FR #688 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson
Plot
In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.
The scion of a wealthy landowner family turns to alcohol and self-pity and slowly self-destructs after class differences force him to break off his relationship with his childhood sweetheart.
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Plot
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
A rom-com involving Rao and Mary, two unemployed new graduates, who decide to act as a married couple so that they qualify for two teaching jobs at a High School and eventually fall in love.
Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain the favor of their affectionate but strict, Bible-toting father as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.
FR #1725 | Movie | Mystery, Romance | India | Bengali
Director
Agradoot
Writer
Agradoot, Nitai Bhattacharya, A.J. Cronin
Cast
Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Kamal Mitra, Chhabi Biswas, Pahadi Sanyal, Tulsi Chakraborty
Plot
A poor lawyer get to know that his father was jailed for a women's murder he didn't commit. To prove his father's innocence protagonist left his home to conduct his own investigation and when every situation got against him, he fo...
Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Plot
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin
Plot
Following World War II, a one-armed stranger arrives in a tiny California desert town, but finds the residents hostile and protecting a terrible secret they want to keep hidden, by violent means if necessary.
Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Ward Bond
Plot
In the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irrita...
FR #2911 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Greece | Greek, Greek (modern)
Director
Giorgos Tzavellas
Writer
Giorgos Tzavellas
Cast
Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Mimis Fotopoulos
Plot
Pivoting around a shiny counterfeit gold sovereign freshly milled from the clandestine workshop of an otherwise honest goldsmith, four brief vignettes of human imperfection; seduction; fate; desire, and devotion inextricably inter...
FR #2914 | Movie | Comedy, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Michael Hayes, Jack Trevor Story
Cast
John Forsythe, Shirley Maclaine, Edmund Gwenn
Plot
Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
Proud, independent Stella, an unconventional Rebetico singer who cherishes her freedom, finds herself in an intense whirlwind romance. Everything points to a tragic ending, and in the aftermath of passion, there can be no winners.
FR #3980 | Movie | Comedy | Czech, France | Czech, French
Director
Borivoj Zeman
Writer
Jiri Brdecka, Oldrich Kautsk12, Jan Werich
Cast
Jan Werich, Vlasta Burian, Irena Kacirkova
Plot
A story about a king who out of three daughters preferred two: the most beautiful and the most cheerful, and the most intelligent, and even able to cook well, he kicked out, which he later bitterly regretted.
One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.
Comic, tragic, and heartrending saga of Ratan Kumar Chaudhary (Kishore Kumar), who leaves his village, aging mom, and seriously ill sister, to obtain employment in Calcutta, only to end up in a tiny tenement apartment full of othe...
An orphan gets in trouble with the law and is sent to a home for young women. There, for the first time, she finds friendship, compassion, and possibly love.
Kanyasulkam is an adaptation of the popular Telugu play of same title. The film deals with prejudices of contemporary Indian society such as child marriages.
After Azaad, a rich man, rescues Shobha from a few bandits, she decides to marry him. Things take a turn when Shobha's family discovers that Azaad himself is a bandit.
FR #5625 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, English
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Jean Renoir, Andre-Paul Antoine
Cast
Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, Maria Felix
Plot
This comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge.
FR #5912 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | UK, USA | English, Italian
Director
David Lean
Writer
Arthur Laurents, H.E. Bates, David Lean
Cast
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
Plot
An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.
FR #6472 | Movie | War, Drama | Germany, USA | German, French
Director
Helmut Kautner
Writer
Carl Zuckmayer, Georg Hurdalek, Helmut Kautner
Cast
Curd Jurgens, Viktor De Kowa, Karl John
Plot
During WW2, German general Harry Harras is a test pilot and chief engineer for the Luftwaffe but his contempt for the Nazis and sabotage at the aircraft plant land him in hot water with the Gestapo.
FR #6678 | TV | Western | USA, India | Hindi, English
Cast
Clint Walker, Clyde Howdy, Chuck Hicks
Plot
After the Civil War, nomadic adventurer Cheyenne Bodie roamed the West looking for fights, bad guys to beat up, and women. His job changed from episode to episode.
Master Sergeant Bilko, regularly helped by the soldiers at Fort Baxter's motor pool, spends little time performing his duties by constantly trying to obtain money through various get-rich-quick scams and promotions.
FR #6717 | Movie | Comedy | Austria | German, French
Director
Kurt Hoffmann
Writer
Erich Kastner
Cast
Paul Dahlke, Gunther Luders, Claus Biederstaedt
Plot
A rich man wins a vacation at a hotel but takes it in the disguise of a poor man under the supervision of his butler. The hotel manager gets tipped off about the plot, but misidentifies a money-less doctor as the eccentric.
