FR #193 | Movie | Drama, Mystery | USA | English, Portuguese
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, John Taintor Foote
Cast
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Plot
The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
FR #675 | Movie | War, Drama | Italy | English, German
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Klaus Mann
Cast
Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs
Plot
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
FR #931 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Russia, UK | Russian, English
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Cast
Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Plot
As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
FR #957 | Movie | Court-Drama, Fantasy | UK | English, French
Director
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote
Plot
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
FR #1167 | Movie | Drama | Italy, USA | English, Italian
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola
Cast
Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele
Plot
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
Hit men arrive in a small New Jersey town to kill an unresisting victim, and insurance investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
FR #2477 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany, USA | German, English
Director
Wolfgang Staudte
Writer
Eberhard Keindorff, Johanna Sibelius, Fritz Staudte
Cast
Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer
Plot
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
FR #3731 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman, Leck Fischer
Cast
Inga Landgre, Stig Olin, Marianne Lofgren
Plot
A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.
The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII.
David O. Selznick, Niven Busch, Oliver H.P. Garrett
Cast
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck
Plot
Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
Wealthy landlord's sewage diversion into village sparks protests led by Balraj against housing project. Sarkar's daughter Maya sides with villagers, falling for Balraj. Epidemic from sewage endangers villagers, threatening Sarkar'...
FR #5708 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer
Anya Seton, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jacques Monteux
Cast
Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price
Plot
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
FR #5710 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA, UK | English
Director
Roy William Neill
Writer
Leonard Lee, Frank Gruber, Arthur Conan Doyle
Cast
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
Plot
Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.
FR #6218 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | France | French
Director
Marcel Carne
Writer
Jacques Prevert
Cast
Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand
Plot
It's Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp who may also be Destiny predicts that Jean Diego will fall in love with a beautiful girl. That same evening, Jean meets Malou.
On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
FR #6707 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Irving Pichel
Writer
Gwen Bristow, Lenore J. Coffee
Cast
Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent
Plot
An American World War I soldier whose disfigured face is reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons returns home after 20 years, but no one recognizes him, his widow is married to another man, and his son is a grown young man.
FR #7696 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Robert Clampett
Writer
Warren Foster
Cast
Mel Blanc
Plot
After reading a Dick Tracy comic, Daffy Duck has a surreal dream in which he is a P.I. pursuing an army of grotesque villains who stole every piggy bank in town, including his own.
FR #7952 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English
Director
Alfred E. Green
Writer
Sidney Buchman, Harry Chandlee, Stephen Longstreet
Cast
Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest
Plot
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a non-Jewish dancer, and marries her. In t...
FR #8992 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Aleksandr Ptushko
Writer
Pavel Bazhov, Iosif Keller
Cast
Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yekaterina Derevshchikova, Tamara Makarova
Plot
Obsessed with perfecting his craft, young gemcutter Danilo visits the mystical Copper Mountain to uncover the secret behind its infamous attraction - the Stone Flower, a stone carving so captivating that no one can leave after see...
FR #9192 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Robert Siodmak
Writer
Nunnally Johnson, Vladimir Pozner
Cast
Olivia De Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell
Plot
A man is found murdered, and witnesses are sure about the woman they saw leaving his apartment. However, it becomes apparent that the woman has a twin, and finding out which one is the killer seems impossible.
FR #9199 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English, French
Director
Don Siegel
Writer
Peter Milne, Israel Zangwill
Cast
Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
Plot
After an innocent man is executed in a case for which he was not responsible, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
FR #9229 | Movie | Animation, Short | Czech | Czech
Director
Borivoj Zeman, Karel Zeman
Writer
Karel Zeman
Cast
Jana Hrdlickova
Plot
Christmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts playing with her new dolls. But that ni...
Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.
FR #10227 | Movie | Horror, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Robert Florey
Writer
Curt Siodmak, William Fryer Harvey, Harold Goldman
Cast
Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
Plot
In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-bound one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered.
FR #10974 | Movie | Biography, Drama | India | Hindi
Director
Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre
Writer
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, V.P. Sathe
Cast
Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, Jayashree, Keshavrao Date
Plot
During the Japanese invasion of China, a young Indian doctor joins the Chinese resistance, meets and courts a Chinese girl, cures a virulent plague, and is captured by a Japanese platoon.
FR #11228 | Movie | Documentary, Short | France | French
Director
Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer
Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast
Louis Maiss, Beby, Jean-Pierre Melville
Plot
A day in the life of Beby the clown. Filmed between shows at Circus Medrano, at home and in the streets of Paris, with his faithful partner and friend the clown Maïss.
FR #11230 | Movie | Biography, Short | Russia | Russian
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Cast
Nikolay Cherkasov, Mikhail Romm, Oleg Zhakov
Plot
Eisenstein began work on this third Ivan the Terrible film in 1946, but production was halted when the decision was made not to release the second. More than 20 minutes was filmed, but only a fragment lasting less than 5 minutes e...
FR #11987 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | France | French, Hungarian
Director
Claude Autant-Lara
Writer
Alfred Adam, Jean Aurenche
Cast
Odette Joyeux, Francois Perier, Pierre Larquey
Plot
Sylvie's father sells her grandmother's lover's painting for cash. The ghost appears on Sylvie's 16th birthday. Two suitors dress as the ghost to impress her. The real ghost helps resolve the love triangle.
FR #12227 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy | English, Italian
Director
Alberto Lattuada
Writer
Alberto Lattuada, Oreste Biancoli, Mino Caudana
Cast
Anna Magnani, Amedeo Nazzari, Carla Del Poggio
Plot
A contingent of Italian prisoners of war arrive on a train from Germany after World War II to Turin. The city where Ernesto lives has been bombed, his mother is dead and his sister has gone missing.
Howard Dimsdale, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lee Strasberg
Cast
John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan
Plot
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
FR #14226 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France | English, French
Director
Georges Lacombe
Writer
Pierre-Rene Wolf, Pierre Very, Georges Lacombe
Cast
Marlene Dietrich, Jean Gabin, Jean D'Yd
Plot
The local building contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blanche, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. Despite Martin's many efforts for the femm...
FR #14449 | Movie | Biography, Musical | USA | English
Director
Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney
Writer
Guy Bolton, George Wells, Myles Connolly
Cast
Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Lucille Bremer
Plot
Songwriter and Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern is unable to find immediate success in the U.S. He sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale.
FR #14460 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA, UK | English
Director
Jean Negulesco
Writer
W.R. Burnett
Cast
John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
Plot
Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.
A mortally-wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber to try to find out where he buried a fortune in cash.
FR #15947 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, French
Director
Stuart Heisler, Mark Sandrich
Writer
Arthur Sheekman, Allan Scott, Irving Berlin
Cast
Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield
Plot
An ex-dancer and New York radio star narrates his love story for a band singer who loved a self-centered man who was unable to commit to his nightclub business or his family.
