FR #370 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA, France | English, Latin
Director
Elia Kazan
Writer
Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson, Robert Siodmak
Cast
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Plot
An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
FR #912 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Billy Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, Ernest Lehman
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
Plot
After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter, who's long had a crush on him, but he questions his more serious brother's motives when he warns against getting involved ...
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
Preteen brother and sister, abandoned by their father, to be taken care of, by an abusive prostitute aunt, survive life in an Indian squatters' camp, aided by a friendly cripple, by learning to shine shoes instead of begging.
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
FR #1816 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | Japan | Japanese, German
Director
Ishiro Honda
Writer
Takeo Murata, Ishiro Honda, Shigeru Kayama
Cast
Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada
Plot
After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
FR #1918 | Movie | War, Court-Drama | USA, UK | English
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Writer
Stanley Roberts, Michael Blankfort, Herman Wouk
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson
Plot
When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
FR #2226 | Movie | Drama | India | Tamil, Norwegian
Director
R. Krishnan, S. Panju
Cast
M.R. Radha, S.S. Rajendran, M.N. Rajam
Plot
The story revolves around Mohanasundaram, a returned-from-abroad, westernized, rich man who shows arrogance and contempt towards anything part of Indian culture and anyone below his social standards.
FR #2659 | Movie | Musical, Drama | USA, Japan | English, Japanese
Director
George Cukor
Writer
Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell
Cast
Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Plot
In George Cukor's remake, fading matinee idol Norman Maine helps young singer and actress Esther Blodgett find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
FR #2666 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA, Italy | English, Italian
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Charles Goldblat, Mauries Puget
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Plot
This is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria, as told by writer/director Harry Dawes, from being discovered in Madrid, Spain, until her funeral in Italy.
FR #2850 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French
Director
Jacques Becker
Writer
Albert Simonin, Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe
Cast
Jean Gabin, Rene Dary, Dora Doll
Plot
An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.
FR #4156 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Horror | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Jack Arnold
Writer
Harry Essex, Arthur A. Ross, Maurice Zimm
Cast
Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning
Plot
A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
A poor Indian boy saves a magic antelope that can produce gold with its hooves. After a greedy Raja learns about it, he orders to bring him the antelope - or die.
Mangal drives a taxi by day, then drinks at night, listens to his singer girlfriend Sylvie and then goes into a drunken stupor - and wakes up with a hangover. One day, while assisting another taxi driver, Mangal comes to the assis...
FR #4988 | Movie | Romance, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Guru Dutt
Writer
Abrar Alvi, Nabendu Ghosh
Cast
Shyama, Guru Dutt, Jagdish Sethi
Plot
An ex-convict gets a job as a taxi driver to change his girlfriend's prejudiced father's view of him, and becomes embroiled with a criminal gang in the process.
Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.
This movie depicts the life of once wealthy poet and nobleman Mirza Ghalib. This story portrays his trials, tribulations, triumphs, and utlimate descent to poverty, and then to prison; and his tragic and ill-fated love with a beau...
Anju Rai lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad in a palatial house. She is now of marriageable age, and her dad has arranged her marriage with Advocate Amarnath. Both Anju and Amarnath meet and fall in love with each othe...
FR #7214 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Italy, Germany | German, Italian
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Stefan Zweig, Sergio Amidei, Roberto Rossellini
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate Mannhardt
Plot
Irene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover's jealous ex-girlfriend. The plot, an experiment in causing fear, drives her into a rage.
FR #7382 | Movie | Comedy | Italy, USA | Italian, English
Director
Mario Mattoli
Writer
Eduardo Scarpetta, Ruggero Maccari
Cast
Toto, Sophia Loren, Enzo Turco
Plot
"Miseria e Nobiltà " tells the story of the humble families of Felice Pasquale and his colleague who are hired by a Marquis who wants to marry the daughter of a rich but simple cook, so they pose as aristocrats.
FR #7417 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Robert Aldrich
Writer
Roland Kibbee, James R. Webb, Borden Chase
Cast
Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel
Plot
During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.
FR #7418 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco
Writer
Frank Fenton, Louis Lantz
Cast
Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun
Plot
The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others.
FR #7666 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Alfred Hayes, Emile Zola
Cast
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
Plot
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.
FR #7928 | Movie | Fantasy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Writer
Alan Jay Lerner
Cast
Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse
Plot
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in th...
The popular radio show comes to life in this hit sitcom about a wise family man, Jim Anderson, his common-sense wife Margaret and their children Betty, Bud and Kathy.
This story revolves around a young couple - Kiriti and Tapasi. Tapasi's mother could not accept her daughter's wedding and brought her home. Tapasi's father dies of shock. Tapasi being well educated goes to a hill station for holi...
FR #9161 | Movie | Musical, Drama | USA, India | English, Hindi
Director
George Seaton
Writer
Clifford Odets, George Seaton
Cast
Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden
Plot
A director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems.
FR #9418 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Douglas Sirk
Writer
Lloyd C. Douglas, Robert Blees, Wells Root
Cast
Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Plot
A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.
