A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
FR #1976 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, French
Director
George Stevens
Writer
Howard Lindsay, Allan Scott, Erwin Gelsey
Cast
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
Plot
Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning th...
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Dashiell Hammett
Cast
William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
Plot
Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
FR #2208 | Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English, Latin
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang, Norman Krasna
Cast
Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
Plot
When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
FR #2427 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | French, English
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Maxim Gorky, Yevgeni Zamyatin, Jacques Companeez
Cast
Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet
Plot
A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
Five unemployed penniless workers win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
Anita Loos, Robert E. Hopkins, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Cast
Clark Gable, Jeanette Macdonald, Spencer Tracy
Plot
A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.
Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.
FR #5942 | Movie | Adventure, Action | UK | English, German
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Campbell Dixon, W. Somerset Maugham, Charles Bennett
Cast
John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young
Plot
After three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
FR #5948 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA, Russia | English, Russian
Director
David Hand
Writer
Lewis Carroll, William Cottrell, Joe Grant
Cast
Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash, Purv Pullen
Plot
Mickey has been reading Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There", and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive. He eats a walnut, which makes him b...
FR #6477 | Movie | War, Drama | Mexico, Colombia | Spanish
Director
Fernando De Fuentes
Writer
Rafael F. Munoz, Xavier Villaurrutia, Fernando De Fuentes
Cast
Antonio R. Frausto, Domingo Soler, Manuel Tames
Plot
The Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. After several battles...
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
The stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder. The stooges manage to disrupt the proceedings but save the day when they discover the real murderer's...
FR #7725 | Movie | Comedy, Short | France | French
Director
Rene Clement
Writer
Jean-Marie Huard, Jacques Tati
Cast
Jacques Tati, Max Martel, Louis Robur
Plot
A boxer is out in the country with his entourage, training for his next fight. Meanwhile, on the farm nearby, Roger is neglecting his chores. As he watches the boxer and his sparring partners at work, Roger starts to fantasize abo...
FR #7985 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French
Director
Anatole Litvak
Writer
Claude Anet, Irma Von Cube, Joseph Kessel
Cast
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Marthe Regnier
Plot
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his views carry no weight. He agrees to marry a princess...
FR #7993 | Movie | Comedy, Family | Russia, Germany | Russian, German
Director
Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Isidor Simkov
Writer
Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Isaak Babel, Ilya Ilf
Cast
Lyubov Orlova, Yevgeniya Melnikova, Vladimir Volodin
Plot
In the mid-1930s, circus actress Marion Dixon flees the United States with her young black son. Arriving with an original attraction in the USSR, she finds friends here and decides to stay forever.
When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.
FR #9448 | Movie | Comedy, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Richard Boleslawski
Writer
Sidney Buchman, Mary Eunice Mccarthy
Cast
Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell
Plot
The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Hugh Walpole, John Cromwell
Cast
Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith
Plot
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
FR #10919 | Movie | Biography, Drama | India | Hindi
Director
Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal
Writer
Shivram Vashikar
Cast
Vishnupant Pagnis, Gauri, B. Nandrekar
Plot
This film chronicles the life of Tukaram (17th century), one of Maharashtra's most popular saint poets, activating the 20th century resonances of his turning away from courtly Sanskrit towards vernacular rhythms of religious poetr...
FR #10988 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | France | French
Director
Sacha Guitry
Writer
Sacha Guitry
Cast
Sacha Guitry, Raimu, Jacqueline Delubac
Plot
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, in a daze. Another man is there, and the dazed man confesses his infidelity to this stranger--who turns out to be his wife's lover.
FR #11463 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor
Writer
Alex Raymond, Frederick Stephani, Ella O'Neill
Cast
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton
Plot
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Alexis Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.
FR #12194 | Movie | Mystery | USA | English, Italian
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Writer
Scott Darling, Charles Belden, Bess Meredyth
Cast
Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke
Plot
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Devdas (Saigal/Barua), son of a zamindar, and Parvati (aka Paro)(Jamuna), his poor neighbour's daughter, are childhood sweethearts. Status and caste differences prevent their marriage and Devdas is sent to Calcutta while Paro is m...
FR #13230 | Movie | Adventure, Family | Russia | Russian
Director
Vladimir Vaynshtok, David Gutman
Writer
Oleg Leonidov, Jules Verne
Cast
Nikolay Cherkasov, Yakov Segel, Olga Bazanova
Plot
The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures in Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand...
