In the hope of earning enough money to pay off his debts and save his land, a poor farmer becomes a rickshaw puller in Calcutta and faces many difficulties.
FR #1153 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Billy Wilder, Edwin Blum, Donald Bevan
Cast
William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Sig Ruman
Plot
After two American prisoners are killed by the guards in the act of escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Warden
Plot
At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a pugilistic private is cruelly punished for refusing to join his unit's boxing team. Meanwhile, his commanding officer's wife and top NCO are indulging in a torrid love affair.
FR #2346 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Mexico | Spanish, Spanish; Castilian
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Luis Alcoriza, Mercedes Pinto
Cast
Arturo De Cordova, Delia Garces, Aurora Walker
Plot
A husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.
Madame De...aka The Earrings Of Madame De...(1953)
FR #2358 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France, Italy | French, Turkish
Director
Max Ophuls
Writer
Louise De Vilmorin, Marcel Achard, Max Ophuls
Cast
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
Plot
When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in de...
FR #2663 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Chuck Jones
Writer
Michael Maltese, Ben Washam
Cast
Mel Blanc
Plot
The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis Garcia Berlanga, Miguel Mihura
Cast
Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Moran, Jose Isbert
Plot
After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del RÃo start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
FR #3671 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, French
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Writer
Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Norman Corwin
Cast
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Plot
An aging movie star uncertain of his future teams up with a top ballerina to headline a new Broadway musical, but the pretentiously artistic goals of its director threaten to change it beyond recognition.
Adapted from a popular Bengali novel, Devadasu narrates the story of a rich guy and poor girl separated by class system of India. Parvati is forcefully married off to a middle-aged rich man and Devadasu becomes a drunkard.
Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Edmond O'Brien, Deborah Kerr
Plot
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Allahabad-based Raj Raibahadur lives a wealthy lifestyle with his widowed businessman dad. His mom had passed away, a victim to tuberculosis, compelling his anxious dad to keep him away from the hustle, bustle and pollution associ...
Love blossoms between the son of wealthy man and his middle class neighbor. But their romance is put to the test both by a feud between the families and by the entrance of a rival for the girl's affection.
Radha earns a living begging in order to support herself and her crippled and ailing father. They live in a small tenament, under the constant threat of eviction by their landlord for unpaid rent for several months. One day, while...
Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Dean Jagger
Plot
In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards.
FR #7972 | Movie | Action, Drama | Albania, Russia | Albanian, Russian
Director
Sergei Yutkevich
Writer
Mikhail Papava
Cast
Akaki Khorava, Besa Imami, Adivie Alibali
Plot
This is the true story of the National Hero of Albanians, George Kastrioti Scanderbeg, from his birth to his death. 1405-1468. Based mainly upon the monk writer Marin Barleti, the movie starts off with how the boy Scanderbeg was t...
FR #8716 | Movie | Adventure, Action | India | Hindi
Director
Guru Dutt
Writer
Lalchand Bismil, Guru Dutt, Sarshar Sailani
Cast
Guru Dutt, Geeta Bali, K.N. Singh, Johnny Walker, Jankidas
Plot
Nisha lives a poor lifestyle in the Portuguese-ruled Malabar region in India along with her widowed dad, Narayan Das. Both father and daughter are opposed to the oppressive rule of the Portuguese General Barborosa, and even shelte...
FR #9392 | Movie | Drama | Mexico, India | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Alcoriza, Luis Bunuel
Cast
Pedro Armendariz, Katy Jurado, Rosita Arenas
Plot
A tough young man who helps to evict poor people from their houses falls in love with a girl who lives with her father in a building that's about to be demolished.
FR #9411 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Horror | USA, Italy | English
Director
Jack Arnold
Writer
Harry Essex, Ray Bradbury
Cast
Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake
Plot
A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.
Rajguru (Sohrab Modi) decides that Jhansi should get its proper recognition in history. He comes across a young girl Manu (the young Rani Lakshmibai) played by Baby Shikha. Her father has been hit by a carriage driven by an Englis...
FR #10171 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA, South Korea | French, Italian
Director
George Sidney
Writer
Dorothy Kingsley, Sam Spewack, Bella Spewack
Cast
Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, James Whitmore
Plot
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.
FR #10927 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
John Ford
Writer
John Lee Mahin, Wilson Collison
Cast
Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner
Plot
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much like them, but with better manners and a heap of problems. Having lost his father ...
A young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.
FR #12410 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Ernest K. Gann
Cast
John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel
Plot
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr
Plot
A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may have committed murder.
FR #12922 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA, UK | English, German
Director
Robert Wise
Writer
Richard Murphy
Cast
Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton
Plot
Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.
William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, William Demarest
Plot
During the Civil War, a group of Confederates escapes from the Union POW camp at Fort Bravo but has to contend with the desert, the Mescalero Apaches and the pursuing Union troops.
A sheepdog thwarts the efforts of a thieving wolf whose tricks include altering the time clock, hiding in a bush, imitating Pan, digging a tunnel, unleashing a wildcat and disguising himself as the dog's coworker.
After a seven year absence, Dr. Ram Singh returns to his village intending to sell his land and go back to the city. He finds that the peasants are being mistreated by the local landlord and the landlord's sister, Sushma.
Danny is a New York entertainer. Between his co-stars at the nightclub where he performs and his wife and kids, he has dilemmas galore, which he somehow manages to resolve and still laugh.
FR #14660 | Movie | Crime, Drama | UK | English, German
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
Harry Kurnitz, Walter Ebert, Eric Linklater
Cast
James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef
Plot
In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German sm...
A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
Madhubala, Shammi Kapoor, Sajjan, Om Prakash, Cuckoo, Pratima Devi
Plot
A heartwarming tale of good-samaritanism: A poor but large-hearted young man gives shelter to three helpless, forlorn people in his home--an abandoned railway coach. However, tensions arise in the group when he marries one of the ...
Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between creatures of every shape, size and des...
FR #16416 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Yugoslavia, Italy | Slovenian, Italian
Director
Frantisek Cap
Writer
Matej Bor, Frantisek Cap
Cast
Metka Gabrijelcic, Franek Trefalt, Jure Furlan
Plot
Three students try to pass their final exam by reluctant task of wooing their professor's daughter, but the unlucky winner, decided by a coin toss, will completely forget about studying once he meet her.
FR #16895 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada
Writer
Aldo Buzzi, Luigi Chiarini, Luigi Malerba
Cast
Rita Josa, Rosanna Carta, Enrico Pelliccia
Plot
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
FR #17402 | Movie | Comedy, Family | USA | English
Director
Charles Lamont
Writer
D.D. Beauchamp, John Grant, Howard Christie
Cast
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Paige
Plot
Two workmen accidentally launch a space rocket intended for Mars, and find mistakenly landing in New Orleans just the beginning of their misadventures.
