FR #385 | Movie | Biography, Western | USA | English
Director
Arthur Penn
Writer
David Newman, Robert Benton, Robert Towne
Cast
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman
Plot
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
FR #459 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Russia | Russian
Director
Leonid Gaidai
Writer
Leonid Gaidai, Yakov Kostyukovskiy, Moris Slobodskoy
Cast
Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley, Vladimir Etush, Georgiy Vitsin
Plot
A young student Shurik comes to a remote mountainous region in search of ancient legends and traditions. Fooled by the corrupt local governor, he helps him to kidnap a beautiful young girl, but soon realizes what he's done.
FR #627 | Movie | Comedy | France, Italy | English, French
Director
Jacques Tati
Writer
Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald
Cast
Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Plot
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
A former secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is actually a bizarre prison. He refuses to give his warders information while attempting to escape.
FR #1148 | Movie | Adventure, Action | UK, USA | French, German
Director
Robert Aldrich
Writer
Nunnally Johnson, Lukas Heller, E.M. Nathanson
Cast
Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Robert Ryan
Plot
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
FR #1575 | Movie | Drama | Japan, Italy | Japanese, English
Director
Masaki Kobayashi
Writer
Shinobu Hashimoto, Yasuhiko Takiguchi
Cast
Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa, Go Kato, Tatsuya Nakadai
Plot
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.
FR #1911 | Movie | Biography, Court-Drama | USA, Sweden | English, French
Director
Richard Brooks
Writer
Truman Capote, Richard Brooks
Cast
Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
Plot
Two ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt before going on the run from the authorities who try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers.
Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, The Ernie Flatt Dancers
Plot
Legendary long-running television variety show featuring skits and songs by Carol Burnett, her comedy troupe, and their celebrity guests. Stars Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway.
FR #1948 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Russia | Russian, Ukrainian
Director
Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko
Writer
Konstantin Ershov, Nikolay Gogol, Georgiy Kropachyov
Cast
Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksey Glazyrin
Plot
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
After being abused by his oppressive brother-in-law, a man flees home and ends up in a small village where he is mistaken for another person. He must accept his new name or face an exorcism.
FR #2167 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | USA, UK | English, Japanese
Director
Lewis Gilbert
Writer
Harold Jack Bloom, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming
Cast
Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Donald Pleasence, Bernard Lee
Plot
James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.
FR #2364 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, UK | French, English
Director
Jacques Demy
Writer
Jacques Demy
Cast
Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Francoise Dorleac, Michel Piccoli
Plot
Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.
Byomkesh Bakshi, a detective, is hired by a rich man to investigate the name of an actress appeared in a movie decades ago, who has eloped ever since. The case became complicated when the rich man is murdered by someone for that.
Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Martin Balsam
Plot
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Apaches becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
FR #3914 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA, India | English, Bengali
Director
Gene Saks
Writer
Neil Simon
Cast
Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer
Plot
Conservative young lawyer Paul Bratter marries the vivacious Corie Banks. Their highly passionate relationship descends into discord when they rent their first apartment - a rundown five-flight NYC walk-up with eccentric neighbors.
Vladimir Mensik, Jaroslava Obermaierova, Josef Abrham
Plot
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and mo...
Susi's family is stalked by a vengeful killer. During an attempt to save Susi from this madman, her boyfriend, Baskar, gets a good look at the attacker's eyes. Using this as a clue Baskar attempts to find the person haunting Susi'...
FR #4370 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | France | English, Italian
Director
Eric Rohmer
Writer
Patrick Bauchau, Haydee Politoff, Daniel Pommereulle
Cast
Patrick Bauchau, Haydee Politoff, Daniel Pommereulle
Plot
A womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests.
After being left brokenhearted several times, wealthy, beautiful Deepa travels to City of Love Paris to live in her palatial house and meets Shyam (Sam), an Indian who is fascinated by her beauty. She tries to ignore him and final...
