FR #409 | Movie | Drama | Sweden | Swedish, German
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Harriet Andersson, LIV Ullmann, Kari Sylwan
Plot
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
FR #463 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, Spanish
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur
Plot
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
A dysfunctional middle-class family is transformed due to the influence of their new multi-talented household servant - but he might be too good to be true.
A village woman abandoned by her husband is forced into prostitution in Kolkata and forms nameless yet strong relations with a wealthy patron as well as an abused boy in the neighbourhood.
FR #1107 | Movie | Documentary, Musical | Belgium, Germany | English
Director
Adrian Maben
Cast
David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
Plot
British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.
This is the tale of an angry young man with flavours of Teacher-student relationship, the stubbornness of Ramachari(protagonist) and his attempts at having a romantic relationship.
Rajeeva comes to the village to visit his sister only to find that she's in financial trouble and has lost her husband. He decides to stay and help her out.
FR #1583 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
John Boorman
Writer
James Dickey, John Boorman
Cast
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty
Plot
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
FR #2377 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Wei Lo
Writer
Wei Lo
Cast
Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, James Tien
Plot
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his master's fighting school.
FR #2378 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Hong Kong | English, Mandarin
Director
Bruce Lee
Writer
Bruce Lee
Cast
Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao
Plot
A country bumpkin martial artist visits his relatives in Rome, Italy, where he must defend them and their restaurant against harassment from brutal gangsters.
In desperate need of a job, unemployed Ravi (Jeetendra) goes to his maternal uncle (A.K. Hangal) and aunt (Leela Mishra) in their village for a few days. His uncle decides that he can be a suitable teacher for five obstinate and s...
FR #3133 | Movie | History, Drama | Russia | Russian, German
Director
Stanislav Rostotskiy
Writer
Stanislav Rostotskiy, Boris Vasilev
Cast
Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova, Elena Drapeko
Plot
During World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.
FR #3345 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Crow
Director
Sydney Pollack
Writer
Vardis Fisher, Raymond W. Thorp, Robert Bunker
Cast
Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton
Plot
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
FR #3378 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | French, Portuguese
Director
Costa-Gavras
Writer
Franco Solinas, Costa-Gavras
Cast
Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse
Plot
Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
FR #3623 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | English, Italian
Director
Federico Fellini
Writer
Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi
Cast
Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence
Plot
A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.
FR #3712 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali, English
Director
Mrinal Sen
Writer
Manik Bandopadhaya, Samaresh Basu, Probodh Sanyal
Cast
Madhavi Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Binota Roy, Utpal Dutt
Plot
An angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.
Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Manorama, Pratima Devi, Satyendra Kapoor, Kamal Kapoor
Plot
Long-suffering heiress Seeta is treated worse than a servant by her abusive money-grubbing aunt. Meanwhile, her long-lost twin sister Geeta grows up to be a gutsy street performer. One day, the girls unintentionally swap places.
FR #4645 | Movie | Drama | Germany | German, Arabic
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Hans Hirschmuller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla
Plot
Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.
College student Mala has dreams of becoming a Bollywood movie actress; her dreams began materializing into reality when she is approached by Mr. Sharma and his assistant Mr. Verma who promises to take her to the way of stardom. Un...
Shankar (Manoj Kumar), his lovely wife Geeta (Nanda) and Deepak (Master Satyajeet) are a poor but happy family. Tragedy strikes one day, when Deepak wonders over to the railway tracks. When Geeta rushes in to warn and rescue him, ...
FR #4861 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, Italian
Director
Herbert Ross
Writer
Woody Allen
Cast
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Plot
A film critic obsessed with Casablanca (1942) seeks to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
FR #4905 | TV | Adventure, Action | USA, UK | English
Writer
Robert A. Cinader, Harold Jack Bloom
Cast
Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Julie London
Plot
The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.
David Carradine, Radames Pera, Keye Luke, James Hong, James Hong, James Hong
Plot
The adventures of Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine as he wanders through the American West, armed only with his spiritual training and his skill in Kung Fu.
FR #6421 | TV | Animation, Action | Japan | English, Italian
Cast
Joji Yanami, Hiroya Ishimaru, Isamu Tanonaka
Plot
Teenager Koji Kabuto pilots the amazing super-robot Mazinger Z to avenge its inventor (his grandfather) against the Mycene Empire, led by the evil mad scientist Doctor Hell.
Meena Kumari, Mumtaz Askari, Rajesh Khanna, Abhi Bhattacharya, Asit Kumar Sen, Kanhaiyalal Chaturvedi, Nana Palsikar, Leela Mishra, Sajjan
Plot
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 #6619 | Movie | Crime, Action | Italy | Italian, English
Director
Fernando DI Leo
Writer
Giorgio Scerbanenco, Fernando DI Leo
Cast
Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf
Plot
A former gangster is forced to resume his old lifestyle when his violent, jealous ex-colleagues and the police believe that he knows the location of a stolen cache of $300,000.
