FR #42 | Movie | Court-Drama, Drama | USA | English
Director
Sidney Lumet
Writer
Reginald Rose
Cast
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden
Plot
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
FR #140 | Movie | War, Drama | UK, USA | English, Japanese
Director
David Lean
Writer
Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
Cast
William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Plot
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
FR #174 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Sweden | Swedish, Latin
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bengt Ekerot
Plot
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
Balarama promises Subhadra to get his daughter married to her son. But when the Pandavas loses their kingdom to the Kaurava's, Balarama breaks his promise.
In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.
Progressive, reform-minded young warden gets permission to take six surly murderers from prison to dilapidated country farm, to rehabilitate it and themselves through hard work and kindly guidance.
FR #1158 | Movie | War, Drama | Poland | Polish, German
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Cast
Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Plot
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
FR #2474 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | Russia | Russian, English
Director
Lev Atamanov
Writer
Georgiy Grebner, Lev Atamanov, Nikolay Erdman
Cast
Vladimir Gribkov, Yanina Zheymo, Anna Komolova
Plot
A young girl embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her friend, who has been taken captive by the Snow Queen and turned cruel by enchanted ice splinters.
FR #2666 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
Delmer Daves
Writer
Halsted Welles, Elmore Leonard
Cast
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Richard Jaeckel
Plot
Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him.
FR #2668 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Chuck Jones
Writer
Michael Maltese
Cast
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Plot
Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.
Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau
Plot
Female radio reporter Marcia Jeffries turns folk-singing drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes into a powerful media star who becomes utterly detestable during his meteoric rise.
FR #3161 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA, UK | English
Director
Robert Stevenson
Writer
Fred Gipson, William Tunberg
Cast
Dorothy Mcguire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk
Plot
In 1860s Texas, a stray yellow dog proves his worth to a frontier family, especially bonding with their teenage son who must help manage their homestead while his father works a cattle drive.
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshipper Julian Karswell.
FR #4653 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English
Director
John Sturges
Writer
Leon Uris, George Scullin
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Dennis Hopper
Plot
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
FR #4921 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English, German
Director
Dick Powell
Writer
Wendell Mayes, D.A. Rayner
Cast
Robert Mitchum, Curd Jurgens, David Hedison
Plot
During WWII an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, and in the ensuing duel the American captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.
FR #5157 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, Japanese
Director
Joshua Logan
Writer
Paul Osborn, James A. Michener
Cast
Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Owens, James Garner
Plot
A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.
Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik, Shashikala Jawalkar, Jeevan Dhar, Lalita Pawar, Krishan Dhawan, Madan Puri, Rashid Khan, Helen
Plot
Runaway wealthy heiress, Raksha, joins a traveller, Madan, in a small truck, heading toward the home of his uncle, Manoharlal. When they reach their destination, they are informed that Manoharlal has passed away, and the estate an...
Dev Anand, Nutan, Gajanan Jagirdar, Sajjan, Shobha Khote, Dulari
Plot
An incompetent lawyer gets evicted, dons the guise of an old man to gain accommodation, falls for the owner's daughter, then faces numerous life-changing challenges.
FR #5720 | Movie | War, Comedy | Czech, India | Czech, Telugu
Director
Karel Stekl12
Writer
Jan Halek, Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Stekl12
Cast
Rudolf Hrusinsk12, Svatopluk Benes, Frantisek Filipovsk12
Plot
Mrs Müllerova (E. Svobodova) informs her tenant Svejk (R. Hrusinsky) about the recent assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Svejk heads out to the local pub unaware that a secret police agent is also in there spying on people who t...
FR #5876 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Maxim Gorky, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
Cast
Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyoko Kagawa
Plot
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee
Plot
While awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.
FR #5974 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Norway | Norwegian, German
Director
Arne Skouen
Writer
David Howarth, James L. Shute, Arne Skouen
Cast
Jack Fjeldstad, Henny Moan, Alf Malland
Plot
During World War II, nine members of the Norwegian Resistance are trapped by the Germans in a deadly ambush. Only one escapes, and a fierce hunt through the ice desert has begun.
FR #6213 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Robert Siodmak
Writer
Will Berthold, Werner Jorg Luddecke
Cast
Claus Holm, Mario Adorf, Hannes Messemer
Plot
A serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.
FR #6423 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | UK, USA | English
Director
Charles Chaplin
Writer
Charles Chaplin
Cast
Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Sidney James
Plot
A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.
A doctor falls in love with the granddaughter of a rich man. She helps him to pursue his dream of higher education by giving him her mother's jewellery to sell. The fate of the two lovers after the doctor's return is not a sweet o...
Nikolay Volkov, Aleksei Litvinov, Gennadi Khudyakov
Plot
A boy finds a special jug and releases an ancient genie. The powerful and kind wizard is ready to fulfill all desires, but he doesn't know anything about the reality of the 20th century.
FR #6921 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Japanese
Director
John Huston
Writer
John Lee Mahin, John Huston, Charles Shaw
Cast
Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr
Plot
During World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another while hoping for a rescue, as they try to avoid capture by the J...
The year is 1951, India is a free country, and Hariram lives a poor lifestyle along with his wife, Bela, and a young son, Rattan. He is in debt, but continues to borrow money so that he could provide a better life for his family. ...
