A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.
FR #394 | Movie | Biography, History | USA | English
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Dalton Trumbo, Howard Fast, Plutarch
Cast
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Herbert Lom
Plot
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
FR #445 | Movie | Drama | Sweden | Swedish, German
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ulla Isaksson
Cast
Max Von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Plot
In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along t...
FR #626 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France | English, French
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer
Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut
Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Richard Balducci
Plot
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
Widower Sheriff Andy Taylor and his son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bee in Mayberry, North Carolina. With virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent philosophizing and calming down his friend and deputy, Barney Fife.
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
A lawyer holds the eyewitness evidence to catch a killer, but the identified criminal is the lawyer's own mentor, prospective father-in-law, and also the judge who presides over the case.
FR #1920 | Movie | Biography, Court-Drama | USA | English
Director
Stanley Kramer
Writer
Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith, Jerome Lawrence
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan
Plot
Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
FR #2408 | Movie | Drama | USA, France | English, French
Director
Richard Brooks
Writer
Richard Brooks, Sinclair Lewis
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John Mcintire
Plot
A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.
Dev Anand, Suchitra Sen, Jeevan Dhar, Nasir Hussain, Achala Sachdev, Rashid Khan, Dhumal, Jagdish Raj
Plot
Babu and Malik are two inseparable friends who live in a small town in India. One day they decide to play a prank and steal something. They get caught, while Malik's dad come to bail out and stand surety for him, Babu has no one t...
Poor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.
FR #3217 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman, Oluf Bang
Cast
Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Stig Jarrel
Plot
Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission - to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes crazy when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
FR #3219 | Movie | Crime, Mystery | France, Germany | German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Fritz Lang, Heinz Oskar Wuttig, Jan Fethke
Cast
Dawn Addams, Peter Van Eyck, Gert Frobe
Plot
In 1960s Germany, criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse uses hypnotized victims and the surveillance equipment of a Nazi-era bugged hotel to steal nuclear technology from a visiting American industrialist.
Motilal, Vasant Choudhury, Sadhana Shivdasani, Nasir Hussain, Kanhaiyalal Chaturvedi, Asit Kumar Sen, Rashid Khan, Durga Khote, Durga Khote
Plot
Niravan (Nazir Hussain), the village postmaster receives an envelope with a cheque for a very large amount, with the instructions that he is to turn this cheque over to the most honest man in the village. Honest Niravan calls a vi...
FR #4086 | Movie | Drama | Japan, USA | Japanese, English
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Ryuzo Kikushima
Cast
Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori
Plot
A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia.
FR #5407 | Movie | Crime, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Lewis Milestone
Writer
Harry Brown, Charles Lederer, George Clayton Johnson
Cast
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Akim Tamiroff
Plot
Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
FR #5670 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
John Wayne
Writer
James Edward Grant
Cast
John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey
Plot
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Rehman Khan, Johnny Walker, Mumtaz Begum, Praveen Paul
Plot
The setting is the city of Lucknow in northern India, where Islamic culture flourished. Two of the three best friends who live in this city have unknowingly fallen in love with the same woman, Jameela. Aslam and Nawab are the two ...
Amidst fierce Qawali competitions, a poor poet/singer, Aman Hyderabadi, falls in love with Shabnam, the daughter of Police Commissioner Khan Bahadur. After Aman is humiliated by Bahadur, Shabnam and Aman elope and travel to Luckno...
After the passing of Maharaj Dhiraj Rana Chandrabhan of Kailash Nagar, the Senapati, Veer Singh, crowns Rajkumar Dhivendra Pratap Bahadur Chandrabhan as the next King. Veer's wife, who has brought up Dhivendra like her own son, Su...
Fred Macmurray, Stanley Livingston, Don Grady, William Demarest
Plot
Widower Steve Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and is later aided by the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
Hosted by Boris Karloff, this anthology series initially focused on ordinary crime and mystery tales but later delved into gothic horror stories adapted from works by Cornell Woolrich, Robert Bloch, Charlotte Armstrong, and others.
