
Plot
Popeye begins his movie career by singing his theme song, demonstrating his strength at a carnival, dancing the hula with Betty Boop, pummeling Bluto, eating his spinach and saving Olive Oyl from certain doom on the railroad tracks.
Hired to sweep the chimney at Professor Noodle's house, the boys wreck the living-room and end-up in the mad scientist's laboratory where they interact with a rejuvenation potion.
Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in an office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother's studies at the university. Ryoichi doesn't know about his sister'...
William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat
Plot
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Oliver H.P. Garrett, William Faulkner, Maurine Dallas Watkins
Cast
Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue
Plot
A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.
FR #13482 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | France | French
Director
Rene Clair
Writer
Rene Clair
Cast
Annabella, Jorge Rigaud, Raymond Cordy
Plot
Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to the bal. Many events (Pola's come back, two villains...) will disturb this arisi...
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Billy Bletcher, Billy Bletcher
Plot
On his wedding day, Oliver and his best man Stanley become absorbed in a jigsaw puzzle. Eventually the taxi driver, the butler, a policeman and a messenger boy all get involved with the puzzle, making them late for the wedding.
FR #14990 | Movie | Fantasy, Romance | USA | English, Italian
Director
Gregory La Cava
Writer
Carey Wilson, Bertram Bloch, T.F. Tweed
Cast
Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone
Plot
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
FR #14996 | Movie | Drama | Russia | Russian, German
Director
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Writer
Nina Agadzhanova, M. Krasnostavsky, Aleksandr Lazebnikov
Cast
Boris Livanov, Vasili Kovrigin, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Plot
A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class stru...
James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis, Robert Barrat
Plot
Danny Kean, a former inmate, pursues photography and romance with Patricia, whose father initially disapproves. A ethical dilemma strains their bond until Kean confronts his criminal past.
FR #15445 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
Writer
Edward Chodorov, Islin Auster
Cast
James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins, Robert Barrat
Plot
A political appointee with a checkered past tries to institute constructive changes as the deputy commissioner at a cruel reform school but gets pushback from a sadistic warden and a suspicious judge who doesn't trust his motives.
FR #15995 | Movie | Drama | Germany, Austria | German
Director
Pal Fejos
Writer
Pal Fejos, Adolf Lantz
Cast
Annabella, Gustav Frohlich, Paul Otto
Plot
Vienna, at the height of the Great Depression. Like so many others, Hans has no work, no money, nowhere to live. Having lost his livelihood as a taxi driver, he decides that the only solution is to kill himself. But just as he is ...
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard, Billy Bletcher, Billy Bletcher
Plot
Novice policemen Stanley and Oliver, eating lunch in their patrol car, nearly have their spare tire stolen by a thief and his sassy partner. They then miss the broadcast address of a burglary in progress, and Stanley borrows the p...
FR #16439 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
David Hand
Cast
Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner
Plot
Mickey Mouse operates a steam shovel; Pegleg Pete is his foreman; Minnie Mouse sells box lunches. Mickey must save the day when Pete makes advances to Minnie.
Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman
Writer
Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola, Donald Henderson Clarke
Cast
Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson
Plot
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, C. Aubrey Smith
Plot
When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.
FR #18948 | Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Stuart Walker, Mitchell Leisen
Writer
Seton I. Miller, Bogart Rogers, John Monk Saunders
Cast
Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie
Plot
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
The movie is about Golnar, a young teahouse girl who was kidnapped as a child and taken to Lorestan with a clan of bandits living among the Lors. The leader of the thieves, Gholi Khan, is beginning to look at her with interest now...
FR #19949 | Movie | Animation, Fantasy | USA | English
Director
Wilfred Jackson
Writer
Robert Browning, Ted Sears, Webb Smith
Cast
Marion Darlington, Flossie Dunlap, George Gramlich
Plot
When the Pied Piper lures the rats from Hamelin Town but is not paid in gold by the mayor as promised, he lures all the children of the town to the magical Garden of Happiness in a mountain to punish the parents.
FR #20232 | Movie | Drama, War | Germany | English, German
Director
Gustav Ucicky
Writer
E. Freiherr V. Spiegel, Gerhard Menzel
Cast
Rudolf Forster, Fritz Genschow, Adele Sandrock
Plot
In 1915, Captain Liers, commander of a submarine is leaving his hometown, where he, his 2nd officer and the radio-operator, who is married there, spend their shore leave. Liers two brothers were already killed in action, so his mo...
FR #20719 | Movie | War, Drama | Mexico, USA | Spanish, English
Director
Fernando De Fuentes
Writer
Miguel Ruiz, Fernando De Fuentes
Cast
Alfredo Del Diestro, Luis G. Barreiro, Adela Sequeyro
Plot
El Prisionero 13 (Prisoner 13) is part of the trilogy of films made by Fernando Fuentes concerning the Mexican Revolution. The film centers on the drunkard Colonel Carrasco, whose wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The ch...
A narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens his bag. The toys march out and decorate the tree, with the toy soldiers shooting ...
A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he falls in love with an innocent girl.
Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burai...
Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti
Plot
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the wa...
FR #24222 | Movie | Drama | Germany, UK | German, English
Director
Werner Hochbaum
Writer
Carl Behr
Cast
Erich Haussmann, Hilde Von Stolz, Harry Frank
Plot
After serving 5 years in prison, Robert finds himself disappointed since his wife isn't waiting outside the gates. He heads into the city while Marie makes her way into his direction. For one day, they look for each other in the n...
