FR #345 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor, Pierre Boileau
Cast
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Plot
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
FR #729 | Movie | Musical, Drama | India | Bengali, English
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Tarashankar Banerjee, Satyajit Ray, Santi P. Choudhury
Cast
Chhabi Biswas, Gangapada Basu, Padmadevi
Plot
Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminally ill father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
FR #909 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Orson Welles
Writer
Orson Welles, Whit Masterson, Franklin Coen
Cast
Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh
Plot
A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation h...
FR #918 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Poland, France | Polish, French
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski
Plot
As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
FR #962 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Max Von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand
Plot
A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.
FR #1232 | Movie | Thriller, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Bimal Roy
Writer
Ritwik Ghatak, Rajinder Singh Bedi
Cast
Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Johnny Walker
Plot
A young man takes shelter in a mansion when a landslide blocks his route to the railway station. Then, he finds the mansion familiar and soon learns about the story of his previous birth.
FR #1437 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Switzerland, Germany | German, Italian
Director
Ladislao Vajda
Writer
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Hans Jacoby, Ladislao Vajda
Cast
Heinz Ruhmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz
Plot
Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
Kali Bannerjee, Gangapada Basu, Satindra Bhattacharya
Plot
Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small town. His taxi is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye. The film shows the love of taxi driver Bimal and his pathetic vehicle Jagaddal.
When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.
Based on A.J.Cronin's 'Beyond This Place', this movie narrates the story of an untiring crusade for justice. A young man, learning about his father's wrongful implication in a fifteen-year-old murder, vows to bring the true crimin...
FR #3921 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA, France | French, English
Director
Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters
Writer
Alan Jay Lerner, Colette, Niven Busch
Cast
Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Plot
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
FR #4223 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | India | Hindi
Director
Raj Khosla
Writer
Omkar Dogra, Raj Khosla, Omkar Sahib
Cast
Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Jagdev
Plot
A woman elopes with her boyfriend but finds that he has ditched her and made off with her family heirloom. Now she, alongwith a helpful news reporter, have to retrieve the necklace and get back to her home within the span of a sin...
FR #6162 | Movie | Drama, Musical | USA | English, French
Director
Joshua Logan
Writer
Paul Osborn, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
Cast
Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
Plot
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
FR #6408 | Movie | Biography, Drama | UK, USA | English, Mandarin
Director
Mark Robson
Writer
Isobel Lennart, Alan Burgess, Jacques Monteux
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jurgens
Plot
A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
FR #6469 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France, Germany | German, English
Director
Geza Von Radvanyi
Writer
Christa Winsloe, Friedrich Dammann, Franz Hollering
Cast
LILLI Palmer, Romy Schneider, Therese Giehse
Plot
In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
When the messengers of 'Yamraj'- God of Death - mistakenly bring an alive, honest person to hell, he starts a revolution to fix outdated rules of heaven and hell.
FR #7217 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Ivan Pyrev
Writer
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Pyrev
Cast
Yuriy Yakovlev, Yuliya Borisova, Nikita Podgorny
Plot
Upon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are f...
Bani Chowdhury and solicitor Ajoy Kumar are deeply in love with each other. But their world comes crashing down when Bani's cousin, Maya is found dead in the first class compartment at a railway terminus in Bombay. Bani who had go...
FR #7681 | TV | Crime, Action | USA, France | English, French
Writer
Blake Edwards
Cast
Craig Stevens, Herschel Bernardi, Lola Albright
Plot
Peter Gunn is a private detective with a knack for finding trouble. His cases often mean he runs into the shadiest characters, most vicious thugs and the most powerful crime bosses. Cool and resourceful, he always gets the guilty ...
FR #7914 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Douglas Sirk
Writer
Orin Jannings, Erich Maria Remarque
Cast
John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney
Plot
On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
FR #8157 | Movie | War, Comedy | USA, India | English, Telugu
Director
Mervyn Leroy
Writer
John Lee Mahin, Ira Levin, Mac Hyman
Cast
Andy Griffith, Myron Mccormick, Nick Adams
Plot
Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
A troubled youth's singing sets New Orleans rockin'. With a sweet girl to love him and nightclubbers cheering, it seems he will shake off his past and head for the top. But will a mobster and his man-trap moll snare him in a life ...