FR #7472 | Movie | War, Drama | Czech | Czech, German
Director
Jiri Krejcik
Writer
Jiri Krejcik, Jan Drda
Cast
Frantisek Smolik, Jana Brejchova, Ivan Mistrik
Plot
The story of High school in Czechia (then Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia) during occupation by Nazi Germany, where three students are arrested by Gestapo.
A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
The tragic-comic story of Chhalia, a naive, simple-minded young man who comes to the city and witnesses the harsh side of life; and falls in love with a young woman named Shanti, only to find out that she is married but separated ...
The story set in the late 1930s in a remote village in Bengal, immediately before World War II. It portrays how poverty, famine, unemployment kills humanity.
A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.
When it comes to his wife, Orestis is suspicious of everything, be it a moustachioed chauffeur or a lost pair of bumblebee-yellow gloves. But, are his fears justified or is this case of the lost fashion accessories a big misunders...
A clumsy young man working at an impoverished flower shop discovers that the strange plant he has been nurturing has an insatiable appetite for blood, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Katerina Irmanovova, Karel Smyczek, Vjaceslav Irmanov
Plot
A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.
FR #8986 | Movie | Romance, Drama | India | Tamil, Telugu
Director
A. Bhimsingh
Writer
Jawar N. Sitaraman
Cast
Gemini Ganesan, Savitri, Kamal Haasan, Aachi Manorama
Plot
The film tells a story of a young couple,a wealthy zamindar's(landlord) son and a farmer's daughter who are separated by unfortunate circumstances while their innocent son grows up in a orphanage.
A respected black cavalry sergeant stands court-martial after being accused of raping and killing a white woman as well as murdering her father, his superior officer.
The spiritual journey of Kanakadasa, a poet and a philosopher belonging to the Dasa sect during the 16th century when the stone idol of Lord Krishna turns around as he's being punished for wanting to see the Lord's statue in Udupi.
FR #10160 | Movie | Horror, Fantasy | UK | English
Director
Terence Fisher
Writer
Jimmy Sangster, Peter Bryan, Edward Percy
Cast
Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur
Plot
Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.
FR #10900 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Italy, France | Italian
Director
Mauro Bolognini
Writer
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gino Visentini, Vitaliano Brancati
Cast
Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur
Plot
A newly wedded and extremely handsome young bourgeois Antonio faces a scandal in a city of Sicily in 1950's when the public and her family hears that his beautiful wife is still "untouched" after their 12-month long marriage.
Mute bellboy Stanley works at the luxurious Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. In spite of being a serviceable and friendly employee, the clumsy Stanley gets successively into trouble with his mistakes.
After World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
FR #11163 | Movie | Musical, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jerzy Andrzejewski, Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast
Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Wanda Koczeska
Plot
A young doctor and jazz drummer, is also a womanizer who meets one night another yet finally interesting girl, who all but forces herself into his apartment where they play the game of appearances, both unable to confess their lov...
FR #11212 | Movie | Drama, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Shakti Samanta
Writer
Ranjan Bose, Vrajendra Gaur
Cast
Dev Anand, Madhubala, Kundan, Brahm Bhardwaj, Bipin Gupta, Helen
Plot
Inspector Dinesh goes undercover in order to infiltrate a gang that is counterfeiting banknotes. In the course of his investigation he becomes romantically entangled with a female reporter and makes a discovery of shocking persona...
FR #11224 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Peter Gorski, Gustaf Grundgens
Writer
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Cast
Will Quadflieg, Gustaf Grundgens, Ella Buchi
Plot
The aging scientist Faust is desperately in search of knowledge and insight, but without success. To escape from this ignorance, he dares the extreme: He joins forces with The Devil. Mephisto offers him eternal youth and the oppor...
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
