FR #1085 | Movie | Crime, Action | USA | English, French
Director
William Friedkin
Writer
Ernest Tidyman, Robin Moore, William Friedkin
Cast
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
Plot
A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.
FR #1131 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Russia | Russian
Director
Aleksandr Seryy
Writer
Georgiy Daneliya, Viktoriya Tokareva
Cast
Evgeniy Leonov, Georgiy Vitsin, Saveliy Kramarov
Plot
It so happens that peaceful kindergarten teacher is incredibly similar to the terrible villain who stole the helmet of Alexander the Great. And villain's accomplices are unexpectedly similar to children - they also need love and c...
FR #1587 | Movie | Action, Crime | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood
Writer
Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, Dean Riesner
Cast
Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino
Plot
When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.
FR #1599 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA, UK | English
Director
Peter Bogdanovich
Writer
Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
Cast
Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
Plot
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
FR #1862 | Movie | Drama, Musical | USA | English, Hebrew
Director
Norman Jewison
Writer
Sholom Aleichem, Arnold Perl, Joseph Stein
Cast
Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Plot
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
FR #1905 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Germany | French, English
Director
Louis Malle
Writer
Louis Malle
Cast
Lea Massari, Benoit Ferreux, Daniel Gelin
Plot
As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.
FR #3363 | Movie | Biography, Action | France, Italy | Romanian, Italian
Director
Sergiu Nicolaescu
Writer
Titus Popovici
Cast
Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Olga Tudorache
Plot
At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.
Anandi Devi is an old widow living in her village she is bought to the city by her distant relative Arun. Anandi Devi realizes that Arun and his wife wanted to keep her as a maid following which she leaves the house and befriends ...
A teenage girl will not accept her family's attempt to arrange a marriage for her, as her heart is currently too full of love for the movies and heartthrob actor "Dharmendra."
FR #4131 | Movie | Crime, Action | Hong Kong | Cantonese, Mandarin
Director
Wei Lo, Chia-Hsiang Wu
Writer
Wei Lo
Cast
Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien
Plot
A young Chinese man sworn an oath of non-violence moves to Thailand to work with his cousins in an ice factory, which he discovers to be a front for a sinister heroin-smuggling operation.
FR #4592 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA, Argentina | Cantonese, English
Director
Robert Altman
Writer
Edmund Naughton, Robert Altman, Brian Mckay
Cast
Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois
Plot
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Circa British rule in India, Harnam betrays a freedom fighter, and as a result is rewarded, but the freedom fighter is killed, leaving his wife, and family devastated and destitute. Years later, the freedom fighter's son, Bharat, ...
FR #4931 | TV | Animation, Action | Japan | Japanese, French
Writer
Monkey Punch
Cast
Yasuo Yamada, Michelle Ruff, Richard Epcar
Plot
The adventures of the master thief Lupin III and his cohorts as they dive into various escapades, all the while in pursuit by the tenacious Inspector Zenigata.
Raju becomes very attached to his four elephants after they save his life. His wife, however, fears for her child and tells him that he must choose between the animals and his family.
FR #5109 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | USA, South Korea | English, German
Director
Robert Stevenson, Ward Kimball
Writer
Ralph Wright, Ted Berman, Bill Walsh
Cast
Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy Mcdowall
Plot
An apprentice witch, three kids, and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in World War II.
FR #5111 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA, UK | English, Aboriginal
Director
Nicolas Roeg
Writer
Edward Bond, Donald G. Payne, Nicolas Roeg
Cast
Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg
Plot
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
FR #5360 | Movie | Biography, Drama | UK, USA | Latin, English
Director
Ken Russell
Writer
Ken Russell, John Whiting, Aldous Huxley
Cast
Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton
Plot
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a worl...
FR #5648 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden, Germany | Swedish, German
Director
Olle Hellbom
Writer
Astrid Lindgren
Cast
Jan Ohlsson, Lena Wisborg, Allan Edwall
Plot
An 8 y.o. Swedish boy always gets into trouble despite good intentions and afterwards ends locked up in a shed. He lives on a farm (before electricity and cars) with his mom, dad, sister, maid, best friend the farmhand and an old ...
