A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
FR #656 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, USA | French, Russian
Director
Jean Vigo
Writer
Jean Guinee, Albert Riera, Jean Vigo
Cast
Dita Parlo, Jean Daste, Gilles Margaritis
Plot
Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
FR #3185 | Movie | Drama | France, Austria | French, English
Director
Raymond Bernard
Writer
Victor Hugo, Andre Lang, Raymond Bernard
Cast
Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azais
Plot
The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offe...
FR #3202 | Movie | Crime, Drama | UK, USA | English, Italian
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Charles Bennett, D.B. Wyndham-Lewis, Edwin Greenwood
Cast
Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre
Plot
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
FR #4229 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Sergey Vasilev, Georgi Vasilyev
Writer
Dimitri Furmanov, Anna Furmanova, Sergey Vasilev
Cast
Boris Babochkin, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova
Plot
This film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in the World War I and late...
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Opposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.
FR #5712 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, German
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Charles Bruce Millholland, Ben Hecht, Charles Macarthur
Cast
John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly
Plot
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
FR #5963 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Rowland V. Lee
Writer
Alexandre Dumas, Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh
Cast
Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern
Plot
After greedy men have Edmond Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.
Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
Dolores Ibarruri, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Vladimir Lenin
Plot
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
FR #6978 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | France | French
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Ferenc Molnar, Robert Liebmann, Bernard Zimmer
Cast
Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Robert Arnoux
Plot
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, los...
FR #7724 | Movie | War, Drama | Mexico, Japan | Spanish, Japanese
Director
Juan Bustillo Oro, Fernando De Fuentes
Writer
Juan Bustillo Oro, Mauricio Magdaleno, Fernando De Fuentes
Cast
Alfredo Del Diestro, Carmen Guerrero, Antonio R. Frausto
Plot
During Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza (Del Diestro) survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody, and Mendoza is considered a good friend...
Stan and Ollie take a trip into the mountains ('the high multitude') so that Ollie can recover from gout. Bootleggers have dumped their moonshine in the well from which the boys sample their 'healthy' mountain water.
FR #8728 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Mexico | Spanish
Director
Juan Bustillo Oro
Writer
Juan Bustillo Oro, Jose Manuel Cordero
Cast
Victor Urruchua, Carlos Villatoro, Magda Haller
Plot
When the Monk Javier acts violently in a gothic monastery, the Prior asks the Monk Juan to calm him down since he believes that Javier is possessed by demons. When Juan comes to Javier's cell, they recognize each other and Javier ...
Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady a...
FR #9457 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
Victor Fleming
Writer
Robert Louis Stevenson, John Lee Mahin, John Howard Lawson
Cast
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore
Plot
Young Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.
FR #9727 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French
Director
Alexander Esway, Billy Wilder
Writer
Jan Lustig, Billy Wilder, Max Kolpe
Cast
Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle
Plot
After his father sells his car, Henri "borrows" a stranger's car in order to make a date with a young woman. This act sees him fall foul of a gang of car thieves but after some discussion he joins their gang.
William M. Conselman, David Butler, Edwin J. Burke
Cast
Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell
Plot
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
FR #10969 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Wilfred Jackson
Writer
Aesop, Pinto Colvig, William Cottrell
Cast
Dorothy Compton, Pinto Colvig
Plot
When a lazy grasshopper prefers to sing and dance rather than forage like his friends the ants, he learns to regret it when winter approaches. The ants save his life and in return he entertains them with his music.
FR #11725 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Mexico, USA | Spanish, English
Director
Fernando De Fuentes
Writer
Jorge Pezet, Fernando De Fuentes, Juan Bustillo Oro
Cast
Marta Roel, Enrique Del Campo, Carlos Villatoro
Plot
Alfonso (Del Campo), Eduardo (Villatoro) and Eduardo's wife Cristina (Ruel) get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, speci...
The stooges discover Curly's hidden talent for boxing, which appears only when he hears the tune "Pop Goes the Weasel". With the help of Larry's violin, Moe attempts to turn him into a champion.
FR #12228 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French
Director
Jacques Feyder
Writer
Jacques Feyder, Charles Spaak
Cast
Marie Bell, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel
Plot
Pierre (Pierre Richard-Willm), a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence (Marie Bell), and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To...
FR #12229 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Gustave Flaubert, Jean Renoir
Cast
Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir
Plot
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault, who is well-endowed in every sense. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-l...
