FR #699 | Movie | Film-Noir, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville
Cast
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Plot
A teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-s...
FR #2695 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA, UK | English, French
Director
Henry King
Writer
George Seaton, Franz Werfel, Jacques Monteux
Cast
Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, William Eythe
Plot
14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.
FR #3208 | Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Zoltan Korda
Writer
John Howard Lawson, Zoltan Korda, James O'Hanlon
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish
Plot
After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.
Munchhausenaka The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen(1943)
FR #3479 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Germany | German
Director
Josef Von Baky
Writer
Gottfried August Burger, Erich Kastner, Rudolph Erich Raspe
Cast
Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen
Plot
This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.
FR #3952 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
Director
Preston Sturges
Writer
Preston Sturges
Cast
Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn
Plot
After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
FR #4710 | Movie | Fantasy, Horror | France | French
Director
Maurice Tourneur
Writer
Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Gerard De Nerval
Cast
Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gael, Noel Roquevert
Plot
Roland Brissot bought for a nickel a talisman that gives him love, fame, and wealth. The talisman is a cut left hand, and it works perfectly. Of course, there is nothing free in this world, and after one year, the devil comes and ...
FR #4968 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
Fred M. Wilcox
Writer
Hugo Butler, Eric Knight
Cast
Roddy Mcdowall, Donald Crisp, May Whitty
Plot
After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.
FR #4969 | Movie | War, Thriller | USA | English, German
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Lajos Biro
Cast
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff
Plot
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better ...
Robert Bresson, Raymond Leopold Bruckberger, Jean Giraudoux
Cast
Renee Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie
Plot
Anne-Marie joins a Dominican convent as a novice where she knows Therese. After shooting a man for which she was imprisoned, Therese protests her innocence, reluctant to tell her secret.
FR #4995 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler
Writer
Harald Bratt, Hansi Kock, Herbert Selpin
Cast
Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg
Plot
Third Reich's Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down.
FR #5439 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Sam Wood
Writer
Dudley Nichols, Ernest Hemingway, Louis Bromfield
Cast
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Plot
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
FR #5970 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh
Writer
John Howard Lawson, Guy Gilpatric, A.I. Bezzerides
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale
Plot
An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.
FR #6194 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
John Wexley, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang
Cast
Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee
Plot
After the German administrator of Czechia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.
John Van Druten, Lenore J. Coffee, Edmund Goulding
Cast
Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young
Plot
Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
During WWII, several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the ow...
FR #7731 | Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | German, English
Director
Wilhelm Thiele
Writer
Roy Chanslor, Carroll Young, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cast
Johnny Weissmuller, Frances Gifford, Johnny Sheffield
Plot
As World War II rages, a formation of German paratroopers land in the hidden city of Palandria to exploit its wealth and they start taking hostages. Can Tarzan, the king of the jungle, and his animal companions Cheeta and Buli sav...
FR #8184 | Movie | Horror, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Mark Robson
Writer
Charles O'Neal, Dewitt Bodeen
Cast
Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks
Plot
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
FR #8185 | Movie | Horror, Fantasy | USA | English
Director
Roy William Neill
Writer
Curt Siodmak
Cast
Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles
Plot
The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman cr...
Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway And His Cotton Club Orchestra
Plot
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Chandler Sprague, David Boehm, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Plot
A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's mem...
FR #9455 | Movie | Fantasy, Horror | USA | English
Director
Robert Siodmak
Writer
Eric Taylor, Curt Siodmak
Cast
Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton
Plot
When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.
FR #9694 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Writer
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Eric Ambler
Cast
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio
Plot
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
FR #9948 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Writer
Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman
Cast
Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Plot
A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family, but a Romanian count complicates their plans.
FR #10443 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Robert Clampett
Writer
Frank Tashlin, Lou Lilly
Cast
Arthur Q. Bryan, Robert Clampett, Bea Benaderet
Plot
Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck.
FR #10486 | Movie | Romance, Thriller | UK | English, German
Director
Harold S. Bucquet
Writer
John Lee Mahin, Howard Emmett Rogers, John C. Higgins
Cast
Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla
Plot
In 1940. Captain Terence Stevenson is with the British Army in the bomb disposal unit in London, his primary job is to defuse them. Despite having no experience as a spy, he is asked by his superiors, because of his academic backg...
FR #10731 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Russia | Russian, English
Director
Leonid Lukov
Writer
Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Lev Slavin
Cast
Mark Bernes, Boris Andreyev, Vera Shershnyova
Plot
A story of infantry soldiers on the Leningrad front during the German invasion of Russia in WWII, which stresses the importance of friendship between combatants from different regions and ethnicities.
FR #11226 | Movie | Western, Drama | Mexico, Venezuela | Spanish
Director
Fernando De Fuentes, Miguel M. Delgado
Writer
Romulo Gallegos, Fernando De Fuentes
Cast
Maria Felix, Julian Soler, Maria Elena Marques
Plot
A young lawyer and owner of a great property in the interior of Venezuela tries to recover its control in the name of the law, fighting against his neighbour, a powerful, seductive and misterious lady named Doña Bárbara, learning ...
