FR #98 | Movie | Biography, History | UK, USA | English, Arabic
Director
David Lean
Writer
Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Cast
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Plot
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
FR #110 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Director
Robert Mulligan
Writer
Harper Lee, Horton Foote
Cast
Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
Plot
A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.
FR #286 | Movie | History, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Masaki Kobayashi
Writer
Yasuhiko Takiguchi, Shinobu Hashimoto
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita
Plot
When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
FR #408 | Movie | War, Drama | Russia | German, Russian
Director
Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov
Writer
Vladimir Bogomolov, Mikhail Papava, Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast
Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov
Plot
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
FR #919 | Movie | Horror, Drama | USA, Japan | English, Japanese
Director
Robert Aldrich
Writer
Henry Farrell, Lukas Heller
Cast
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Plot
A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.
Gundamma, a rich widow, has one goal - to get her spoilt daughter married to a rich boy. She, however, treats her step daughter like a maid. Gundamma does not care about the step daughter's life or marriage. How two brothers, who ...
FR #1142 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Terence Young
Writer
Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather
Cast
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee
Plot
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.
FR #1154 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Jakub Goldberg, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast
Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
Plot
A couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevi...
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.
FR #2165 | Movie | Drama | Brazil, France | Portuguese, French
Director
Anselmo Duarte
Writer
Anselmo Duarte, Dias Gomes
Cast
Leonardo Villar, Gloria Menezes, Dionisio Azevedo
Plot
A simple yet devout Christian makes a vow to Saint Barbara after she saves his donkey, but everyone he meets seems determined to misunderstand his intentions. Will he be able to keep his promise in the end?
FR #2487 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Kalidas
Writer
Suhrid Kar, Ramesh Pant
Cast
Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Pran Sikand
Plot
A diamond thief hides his loot on an innocent child, but the child turns out to be an adult posing as a youngster to purchase a half-priced train ticket. Now, the thief will have to outwit the eccentric in a series of wacky misadv...
Renu lives a poor lifestyle with her mom, dad and a brother. Her dad decides to travel to Africa so that he can earn enough money to send his son to study engineering, so that he can find employment abroad. But fate has other plan...
FR #3158 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA, France | English, Chinese
Director
Sam Peckinpah
Writer
N.B. Stone Jr., Sam Peckinpah, William Roberts
Cast
Joel Mccrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley
Plot
An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
FR #3161 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English, Spanish
Director
John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall
Writer
James R. Webb, John Gay
Cast
James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck
Plot
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
FR #3979 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | France, Germany | German
Director
Harald Reinl
Writer
Karl May, Harald G. Petersson, Jesse Vogel
Cast
Pierre Brice, Lex Barker, Herbert Lom
Plot
In their first cinematic adventure, Apache chief Winnetou and mountain man Old Shatterhand pursue a gang of murderous outlaws who will stop at nothing to find the legendary treasure of Silver Lake.
FR #4371 | Movie | Biography, Drama | France | English, French
Director
Robert Bresson
Writer
Robert Bresson, Pierre Champion
Cast
Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat
Plot
A Joan of Arc's trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English. Filmed in a spare, low-key fashion.
Gayatri, daughter of a poor labourer, falls in love with a rich businessman. But the relationship sours and she is left pregnant with his baby. She keeps the identity of the father a secret.
FR #4654 | Movie | Biography, Adventure | USA | English, French
Director
Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed, George Seaton
Writer
Charles Lederer, Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
Cast
Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Plot
In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti, but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by first officer Fletcher Christian.
FR #4873 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Japan | French, Japanese
Director
Francois Truffaut
Writer
Francois Truffaut
Cast
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay
Plot
Antoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.
FR #5475 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Russia | Russian
Director
Eldar Ryazanov
Writer
Aleksandr Gladkov, Eldar Ryazanov
Cast
Larisa Golubkina, Yuriy Yakovlev, Igor Ilyinsky
Plot
A young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.
FR #5622 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Writer
Kobo Abe
Cast
Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano
Plot
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
FR #5627 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy | Italian, Romanian
Director
Francesco Rosi
Writer
Francesco Rosi, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Enzo Provenzale
Cast
Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi
Plot
The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.
Karaagac was a small village and Bayram had an ordinary life with his mother Irazca, wife Hatice and children in there until Haceli take a place front of his house to make a new building.
While studying in medical college Arun Kumar Mathur (Shashi Kapoor) has a misunderstanding over a love letter with Kavita Kapoor (Sadhana), and must leave the college, much to his dismay. Kavita later finds out that it was not Aru...
FR #7132 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, Italian
Director
Henri Verneuil
Writer
Antoine Blondin, Francois Boyer, Michel Audiard
Cast
Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon
Plot
Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war, Albert comes in contact with Gabriel, a ...
Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards
Plot
At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.
FR #7631 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Italy | English, German
Director
Alberto Lattuada
Writer
Rafael Azcona, Bruno Caruso, Marco Ferreri
Cast
Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti
Plot
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades'-old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
A charismatic "social reformer" rallies the white populace of a Southern town to oppose school integration, but he soon finds himself in a situation that he cannot control.
Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Frank Thornton
Plot
British sitcom about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in London. The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama, and tragedy.
Pritam works as a Book-keeper in an Export Import Firm and does not have a roof to live under. When he goes to search for accommodation, he runs into a friend, Jagdish, who takes him to a rooming house and lets him share one room ...
FR #7892 | Movie | Comedy, Family | France | French
Director
Yves Robert
Writer
Louis Pergaud, Francois Boyer, Yves Robert
Cast
Jacques Dufilho, Yvette Etievant, Michel Galabru
Plot
The school boys of two villages in France are fighting. Their trophy are the buttons they will snatch from the enemy. This fight will bring those kids to everlasting friendship...eventually.
FR #7990 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | India | Tamil
Director
B. Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu
Writer
Dada Mirasi
Cast
Shivaji Ganesan, M.R. Radha, Devika
Plot
Bale Pandiya (Sivaji Ganesan) is a young man who leads a troubled life. He is continuously being chased by Marudhu (also Sivaji Ganesan) - a look-alike of him and Marudhu's boss Kabali (M. R. Radha), who would be given a lot of mo...
FR #8139 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | France, Italy | German, Italian
Director
Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli
Writer
Giovanni Arpino, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Italo Calvino
Cast
Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
Plot
Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
After suffering a brutal defeat and being told he can no longer fight, 37-year-old, scar-ridden prizefighter Louis 'Mountain' Rivera struggles to find a new direction in life.
FR #8217 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Russia, Brazil | Russian, Portuguese
Director
Lev Kulidzhanov
Writer
Nikolai Figurovsky
Cast
Inna Gulaya, Yuriy Nikulin, Leonid Kuravlyov
Plot
The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.
A story about a young man, who had to quit his studies as a doctor due to difficult circumstances, coming back and saving a young lady by performing a very difficult surgery.
FR #8912 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | UK | English
Director
Peter Ustinov
Writer
Peter Ustinov, Dewitt Bodeen, Louis O. Coxe
Cast
Terence Stamp, Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov
Plot
When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war in 1797, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crewmates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.
Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.
Shanker and Rita's marriage is finalized by their elders in their childhoods, however, after growing up, Shanker loves Shobna. Shanker is told to marry Rita instead, and he does so. The marriage is rocky as Rita does not pay atten...
