FR #18 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Irvin Kershner
Writer
Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas
Cast
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Plot
After the Empire overpowers the Rebel Alliance, Luke Skywalker begins training with Jedi Master Yoda, while Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett pursue his friends across the galaxy.
FR #133 | Movie | Horror, Drama | UK, USA | English
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson
Cast
Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Plot
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
FR #579 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA, UK | English, French
Director
David Lynch
Writer
Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
Cast
Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Plot
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
The story of a rare and exceptional bond between the master of classical music Sankara Sastry and his admirer Tulasi, a woman from a family of prostitutes.
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
Doctor Watson moves in with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes and they get a case to solve. A young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather after her sister dies under mysterious circumstances.
FR #1098 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
John Landis
Writer
Dan Aykroyd, John Landis
Cast
John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway
Plot
Jake Blues rejoins his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.
FR #1479 | TV | Crime, Drama | Germany, Italy | German
Cast
Gunter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla
Plot
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
FR #1623 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Vladimir Menshov
Writer
Valentin Chernykh, Vladimir Menshov
Cast
Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov, Irina Muravyova
Plot
Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.
Zübük gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yasar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yasar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük pla...
Poetical forces play in the life of an unemployed yet well educated young man.He finds the depth and the beauty of his principles yet fate leaves him in destitution
Anirudh Parmar is blind, but he does not let this impairment bind him down. He runs a school for the blind as a Principal. He meets with social worker, Kavita. Kavita is attracted to him, and he slowly also gets attracted to her. ...
Ravi is killed by his wife after his marriage. He is reborn as Monty and is now a singer he goes to holiday in Ooty where he recollects his memories from previous life and inquires about his family from first life and his evil wif...
FR #1986 | TV | Mystery, Crime | Russia, USA | Russian, English
Cast
Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
Plot
Picking up from Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980) adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue as they oppose a fierce crime syndicate in one of their greatest challenges.
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
FR #2182 | Movie | Adventure, Action | India | Hindi
Director
Ramesh Sippy
Writer
Javed Akhtar, Salim Khan
Cast
Sunil Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor
Plot
Two brothers go after the international mafia kingpin who murdered their cop brother. They are later joined by another man who wants revenge against the gangster.
FR #2343 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Canada, France | English, French
Director
Louis Malle
Writer
John Guare
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid
Plot
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
FR #2361 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA, Libya | English, Arabic
Director
Moustapha Akkad
Writer
H.A.L. Craig, David Butler, Paul Thompson
Cast
Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger
Plot
In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
The Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some long-needed reforms, or so he thinks.
FR #2861 | Movie | SuperHeroes, Sci-Fi | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Richard Lester, Richard Donner
Writer
Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Mario Puzo
Cast
Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder
Plot
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
FR #3126 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Turkey | French, Turkish
Director
Alain Resnais
Writer
Jean Gruault, Henri Laborit
Cast
Gerard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre
Plot
The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.
FR #3152 | TV | Animation, Short | Switzerland, UK | English, Finnish
Writer
Erika Brueggemann, Otmar Gutmann
Cast
Carlo Bonomi, David Sant, Marcello Magni
Plot
Children's stop-motion series set in Antarctica and focusing around penguin families living and working in igloos. The main character, Pingu, belongs to one such family. He goes on various adventures with his little sister and his...
Advocate Nivaran Chatterjee lives a wealthy lifestyle in a small town along with his wife, and three sons. His first son is married, while his second son, Kedarnath, who suffered a head injury, is a little senile, and his third so...
FR #3351 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | South Africa, Botswana | English, Afrikaans
Director
Jamie Uys
Writer
Jamie Uys
Cast
N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo
Plot
A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.
FR #3396 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia, Belgium | Russian, French
Director
Eldar Ryazanov
Writer
Emil Braginskiy, Eldar Ryazanov
Cast
Alla Budnitskaya, Eldar Ryazanov, Lyudmila Tsvetkova
Plot
Meeting of the garage cooperative must exclude four own members because of a new highway's building. After the meeting it becomes clear that the exit door is closed by one of the members, who requires an equitable solution.
FR #3881 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Japan, USA | English, Japanese
Director
Robert Houston, Kenji Misumi
Writer
Robert Houston, Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima
Cast
Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru "Ki
Plot
When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.
Sallskapsresanaka Sallskapsresan eller Finns det svenskt kaffe pa grisfesten(1980)
FR #4137 | Movie | Comedy | Sweden | Norwegian, Spanish
Director
Lasse Aberg
Writer
Lasse Aberg, Bo Jonsson
Cast
Lasse Aberg, Lottie Ejebrant, Jon Skolmen
Plot
Despite a harrowing fear of flying Stig-Helmer decides to go to the Canary Islands. On the plane, he meets the boasting Norwegian Ole and a load of Swedes on their way to holiday where they will meet a lot of difficulties and situ...