FR #4715 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Sweden, France | Swedish, Danish
Director
Bo Widerberg
Writer
Bo Widerberg, Johan Lindstrom Saxon
Cast
Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer
Plot
The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.
In a small industrial town near Bombay lives Bholanath, who works at the local mill, and is the proud husband of Gauri, a daughter, Champa, and above all his son, Ramaiya, who is a graduate in the arts faculty, - the only one in t...
FR #4728 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | India | Tamil, Telugu
Director
K. Balachander
Writer
K. Balachander
Cast
Rajashree, T.S. Balaiah, Major Sundarrajan, Sowcar Janaki, R. Muthuraman, Kanchana, Nagesh, Jayanthi
Plot
The story revolves around an urban South Indian joint family composed of brothers, their wives and children and parent/s. It is the ideal household with every one getting along well until a glamorous actress moves in next door.
FR #4843 | Movie | Crime, Action | Japan | Japanese, English
Director
Seijun Suzuki
Writer
Seijun Suzuki, Atsushi Yamatoya, Takeo Kimura
Cast
Jo Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Annu Mari
Plot
After a botched assignment, a rice-fetishizing hitman finds himself in conflict with his organization, and one mysterious, dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.
FR #4869 | Movie | Western, Drama | Italy, Spain | Italian, English
Director
Sergio Sollima
Writer
Franco Solinas, Fernando Morandi, Sergio Donati
Cast
Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes
Plot
An unofficial lawman and would-be senator is tasked by a railroad baron with hunting down a knife-wielding Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a young girl.
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater, where people stay trapped in their madness.
FR #4930 | TV | Animation, Action | Japan | Japanese
Writer
Tatsuo Yoshida
Cast
Katsuji Mori, Peter Fernandez, Corinne Orr
Plot
Teenager Gô Mifune aspires to be the world's best race-car champion with the help of his friends, family and his father's high-tech race-car, the Mach 5.
On the banks of the holy River Ganga, Gopi, a ferryman conducts an unconsummated romance with Radha, a girl from the upper classes. At the same time, he rejects the advances of Gauri, a girl from his own village, who is attracting...
A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.
Antony Firingee was a Portuguese-Indian who became a famous Bengali poet musician and fell in love with Shakila. She agreed to marry him after revealing her tragic history. But his fame was not enough to overcome their ostracisati...
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
FR #5476 | Movie | Drama, Romance | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Vilgot Sjoman
Writer
Vilgot Sjoman
Cast
Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjoman, Borje Ahlstedt
Plot
Told in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.
FR #5886 | Movie | Action, Drama | Italy, Germany | Italian, English
Director
Tonino Valerii
Writer
Ernesto Gastaldi, Tonino Valerii, Renzo Genta
Cast
Giuliano Gemma, Lee Van Cleef, Walter Rilla
Plot
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
FR #5891 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | France, Belgium | French
Director
Ray Goossens
Writer
Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Pierre Tchernia
Cast
Roger Carel, Jacques Morel, Pierre Tornade
Plot
Asterix, the most cunning warrior of a Gaulish village resisting Roman occupation, must save their magic potion-brewing druid Getafix when he is kidnapped by an ambitious Centurion.
FR #6214 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Russia | Russian
Director
Andrey Tutyshkin
Writer
Boris Aleksandrov, Leonid Yukhvid
Cast
Vladimir Samoylov, Lyudmila Alfimova, Valentina Nikolaenko
Plot
Civil War takes place. The power is constantly changing in Ukrainian village. In order to away with thugs, the Red commander asks local girl Yarinka to play fake wedding with their leader.
Bipinchandra breaks family tradition by marrying a city girl, Hemangini, much to the chagrin of his sister-in-law, Kadambini, and her husband, Navinchandra. Things are delicate even after both women give birth to two children each...
FR #6383 | Movie | Western, Drama | Italy | Italian, Spanish
Director
Giulio Petroni
Writer
Luciano Vincenzoni
Cast
Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Mario Brega
Plot
A young gunfighter bent on killing the four bandits who raped and murdered his family crosses paths with a former outlaw, who hopes to extort the same men in revenge for getting him jailed.