FR #11459 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Portugal | Portuguese
Director
Arthur Duarte
Writer
Joao Bastos, Fernando Fragoso
Cast
Antonio Silva, Maria Matos, Milu
Plot
The unlikely love between Luisinha, a humble girl who lives on a small pension in Lisbon, and Daniel, a wealthy aristocrat who decides to fight for the girl who loves against the prejudices of his family.
FR #11946 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley
Writer
Fred F. Finklehoffe, Guy Bolton, Jack Mcgowan
Cast
Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton
Plot
A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.
FR #11964 | Movie | Action, Drama | USA, Japan | English, Japanese
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Dudley Nichols, William Faulkner, Leah Baird
Cast
John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young
Plot
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
FR #12197 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
David Butler
Writer
Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, James V. Kern
Cast
Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart
Plot
Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast, but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.
FR #12208 | Movie | History, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Tay Garnett
Writer
Robert Hardy Andrews, Garrett Fort, Dudley Nichols
Cast
Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Lloyd Nolan
Plot
In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.
FR #12699 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English
Director
Mervyn Leroy, Albert Lewin
Writer
Paul Osborn, Hans Rameau, Ve Curie
Cast
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers
Plot
Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.
FR #12962 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Robert Clampett, Tex Avery
Writer
Warren Foster, Aesop
Cast
Mel Blanc, Kent Rogers, Michael Maltese
Plot
Bugs challenges Cecil Turtle to race, only this time he's wearing an aerodynamic suit like Cecil's. Unfortunately, the gambling ring has bet everything on the rabbit, and Bugs now looks like a tortoise.
FR #12989 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Mexico | Spanish, Hungarian
Director
Julio Bracho
Writer
Max Aub, Julio Bracho, Xavier Villaurrutia
Cast
Andrea Palma, Pedro Armendariz, Alberto Galan
Plot
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, wh...
FR #13192 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
Julian Harmon, Cal Howard
Cast
William Hanna, Harry Lang, Bob Laztny
Plot
Jerry crashes a vase onto Tom's head, which gets Mammy to throw Tom out. Jerry revels in his freedom, among other things turning Tom's picture into a Hitler caricature then spitting on it. But he soon tires of this, and under a fl...
FR #14198 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
Webb Smith
Cast
Sara Berner, William Hanna, The King'S Men
Plot
Tom is dressed up and treated like a baby by the little girl of the house, and he hates it aside from the bottle of milk, that is. Jerry brings in some alley cats, who tease Tom.
FR #14486 | Movie | Drama | Russia, UK | Russian, English
Director
Mikhail Romm
Writer
Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Mikhail Romm
Cast
Yelena Kuzmina, Vladimir Solovyov, Valentin Shcheglov
Plot
About the inhabitants of a boarding house run by a tyrannical old woman, described by director Mikhail Romm as a "study of human destinies influenced by Tolstoy and Balzac."
FR #15690 | Movie | Comedy, Horror | USA | French, English
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Gypsy Rose Lee, James Gunn
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, Iris Adrian
Plot
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again.
When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly reanimates the monster by removing the stake from his heart
FR #16206 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | USA | French, German
Director
Richard Thorpe
Writer
Keith Winter, Melville Baker, Patricia Coleman
Cast
Joan Crawford, Fred Macmurray, Conrad Veidt
Plot
Oxford Professor Richard Myles and his new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't the typical honeymoon: they are on a spying mission for British Intelligence on the eve of World War II.
FR #17195 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Tex Avery
Writer
Heck Allen, Rich Hogan
Cast
Kent Rogers, Tex Avery, Sara Berner
Plot
A man is murdered in an isolated mansion, and the detective tries to find out whodunit. But the house he's investigating is decidedly haunted, and he never knows just what's 'round the next corner.
FR #17451 | Movie | Comedy, Action | USA | English
Director
Vincent Sherman
Writer
Daniel Fuchs, Peter Viertel, Jerry Wald
Cast
Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan
Plot
Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
There have been many versions of Shakespeare's masterpiece, but none like the one starring Cantinflas. This delightful and humorous version also carries a powerful message to today's parents, showing them how to approach the probl...
FR #18207 | Movie | Film-Noir, Mystery | USA | German, Italian
Director
Richard Wallace
Writer
Warren Duff, Dorothy B. Hughes
Cast
John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak
Plot
In 1940, an American former Republican prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, John McKittrick, is determined to find the killer of NYPD Lieutenant Louie Lepetino, who had helped him escape.
FR #18439 | Movie | Adventure, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Wilhelm Thiele
Writer
Edward T. Lowe Jr., Carroll Young, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cast
Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield
Plot
With Jane still away for the war effort, Tarzan and Boy set off to retrieve rare medicinal herbs, only to run into an American messenger, German spies, and the mysterious desert's treacherous fauna and flora.
Yusuf, a promising medical student and the son of a prominent doctor, falls in love with Najma but is forced to marry Raziya after his father fixes his marriage without his consent.