Keen to climb the social ladder by marrying a rich widow, Oliver finds the nerve to cheat on his partner Stanley. What he doesn't know is that her favorite hobby is murder--and it looks like he's next. Who can save Oliver the Eighth?
A light hearted comedy, from the thirties. One of the most successful ones in Hungary. The ever enchanting story of a beautiful girl falling in love with a rich man.
FR #13730 | Movie | Biography, Crime | Germany | German
Director
Karl Hartl
Writer
Rolf E. Vanloo
Cast
Hans Albers, Friedrich Kayssler, Brigitte Helm
Plot
After his colleague and a mentor, Prof. Achenbach dies in a set-up accident, while trying to produce gold from the lead, Werner Holk seeks revenge. Meanwhile, a British millionaire suggests that Holk work on him on a similar project.
A gruff sea captain, who absolutely detests the word "ghost," is having trouble manning his ship because of the rumor it's...well...haunted. He inveigles Stanley and Oliver into helping him shanghai a crew from the sailors at a do...
Carlos De Najera, Antonio Guzman Aguilera, Guy De Maupassant
Cast
Andrea Palma, Domingo Soler, Francisco Zarraga
Plot
Rosario (Palma) becomes a prostitute after losing her father and discovering her boyfriend had a liaison with another woman. In Veracruz, Rosario lives above a sordid cabaret "selling her love to the men coming from the sea." One ...
FR #14185 | Movie | Documentary, Drama | UK, USA | English
Director
Robert J. Flaherty
Writer
Robert J. Flaherty
Cast
Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane
Plot
In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical de...
FR #14958 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
William Dieterle
Writer
F. Hugh Herbert, Carl Erickson, Harry Collins
Cast
William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank Mchugh
Plot
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the workers and complete the buil...
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
FR #17701 | Movie | Biography, Western | USA | English
Director
Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman
Writer
Ben Hecht, Edgecumb Pinchon, O.B. Stade
Cast
Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo
Plot
After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
FR #17703 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA, India | Hindi, English
Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Writer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Frank Cavett, Edward Barry Roberts
Cast
Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable
Plot
Dill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her.
A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter's chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.
The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
FR #19700 | Movie | Comedy, Family | USA | English
Director
Burt Gillett
Writer
Jonathan Swift
Cast
Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner
Plot
Mickey is looking after the orphans. He tells them the story of Gulliver (with Mickey in that role) in Lilliput, though without the satire and bawdy bits. The story ends with Mickey fighting a giant spider, about twice his size.
A Ramayana mythological told from the viewpoint of Sulochana, daughter-in-law of the villain Ravana. Her husband Indrajit, son of Ravan wounds Lakshman. Lakshamana is revived by the Sanjivani Mani brought by Hanuman. Indrajit is e...
Aysel, while working for the strong Satilmiszade family, is seduced by her boss and becomes pregnant. Giving birth to the child, she applies to the court for alimony, but the father rejects the child. Ali, from another village is ...
FR #22969 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Yasujiro Shimazu
Writer
Yasujiro Shimazu
Cast
Yumeko Aizome, Ryotaro Mizushima, Den "Hinata
Plot
Keitaro (Obinata Den) is a law student and Yaeko (Aizome Yumeko) is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko (Okada Yoshiko) has ...
FR #23197 | Movie | Comedy | USA | English, Cantonese
Director
Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd
Writer
Clarence Budington Kelland, Sam Taylor, Clyde Bruckman
Cast
Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel, George Barbier
Plot
A naive missionary brought up in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning.
A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Canada, endures the hardships of isolation and climate, and chooses between three suitors: a trapper, a farmer, and an immigrant from Paris.
FR #23678 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Leo Mccarey
Writer
Mae West, Jack Wagner
Cast
Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown
Plot
Ruby Carter, the American Beauty queen of the night club-sporting world, shifts her operations from St. Louis to New Orleans, mostly to get away from prizefighter Tiger Kid. Installed as the prize attraction of "The Sensation Club...
FR #23696 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
Director
Marion Gering
Writer
Preston Sturges, Frank Partos, Sam Hellman
Cast
Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold
Plot
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
FR #24178 | Movie | Animation, Short | France | English
Director
Anthony Gross, Hector Hoppin
Plot
A tone poem: two woodland sprites dance about, atop power lines and among flowers and leaves, while being pursued. Everyone spends some time pulling levers to switch trains, too.
The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
