FR #379 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Algeria | French, Russian
Director
Costa-Gavras
Writer
Vassilis Vassilikos, Jorge Semprun, Costa-Gavras
Cast
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Plot
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
FR #380 | Movie | Biography, Crime | USA, Mexico | English, Spanish
Director
George Roy Hill
Writer
William Goldman
Cast
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Plot
In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels..
FR #672 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | India | Bengali
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Satyajit Ray, Upendra Kishore Raychowdhuri
Cast
Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee
Plot
Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.
FR #730 | TV | Animation, Adventure | USA | English
Writer
Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Joseph Barbera
Cast
Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe
Plot
A group of teenage friends and their Great Dane (Scooby-Doo) travel in a bright green van solving strange and hilarious mysteries, while returning from or going to a regular teenage function.
Arun meets Vandana during a vacation and very soon they secretly get married. Arun is an Air Force pilot and dies in a crash, leaving pregnant Vandana heartbroken--and unable to prove that she is a married mother-to-be. As her mar...
FR #951 | TV | Animation, Action | Russia | Russian
Writer
Aleksandr Kurlyandskiy, Arkadiy Khayt, Feliks Kamov
Cast
Anatoliy Papanov, Klara Rumyanova, Igor Khristenko
Plot
The series follows the comical adventures of a mischievous yet artistic Wolf , trying to catch - and presumably eat Hare. It features additional characters that usually either help the hare or interfere with the Wolf's plans.
The tale begins in the final days of the British Raj in India. A cohort of engineering students graduate a few months before Independence. Satyapriya and Naren are among the graduate engineers. The principality of Bhawanigarh is r...
FR #1159 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Dennis Hopper
Writer
Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
Cast
Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
Plot
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
FR #1396 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English, German
Director
Sam Peckinpah
Writer
Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah, Roy N. Sickner
Cast
William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
Plot
An aging group of outlaws in 1913 Texas look for one last big score, selling stolen Army rifles to a rogue Mexican general during that country's revolution, as the traditional American West is disappearing around them.
FR #1409 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Russia, USA | Armenian, Azerbaijani
Director
Sergei Parajanov
Writer
Sayat Nova, Sergei Parajanov
Cast
Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan
Plot
The life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
Taking place almost entirely over the course of one stormy night, a woman is terrified when an accused murderer escapes from a mental hospital and seeks refuge in her home.
Tale of a female nurse trying to maintain a balance between her professional life and her emotions who falls victim to the natural feeling of love and compassion when a person takes care of another person.
FR #2146 | Movie | Drama | Iran, USA | Persian, English
Director
Dariush Mehrjui
Writer
Dariush Mehrjui, Gholam-Hossein Saedi
Cast
Ezzatolah Entezami, Mahin Shahabi, Ali Nasirian
Plot
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
Cartoon about the adventures of the wandering musicians from Bremen such as Troubadour, Donkey, Dog, Cat and Rooster. In one of the towns Troubadour falls in love with a Princess and makes up a plan how to get the King's confidence.
A lonely bureaucrat goes on holiday to a Gujarat village where a young peasant woman helps him see beyond his job and develop a newfound empathy for people.
FR #2717 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Sweden, Germany | Swedish, German
Director
Olle Hellbom
Writer
Astrid Lindgren
Cast
Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Par Sundberg
Plot
Pippi Longstocking, a super-strong redheaded little girl, moves into her father's house Villa Villekulla, and has adventures with her next-door neighbors Tommy and Annika in this compilation film of the classic European TV series.
FR #2718 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia, Egypt | Russian, Arabic
Director
Roman Kachanov
Writer
Eduard Uspenskiy, Roman Kachanov
Cast
Vasiliy Livanov, Klara Rumyanova, Vladimir Rautbart
Plot
Cheburashka is a creature unknown to science. After the zoo rejects him, he becomes lonely and wants friends. Meanwhile, a crocodile named Gena is in the same boat and seeks friendship. The two meet and build a house for the lonely.
Navendu toils hard to support his joint family and keep it together. However, their familial bond gets threatened when his younger brother marries a woman who insists on living separately.
FR #3611 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | English, French
Director
Jacques Deray
Writer
Alain Page, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jacques Deray
Cast
Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet
Plot
Jean-Paul and Marianne spend lazy holidays at their villa in idyllic Southern France. However when Harry and his attractive young daughter Penelope show up, the dreamy summer days are suddenly filled with unspoken tension and jeal...
FR #3924 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | UK | English, French
Director
Ronald Neame
Writer
Muriel Spark, Jay Presson Allen
Cast
Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens
Plot
Eccentric and well-meaning teacher Jean Brodie's extravagantly romantic ideas about life = and love - overly impress her young pupils in 1930s Edinburgh, bringing her into direct conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.
FR #4125 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | English, French
Director
Henri Verneuil
Writer
Auguste Le Breton, Henri Verneuil, Jose Giovanni
Cast
Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura
Plot
An ambitious young mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
FR #4157 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Gene Kelly
Writer
Michael Stewart, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Lehman
Cast
Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
Plot
Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.
FR #4179 | TV | Animation, Short | Italy | Italian
Cast
Carlo Bonomi, Osvaldo Cavandoli, Bruno Bozzetto
Plot
When artist draws a magic line, it takes on a life of its own, becoming a silhouette of a living hot-tempered person. This "Mr. Linea" wants more things drawn so he can enjoy himself, but the artist loves having fun on Mr. Linea's...
Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Plot
Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been...
