FR #178 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
John Huston
Writer
John Huston, Bruno Traven
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Barton Maclane, Arturo Soto Rangel
Plot
Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
FR #958 | Movie | Crime, Action | USA | English, Italian
Director
John Huston
Writer
Richard Brooks, John Huston, Maxwell Anderson
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore
Plot
A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.
FR #1455 | Movie | Drama | Italy | Italian, Sicilian
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Antonio Pietrangeli, Giovanni Verga, Luchino Visconti
Cast
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono
Plot
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
FR #1950 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA, UK | Spanish, English
Director
John Ford
Writer
Frank S. Nugent, James Warner Bellah
Cast
John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Ward Bond
Plot
At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.
An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
FR #2693 | Movie | Romance, Musical | USA | English, French
Director
Charles Walters
Writer
Sidney Sheldon, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
Cast
Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford
Plot
A nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star.
FR #2704 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Anatole Litvak
Writer
Frank Partos, Millen Brand, Mary Jane Ward
Cast
Olivia De Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Beulah Bondi
Plot
Virginia Cunningham can't recall how she landed in an asylum. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, marriage, and her developing symptoms. She remains in misery as Dr. Mark Kik tries to solve her problem.
FR #2705 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
Graham Greene, Lesley Storm, William Templeton
Cast
Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Plot
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway
Plot
In Depression-era New York, an impoverished painter has a chance encounter with an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl in Central Park who inspires him and changes his destiny.
FR #2966 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Anatole Litvak
Writer
Lucille Fletcher
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
Plot
When neurotic bedridden wife Leona Stevenson overhears a murder plot on her telephone, she tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent the murder. Based on Lucille Fletcher's famous radio play.
FR #3209 | Movie | History, Drama | USA | English, Latin
Director
Orson Welles
Writer
William Shakespeare, Orson Welles
Cast
Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy Mcdowall
Plot
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Plot
In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.
FR #4713 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Mexico, Russia | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Ismael Rodriguez
Writer
Rogelio A. Gonzalez, Ismael Rodriguez
Cast
Pedro Infante, Blanca Estela Pavon, Maria Eugenia Llamas
Plot
This is the story of three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw) that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near t...
FR #6449 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Andre De Toth
Writer
Jay Dratler, Karl Kamb, William Bowers
Cast
Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr, John Litel
Plot
Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result.
Leopold Atlas, John C. Higgins, Arnold B. Armstrong
Cast
Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, Raymond Burr
Plot
Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Raymond Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him.
FR #6964 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | USA | English
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Writer
Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, S.N. Behrman
Cast
Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Reginald Owen
Plot
A girl is engaged to the local rich man, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
FR #6975 | Movie | Drama | Mexico, Japan | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Ismael Rodriguez
Writer
Carlos Gonzalez Duenas, Rogelio A. Gonzalez, Ismael Rodriguez
Cast
Pedro Infante, Evita Munoz 'Chachita', Blanca Estela Pavon
Plot
Sequel to Nosotros los Pobres (1947). This time, Pepe "El Toro" (Infante) is married with "La Chorreada" (Pavon) and they have two children. Chachita (Munoz) knows her real grandma: Charito (Derba), a rich woman who takes Chachita...
After an accidental explosion in the lab, its inventor slips in and out of dream-like hallucinations, realizing that he had given the formula to one of his colleagues, who he tries to stop before it is too late.
Michel is in love with Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family'...
FR #7949 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Chuck Jones
Writer
Michael Maltese
Cast
Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg, The Sportsmen Quartet
Plot
Bugs is tricked into being the first rabbit shot into space. When he lands on the moon he finds Commander X-2 (later known as Marvin Martian) set to blow up planet Earth.
FR #7950 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Chuck Jones
Writer
Michael Maltese
Cast
Mel Blanc
Plot
Porky and Sylvester spend the night in an old dark house where a cult of killer mice try to eliminate them both. Sylvester tries warning Porky, but he is convinced that Sylvester is a coward.
FR #8199 | Movie | Drama, Short | Denmark | Danish
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Johannes V. Jensen
Cast
Joseph Koch
Plot
A man and a woman on a motorcycle arrive with a ferry to Assens. They want to catch the next ferry in Nyborg, on the other side of the island, but this ferry will leave in three quarters of an hour and the ferry berth is 70 km awa...
Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan, John Mcintire
Plot
A covert FBI agent infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob, but his life is at risk from a mysterious informant who funnels inside information to the hoodlums.
FR #8458 | Movie | Thriller, Action | USA | English
Director
Jean Negulesco
Writer
Edward Chodorov, Margaret Gruen, Oscar Saul
Cast
Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark
Plot
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
Circa 1940s India, a young freedom fighter faces opposition from his own father as well as an ambitious police officer, who is also his rival for affection of a mutual childhood sweetheart.
FR #8982 | Movie | Drama | France | English, French
Director
Yves Allegret
Writer
Henri La Barthe, Jacques Sigurd, Yves Allegret
Cast
Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero, Marcel Dalio
Plot
Dedee is a prostitute who works in Monsieur Rene's nightclub on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy until she meets Francesco, an Italian sailor. They fall in love and Dedee starts to dream about e...
FR #10225 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | India | Tamil
Director
S.S. Vasan
Writer
Kittu, K.J. Mahadevan, Naina
Cast
Rajkumari, M.K. Radha, Ranjan
Plot
The two brothers named Veerasimhan and Sasankan, who fight with each other over ruling their father's kingdom and for marrying the village dancer Chandralekha.
FR #10448 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Irving Reis
Writer
Arthur Miller, Chester Erskine
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Harry Morgan
Plot
During WW2, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever but years later his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
FR #10484 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France, Italy | French
Director
Christian-Jaque
Writer
Stendhal, Christian-Jaque, Pierre Jarry
Cast
Renee Faure, Lucien Coedel, Louis Salou
Plot
Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. The Countess of San Severina, is but one of the women who love him a la folie, spurring jealous...
Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.
FR #10974 | Movie | Romance, Drama | India | Hindi
Director
S.U. Sunny
Writer
Azm Bazidpuri
Cast
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, Jeevan Dhar
Plot
A convicted murderer is released from prison. His only possession is a broken figurine--the last token of his love. The tragic story of how he came to be incarcerated and the significance of the figurine is the subject of this tal...
FR #11226 | Movie | Drama | Mexico, Sweden | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Joselito Rodriguez
Writer
Felix B. Caignet, Rogelio A. Gonzalez, Fannie Hurst
Cast
Pedro Infante, Emilia Guiu, Rita Montaner
Plot
Angelitos Negros is a story of prejudice and sacrifice; the plot centers around a woman who does not realize her heritage, brought up as the "white"wealthy patron's daughter, she is actually the daughter of the black maid.
The film is set in the city of Krasnodon (Sorokyne) in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Ukrainian SSR (now Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine). Local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance. The teens manage to outsmart the N...
FR #11949 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe, Harry Tugend
Cast
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman
Plot
With her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom begins to fall for her.
FR #12204 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Greece, Japan | Greek (modern), Greek
Director
Alekos Sakellarios
Writer
Hristos Giannakopoulos, Alekos Sakellarios
Cast
Vasilis Logothetidis, Nitsa Tsaganea, Ilia Livykou
Plot
A quiet and modest man, disappointed and embittered by the civil war that plagues Greece after WWII, faces Hitler and his Nazis who strike back to retake Greece.
William R. Laidlaw, George Froeschel, William Wister Haines
Cast
Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Edward Arnold
Plot
Army generals struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing the German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
FR #12484 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, Iran | English, Italian
Director
Alberto Lattuada
Writer
Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Ettore Maria Margadonna
Cast
Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina
Plot
An African-American soldier stationing in Italy refuses to make a deal with local gangsters. However, when a girl he loves turns desperately to prostitution, Jerry is forced to change his mind to save her.
Pavel Kadochnikov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Aleksei Dikij
Plot
Alexey Meresyev was a fighter pilot during the war. One day he was shot down by Nazis, and because of his wounds both of his legs had to be cut off up to his knees. Because of his spirit and courage, Alexey was able to overcome hi...
FR #12697 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
Joseph Barbera
Cast
William Hanna, Lillian Randolph
Plot
Mammy Two-Shoes replaces Tom with a younger cat who is a lightning-quick mouser. Tom and Jerry form an alliance in order to get rid of this dangerous newcomer.