FR #13456 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Burt Gillett, David Hand
Writer
William Cottrell, Joe Grant, Bob Kuwahara
Cast
Alyce Ardell, Leone Le Doux, Bonnie Poe
Plot
Two frivolous pigs blow the "wolf" horn one too many times and Practical Pig ignores them. The Big Bad Wolf and Three Little Wolves capture the pigs and eventually Practical Pig manages to rescue them in nick of time with "Wolf Pa...
FR #14996 | Movie | Comedy | Germany, Argentina | German, Spanish
Director
Paul Martin
Writer
Curt Goetz, Brian Marlow, Paul Martin
Cast
Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp
Plot
Journalist Gil Taylor has to write a report about the night court, when Ann Gardens case is heard. The young lady seems to be homeless. Gil tries to help her. Thats when trouble starts.
FR #15447 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
James W. Horne, Charley Rogers, Hal Roach
Writer
Michael William Balfe, Oliver Hardy, Alfred Bunn
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd
Plot
A band of Gypsies is camped outside the walls of Count Arnheim's palace. Oliver's wife kidnaps the Count's daughter Arline, then leaves the child and runs off with her lover, Devilshoof. Not knowing her true identity, Oliver, with...
FR #15946 | Movie | Family, Comedy | USA | English
Director
David Hand, Wilfred Jackson
Writer
Larry Clemmons, Dick Rickard
Cast
Alex Karais, Jack Sabel
Plot
Morty Citymouse invites his cousin Abner Countrymouse for a visit and shows him the ways of the big city, including traps, eating quietly, and busy traffic.
FR #16485 | Movie | Musical, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Douglas Sirk
Writer
Kurt Heuser, Douglas Sirk
Cast
Willy Birgel, LIL Dagover, Maria Tasnadi Fekete
Plot
A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way i...
FR #16961 | Movie | Mystery | USA | English, Cantonese
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Writer
Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, Edward T. Lowe Jr.
Cast
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood
Plot
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
FR #17194 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Writer
Jack Mcgowan, Sid Silvers, Buddy G. Desylva
Cast
Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce
Plot
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.
FR #17476 | Movie | Horror, Short | France | French
Director
Rene Bertrand, Jean Painleve
Writer
Charles Perrault
Plot
Perrault's fairy tale presented in claymation with choral voices. Bluebeard goes courting, all six of his wives having died. He arrives at the house of a widow with two daughters. He's greatly feared, but he overcomes objections w...
FR #17691 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | USA | English, Italian
Director
Irving Cummings
Writer
Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, Harry Tugend
Cast
Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart
Plot
The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers.
FR #18438 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
George B. Seitz
Writer
James Fenimore Cooper, Philip Dunne, John L. Balderston
Cast
Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon
Plot
During the brutal French and Indian War, the legendary scout Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward, and the two daughters of Fort William Henry commander Colonel Munro -- Alice and Cora -- to safety through.
FR #18441 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
David Hand
Writer
Homer Brightman, Walt Disney, Vernon Stallings
Cast
Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Melvin J. Gibby
Plot
Up in the Swiss Alps, Mickey Mouse tangles with a mother eagle, Donald Duck scraps with an edelweiss-stealing goat and Pluto gets inebriated with a St. Bernard.
FR #18993 | Movie | Drama, War | USA | German, English
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Joel Sayre, William Faulkner, Stephen Morehouse Avery
Cast
Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore
Plot
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
After being left for another man by his wife, Charles Bellanger raises his only son to fear and suspect women. Years later, such an education is bearing fruit.
A German-born Swiss citizen emigrates to the United States in search of a better life and making fortune. Based on the story of John Sutter, gold rush pioneer and founder of what would become the city of Sacramento.
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his ...
Plumber Donald is using a large magnet in his work. When he drops it, it causes trouble for Pluto, especially after Pluto swallows it. Things begin clinging to him, especially his metal dog dish.
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
FR #21198 | Movie | Sci-Fi | Russia | Russian, English
Director
Vasily Zhuravlyov
Writer
Aleksandr Filimonov, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Cast
Sergey Komarov, Ksenia Moskalenko, Vassili Gaponenko
Plot
In 1946, the Soviet space program is undergoing turmoil. Professor Sedikh, who is planning to lead the first manned exploration to the moon, is denounced by his rival Professor Karin as being too old and too mentally unstable for ...
FR #21446 | Movie | Comedy, Family | USA | English
Director
David Butler
Writer
Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, Harry Tugend
Cast
Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville
Plot
A little girl named Star lives with the lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives.