The pride and honour of two clubs are at stake on a coveted shield final. As the characters associated with them search for glory with football, what ensues can only be described as a laugh riot.
FR #6145 | TV | Adventure, Action | UK, USA | English
Cast
Tony Curtis, Roger Moore, Laurence Naismith
Plot
Two worlds collide when Lord Brett Sinclair, a titled British man, and Danny Wilde, a Bronx-raised, self-made American, reluctantly join forces to right wrongs and protect the innocent.
Dr. Anand Kumar attains his degree in medicine and re-locates to a small village to assist the local doctors there. Upon arrival, he is met by the ailing Dr. Prasad and his wife, and hired on a salary of Rs.250/- per month. He mee...
FR #6395 | TV | Drama | UK, France | English, Italian
Writer
Eileen Atkins
Cast
Gordon Jackson, David Langton, Jean Marsh
Plot
The lives and fortunes of the Bellamy family and their below-stairs servant staff at 165 Eaton Place play out against the social, political and historical backdrop of Edwardian London from 1903 to 1930.
In the background of the rise of the International Hare Krishna movement in the 1970s, is a Montreal-based family of the Jaiswals, consisting of mom, dad, son, Prashant, and daughter, Jasbir. Due to irreconciable differences betwe...
FR #6614 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Mystery | USA, UK | English
Director
Robert Wise
Writer
Michael Crichton, Nelson Gidding
Cast
James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne
Plot
Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
FR #6619 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France, Hong Kong | English, French
Director
Francois Truffaut
Writer
Henri-Pierre Roche, Francois Truffaut, Jean Gruault
Cast
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter
Plot
Young Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.
During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
FR #7108 | Movie | Comedy | USA | English, Yiddish
Director
Woody Allen
Writer
Woody Allen, Mickey Rose
Cast
Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban
Plot
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
A truck-driver accused of killing a man is sentenced to providing for the family of his victim. His interactions with the victim's village, as well as that person's widow and orphan, is the story.
FR #7367 | Movie | Horror, Mystery | Italy | Italian
Director
Mario Bava
Writer
Mario Bava, Giuseppe Zaccariello, Filippo Ottoni
Cast
Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso
Plot
The murder of a wealthy countess triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area as several unscrupulous characters try to seize her large estate.
In the 25th century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society.
FR #7616 | Movie | Biography, Crime | France, Italy | Italian, English
Director
Giuliano Montaldo
Writer
Fabrizio Onofri, Giuliano Montaldo, Mino Roli
Cast
Gian Maria Volonte, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack
Plot
In 1920s Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are scrutinized for their anarchist beliefs while on trial for robbery and murder.
FR #8178 | Movie | Biography, Drama | India | Hindi
Director
Mani Kaul
Cast
Rekha Sabnis, Arun Khopkar, Om Shivpuri
Plot
Aashad Ka Ek Din is an adaptation of the play that is based on Kalidasa's life in three acts. Kalidasa is renowned as one of the greatest writers, poets and dramatists in the history of Sanskrit language.
While drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevrolet 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an enigmatic hitchhiker and the tall-tale-spinning driver of a GTO.
Meeta Sen (Tanuja) and Amar Sen (Sanjeev Kumar) have been married for several years. Due to Amar's hectic work schedule, the couple have not had children, as there was no time for intimacy. Meeta decides to take matters into her o...
FR #8854 | Movie | Horror, Mystery | France, Germany | Italian, French
Director
Dario Argento
Writer
Dario Argento, Luigi Cozzi, Dardano Sacchetti
Cast
James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
Plot
A reporter and a blind puzzle writer investigate a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company conducting secret genetic experiments, finding themselves targeted by the killer.
The story revolves around the dangers of superstition, particularly when it concerns marriage and how unscrupulous elements in society could manipulate these beliefs to their benefit and lead to tragic consequences.
FR #8982 | TV | Adventure, Drama | France, Germany | German, Romanian
Cast
Edward Meeks, Raimund Harmstorf, Emmerich Schaffer
Plot
The writer Humphrey van Weyden gets overboard in 1906 in a shipwreck in the fog in the Bay of San Francisco and is rescued by a seal catcher, the schooner Ghost under the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.