Unemployed and lower caste sudarshan meets and marries indrani,a brahmin and employed girl. Hismanlihood and indranies selfrespect falls into obstacles fighting continuously withthe society.
Mohan (Sunil Dutt) is the only bachelor son of his widowed mother and works as a professor. He is against prostitution and considers prostitutes a black spot on society. But due to some circumstances, a prostitute named Champabai ...
FR #9405 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Melville Shavelson
Writer
Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Betsy Drake
Cast
Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Plot
A widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.
FR #9406 | Movie | Drama | Poland | Polish, Romanian
Director
Wojciech Has
Writer
Marek Hlasko, Wojciech Has
Cast
Gustaw Holoubek, Aleksandra Slaska, Teresa Szmigielowna
Plot
One day in the life of an alcohol addict. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when she's at work, Kuba is home alone, and it becomes hard not to resist the temptation.
FR #9916 | Movie | Comedy, Short | Poland | English
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Roman Polanski
Cast
Jakub Goldberg, Henryk Kluba, Andrzej Kondratiuk
Plot
Two men emerge from the sea onto the beach carrying a large wooden wardrobe with a mirror on its front. After the two men clean up and rejoice being in this new environment, they proceed to enter the nearby town, they carrying the...
A group of friends travel to a cabin in the Norwegian forest. It's a rumor that at night a crazy man can be heard screaming at a lake nearby the cabin.
FR #11641 | Movie | Biography, Drama | France, Italy | French, Russian
Director
Jacques Becker
Writer
Michel-Georges Michel, Jacques Becker, Max Ophuls
Cast
Gerard Philipe, LILLI Palmer, Anouk Aimee
Plot
Chronicling the last year of the life of Modigliani, an Italian painter living in abject poverty in Paris who falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents do not approve of him.
FR #11652 | Movie | Action, Drama | UK | English, French
Director
Leslie Norman
Writer
Elleston Trevor, Ewan Butler, J.S. Bradford
Cast
John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee
Plot
A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.
FR #11668 | Movie | Horror, Fantasy | UK | English, Latin
Director
Terence Fisher
Writer
Jimmy Sangster, Hurford Janes, George Baxt
Cast
Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson
Plot
Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.
FR #11916 | Movie | Crime, Action | USA, Turkey | English, Turkish
Director
Arthur Ripley
Writer
James Atlee Phillips, Walter Wise, Robert Mitchum
Cast
Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon
Plot
A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in pri...
Johanna Von Koczian, Hansjorg Felmy, Wera Frydtberg
Plot
The movie explains Germany from 1913 until 1955 by example of two contrary characters: The idealistic journalist Hans (H.-J. Felmy) loses his work during the Third Reich, whereas opportunist Bruno (R. Graf) makes career to himself...
FR #12408 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA, UK | English
Director
Otto Preminger
Writer
Arthur Laurents, Francoise Sagan
Cast
Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr
Plot
Spoiled Cecile, 17, spends her summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy dad and Elsa. Anne, her late mom's friend, visits and brings changes to all.
FR #12440 | TV | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Writer
James Buxbaum
Cast
Lloyd Bridges, Ken Drake, Courtney Brown
Plot
Mike Nelson is a scuba diver in the days when it was still very new. He works alone, it was mostly carried through his voice-over narrations. These gave the show a flavor of a radio program.
FR #12657 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Poland | German, Polish
Director
Andrzej Munk
Writer
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Cast
Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska, Ignacy Machowski
Plot
Two sketches covering episodes from the World War II. In the first novel, "Scherzo alla polacca", a shrewd son, trying to preserve his skin, ultimately becomes a hero and finds a reason for fighting. He initially tries to avoid un...
