FR #458 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Writer
Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller, Rowland Leigh
Cast
Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Plot
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
FR #970 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Russian
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Robert Riskin, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
Cast
Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore
Plot
The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
FR #1404 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | French, English
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Emile Zola, Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
Cast
Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Plot
In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
FR #2675 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French
Director
Marcel Carne
Writer
Eugene Dabit, Henri Jeanson, Jean Aurenche
Cast
Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet
Plot
On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy ...
FR #2933 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French, Italian
Director
Marcel Pagnol
Writer
Jean Giono, Marcel Pagnol
Cast
Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin
Plot
A small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the village is thrown into disarray.
Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
FR #4706 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English, Hebrew
Director
Norman Taurog
Writer
John Meehan, Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
Plot
When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
FR #6215 | Movie | History, Drama | France | French, German
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Jean Renoir, Carl Koch, Noelle Gillmor
Cast
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet
Plot
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.
FR #6219 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France | French, English
Director
Christian-Jaque
Writer
Jean-Henri Blanchon, Victor Hugo, Jacques Prevert
Cast
Erich Von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard
Plot
Strange things happen at night at the St. Agil secondary school. Baume, Sorgue and Macroix - three of the school's pupils - discover a suspicious man on the premises. Shortly after this unsettling event, pupils begin to go missing.
FR #6450 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Dick Rickard
Writer
Robert Lawson, Munro Leaf, Vernon Stallings
Cast
Don Wilson, Walt Disney, Milt Kahl
Plot
Ferdinand is a quiet, gentle bull who only wants to stop and smell the flowers. After he is stung by a bee, the townspeople believe he is ferocious and take him to the bullfight.
Meeting a movie team on location near his house, a young man gets a lot of encouragement for his dreaming career as a movie star in what was only sarcasm from the members of the team. This is the characteristic of a schpountz: som...
Theodor Pistek, Frantisek Smolik, Frantisek Kreuzmann
Plot
A most gifted pupil sharply criticizes the school in a homework essay, and the language teacher is convinced he is the author of a school magazine and expels him. The teachers vote to expel hi, but then they win a contest..
FR #7729 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Russia | Russian
Director
Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Writer
Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Nikolay Erdman, Vladimir Nilsen
Cast
Igor Ilyinsky, Vladimir Volodin, Pavel Olenev
Plot
Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow...
FR #9482 | Movie | Horror, Drama | France, Mexico | French, Spanish
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance, Steve Passeur
Cast
Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance
Plot
A traumatized World War I veteran builds a machine to prevent war. When the government subverts his machine and a second world war seems increasingly inevitable, in desperation the inventor summons the ghosts of the war dead to pr...
FR #9486 | Movie | Comedy | Czech, Russia | Czech, English
Director
Karel Lamac
Writer
Vaclav Wasserman, Rudolph Bernauer, Rudolf Osterreicher
Cast
Vlasta Burian, Ladislav Hemmer, Adina Mandlova
Plot
Duchacek is the employee in the law company. As a faithful employee he is working hard to help his boss. And when it seems almost impossible to collect enough money in time, you should give this task to Duchacek.
Govindrajulu Subba Rao, Kanchanamala, Suri Babu P.
Plot
The son of a priest falls in love with a Harijan girl and elopes with her. The film was a social drama that deals with untouchability prevalent in pre-independent India.
FR #10202 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
Director
Norman Z. Mcleod
Writer
Eddie Moran, Jack Jevne, E.J. Rath
Cast
Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray
Plot
Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her...
FR #12199 | Movie | Comedy, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Leigh Jason
Writer
Julius J. Epstein, Wilson Collison, Fred F. Finklehoffe
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
Plot
After the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
FR #12203 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
Norman Taurog
Writer
Mark Twain, John V.A. Weaver, Marshall Neilan
Cast
Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis
Plot
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
A champion boxer on the lamb, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at an Arizona farm for delinquent youths.
Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.
FR #14693 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
John G. Blystone, Hal Roach
Writer
Jean Negulesco, Charley Rogers, James Parrott
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler
Plot
Laurel and Hardy, rat trap salesmen who are unable to do business in Switzerland, having no money to pay for lunch end up working for the hotel where a composer, who has run away from his wife, has taken refuge.
FR #15230 | Movie | Short, Comedy | Russia | Russian
Director
Isidor Annensky
Writer
Isidor Annensky, Anton Chekhov
Cast
Olga Androvskaya, Mikhail Zharov, Ivan Pelttser
Plot
The young widow refuses to pay the husband's debt to the landowner neighbor Smirnov. Smirnov in a rage causes her to a duel and then falls in love with her.
