FR #955 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK | English, Italian
Director
Robert Hamer
Writer
Roy Horniman, Robert Hamer, John Dighton
Cast
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
Plot
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
FR #1976 | Movie | Western | USA | English, Spanish
Director
John Ford
Writer
James Warner Bellah, Frank S. Nugent, Laurence Stallings
Cast
John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson
Plot
Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
Pran and Gopal fall in love with village girls while on a holiday. After returning home, Gopal continues to flirt with other girls. But Pran realizes that he has truly fallen in love.
A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.
FR #2445 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer
Vera Caspary, John Klempner, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast
Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas
Plot
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
FR #2447 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Robert Rossen
Writer
Robert Penn Warren, Robert Rossen
Cast
Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
Plot
The rise and fall of a grass-roots rural politician who eventually becomes mired in the sort of political corruption he vehemently railed against on his way to the governor's mansion.
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, V.H. Desai, Raj Kapoor, Cuckoo, Murad
Plot
Dilip loves Neena, but she treats him only as a friend. Later she gets married to Rajan. When he comes to know that Dilip once loved Neena, he misunderstands them and things change a lot then.
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of disci...
FR #2996 | Movie | Drama, Musical | Sweden, India | Swedish, German
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Herbert Grevenius, Birgit Tengroth
Cast
Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth
Plot
A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
FR #3910 | Movie | Drama | Japan, Poland | Japanese, Polish
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Kazuo Kikuta, Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi
Cast
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjo
Plot
A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.
FR #3969 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Byron Haskin
Writer
Roy Huggins
Cast
Lizabeth Scott, Don Defore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy
Plot
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
FR #4441 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Ted Tetzlaff
Writer
Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich
Cast
Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy
Plot
To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him.
FR #5209 | Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Robert Pirosh
Cast
Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, James Whitmore
Plot
True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.
Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Ray Collins, Jerome Cowan
Plot
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
FR #5695 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, German
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigelgass, Hagar Wilde
Cast
Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall
Plot
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury
Plot
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
FR #6198 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer
Philip Yordan, Jerome Weidman, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte
Plot
After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal. His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective.
FR #6446 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Robert Wilder, Edmund H. North, Sally Wilder
Cast
Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
Plot
A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.
FR #6476 | Movie | Drama | France, Netherlands | French, English
Director
Yves Allegret
Writer
Jacques Sigurd
Cast
Madeleine Robinson, Gerard Philipe, Jean Servais
Plot
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that ...
Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Reginald Owen
Plot
A girl is sent to live with her uncle on his estate when her parents die. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. In particular, a screaming child and...a secret garden.
A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets.
FR #7982 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Mexico | Spanish, Spanish; Castilian
Director
Ismael Rodriguez
Writer
Rogelio A. Gonzalez, Ismael Rodriguez
Cast
Fernando Soler, Pedro Infante, Andres Soler
Plot
The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Gene Lockhart, Harry Morgan
Plot
A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers, and run up ruinous debts.
FR #8488 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Czech | Czech, German
Director
Alfred Radok
Writer
Erik Kolar, Mojmir Drvota, Alfred Radok
Cast
Blanka Waleska, Otomar Krejca, Viktor Ocasek
Plot
The terrible effect of the Nazis upon a single Jewish family provides the basis for this drama. The family cannot handle the strain and gradually breaks up. Interspliced within the film are newsreel clips of angry crowds, and scen...
FR #8688 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Friz Freleng
Writer
Tedd Pierce
Cast
Mel Blanc
Plot
Yosemite Sam tries to force Bugs Bunny to do a high-diving act when the regular act cancels; but the bullying pipsqueak is no match for our redoubtable rabbit.
FR #8701 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Cast
William Hanna
Plot
The Bide-a-Wee Mouse Home has sent the orphan mouse, Nibbles, to spend Thanksgiving with Jerry. But Jerry's cupboard is bare, and Nibbles is always hungry. They start by raiding Tom's milk dish, but Tom wakes up and drains it. For...