Evgeniya Uralova, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Yuriy Vizbor
Plot
Lena is about to marry when she finds out her fiance is a bad person. After leaving him, she seeks for a sense in her life through adventures with artists who are also searching their own identity. When raining, she meets Zhenya.
FR #6926 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Burt Kennedy
Writer
Clair Huffaker
Cast
John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Keenan Wynn, Bruce Dern
Plot
The story of a man who was shot, robbed and imprisoned who returns to steal a large gold shipment from the man who wronged him. The gold is transported in an armored stage coach, the War Wagon.
FR #6982 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Samir Ganguly
Writer
Vishwamitter Adil, Nirmal Dey, Gulzar
Cast
Joy Mukherjee, Saira Banu, I.S. Johar, Nasir Hussain, Achala Sachdev, Madan Puri, Asit Kumar Sen, A.K. Hangal
Plot
Professor Brijmohan Agnihotri hates women, love and institution of marriage. He advises his pupil Rajesh to not fall in love or get married. Rajesh blindly follows professor until one fine day he confronts Poonam. Poonam's guardia...
FR #6987 | Movie | Mystery, Musical | India | Telugu
Director
A.C. Trilogchander
Writer
Narasa Raju D.V., A.C. Trilogchander
Cast
Krishna, Kanchana, Gummadi
Plot
Rich and pretty, Susila returns from college to find that her family is being bumped off one by one. The only clues are a half smoked cigar left at the scene of each murder and a mysterious woman in white running through the court...
Varuna is seen singing and dancing in a nightclub with a stranger, Dilip; suddenly Partap arrives and confronts her, stating that he is her husband. But she claims that she never married and her name is Peggy, which leads to a tif...
FR #7679 | TV | SuperHeroes, Sci-Fi | USA, Canada | English
Writer
Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
Cast
Paul Soles, Peg Dixon, Paul Kligman
Plot
Original cartoon series based on the web-slinging Marvel comic book character, Peter Parker, who, after being bit by a radioactive spider, assumes extraordinary powers.
FR #7727 | Movie | Romance | India | Tamil, English
Director
C.V. Sridhar
Writer
Chitralaya Gopu, C.V. Sridhar
Cast
T.S. Balaiah, Shivaji Ganesan, R. Muthuraman, Sivaji Ganesan, Nagesh, V.K. Ramasamy, K.R. Vijaya
Plot
Ravi, the only son of Vedachalam (Baliah), has traveled on business. Returning home, he meets a young woman on the train after picking up her spilled luggage. The contents of the luggage reveal that she is his sister, from his fat...
Vengos studies in a secret agents' academy, dreaming of becoming a great spy like 007. Unfortunately, he can't do anything right, so he wreaks havoc during his final exams.
FR #7924 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | USA | English
Director
Richard Fleischer
Writer
Hugh Lofting, Leslie Bricusse
Cast
Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough
Plot
After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientele, he and his friends escape their hometown to the sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.
Two men get a jar, open it and meet a genie inside it. The genie grants them all they want and they are happy until the genie draws the attention of a smuggling gang while also breaking up one of protagonist's love life.
FR #8136 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Russia | French, Russian
Director
Claude Berri
Writer
Claude Berri, Gerard Brach, Michel Rivelin
Cast
Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Preboist
Plot
In German-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.
FR #8157 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA, UK | English, Spanish
Director
George Roy Hill
Writer
Richard Morris
Cast
Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore
Plot
In New York City during the Roaring Twenties, would-be flapper Millie Dillmount's self-appointed mission to marry her boss is complicated by white slavers and true love.
FR #8170 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Yugoslavia, France | Serbo-Croatian, German
Director
Dusan Makavejev
Writer
Dusan Makavejev, Branko Vucicevic
Cast
Eva Ras, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ruzica Sokic
Plot
A young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.