FR #15442 | Movie | Film-Noir, Crime | USA | English
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Virginia Van Upp, Norman Krasna, Jack Moffitt
Cast
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton Maclane
Plot
An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
FR #15449 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA, India | Marathi, English
Director
Allan Dwan
Writer
Karl Tunberg, Don Ettlinger, Kate Douglas Wiggin
Cast
Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley
Plot
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly sets it up for her to become a radio broadcaster.
FR #15484 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | France | French
Director
Sacha Guitry
Writer
Sacha Guitry
Cast
Sacha Guitry, Gaby Morlay, Jacqueline Delubac
Plot
The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporte...
FR #15732 | Movie | Family, Fantasy | Russia | Russian
Director
Aleksandr Rou
Writer
Vsevolod Kochetov, Oleg Leonidov, Ye. Tarakhova
Cast
Pyotr Savin, Mariya Kravchunovskaya, Georgiy Millyar
Plot
Adapted from four different Russian folk-tales, this early Soviet fantasy film tells the story of Emelya the Fool, who, fishing one day, catches a talking pike who pleads for his life and in return grants Emelya wishes for a life ...
Luis Trenker, Herbert Dirmoser, Heidemarie Hatheyer
Plot
The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agree...
Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected the family for many years.
FR #17458 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Jack King
Writer
Tom Armstrong, Carl Barks, Jack Hannah
Cast
Clarence Nash
Plot
Donald's sister Dumbella sends her three sons Huey, Dewey, and Louie to visit their uncle Donald. They prove to be quite a handful for Donald, even with help from his book on child rearing.
Rabe travels to Vienna in hope of a great inheritance from his aunt. But there are only 13 chairs waiting for him, which he sells. Then he finds a letter from the aunt announcing that she has hidden her money in one of the chairs.
FR #18205 | Movie | Crime, Mystery | USA | English
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Writer
Charles Belden, Earl Derr Biggers, Chandler Sprague
Cast
Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks, Victor Sen Yung
Plot
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
FR #18440 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English
Director
H.C. Potter
Writer
Waldo Salt, Dana Burnet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon
Plot
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
Pickpocket Libby gets support from street performer Charles, and her dancing leads to her invitation to theater patron Harley's party which in turn launches Libby's stage career while Charles keeps on struggling in the streets.
FR #20190 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Jack King
Writer
Carl Barks, Jack Hannah, Ted Osborne
Cast
Clarence Nash
Plot
Donald is golfing, and his nephews are along to "help." Between their noise and their practical jokes, Donald isn't having a lot of fun or success with his game.
FR #20207 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English
Director
Clarence Brown
Writer
Bradbury Foote, Honore Morrow, Conrad Richter
Cast
Walter Huston, James Stewart, Gene Reynolds
Plot
Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.
Donald Duck is Scoutmaster of his nephews on a camping trip at Yellowstone National Park, but his lack of leadership skills results in the Scouts having to help the Scoutmaster out of one predicament after another.
FR #22488 | Movie | Drama, Romance | Germany | German
Director
Carl Froelich
Writer
Jochen Huth
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Sabine Peters, Carsta Lock
Plot
Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose inte...
FR #23184 | Movie | Crime, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Norman Foster
Writer
Philip Macdonald, Norman Foster, John P. Marquand
Cast
Peter Lorre, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Field
Plot
Moto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British.
Donald Duck, delivery boy, is hired to deliver a mysterious package on Friday the Thirteenth. He is hindered by a bothersome black cat -- and by the fact that the package contains a live bomb.
When three orphans that were raised together and love like brothers knows about plans to be separated and work outside, they escape and live in the street. They sell lottery and newspapers. When older, they became artists.
FR #23973 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French
Director
Max Ophuls
Writer
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Hans Wilhelm, Fernand Crommelynck
Cast
Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay, Jean Galland
Plot
Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as Werther sets to propose marriage, Charlott...
FR #24224 | Movie | Comedy, Sci-Fi | Russia | Russian
Director
Aleksandr Medvedkin, Aleksandr Olenin
Writer
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Cast
Daniil Sagal, Nina Alisova, Mariya Barabanova
Plot
A young provincial architect travels to Moscow to present his new model of the city reconstruction plan. Through funny twists his model turns into an unexpected success.
1885. For the opera festival it has organized, the small town of Imlingen has invited a famous singer, Maddalena Dall'Orto, who will not only sing at the local opera but will also perform the part of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion a...
FR #24717 | Movie | History, War | Russia | Russian
Director
Sergei Yutkevich
Writer
Nikolay Pogodin
Cast
Maksim Shtraukh, Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Tenin
Plot
A propaganda comedy that tells the story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of an ignorant and easy-going peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings. He does manage to make the Stalin and Lenin characte...
Schoolboy Donald is torn between his angel and devil sides, though in Donald's case, the devil side isn't hard to resist. But the smoking he's encouraged to do turns him green and gives him regrets, and when the good side shows up...