FR #9107 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Don Taylor
Writer
Paul Dehn, Pierre Boulle
Cast
Roddy Mcdowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman
Plot
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society, but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.
When Ajit, a former prisoner, learns of Jabbar who is terrorising the people of his village, he decides to stand up against him. However, things take a turn when Jabbar abducts Ajit's lover.
FR #9353 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | USA, Italy | English, French
Director
Don Siegel
Writer
Albert Maltz, Irene Kamp, Thomas Cullinan
Cast
Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
Plot
While recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
FR #9602 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Australia, UK | English
Director
Ted Kotcheff
Writer
Evan Jones, Kenneth Cook, Ted Kotcheff
Cast
Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
Plot
After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
FR #10113 | Movie | Biography, Crime | UK, Russia | English, Russian
Director
Richard Fleischer
Writer
Clive Exton, Ludovic Kennedy
Cast
Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt
Plot
What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Shortly after moving to Vienna, Austria with her diplomat husband, a woman is stalked and terrorized by a mysterious razor-wielding maniac, with people around her getting killed one by one.
FR #10375 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | Japan, USA | Japanese, English
Director
Yoshimitsu Banno, Ishiro Honda
Writer
Yoshimitsu Banno, Takeshi Kimura
Cast
Akira Yamanouchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase
Plot
A toxic, ever-evolving alien life-form from the Dark Gaseous Nebula arrives to consume rampant pollution, and neither Humanity nor Godzilla may be able to stop it.
An emotionally persuasive drama describing the friendship of four World War II veterans, their sudden reunion after 25 years and the subsequent effect of this occasion upon their thoughts and evaluations of the past and present.
FR #10428 | Movie | Comedy, Action | India | Hindi
Director
Nasir Hussain
Writer
Sachin Bhowmick, Nasir Hussain
Cast
Asha Parekh, Jeetendra, Aruna Irani
Plot
Sunita is a young woman who ends up married to the wrong man, Rajan. Thinking that he has conspired with his girlfriend, Monica to murder her, she runs away to find an old friend of her father's in Bangalore who may be able to hel...
The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and Paris. The Russian Civil War and emigrati...
FR #10676 | Movie | Drama, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Ramesh Sippy
Writer
Javed Akhtar, Sachin Bhowmick, Gulzar
Cast
Shammi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini
Plot
Rajoo (Rajesh Khanna) and Sheetal (Hema Malini) are in love, and expecting some opposition from Rajoo's dad (Ajit), they marry in a simple temple ceremony. But Rajoo's dad vehemently opposes this marriage, and refuses to accept Sh...
FR #11175 | Movie | Romance, Thriller | India | Hindi
Director
Jyoti Swaroop
Writer
Agha Jani Kashmiri, Madhusudan
Cast
Navin Nischol, Amitabh Bachchan, Yogeeta Bali
Plot
Kumar Sen is an artist of eminence, a talented painter, and a renowned sculptor; and like the majority of his clan, he has a sensitive introvert. But no artist can achieve any degree of brilliance in his work. Miss Asha Varma is t...
John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, Richard Matheson
Cast
Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
Plot
Dr Robert Neville has developed an experimental vaccine which makes him the only immune survivor of a biological catastrophe. A gang of homicidal mutants blame science for their condition and attempt to kill him.
FR #11600 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Romania | Romanian
Director
Mircea Dragan
Writer
Mircea Dragan, Nicolae Tic
Cast
Toma Caragiu, Dem Radulescu, Ion Fintesteanu
Plot
Three paroled inept Romanian convicts dream up get-rich-quick schemes on the Black Sea Riviera where a petty-crime police squad led by Captain Panait is vacationing.
Kaveri and Sathish fall in love and get married and have a perfect life. However, Sathish's behavior towards Kaveri changes when he finds out she was molested as a kid.
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FR #11869 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Romania | Romanian
Director
Mircea Dragan
Writer
Mircea Dragan, Nicolae Tic
Cast
Toma Caragiu, Dem Radulescu, Sebastian Papaiani
Plot
In 1971 three inept petty Romanian criminals are released from prison but find themselves at the core of two money laundering and burglary cases.
