FR #170 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde, Whitfield Cook
Cast
Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
Plot
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
The wife of a band leader constantly tries to become a star - in spite of her having no talent, and gets herself (along with her best friend) into the funniest predicaments.
FR #890 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
John Huston
Writer
C.S. Forester, James Agee, John Huston
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Plot
In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.
FR #1647 | Movie | Family, Drama | UK, USA | English
Director
Brian Desmond Hurst
Writer
Charles Dickens, Noel Langley
Cast
Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison
Plot
Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of ...
FR #1656 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Italy, USA | Latin, English
Director
Orson Welles
Writer
William Shakespeare, Orson Welles, Jean Sacha
Cast
Orson Welles, Micheal Macliammoir, Robert Coote
Plot
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
FR #1917 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA, UK | English, Latin
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
Cast
Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
Plot
Frustrated former journalist Chuck Tatum now working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about trading post owner Leo Minosa trapped in a cave to rekindle Chuck's career, but the story soon escalates into a media circus.
FR #3159 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK, Mexico | English, French
Director
Charles Crichton
Writer
T.E.B. Clarke
Cast
Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James
Plot
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
An ace gambler is forced to join a gambling syndicate in order to pay for the treatment of his ill sister and is framed for murder when he expresses his desire to get out.
FR #4163 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Mervyn Leroy, Anthony Mann
Writer
John Lee Mahin, S.N. Behrman, Sonya Levien
Cast
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn
Plot
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
FR #4164 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | UK, USA | English
Director
Alexander Mackendrick
Writer
Roger Macdougall, John Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick
Cast
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
Plot
An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.
A young doctor returning from abroad is stranded in a village when his plane develops trouble and crashes. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful local village girl, who happens to be the daughter of his blind host. The villa...
FR #6879 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eijiro Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa
Cast
Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshiro Mifune
Plot
A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
Andrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave), a classics teacher at an English school, is afflicted with a heart ailment and an unfaithful wife (Jean Kent). His interest in his pupils wanes as he looks towards his final days in employ...
FR #7637 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Italy, USA | Italian, English
Director
Mario Monicelli, Steno
Writer
Piero Tellini, Vitaliano Brancati, Aldo Fabrizi
Cast
Aldo Fabrizi, Toto, Ave Ninchi
Plot
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
FR #7659 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
Writer
A.I. Bezzerides, Nicholas Ray, Gerald Butler
Cast
Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
Plot
Rough, violent city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain who sends him upstate to a snowy mountain town to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
FR #8227 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | India | Telugu
Director
B.N. Reddi
Writer
Buchi Babu, Devulapalli Venkata Krishna Sastri
Cast
Doraiswamy, Subba Rao K.V., Surabhi Kamalabai
Plot
Nagaraju and Malliswari want to get married. The mother of Malliswari, Nagamma, sends her to rani vasam at Krishnadevaraya palace. Nagaraju tries to get her back at the risk of getting beheaded if caught in the palace.
FR #8721 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany | German, French
Director
Wolfgang Staudte
Writer
Heinrich Mann, Fritz Staudte, Wolfgang Staudte
Cast
Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Renate Fischer
Plot
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at t...
Follows Sergeant Joe Friday of the Los Angels Police Department (LAPD) and his various partners as they methodically investigate a different verity of crimes in Los Angeles, California.
FR #9384 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | France | French
Director
Sacha Guitry
Writer
Sacha Guitry
Cast
Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes
Plot
Through a series of circumstances and plot twists an enterprising man manages to get away with murdering his wife, even though he cheerfully admits his guilt in court.
FR #9407 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Jack Hannah, Clyde Geronimi
Writer
Bill Peet, Ralph Wright, Milt Banta
Cast
Sterling Holloway, June Foray, Stan Freberg
Plot
A mix-up by Mr. Stork finds a little lion cub in the care of a gentle flock of sheep. But when a hungry wolf begins to stalk the herd, will Lambert find the courage to protect his mama?
FR #9666 | Movie | Fantasy, Musical | UK | English
Director
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Dennis Arundell, Jules Barbier, Michael Powell
Cast
Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tcherina
Plot
A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
FR #9918 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Action | USA | English, French
Director
Rudolph Mate
Writer
Sydney Boehm, Edwin Balmer, Philip Wylie
Cast
Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen
Plot
As a new star and planet hurtle toward a doomed Earth, a small group of survivalists frantically work to complete the rocket which will take them to their new home.
FR #10159 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | USA, UK | English
Director
Henry Koster
Writer
Nevil Shute, R.C. Sherriff, Oscar Millard
Cast
James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns
Plot
An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of airplane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number of flying hours due to metal fatigue.
FR #10385 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Japan | Japanese, English
Director
Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer
Jun'Ichiro Tanizaki, Yoshikata Yoda
Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yuji Hori
Plot
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnos...
Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Victor Manuel Mendoza
Plot
An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for seriously wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the mem...
FR #11403 | Movie | Adventure, Crime | USA | English
Director
Anthony Mann
Writer
George Worthing Yates, Art Cohn, Daniel Mainwaring
Cast
Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou
Plot
A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.
FR #11898 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | France | French, German
Director
Claude Autant-Lara
Writer
Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Claude Autant-Lara
Cast
Fernandel, Francoise Rosay, Marie-Claire Olivia
Plot
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving a soporific soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story u...
A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.
FR #12412 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Joseph Losey
Writer
Robert Thoeren, Hans Wilhelm, Hugo Butler
Cast
Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
Plot
After Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way.
Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan
Plot
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder after she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot, and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment, and he forces her family to hide him from the police...
Ratan and Chaman are twins brothers who love the same girl, Meera. During a fair, all three are separated. While Chaman and Meera are found, Ratan is untraceable. Years later, Chaman is no longer attracted to Meera, but in a danci...
FR #13155 | Movie | Adventure, Family | Yugoslavia, Spain | Slovenian, Spanish
Director
Joze Gale
Writer
Joze Gale, Frane Milcinski, Josip Vandot
Cast
Matija Barl, Frane Milcinski, Franc Presetnik
Plot
In an alpine valley lies an idyllic village. High up in the mountains, facing each others across live two men: a "good grandpa" and an "evil man". The first is herbe picker Kosobirin, the other Bedanec is a poacher. The latter has...
FR #13176 | Movie | Documentary, Short | USA | English
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Robert Rein
Cast
Douglas Edwards, Nat Fleischer, Walter Cartier
Plot
After a short study of boxing's history, narrated by newscaster Douglas Edwards, we follow a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier.
FR #13223 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
Joseph Conrad, William Fairchild
Cast
Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley
Plot
A man occupies a position of trust with a merchant in an East Asian port. He's sacked after he's caught stealing, but he pretends to commit suicide, and a Captain he befriended agrees to take him to a secret trading post.
FR #13462 | TV | Comedy | USA, Japan | English, Japanese
Writer
Charles J. Correll, Freeman F. Gosden
Cast
Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore
Plot
Stories mostly centered on The Kingfish's schemes to get rich, often by duping his brothers in the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge. Andy was particularly dupable. Amos mostly narrated.
Pyarelal lives with his parents his elder brother Mohan,his wife Malti and sister Vimla and he day dreams of making it big as an actor.His families condition isn't good and sister Vimla has to get married his brother Mohan arrange...
Johnny Damico botches a murder case and is suspended from the force. In reality, he is put undercover to identify the mysterious boss of the NY waterfront who has murdered everyone in his way. Will Johnny be next in line?
FR #14470 | Movie | Comedy, Action | India | Hindi
Director
S.K. Ojha
Writer
Hasrat Jaipuri
Cast
Nargis, Sitara, Dilip Kumar
Plot
On the day of his wedding, the life of a jailer is saved by an inmate during a prison break. Back in his cell the prisoner, Kishore, recounts his life story. He spent his childhood amidst the family of a wealthy thakur (landowner)...
FR #14983 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Turkey | Turkish
Director
Aydin Arakon
Writer
Aydin Arakon
Cast
Sami Ayanoglu, Resit Gurzap, Cahit Irgat
Plot
The Turkish Sultan decides to send his armies in war against the remnant of the Roman Empire, Byzantine. All of his advisory council assent to the move with the exception of one aged councilor, who allies himself with the Byzantin...
FR #15221 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia | Russian
Director
Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
Writer
Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Yuriy Olesha, Alexander Pushkin
Cast
Mariya Babanova, Zinaida Bokareva, Nikolay Litvinov
Plot
A cruel queen jealous of her stepdaughter's beauty sends her deep into the woods on the night before wedding. The princess comes across a hut where seven good knights live, while the prince goes on a quest to find his bride.
Ellen McNulty loses her hamburger joint and goes to see her son, who marries a socialite at the same time. Due to her modest background and a case of mistaken identity, Ellen poses as the newlyweds' cook.
FR #17421 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Cast
Daws Butler, Paul Frees, William Hanna
Plot
Tom is desperate for sleep after a night of revelry with his friends, but Mammy Two-Shoes demands that he stay awake to keep the mouse out of the refrigerator. Jerry, being a clever mouse, sees his opportunity to get rid of the cat.
Attractive Leela has three suitors. The first one is Shyam, an artistic painter, who offers her his heart, and a room he shares with his friend, Chamanlal. While the trio are busy conning others, Leela meets with Sita, who is a Ra...
FR #17912 | Movie | Crime, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Joseph Losey
Writer
Norman Reilly Raine, Leo Katcher, Waldo Salt
Cast
David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel
Plot
In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls.