FR #4410 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
Director
Gene Saks
Writer
Abe Burrows, Pierre Barillet, Jean-Pierre Gredy
Cast
Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
Plot
A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
Somna lives a poor lifestyle with her widowed mom Leela, in the mountainous region of India and Nepal. She makes a living working on the apple farm of wealthy widower Kailash Nath Kaushal, who also runs a mountaineering school and...
FR #4621 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Germany | Spanish, French
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny
Plot
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.
FR #4717 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Sweden, Germany | Swedish, German
Director
Olle Hellbom
Writer
Astrid Lindgren
Cast
Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Par Sundberg
Plot
The further adventures of super-strong girl Pippi Longstocking and her friends Tommy and Annika in this sequel compilation film of the classic Swedish TV series.
The story is about a father and his sons--all three roles played by Sivaji Ganesan. One son who had disappeared shortly after his birth reappears, spends time with his father, and solves the remaining problem of the family. The fa...
FR #4920 | Movie | Action, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Guy Hamilton
Writer
James Kennaway, Wilfred Greatorex, Derek Dempster
Cast
Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews
Plot
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
Rudolf Hrusinsk12, Vlastimil Brodsk12, Vaclav Neckar
Plot
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
A theatre troupe is called to court because of obscene performance material and an interrogation ensues, which causes them to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.
A rich prince who lives in luxury wants to attain inner peace. He leaves his riches to become an ordinary villager and from there on, his adventure begins.
FR #5912 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Hungary, USA | Hungarian, English
Director
Zoltan Fabri
Writer
Zoltan Fabri, Istvan Orkeny
Cast
Zoltan Latinovits, Imre Sinkovits, Marta Fonay
Plot
The Tót family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comed...
FR #5990 | Movie | Drama | India | Kannada, Telugu
Director
Siddalingaiah
Writer
Basumani, Chi Udayashankar
Cast
Rajkumar, M.P. Shankar, T.N. Balakrishna
Plot
Mayor Mutthanna is a 1969 Indian Kannada film, directed by Siddalingaiah and Produced by Ambuja Dwarakish.The film Stars Dr Rajkumar, M P Shankar, T N Balakrishna, T B Nagappa, Thoogudeepa Srinivas, Niranjan, Rajanand, Sriram in l...
FR #6154 | Movie | Action, Drama | Italy | Italian, English
Director
Gianfranco Parolini
Writer
Renato Izzo, Gianfranco Parolini
Cast
Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Ignazio Spalla
Plot
A master gunfighter sides with a banjo-playing drifter and a Mexican tramp to foil the dignitaries of Daugherty, who want to use stolen army money to buy land that the railroad will cross.
FR #6216 | Movie | History, Drama | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Bo Widerberg
Writer
Bo Widerberg
Cast
Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund
Plot
During a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between demonstrators and the military who open fire...
Shekhar and Lalita love each other, but Shekhar's father brainwashes him to marry a rich woman. When Girin enters Lalita's life, Shekhar begins to feel insecure about Lalita's relationship with him.
FR #6667 | Movie | Documentary, Drama | USA | English
Director
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Cast
Paul Brennan, Charles Mcdevitt, James Baker
Plot
Four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics.
A street romeo stalks a girl, highly educated and above in social ladder. She falls in love, marries, and changes him, forcing him to study and leave his friends. He feels suffocated. He reaches top, and gets a chance to break free.,
Shirley Maclaine, John Mcmartin, Ricardo Montalban
Plot
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite endless disappointments at its hands, and hopes to finally meet the man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to ...
FR #6924 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Egypt, France | Arabic, English
Director
Chadi Abdel Salam
Writer
Chadi Abdel Salam
Cast
Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi
Plot
An Upper-Egyptian clan robs a cache of mummies and sells the artifacts on the illicit antiquities black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members goes to the police, helping the Antiquities Service find the cache.
In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by sed...
FR #7172 | Movie | Biography, Drama | UK | English, Spanish
Director
Charles Jarrott
Writer
Bridget Boland, John Hale, Richard Sokolove
Cast
Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas
Plot
King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
FR #7414 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Leon Uris, Samuel A. Taylor
Cast
Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon
Plot
French Intelligence Agent Andre Devereaux becomes embroiled in Cold War politics, first by uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then breaking up an international Russian spy ring.
FR #7471 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Russia, Italy | Russian, English
Director
Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyrev, Mikhail Ulyanov
Writer
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Pyrev
Cast
Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva, Kirill Lavrov
Plot
Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.
Vlastimil Brodsk12, Radoslav Brzobohat12, Vladimir Mensik
Plot
Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.
FR #7639 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | France, Italy | English, Danish
Director
Edouard Molinaro
Writer
Jean Bernard-Luc, Jacques Vilfrid, Louis De Funes
Cast
Louis De Funes, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Gensac
Plot
A rich businessman faces a quite weird problem - his wife's grandfather has been revived thanks to science. But he is not aware that many decades have passed.
FR #7894 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French
Director
Robert Bresson
Writer
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Robert Bresson
Cast
Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre
Plot
A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to domi...
FR #8218 | Movie | Comedy, Mystery | India | Hindi
Director
Mohan Segal
Writer
Vrajendra Gaur
Cast
Asha Parekh, Manoj Kumar, Om Prakash
Plot
Ashok comes from a business family and lives a very wealthy lifestyle. One day while perusing newspapers he comes across an article which claims that he is to marry a dancer named Rajni. Angered at this insinuation, he goes to con...