FR #8724 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Mexico | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Emilio Fernandez
Writer
Emilio Fernandez, Mauricio Magdaleno
Cast
Marga Lopez, Miguel Inclan, Rodolfo Acosta
Plot
Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid by Mercedes. Obviously, young Beatriz does...
FR #9193 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Chuck Jones
Writer
Michael Maltese
Cast
Mel Blanc, Errol Flynn
Plot
While stealing a carrot in Sherwood Forest on the king's property, Bugs gets caught by the sheriff. Bugs tricks the sheriff into letting him go, but not before he plays pranks on the hapless lawman.
FR #9225 | Movie | Drama | Mexico, Italy | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Alejandro Galindo
Writer
Alejandro Galindo
Cast
Fernando Soler, David Silva, Martha Roth
Plot
A strict patriarch exercises almost absolute control over his family and uses it to impose his vision of order and conservative family values. However, the budding sexuality of some of his children causes the union to unravel.
An ambitious young LA department store model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn't always a happy one.
FR #9708 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Robert Z. Leonard
Writer
Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Ivan Tors
Cast
Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Buster Keaton
Plot
In turn-of-the century America, Andrew and Veronica are co-workers in a music shop who dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
FR #10204 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Nicholas Ray
Writer
Daniel Taradash, John Monks Jr., Willard Motley
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready
Plot
An attorney defends a young hoodlum charged with murdering a policeman using the oppressiveness of his client's upbringing in the slums to appeal to the sympathies of the jury.
FR #10232 | Movie | History, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Wolfgang Staudte
Writer
Erwin Klein, Fritz Staudte, Wolfgang Staudte
Cast
Paul Esser, Irene Korb, Karl Heinz Deickert
Plot
The life of the worker Hans Behnke and his family from 1925 to 1945 in Berlin. Hans ultimately does join the Nazi party, but still shows signs of disagreement with their ideology.
Vitezslav Nezval, Hans Christian Andersen, Jiri Brdecka
Cast
Helena Patockova, Jaromir Sobotoa, Detsky Pevecky Sbor Jana Kuhna, Boris Karloff, Boris Karloff
Plot
A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but...
FR #10710 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Busby Berkeley
Writer
Harry Tugend, George Wells, Gene Kelly
Cast
Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Edward Arnold
Plot
Two turn-of-the-century baseball players, who work in vaudeville during the off-season, run into trouble with their team's new female owner and a gambler who doesn't want them to win the pennant.
FR #11194 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Cantonese
Director
Arthur Lubin
Writer
Dorothy Davenport, Jay Dratler
Cast
Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn
Plot
A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
After spending all his money to fulfill the smallest wish of his wife Dora, Robert is still madly in love with her. Now she is in agony, and her mother comes. She will reveal to Robert how he has been fooled. Flashbacks show the s...
Beniamino and his family have lived in a school since the end of World War II, but five years have passed and they are compelled to move, but finding an apartment in Rome is difficult. First he gets a job as keeper of a graveyard ...
FR #11994 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Hasse Ekman
Writer
Hasse Ekman
Cast
Hilda Borgstrom, Gunnar Olsson, Sigge Furst
Plot
Is man's existence really meaningful and hopeful? As a reply to Ingmar Bergman's Prison (1949), this movie claims that it is. A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to lif...
Aurelio RodrÃguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
FR #12485 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Raffaello Matarazzo
Writer
Aldo De Benedetti, Nicola Manzari, Libero Bovio
Cast
Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Aldo Nicodemi
Plot
First in a series of Matarazzo melodramas: A happily married Naples woman, with two children, is threatened by the reappearance of a man from her past. Her husband takes a drastic action which results in the family members being s...
FR #12704 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Jack Hannah
Writer
Harry Reeves, Milt Banta
Cast
Dessie Flynn, James Macdonald, Clarence Nash
Plot
Chip and Dale sneak into Donald Duck's house to steal his walnuts. Donald dresses as Santa Claus to have fun with the two thieving chipmunks, but ends up using the war toys underneath the Christmas tree to do battle with them.
