FR #628 | Movie | Adventure, Western | USA | English, Spanish
Director
John Ford
Writer
Frank S. Nugent, Alan Le May
Cast
John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
Plot
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
FR #1143 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Arabic
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Michael Hayes, Charles Bennett, D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Cast
James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie
Plot
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
An innocent guy who has arrived from a village to Kolkata gets himself involved into trouble in search of water after he gets thirsty in the middle of the night.
FR #1650 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA | English, Hungarian
Director
Fred M. Wilcox
Writer
Cyril Hume, Irving Block, Allen Adler
Cast
Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
Plot
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
A newspaper editor gets murdered when he was about to expose the underworld links of a rich person. So, a C.I.D inspector gets assigned to investigate the murder case.
FR #2479 | Movie | History, Drama | Austria | German, Hungarian
Director
Ernst Marischka
Writer
Ernst Marischka
Cast
Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Bohm, Magda Schneider
Plot
The second in a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the film chronicles the married life of the young empress as she tries to adjust to formal and strict life in the palace and an overbearing mother-in-law.
FR #2716 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia, India | Russian, Tamil
Director
Eldar Ryazanov
Writer
Boris Laskin, Vladimir Polyakov
Cast
Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov
Plot
A new chief of a "Culture House" is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.
FR #3408 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Italy, USA | Russian, English
Director
King Vidor
Writer
Lev Tolstoy, Bridget Boland, Robert Westerby
Cast
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer
Plot
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
FR #4406 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | Japan, USA | English, Japanese
Director
Ishiro Honda, Terry O. Morse
Writer
Shigeru Kayama, Takeo Murata, Ishiro Honda
Cast
Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kochi
Plot
An American reporter visiting Tokyo becomes a witness to the city's destruction by a dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing.
Rhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.
FR #4666 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, Italian
Director
Charles Walters
Writer
John Patrick, Philip Barry
Cast
Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra
Plot
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.
FR #5423 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | USA | English, French
Director
Anatole Litvak
Writer
Arthur Laurents, Marcelle Maurette, Guy Bolton
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
Plot
An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
FR #5717 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Helmut Kautner
Writer
Carl Zuckmayer, Helmut Kautner
Cast
Heinz Ruhmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth
Plot
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job he doesn't get a pass; and without a pass,...
FR #5890 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | German, French
Director
Claude Autant-Lara
Writer
Marcel Ayme, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost
Cast
Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Jeannette Batti
Plot
Two men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures - until they are arrested by the police.
FR #5974 | Movie | Comedy | Russia, India | Russian, Telugu
Director
Anatoliy Granik
Writer
Ivan Stadnyuk
Cast
Leonid Bykov, Nikolay Yakovchenko, Aleksandr Borisov
Plot
Maxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.
FR #6160 | Movie | War, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Ronald Neame
Writer
Nigel Balchin, Ewen Montagu
Cast
Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng
Plot
In order to fool the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily will take place elsewhere, British Military Intelligence comes up with a cunning ruse.
Complications, impersonations and moral dilemmas arise when a Punjabi pretends to be a Tamil in order to obtain accommodation in New Delhi. An eloquent and entertaining plea for national unity that manages to showcase several cult...
A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York City and the new owner of a media company offers a high position in the company to the first of his senior executives who can get the earliest scoop on the case.
FR #7425 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA, India | English, Spanish
Director
Jacques Tourneur
Writer
Stirling Silliphant, David Goodis
Cast
Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith
Plot
Through a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
FR #8166 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Hungary, Italy | Hungarian, Italian
Director
Zoltan Fabri
Writer
Zoltan Fabri, Laszlo Nadasy, Imre Sarkadi
Cast
Mari Torocsik, Imre Soos, Dam Szirtes
Plot
In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields...
FR #8657 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Douglas Sirk
Writer
Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Ursula Parrott
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Macmurray, Joan Bennett
Plot
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
Three decent but clumsy men facing economic difficulties reluctantly start to fabricate counterfeit bills; the son of one of them is the cop who follows the case, ignoring his father's involvement.
FR #9381 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Thriller | Japan | Japanese, Tagalog
Director
Ishiro Honda
Writer
David Duncan, Takeshi Kimura, Ken Kuronuma
Cast
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata
Plot
A mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a creature capable of flying - and wreaking havoc - at supersonic speeds.
Ram goes crazy after death of his mother and sister, once released from mental hospital comes across Mr Kirorimal who insures him and wants him dead for the money. However Ram ends up marrying his daughter.
Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi, Luciano Vincenzoni
Cast
Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Sylva Koscina
Plot
The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud of his work, drinking wine after hours with his friends in a bar owned by the former railr...
FR #10136 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Japan | Japanese, English
Director
Ko Nakahira
Writer
Shintaro Ishihara
Cast
Yujiro Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara
Plot
Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.
FR #10418 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Greece, USA | Greek, English
Director
Michael Cacoyannis
Writer
Michael Cacoyannis
Cast
Ellie Lambeti, Dimitris Horn, Eleni Zafeiriou
Plot
Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in bl...
A new senior at a boy's prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach's wife.
FR #10898 | Movie | Adventure, Crime | Mexico, France | French, Japanese
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Alcoriza, Luis Bunuel, Raymond Queneau
Cast
Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel
Plot
Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, ...
FR #11420 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English
Director
Russell Rouse
Writer
Frank D. Gilroy, Russell Rouse
Cast
Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
Plot
In the western frontier town of Cross Creek, storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past. When 3 bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses, George's past comes back to haunt him.
FR #11910 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
James R. Webb, Liam O'Brien, Max Catto
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida
Plot
A crippled circus acrobat is torn emotionally between two ambitious young trapeze artists, one a talented young American and a less-gifted but beautiful Italian.
FR #12644 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Italy, France | Italian, Greek
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Writer
Cesare Zavattini
Cast
Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi, Gastone Renzelli
Plot
A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof.
FR #12659 | Movie | Drama, Musical | USA | English
Director
Robert D. Webb
Writer
Robert Buckner, Maurice Geraghty
Cast
Richard Egan, Debra Paget, Elvis Presley
Plot
At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it.
FR #12892 | Movie | Drama | Japan, Turkey | Japanese, Turkish
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Toshiro Ide, Aya Koda, Sumie Tanaka
Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine
Plot
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the ...
Shusovan and Anita are husband and wife and they start from their place to visit Digbijoy's house. Although Shusovan is a loving husband, Anita doubts him of having multiple affairs behind her back. On the journey Anita boards the...
A novelist aided by his future father-in-law conspires to frame himself for the murder of a burlesque dancer as part of an effort to ban capital punishment.
Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the Mediterranean shores. Oblivious to their guest...
FR #13979 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali, Telugu
Director
Kartick Chattopadhyay
Writer
Bimal Mitra
Cast
Sumitra Devi, Uttam Kumar, Chhabi Biswas
Plot
Bimal Mitra’s Saheb Biwi Golam beautifully portrays Kolkata and the life of the zamindars of the nineteenth century and outlines how and why these zamindars witnessed a gradual decline in their status and power.
