FR #464 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French
Director
Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer
Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand
Plot
After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
Raj Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Simi Garewal, Rishi Kapoor, Achala Sachdev, Dharmendra, Dara Singh Randhawa, Rajendra Kumar Tuli
Plot
Raju is a joker, a clown. It is what he is and what he always shall be. As his life story unfolds in three chapters, from his school days to the circus to the streets, he must always make people laugh and be happy, no matter how u...
FR #913 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, Japan | Italian, Japanese
Director
Elio Petri
Writer
Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
Cast
Gian Maria Volonte, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio
Plot
A high-ranking police inspector murders his mistress and - in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion - deliberately plants clues that indicate his responsibility for the crime.
A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.
A young college graduate is struggling to find a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.
FR #1411 | Movie | Comedy, Western | Italy, India | Italian, Hindi
Director
Enzo Barboni
Writer
Enzo Barboni, Gene Luotto
Cast
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias
Plot
A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen.
FR #1647 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French
Director
Eric Rohmer
Writer
Eric Rohmer
Cast
Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Beatrice Romand
Plot
On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.
In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.
FR #2617 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | USA, Canada | English
Director
Wolfgang Reitherman
Writer
Larry Clemmons, Vance Gerry, Ken Anderson
Cast
Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway
Plot
With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.
FR #2631 | Movie | Drama | Spain, Italy | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Julio Alejandro, Luis Bunuel, Benito Perez Galdos
Cast
Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
Plot
Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.
Joe, a teenage orphan living in the slums of the Doya streets, meets Danpei, a homeless alcoholic and former boxing trainer. Danpei, seeing Joe's talent for boxing, decides to train him.
FR #3123 | Movie | Documentary, History | USA, Turkey | English, Turkish
Director
Michael Wadleigh
Cast
Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey
Plot
Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.
FR #3131 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France, Italy | French
Director
Claude Chabrol
Writer
Claude Chabrol
Cast
Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia
Plot
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
FR #3213 | Movie | Drama | Bangladesh, Japan | Bengali, Japanese
Director
Zahir Raihan
Writer
Zahir Raihan, Amjad Hossain
Cast
Razzak, Suchanda, Shaukat Akbar
Plot
A political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
FR #3376 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Italy, Germany | Italian, English
Director
Dario Argento
Writer
Dario Argento, Fredric Brown
Cast
Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mario Adorf
Plot
An American writer vacationing in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder, and who is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
FR #3379 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, Japanese
Director
Francois Truffaut
Writer
Francois Truffaut, Claude De Givray, Bernard Revon
Cast
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claude Jade, Hiroko Berghauer
Plot
Antoine Doinel works dying flowers in the courtyard outside his apartment. He is married to Christine, who is pregnant. He has an affair with a Japanese woman, jeopardising his marriage.
Monu (Mohan) and Sonu (Sohan) are the two sons of a police inspector. The kids excel in boxing. Their father gets killed by a goon following orders from Ranjit (Premnath). Mohan kills the goon and takes refuge in a car boot. Years...
FR #4138 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Sweden, Turkey | Swedish, Spanish
Director
Roy Andersson
Writer
Roy Andersson
Cast
Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom
Plot
Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.
FR #4143 | Movie | Drama | Turkey, France | Turkish, French
Director
Yilmaz Guney
Writer
Yilmaz Guney
Cast
Yilmaz Guney, Gulsen Alniacik, Tuncel Kurtiz
Plot
When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will prevail, the man begins a slow slide into despair. On the advice of a local holy man, and fuelled by an indefatigable op...
FR #4904 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Czech | Czech, Russian
Director
Karel Kachyna
Writer
Karel Kachyna, Jan Prochazka, Ladislav Winkelhofer
Cast
Jirina Bohdalova, Radoslav Brzobohat12, Gustav Opocensk12
Plot
After coming home from a Party gathering one night, a Czech official becomes convinced that he is about to be the subject of a political purge and tries to do damage control, while also dealing with his turbulent marriage.
FR #5899 | Movie | History, Drama | Czech, France | Czech, French
Director
Otakar Vavra
Writer
Vaclav Kaplick12, Otakar Vavra, Ester Krumbachova
Cast
Vladimir Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr
Plot
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
A woman waits for her truck driver husband, everyday, with his daily bread. Her concern for their dying relationship and her sister grows fast as she starts to doubt his loyalty.
FR #6347 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Poland, USA | English, Polish
Director
Tadeusz Chmielewski
Writer
Tadeusz Chmielewski
Cast
Marian Kociniak, Janina Boronska, Adam Cyprian
Plot
The adventures of unlucky Polish soldier Franek Dolas during world war II. In September he escapes from Stalag and goes to France. After that he fights in Africa and Europe.
FR #6400 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Sweden, Germany | Swedish
Director
Olle Hellbom
Writer
Fred Ladd, Astrid Lindgren
Cast
Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Par Sundberg
Plot
With the help of her friends Tommy and Annika, Pippi Longstocking ventures to the South Pacific island Porto Piluse to rescue her father, who was captured by ruthless pirates.
At the request of a wealthy man, a courtesan agrees to help heal his mentally disturbed son by pretending to be his wife. Her efforts only earn her abuse and wrath at the hands of most family members.
FR #7404 | Movie | Drama | Germany | German, English
Director
Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Amadeus Fengler
Plot
With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husba...