FR #9472 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Russia | Russian
Director
Mikhail Kalatozov
Writer
Aleksandr Galich, Konstantin Isaev
Cast
Vasiliy Merkurev, Boris Chirkov, Aleksandr Borisov
Plot
Alexander, Boris and Vasily are three old friends, who now rarely see each other as they are busy with their professional life. They embark on long-planned voyage on a raft down the Volga river, which turns into a series of comica...
In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.
FR #9921 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Writer
Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Clinton Twiss
Cast
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main
Plot
Nicky and Tacy are going to be married. Nicky wants to save up money for a house, but Tacy dreams of starting off with their own home on wheels--a trailer.
FR #9981 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Austria | German
Director
Ernst Marischka
Writer
Sil Vara, Ernst Marischka
Cast
Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven, Magda Schneider
Plot
England, the 19th century. Young Victoria is crowned to be the queen of England. She aims to do her best in order to help her country prosper. However, the family and her trustful advisor, Lord Melbourne, plan marriage for her. Sh...
FR #10156 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA, UK | English, Spanish
Director
Henry Hathaway
Writer
Frank Fenton, Fred Freiberger, William Tunberg
Cast
Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark
Plot
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in Apache territory.
FR #10419 | Movie | History, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Herbert J. Biberman
Writer
Michael Wilson
Cast
Juan Chacon, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer
Plot
Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaoh's court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets.
FR #10673 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Ernest K. Gann
Cast
John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day
Plot
When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.
In first-century Rome, Christian slave Demetrius is sent to fight in the gladiatorial arena and Emperor Caligula seeks Jesus' robe for its alleged magical powers.
A rich landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
FR #11718 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany | German, Latin
Director
Kurt Hoffmann
Writer
Erich Kastner
Cast
Paul Dahlke, Heliane Bei, Paul Klinger
Plot
All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other. The continuous feud between the pupils is only one of the pleasant alternations, wh...
FR #11899 | Movie | Comedy | Italy, Switzerland | Italian, English
Director
Steno
Writer
Sandro Continenza, Lucio Fulci, Ettore Scola
Cast
Alberto Sordi, Maria Pia Casilio, Ilse Peterson
Plot
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome. He is fond for everything coming from the United States. He tries to speak American-English, to wear clothes he thinks Americans wear, to walk like John Wayne, and to eat cornflake...
FR #11922 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Robert Aldrich
Writer
James R. Webb, Paul Wellman
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John Mcintire
Plot
Refusing to let himself be re-settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer.
FR #12422 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | UK | English
Director
Ronald Neame
Writer
Mark Twain, Jill Craigie
Cast
Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire
Plot
As part of a bet, two aristocrats offer a penniless American a loan, without telling him that the amount is £1,000,000 in the form of a single banknote.
FR #12641 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Japan | Japanese, English
Director
Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer
Yoshikata Yoda, Masashige Narusawa
Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga
Plot
Yukiko's mother runs a lodging house for courtesans in Kyoto. When her fiance learns this, he ends their engagement. Yukiko despises what her mother does until one of her mother's clients shows interest in her and starts to woo her.
Ronald Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford, Archie Duncan
Plot
The adventures of master detective Sherlock Holmes as he and his assistant, Dr. Watson--and, somewhat reluctantly, the bumbling Inspector Lestrade--battle criminals in London.
An untouchable girl is found dead with her illegitimate child, the child is adopted by a postman, a high caste Hindu. No one knows the true identity of the real father of the child, until the childs real father, also an upper cast...
FR #13408 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | Swedish, English
Director
Henry Koster
Writer
Annemarie Selinko, Daniel Taradash
Cast
Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon
Plot
Desiree Clary falls for Napoleon but marries Bernadotte, while Josephine weds Napoleon to become Empress before being dismissed for not producing an heir.
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu,...
FR #13651 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, Korean
Director
Mark Robson
Writer
Valentine Davies, James A. Michener, Marcel Lebreton
Cast
William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March
Plot
Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.
Mauricio De La Serna, Jose Revueltas, Luis Alcoriza
Cast
Lilia Prado, Carlos Navarro, Fernando Soto
Plot
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin".
An undercover police officer falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run and together they plan to double-cross both the hood and the cops.
FR #15146 | Movie | Adventure, Action | France, Italy | French
Director
Robert Vernay
Writer
Alexandre Dumas, Georges Neveux, Robert Vernay
Cast
Jean Marais, Lia Amanda, Daniel Ivernel
Plot
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom ...
Nilambhar Chakravorty belongs to a poor family, and lives in a joint family with his married brother, Pitambar, unmarried sister, Punnu, and wife, Biraj. Since his sister is of marriageable age, he arranges her marriage, and borro...
FR #16164 | Movie | Short, Fantasy | USA | English
Director
Kenneth Anger
Writer
Kenneth Anger
Cast
Samson De Brier, Marjorie Cameron, Joan Whitney
Plot
Historical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.
FR #16473 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia | Russian
Director
Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy
Writer
Mikhail Volpin
Cast
Boris Chirkov, Vladimir Gribkov, Aleksey Gribov
Plot
A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by Koschei the Immortal. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil.
The schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in racing forms than books; as they try to get rich quick, they are abetted by the headmistress' brother.
