FR #368 | Movie | Court-Drama, War | USA | English, German
Director
Stanley Kramer
Writer
Abby Mann, Montgomery Clift
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Plot
Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
FR #625 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Writer
Bill Peet, Dodie Smith
Cast
Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, J. Pat O'Malley
Plot
When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the owners must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.
FR #700 | Movie | Drama | Sweden, UK | Swedish, Latin
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max Von Sydow
Plot
Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
A person comes to meet with Gauri Shankar Roy (Uttam Kumar) living in Kolkata. He introduces himself as a 'fauji Sardar' of Jhind, Jhind being a small kingdom in Madhya Pradesh. He says that the to-be king of Jhind, Shankar Singh,...
Based on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.
FR #1687 | Movie | Drama | Russia | Russian, English
Director
Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer
S. Bakhmetyeva, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast
Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Natalya Arkhangelskaya
Plot
Seven-year-old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who wo...
FR #1730 | Movie | Adventure, Action | India | Hindi
Director
Nitin Bose
Writer
Wajahat Mirza, Dilip Kumar
Cast
Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Nasir Khan, Kanhaiyalal Chaturvedi, Anwar Hussain, Nasir Hussain, Leela Chitnis, Praveen Paul
Plot
Gungaram, a poor, indebted farmer, works hard to educate his younger brother Jumna and make him a police officer. Years later, circumstances force Gungaram to become an outlaw and now the brothers confront each other as enemies.
FR #1912 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA, UK | English, Greek
Director
J. Lee Thompson
Writer
Alistair Maclean, Carl Foreman
Cast
David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Richard Harris
Plot
A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
A poor Afghani leaves his family behind to earn a living as a dried fruit vendor in India. Profoundly homesick, he befriends a young girl who reminds him of his own daughter. Meanwhile, the locals are distrustful of all foreigners.
FR #2228 | Movie | Romance, Drama | India | Bengali, German
Director
Ajoy Kar
Writer
Tarashankar Banerjee, Binoy Chatterjee
Cast
Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar, Khitish Acharya, Chhabi Biswas, Tulsi Chakraborty
Plot
Set in World War II, the reverend Krishnendu runs a military hospital in Bankura. A drunken Anglo-Indian woman soldier is brought to him for treatment and he recognized her as his former love Rina Brown.
When an army officer is presumed dead in battle, his lookalike is tasked with breaking the news to his family. However, circumstances force him to impersonate the dead man.
FR #2409 | Movie | Adventure, Short | France | English
Director
Robert Enrico
Writer
Ambrose Bierce, Robert Enrico
Cast
Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker-Spang Larsen
Plot
In 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home.
FR #2601 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Italy, USA | Italian, Arabic
Director
Anthony Mann
Writer
Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman
Cast
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Michael Hordern
Plot
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.
Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.
Anjana lives a wealthy lifestyle with her dad, Dwarka Nath, in a hilly region in India. When she returns home after several years, she finds that her dad has become more strict and a disciplinarian, and even has his erring employe...
FR #3668 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Poland, Egypt | Polish, Latin
Director
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Writer
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Tadeusz Konwicki, Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Cast
Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska
Plot
A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
FR #4406 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Italy | English, Italian
Director
Dino Risi
Writer
Rodolfo Sonego
Cast
Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi
Plot
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
FR #4413 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Italy, USA | English
Director
Richard Fleischer
Writer
Christopher Fry, Par Lagerkvist, Nigel Balchin
Cast
Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Andrews, Vittorio Gassman, Ernest Borgnine
Plot
Governor Pontius Pilate gave the populace a choice to spare either Barabbas, a criminal, or Jesus, condemned as a heretic, from crucifixion. The masses chose Barrabas, and he is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.
FR #4608 | Movie | Drama | Japan, Canada | Japanese, English
Director
Yasujiro Ozu
Writer
Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu
Cast
Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yoko Tsukasa
Plot
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
FR #4872 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Spain | Spanish, Spanish; Castilian
Director
Luis Garcia Berlanga
Writer
Luis Garcia Berlanga, Rafael Azcona, Jose Luis Colina
Cast
Cassen, Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez, Elvira Quintilla
Plot
In a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "seat a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celeb...
FR #4911 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK, USA | English
Director
George Pollock
Writer
Agatha Christie, David D. Osborn, David Pursall
Cast
Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
Plot
When Miss Jane Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.
FR #5663 | Movie | Horror, Thriller | UK | English, French
Director
Seth Holt
Writer
Jimmy Sangster
Cast
Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee
Plot
A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.
This is the story of Lord Ram and his years spent in exile with his wife and brother, and also chronicles the end of the demon king Ravan and his family.