Dr Neela is asked to assist in a a surgery by her senior Dr Chandra but the patient passes away and Dr Chandra tells her that patient had zero chances of survival and he asked her to perform surgery so that she comes out of her pa...
FR #7603 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Mike Nichols
Writer
Joseph Heller, Buck Henry
Cast
Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Martin Sheen
Plot
A military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane during World War II so that he can be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
A hilarious romantic-comedy where two people have their luggage exchanged during a train journey. One of them (Soumitra) is a psychiatrist, and he develops a keen interest in knowing the other party (Aparna Sen). His experience as...
FR #8863 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Yugoslavia | Croatian, English
Director
Kresimir Golik
Writer
Vjekoslav Majer, Kresimir Golik, Ivo Skrabalo
Cast
Franjo Majetic, Mirjana Bohanec, Relja Basic
Plot
6-year-old Perica watches his mother flirt with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy, during a picnic. His father initially focuses on matchmaking for the aunt, but later notices Fulir's advances at their home.
FR #9121 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Italy, Spain | English, French
Director
Sergio Corbucci
Writer
Dino Maiuri, Massimo De Rita, Gunter Ebert
Cast
Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Fernando Rey
Plot
A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way.
FR #9350 | Movie | Documentary, Musical | USA | English
Director
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Cast
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor
Plot
When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on t...
A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim...
A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.
FR #9873 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Italy, France | French, Italian
Director
Jean Girault
Writer
Richard Balducci, Jacques Vilfrid, Jean Girault
Cast
Louis De Funes, Jean Lefebvre, Guy Grosso
Plot
The entire squad of gendarmes from Saint-Tropez has been retired. But there is no such power that could stop them from protecting the law and public order.
In 1980, the Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization covertly defends Earth against threats from a dying extraterrestrial race that needs to harvest human organs to survive.
Tells the story of newly weds Hamid and Salma. They move into a rental flat next door to the local red light district. The flat had been the former home of a well known mujra and qawali singer, Shamshad. Men still come to the door...
FR #10107 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Ted Post
Writer
Paul Dehn, Mort Abrahams, Pierre Boulle
Cast
James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Charlton Heston
Plot
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.
Ramdev Bakshi is the only son of widower and former Indian Army General Durgaprasad, who has been decorated several times with various medals for bravery shown in the line of duty. Alas this did leave him crippled, after he lost a...
Otto Simanek, Frantisek Filipovsk12, Jirina Bohdalova
Plot
The children's series reintroduces on the screen Mister Tau the charmer, along with his double, Uncle Alfons. It is impossible to tell them apart, and the cases of their mistaken identity in many comical situations guarantee to en...
FR #10674 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | India | Hindi
Director
C.V. Sridhar
Writer
N.S. Bedi, Chitralaya Gopu, Rajendra Krishan
Cast
Kishore Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Mehmood, Om Prakash, Mumtaz Askari, Shivraj
Plot
A widower struggles to arrange wealthy husbands for his two daughters and control his film-obsessed son; all while, one of his ex-employees stages a protest outside his house.
FR #10866 | Movie | Documentary, Musical | UK | English
Director
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Cast
John Lennon, Paul Mccartney, George Harrison
Plot
The filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back-to-basics album, which instead drove them further apart.
FR #10904 | Movie | Action, Drama | Germany, Turkey | German, Turkish
Director
Tom Toelle
Writer
Wolfgang Menge, Robert Sheckley
Cast
Jorg Pleva, Suzanne Roquette, Dieter Thomas Heck
Plot
A candidate in a game show is hunted by three men. He will get a Million DMark, if he survives for a week; the hunters will get the money, if they can kill the candidate. The audience of the show is watching the transmissions of t...
FR #11148 | Movie | History, Drama | Germany, India | German, Hindi
Director
Michael Armstrong, Adrian Hoven
Writer
Michael Armstrong, Adrian Hoven
Cast
Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Katarina
Plot
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big scre...
FR #12428 | Movie | Comedy, Action | India | Hindi
Director
A. Bhimsingh
Writer
Rajendra Krishan, Sailajanand Mukherji
Cast
Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Pran Sikand, Johnny Walker, Mukri, Ramayan Tiwari, Om Prakash, Nirupa Roy
Plot
Unorthodox, honest, simple-minded, and unemployed Gopi is blamed for a theft he did not commit, and gets thrown out of his home by his elder step-brother.
Honest Shankarnath, even though employed in a supervisory capacity, nets only Rs.630/-, and is unable to accede to any of the demands placed by his three school-going children, Ravi, Roopa, and Raja. When the trio declare a hunger...
Naranappa, a man born in the community of Madhwa (a community of Brahmins from Karnataka) is dead in the Agrahara of the village Durvasapura. As per the Madhwa customs, the last rites of the dead man has to be performed at the ear...
FR #12857 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Thriller | USA | English, Russian
Director
Joseph Sargent
Writer
James Bridges, D.F. Jones
Cast
Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent
Plot
Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.
Widowed and ailing Savitri Choudhury lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her son, Anil, in a palatial mansion in India. She knows that Anil is only waiting for her to die so that he can inherit the wealth and refuses to give him ...
FR #13366 | Movie | Mystery, Crime | UK, USA | English, Russian
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Arthur Conan Doyle, Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
Cast
Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely
Plot
When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
FR #13599 | Movie | Drama | UK, Argentina | French, Russian
Director
Lionel Jeffries
Writer
E. Nesbit, Lionel Jeffries
Cast
Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn
Plot
After the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.