FR #7655 | Movie | Biography, Adventure | USA, India | English, Hindi
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Charles A. Lindbergh, Billy Wilder, Wendell Mayes
Cast
James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith
Plot
Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
FR #7715 | Movie | Drama | Russia, Japan | Russian, Japanese
Director
Grigoriy Kozintsev
Writer
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra, Evgeniy Shvarts
Cast
Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Serafima Birman, Georgiy Vitsin
Plot
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. Th...
FR #7895 | Movie | Comedy, Short | France | French
Director
Francois Truffaut
Writer
Maurice Pons, Francois Truffaut
Cast
Gerard Blain, Bernadette Lafont, Michel Francois
Plot
A group of five boys, the brats of the title, are all in love with an unbearably beautiful woman and so they spend their summer jealously harassing her and her boyfriend.
Abhi Bhattacharya, Mala Sinha, Gajanan Jagirdar, Dhumal, Murad
Plot
A wealthy man, suspected of murder, is killed before he can be arrested. Everyone in his household is under suspicion. A private investigator looks into the case and finds himself falling in love with one of the suspects.
Twenty years ago, after killing his brother, Sardar Rajpal flees from his hometown in Shillong and re-locates in the rural area of Assam along with his adopted daughter, Meena. He asks his wife, Kamla, to send their son, Shankar, ...
FR #10720 | Movie | History, Drama | India | Telugu
Director
Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao
Writer
Samudrala Jr.
Cast
N.T. Rama Rao, Anjali Devi, Chittor V. Nagaiah, Saroja Devi B.
Plot
Pundarika a young man who is an atheist, neglects his parents and enjoys all the pleasures. Later after loosing his legs, he realizes the true value of his parents and life and comes back to them with repentance.
Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, John Litel
Plot
Bart Allison and sidekick Sam arrive in the town of Sundown on the wedding day of town boss Tate Kimbrough, whom Allison blames for his wife's death years earlier.
FR #11668 | Movie | Drama, Musical | USA | English
Director
George Sidney
Writer
Dorothy Kingsley, John O'Hara
Cast
Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak
Plot
Joey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.
Follow-up to I Love Lucy (1951), Lucy Ricardo continues her wacky schemes as she travels with her husband, Ricky and their friends Ethel and Fred to various locations and meeting celebrities.
FR #12189 | TV | Animation, Comedy | USA | English
Cast
Walter Lantz, Grace Stafford, Homer Brightman
Plot
Walter Lantz hosts a program of theatrical cartoons, along with segments showing the workings of an animation studio and newsreel footage narrated by Woody Woodpecker.
FR #12424 | Movie | Comedy | Norway, Greece | Norwegian, Latin
Director
Edith Carlmar
Writer
Bias Bernhoft, Sverre Baevre, Otto Carlmar
Cast
Leif Juster, Unni Bernhoft, Frank Robert
Plot
At a high mountain hotel in Norway the porter Poppe tries to do the best he can for the guests with an often unhelpful piccolo Rudolf. This, however, leads to a lot of problems, and Poppe thinks some of the guests behave inappropr...
FR #12906 | Movie | War, Drama | France, USA | English, German
Director
Nicholas Ray
Writer
Rene Hardy, Nicholas Ray, Gavin Lambert
Cast
Richard Burton, Curd Jurgens, Ruth Roman, Christopher Lee
Plot
A commander receives a citation for an attack on Erwin Rommel's headquarters, which is actually undeserved, as the commander is unfit for his job. On top of that, unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of his of...
From the hills of West Virginia, Amos McCoy moves his family to an inherited farm in California. Grandpa Amos is quick to give advice to his three grandchildren and wonders how his neighbors ever managed without him around.
FR #13158 | Movie | Adventure | USA, Italy | English, Italian
Director
Nathan Juran
Writer
Robert Creighton Williams, Christopher Knopf, Charlott Knight
Cast
William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Thomas Browne Henry
Plot
The first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows gigantic.
FR #13159 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
James Neilson
Writer
Borden Chase, Norman A. Fox
Cast
James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea
Plot
A fired railroad man is re-hired and entrusted to carry a ten thousand dollar payroll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws.
FR #13173 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Rouben Mamoulian
Writer
Leonard Gershe, Leonard Spigelgass, Melchior Lengyel
Cast
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre
Plot
A Russian government official is sent to Paris to bring back her comrades; she soon gets a taste of Paris life and falls in love with an American movie producer.
FR #13413 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Russia | Azerbaijani, Russian
Director
Huseyn Seyidzadeh
Writer
Sabit Rakhman
Cast
Aliagha Aghayev, Ahmad Ahmadov, Arif Mirzaquliyev
Plot
Popularly known by the name of the main character, "Mashadi Ibad" was based on a musical comedy by composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov and written in the early 1900s. The story is based on the age old-theme of a beautiful young woman (Gulna...
Chiranjeev lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his widowed father Kashiram; two sisters, one of whom is mute; and a younger brother. On a trip, his friend Mohan falls ill from too-high consumption of alcohol and gets treated at a...
A philanderer only son of a millionaire is attracted to a poor orphan artist, whose god-brother is a hater of rich people, and would go to any extent to get money off them.What would happen when the roles reverse?
FR #13917 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English, Chinese
Director
Joseph Pevney
Writer
R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Cast
James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Jim Backus
Plot
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