FR #6916 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Swedish
Director
Joseph H. Lewis
Writer
Philip Yordan
Cast
Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy
Plot
A police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He goes after Brown's girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead.
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
FR #7410 | Movie | Biography, Action | USA, UK | English, German
Director
Jesse Hibbs
Writer
Gil Doud, Audie Murphy
Cast
Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake
Plot
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.
Marcelino is an orphan who grows up in a monastery. One day when he eats his small meal in a room full of old things, he gives a piece of his bread to an old wooden Jesus figure--which actually takes the bread and eats it. Getting...
Emotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labor Day picnic.
Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
FR #9214 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Subodh Mukherji
Cast
Dev Anand, Nalini Jaywant, Ameeta, Pran Sikand, Pran Sikand, Nirupa Roy
Plot
Roopa lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, Captain Suresh, and brother, Shekhar. After she returns from abroad, she is told that she must now prepare to get married to her betrothed, Ratan, who is the son of a close fri...
A naughty boy named Nils is shrunken to a small size after offending a tomte. He has to go on a voyage with geese across Lapland to fulfill the prophecy and turn back to normal.
FR #9913 | Movie | Animation, Short | Norway | Norwegian
Director
Ivo Caprino
Writer
Thorbjorn Egner
Cast
Turid Haaland, Kari Diesen
Plot
The little tooth trolls Karius and Baktus tries to persuade Jens not to brush his teeth, and their picking wholes in his teeth can go on as planned. If the mother's plea to Jens is winning, the happy days of white bread and syrup ...
FR #10145 | Movie | Comedy | Italy, France | Italian, French
Director
Carmine Gallone
Writer
Giovanni Guareschi
Cast
Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Claude Sylvain
Plot
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
FR #10214 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | India | Hindi
Director
S.U. Sunny
Writer
Azm Bazidpuri
Cast
Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Surya Kumari, Jeevan Dhar, Tun Tun
Plot
A man's plane crashes in a city that is ruled by women and he starts liking the peasant girl who rescues him. However, the queen of the city also likes him but discovers that he likes someone else.
Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik, K.N. Singh, Kumkum, Rashid Khan
Plot
Ashok is a petty thief working under a notorious gangster named Sunder. When Ashok comes across a dead body of a watchman, he reports this matter to the police, much to the anger of some of Sunder's men. Ashok then meets Nimmo, an...
Sharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.
Mhanedra Mukhopadhaya ( Uttam Kumar ) is a descendant of a musician family. One of his forefathers was cursed by his guru that anyone in his family who would practice music will either die prematurely or be disabled because he ins...
A semi-documentary on the people of Rio de Janeiro. The camera follows boys from a hillside shanty town who sell peanuts at Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a soccer game. Various subplots, involving characters they meet along...
Dancer maestro Mangal Maharaj wants his son, Girdhar, who is a dancer par excellence, to enter the once-in-ten-years Nateshwar Utsav dance competition, win it, and be crowned the Bharat Natraj. While Girdhar can do a solo dance nu...
FR #11393 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Mexico | Spanish, Spanish; Castilian
Director
Rogelio A. Gonzalez
Writer
Jack Jevne, Paulino Masip, Fernando De Fuentes
Cast
Pedro Infante, Miroslava, Blanca De Castejon
Plot
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known...
FR #11663 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Sydney Boehm, Frank S. Nugent, Heck Allen
Cast
Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan
Plot
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
A hilarious comedy about two unemployed college graduates from the city, who pretend to be a married couple, in order to find work as school teachers in a small village.
FR #12135 | Movie | History, Drama | Hong Kong, Japan | Japanese
Director
Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer
Ching Doe, Matsutaro Kawaguchi, Yoshikata Yoda
Cast
Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, So Yamamura
Plot
In 8th-century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a close rel...
FR #12161 | Movie | Film-Noir, Crime | UK | English
Director
Lewis Gilbert
Writer
Janet Green, John Cresswell
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
Plot
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes el...
Instead of success in the Greek province, two poor portable barrel piano players stumble upon an affluent but desperate runaway girl, intent on escaping a much-despised arranged marriage. Will they forsake their beliefs for money'...
FR #12167 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA, Japan | English, Japanese
Director
Charles Vidor
Writer
Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart
Cast
Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell
Plot
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
FR #12654 | Movie | Romance, Musical | USA | English, French
Director
Jean Negulesco
Writer
Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron, Jean Webster
Cast
Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore
Plot
A wealthy American has a chance encounter with a joyful young French woman, and anonymously pays for her education. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor, nicknaming him from the description given by some of her fellow o...