FR #7121 | Movie | Horror, Mystery | Italy, Russia | Italian, English
Director
Lucio Fulci
Writer
Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, Gianfranco Clerici
Cast
Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian
Plot
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
FR #7869 | Movie | Comedy, Mystery | France | English, French
Director
Yves Robert
Writer
Yves Robert, Francis Veber
Cast
Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort
Plot
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
The adventures of Paja and Jare, the two honest and good-natured truck drivers and partners in business. They meet various people while on the road, which mostly turns out bad for them, but at the end it's their friendship that sa...
After witnessing his wife's rape and murder during Ottoman rule, a traumatized Bulgarian knight, Kara Ivan, retreats to the mountains where he raises his young daughter alone among the goats.
FR #8371 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Shun'Ya Ito
Writer
Fumio Konami, Hiro Matsuda, Tooru Shinohara
Cast
Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Yayoi Watanabe
Plot
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
FR #8860 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Mark Rydell
Writer
William Dale Jennings, Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
Cast
John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern
Plot
Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his cattle herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of rustlers is trailing them.
FR #9123 | Movie | Adventure, Horror | Spain, UK | English, Spanish
Director
Eugenio Martin
Writer
Arnaud D'Usseau, Julian Zimet
Cast
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto De Mendoza
Plot
While on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.
FR #9152 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Russia | Russian
Director
Eldar Ryazanov
Writer
Emil Braginskiy, Eldar Ryazanov, Yuriy Yakovlev
Cast
Yuriy Nikulin, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Olga Aroseva
Plot
An old detective thinks that he is too young for retiring. With the help of his friends, he plans to commit 'the crime of the century' and then quickly solve it. But being a criminal is much more harder than being a policeman.
Numerous plot lines intersect in this comedic romp about a female Victoria-carriage driver who disguises herself as a boy, and the hunt for the stash of diamonds hidden in her Victoria.
Lakshmi, Aachi Manorama, Venniradai Moorthy, R. Muthuraman, Thengai Srinivasan
Plot
Parvathi dominates her husband Sivaswamy, while having control on all his money. However, when Sivaswamy's son Ramu needs some money for his sister's husband, Parvathi refuses bluntly.
FR #9619 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Italy, Colombia | Italian
Director
Giuseppe Colizzi
Writer
Giuseppe Colizzi, Barbara Alberti, Amedeo Pagani
Cast
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Plot
A pair of conniving bush pilots crash-land in the Peruvian jungle, where they come across a community of diamond miners under the thumb of a greedy speculator.
FR #9876 | Movie | Horror, Mystery | Italy, Germany | Italian
Director
Massimo Dallamano
Writer
Bruno DI Geronimo, Massimo Dallamano, Peter M. Thouet
Cast
Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Cristina Galbo
Plot
A teacher who is having an affair with one of his students is reluctant to present an alibi when his lover witnesses the first in a series of murders connected to their school.
FR #10375 | Movie | Action, Drama | Hong Kong, Japan | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Chang-Hwa Jeong
Writer
Yang Chiang
Cast
Lo Lieh, Ping Wang, Hsiung Chao
Plot
As two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament, one school's master is a dishonorable man, and to ensure his son wins the title, he hires three Japanese samurais, who target the rival school's best fighter.
Malti Shankar lives in a fairly large house in a small town in India with her mom and dad, while her paternal uncle, Gauri Shankar, who has literally brought Malti up, lives in the house next door. Malti's marriage is being arrang...
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
FR #10877 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Italy, Russia | Italian, English
Director
Sergio Martino
Writer
Luciano Martino, Sauro Scavolini, Edgar Allan Poe
Cast
Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, Luigi Pistilli
Plot
A string of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author, whose abusive relationship with his wife is further complicated by the arrival of his manipulative niece.
In a future where all flora are extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant samples, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Klara and Viktoria are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klara. When Klara becomes involved with a man that her sister loves, Viktoria begins to plot her murder.
Saxana, a witch-in-training, accidentally stumbles upon a spell that transports her to the human world. She meets Peter who introduces her to the human world, leading to a series of adventures as she experiences life outside magic...
FR #11866 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA | English
Director
J. Lee Thompson
Writer
Paul Dehn, Pierre Boulle
Cast
Roddy Mcdowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban
Plot
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.
Lakhan Singh gives his life of a Dacoit and lives a happy life with his wife Champa when his son Jaswant becomes three years old, Champa becomes ill with cancer and circumstances force him to be again a Dacoit.
FR #12861 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Russia, India | Ukrainian, Telugu
Director
Boris Ivchenko
Writer
Nikolay Gogol, Ivan Drach, Oleksa Storozhenko
Cast
Ivan Mikolaychuk, Lidiya Belozyorova, Fyodor Strigun
Plot
A Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol.
