FR #144 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Ernest Lehman
Cast
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Plot
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
FR #641 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Director
Otto Preminger
Writer
Wendell Mayes, John D. Voelker
Cast
James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
Plot
An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth and will he win his case?
Suresh Sinha, a famous director, discovers star potential in Shanti, a woman he stumbled into one rainy evening, and casts her as the lead in a film. In a twist of fate, Shanti becomes a superstar and Suresh faces a decline in his...
FR #889 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, B.H. Mccampbell
Cast
John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Plot
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
FR #902 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Les Clark, Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson
Writer
Erdman Penner, Charles Perrault, Joe Rinaldi
Cast
Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley
Plot
After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.
FR #1614 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | French, English
Director
Robert Bresson
Writer
Robert Bresson
Cast
Martin Lasalle, Marika Green, Jean Pelegri
Plot
Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.
Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
Plot
A Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
A high caste Brahmin household adopts an orphaned lower caste girl, but when a young man from their caste wishes to marry her without knowing her lineage, caste differences flare up again.
FR #2609 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France, Japan | English, French
Director
Alain Resnais
Writer
Marguerite Duras
Cast
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas
Plot
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
FR #2817 | Movie | Drama | Japan, Italy | Japanese, Italian
Director
Yasujiro Ozu
Writer
Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda, Tadao Ikeda
Cast
Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, Haruko Sugimura
Plot
The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
FR #3154 | Movie | Drama | USA, Greece | English, Latin
Director
Fred Zinnemann
Writer
Robert Anderson, Kathryn Hulme
Cast
Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans
Plot
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
FR #3172 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Poland, USA | Polish, English
Director
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Writer
Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Lutowski
Cast
Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielowna
Plot
Jerzy enters a train set for the Baltic coast. He seems to be on the run from something, as does the strange woman with whom he must share a sleeping compartment.
FR #3486 | Movie | Biography, Drama | India | Tamil
Director
B. Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu
Writer
Sakthi T.K. Krishnasamy
Cast
Shivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, Padmini
Plot
When the British East India Company forces polygar Kattabomman to pay taxes, levies and be their subsidiary ruler, he openly defies their policy and battles them until his arrest and hanging.
FR #4470 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | France, Germany | German, Spanish
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Werner Jorg Luddecke, Thea Von Harbou, Richard Eichberg
Cast
Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer
Plot
A German architect runs away with the maharajah of Eschnapur's fiancee but is caught and thrown in the dungeon, while his relatives arrive from Europe looking for him and the maharajah's brother is scheming to usurp the throne.
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.
FR #5162 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Egypt | Arabic
Director
Henry Barakat
Writer
Henry Barakat, Youssef Gohar, Taha Hussein
Cast
Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq
Plot
This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
FR #5408 | Movie | Adventure, Family | USA, UK | English, Irish
Director
Robert Stevenson
Writer
Lawrence Edward Watkin, H.T. Kavanagh
Cast
Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery
Plot
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
FR #5928 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
John Ford
Writer
John Lee Mahin, Martin Rackin, Harold Sinclair
Cast
John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
Plot
In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.
Diwakar is a poet and loves his wife Jamuna more than anything. But Jamuna feels that Diwakar lives in a fantasy world and is irresponsible in the real world. Diwakar creates a muse from his imagination, who looks exactly like his...
Mahesh and Meena fall in love but he marries another girl at his father's behest. When Meena takes their baby to Mahesh, he rejects her saying their relationship was a mistake.
William P. Mcgivern, Abraham Polonsky, Nelson Gidding
Cast
Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Plot
In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.
FR #6670 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA, India | English, Tamil
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Writer
Robert Alan Aurthur, Oakley Hall
Cast
Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
Plot
A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.
FR #7979 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer
Aleksandr Gordon, Irina Makhovaya, Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast
Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Plot
Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.
FR #8169 | Movie | Western | USA, India | English, Kannada
Director
Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman
Writer
Wendell Mayes, Halsted Welles, Dorothy M. Johnson
Cast
Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden
Plot
Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.