FR #6408 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA, Japan | English, Navajo
Director
Michael Curtiz, John Wayne
Writer
James Edward Grant, Clair Huffaker, Paul Wellman
Cast
John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Lee Marvin, Jack Elam
Plot
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros.
FR #6411 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Marlon Brando, Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Guy Trosper, Calder Willingham, Charles Neider
Cast
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Ben Johnson
Plot
After they rob a bank in Mexico, Dad Longworth absconds with the loot leaving his partner, Rio, to be captured by the Rurales. 5 years later, Rio escapes from prison and seeks revenge on Longworth, but falls in love with his step-...
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
FR #6418 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English
Director
Nicholas Ray
Writer
Philip Yordan, Ray Bradbury
Cast
Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan Mckenna, Hurd Hatfield, Rip Torn
Plot
The life and times of Jesus against a background of Roman paganism. Set in Palestine, depicts the Jews under Roman rule and their struggle for freedom under the leadership of Barabbas, the man who was spared while Jesus was crucif...
FR #7162 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Russia | Ukrainian, Russian
Director
Viktor Ivanov
Writer
Viktor Ivanov, Mykhailo Starytsky
Cast
Oleg Borisov, Margarita Krinitsyna, Nikolay Yakovchenko
Plot
Madcap comedy set in early 20th century Kyiv about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. He marries an ugly rich woman to solve his financial woes, but pines for a virtuous beauty who despises ...
A young lad, separated at a young age from his parents takes on the life of petty crime and ends up in jail. On his release he comes across a friend in a train, and at the friend's request sets upon to trace his two daughters; he ...
When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owner's three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
FR #8158 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA, China | Spanish, Chinese
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Hal Kanter, Harry Tugend, Robert Riskin
Cast
Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Peter Falk, Thomas Mitchell
Plot
New York bootlegger Dave the Dude and his girlfriend Elizabeth "Queenie" Martin try to turn boozy street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when Annie learns that her daughter Louise is marrying the son of a Spanish count.
FR #8406 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Greece | Greek, Greek (modern)
Director
Alekos Sakellarios
Writer
Hristos Giannakopoulos, Alekos Sakellarios
Cast
Dimitris Horn, Maro Kodou, Smaro Stefanidou
Plot
In return for handsome and unclouded youth, a weary old geezer makes a pact with the father of lies to woo his beautiful next-door-neighbour. However, will he admit his mistake, now that things are not working out as planned?
FR #8418 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
John Ford
Writer
Frank S. Nugent, Will Cook
Cast
James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, John Mcintire
Plot
A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.
FR #8656 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Finland | Finnish, English
Director
Matti Kassila
Writer
Matti Kassila, Kaarlo Nuorvala, Mika Waltari
Cast
Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela
Plot
A rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. First the death is thought to be an accident, but lieutenant Palmu notices that the murderer has made a mistake, and Palmu and his assistants Kokki and Virta sta...
Biography of Kappalottiya Tamizhan, "The Tamil Helmsman", an Indian freedom fighter and founder of Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company.
Nisha lives a very wealthy lifestyle in Neelgaon, India, with her businessman dad, Sardar Roop Singh. She is now of marriageable age, and her dad wants her to marry his friend's son, Sohan, but Nisha dislikes him. While traveling ...
Mala Sinha, Shashi Kapoor, Rehman Khan, Manmohan Krishna, Indrani Mukherjee, Deven Verma, Jagdish Raj
Plot
The story of two families, that of Nawab Badruddin and Gulshan Rai, living in an India under British rule, sharing life's ups and downs together almost as one family together.
An expedition to Infant Island uncovers a native tribe and twin tiny fairy priestesses of a mythical deity, who sets out to rescue the pair after they are kidnapped by a greedy businessman.
Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Herbert Lom
Plot
During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
FR #9982 | Movie | Crime, Horror | Germany | German
Director
Alfred Vohrer
Writer
Edgar Wallace, Egon Eis, Wolfgang Lukschy
Cast
Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Baal, Dieter Borsche
Plot
Wealthy, heavily-insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend."
This is one of the best films of great director Rajen Tarafdar. He has beautifully portrayed the life of fishermen and their relation with the river. Bilas a poor fisherman who had lost his father and spend his life by catching fi...
FR #10417 | Movie | Animation, Short | Norway, Finland | Norwegian, English
Director
Ivo Caprino
Writer
Peter Christen Asbjornsen, Jorgen Moe
Cast
Harald Heide Steen, Anniken Kolstad, Even Rognlien
Plot
A young man named Ashlad is getting out on a journey in which he attempts to win both the king's daughter and half the kingdom. But it shall be more difficult than he had imagined.
FR #10923 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, Hawaiian
Director
Norman Taurog
Writer
Allan Weiss, Hal Kanter
Cast
Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury
Plot
After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates defies his parents' wishes for him to work at the family business and instead goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.