Ramadasu wants his son to marry Manjari to acquire her father's properties. But Manjari and Raja love each other. So they both decide to teach a lesson to Ramadasu and his son.
FR #8918 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA, UK | English, Spanish
Director
Les Clark, Joshua Meador, Wolfgang Reitherman
Writer
Milt Banta, Bill Berg, Heinz Haber
Cast
Jane Fowler, Paul Frees, Clarence Nash
Plot
Donald's goes on an adventure in which it is explained how mathematics can be useful in real life. Through this journey it is shown how numbers are more than graphs and charts, they are geometry, music and magical living things.
Rajat, a young man, meets Manju, a rich girl whose father is looking for her. Though Rajat initially slyly tells her father her whereabouts, he lands up falling in love with her.
FR #9412 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK | English, Spanish
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
Graham Greene
Cast
Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Burl Ives
Plot
Expatriate vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold agrees to work as an agent, and to recruit new agents, for the British Secret Service in Cuba, but he soon realizes that his deceptive ways are going to get him in trouble.
FR #9473 | Movie | War, Drama | Germany | German, Hungarian
Director
Frank Wisbar
Writer
Frank Dimen, Heinz Schroter, Frank Wisbar
Cast
Joachim Hansen, Wilhelm Borchert, Wolfgang Preiss
Plot
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
FR #10174 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | USA, Egypt | English, Arabic
Director
Roger Corman
Writer
Charles B. Griffith
Cast
Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone
Plot
A dimwitted busboy at a beatnik cafe passes off a cat he accidentally killed and covered in plaster as a sculpture, prompting a demand for more art that compels him to commit murders.
Sunil Kumar rents a room in the city where he is to play cricket for the home team. He meets with the landlord's daughter, who instantly dislikes him. But after watching him play cricket, she falls in love with him, and both decid...
Orphaned brothers Jagannath and Rajan turn to crime for survival. Jagannath, a seasoned criminal, leads a double life, while Rajan aids the police. Their paths cross unknowingly. The climax unfolds with a police chase and a family...
FR #10637 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France, India | French, Telugu
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Julien Duvivier, Jacques Robert, Henri Jeanson
Cast
Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier, Robert Dalban
Plot
Fifteen years after WWII, a group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, so that the former members of the network can finally relive one fateful night and find out who betrayed their murdered leader, Cas...
FR #10924 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English
Director
Andre De Toth
Writer
Lee E. Wells, Philip Yordan
Cast
Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise
Plot
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting ...
FR #10985 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany | English, German
Director
Wolfgang Staudte
Writer
Georg Hurdalek, Wolfgang Staudte
Cast
Martin Held, Walter Giller, Ingrid Van Bergen
Plot
April 1945. Because he stole two boxes of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute due to an air force attack, and si...
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
Widowed Mrs. Lal lives with her two sons, Ram and Ratan; an unmarried daughter, Sheela; Ram's wife, Parvati and her children. While Ram is employed in a mill, Ratan is studying engineering in Calcutta. When Ratan returns, he is of...
Gyanendra was a respectable lawyer with a respectable popularity. He was happily married to Sumoti who was a doting wife too. However Gyanendra had special feelings for his professor's daughter Sarama. One day a fire breaks out in...
A young idealist scholar at an all-girls boarding school comes face to face with the institution's privileged students. Will they learn a thing or two about respect? Can a little discipline pave the way for a fresh whirlwind romance?
A mediocre businessman who's married to a much more successful businesswoman relies heavily on her financial support for his bad business ideas, and to pay off his mounting debt, but both of them have had enough of each other.
FR #11978 | Movie | Documentary | Germany | German
Director
Bernhard Grzimek
Writer
Bernhard Grzimek
Cast
Bernhard Grzimek, Holger Hagen, Hermann Rockmann
Plot
The borders of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania were initially drawn without considering the herds of grass-eating wild animals. The recording of seasonal animal movements by the film team at the end of the 1950s forms the ...