FR #4144 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia, Germany | Russian, English
Director
Vladimir Popov
Writer
Eduard Uspenskiy
Cast
Oleg Tabakov, Valentina Talyzina, Mariya Vinogradova
Plot
When his mom plans a vacation to a resort, little Fyodor runs away to family's cottage house instead, to visit his friends Matroskin the Cat and Sharik the Dog.
FR #4147 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Turkey, France | Turkish, French
Director
Ertem Egilmez
Writer
Sadik Sendil, Yavuz Turgul
Cast
Ilyas Salman, Meral Zeren, Sener Sen
Plot
Bilo is a goodhearted man who wants to marry the cutest girl in the village but needs money to take the consent from her father. His best friend Mahmut offers him a way to go to Germany and work in a factory to save up the money h...
FR #4219 | TV | Comedy, Fantasy | Czech, Germany | Czech
Cast
Vladimir Mensik, Stella Zazvorkova, Jana Nagyova
Plot
Princess Arabela, the daughter of the King of the fairy tale world escapes before the revenge of a cunning and deceitful magician Rumburak and leaves the world of fairy tales. She meets Petr Majer in the human world and falls in l...
FR #5355 | Movie | Horror, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Sean S. Cunningham
Writer
Victor Miller, Ron Kurz
Cast
Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor
Plot
A group of teenage camp counselors attempt to re-open an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past, but they are stalked by a mysterious, relentless killer.
FR #5863 | Movie | Horror, Thriller | USA | English
Director
John Carpenter
Writer
John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Cast
Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh
Plot
Local legend tells of a ship lured on to the rocks of Antonio Bay being enveloped by a supernatural cloud as it sank; the myth says that when this mysterious fog returns, the victims will rise up from the depths seeking vengeance.
Two best friends, Vijay and Ravi, fall in love with the same girl, Sheetal. Misunderstandings due to their respective careers and people with vested interests cause them to become rivals.
An anthropologist ventures into the Amazon rainforest on a rescue mission, where he recovers footage shot by a film crew documenting their disastrous encounters with local cannibal tribes.
FR #6684 | Movie | Crime, Thriller | India | Tamil
Director
Balu Mahendra
Writer
Balu Mahendra
Cast
Shoba, Prathap Pothen, Calcutta Viswanathan
Plot
A successful businessman develops a hatred towards women as a result of his troubled childhood, which involved the separation of his parents owing to his father's affection towards a prostitute.
FR #6906 | Movie | Drama | Austria, Germany | German
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath
Plot
An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
FR #7148 | TV | Animation, Adventure | Austria, Japan | Japanese
Cast
Mami Koyama, Tadashi Yamazaki, Shigeru Chiba
Plot
This is an animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.
FR #7154 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia, France | Russian, French
Director
Nikita Mikhalkov
Writer
Aleksandr Adabashyan, Ivan Goncharov, Nikita Mikhalkov
Cast
Oleg Tabakov, Yuriy Bogatyryov, Elena Solovey
Plot
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga.
This is a story of two lawyer brothers, their half brother, their wives and children. Siddheshwari, wife of the eldest brother has left the operational details of the household to Sheela, wife of the half brother Chander. Chander ...
Employees Violet, Judy, and Dora Lee of sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot Franklin Hart Junior find a way to turn the tables on him. Dolly Parton's film debut was later a short-lived TV sitcom and a Broadway musical.
FR #7355 | Movie | History, Drama | Australia, USA | English, Afrikaans
Director
Bruce Beresford
Writer
Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford
Cast
Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters
Plot
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
FR #7598 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | Italy | Italian, Latin
Director
Dario Argento
Writer
Dario Argento, Dardano Sacchetti, Thomas De Quincey
Cast
Leigh Mccloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi
Plot
An American student investigates the disappearance of his sister and the death of a friend, both connected from New York to Rome by an old alchemy book.
FR #7897 | TV | Comedy | Yugoslavia, Japan | German, Serbo-Croatian
Cast
Ljubisa Samardzic, Miodrag Petrovic-Ckalja, Bora Todorovic
Plot
Surda, a man in his 30s who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, no job is good for him, so he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same thing, so he heads back to his native Yugoslavia.
FR #8617 | Movie | Horror | Italy | English, Italian
Director
Lucio Fulci
Writer
Lucio Fulci, Dardano Sacchetti, H.P. Lovecraft
Cast
Christopher George, Catriona Maccoll, Carlo De Mejo
Plot
A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
FR #8861 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA, Fiji | English
Director
Randal Kleiser
Writer
Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Douglas Day Stewart
Cast
Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo Mckern
Plot
During the Victorian period, two preteen cousins are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and enjoy a simple life together until puberty complicates matters.
Jagatpal raises his nephews, Ram and Balram, after killing their parents. He hatches an evil plan to push Ram into the world of smuggling and earn money, but the brothers unite to take him down.
FR #9108 | Movie | Musical, Drama | USA | Russian, Spanish
Director
Alan Parker
Writer
Christopher Gore
Cast
Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri
Plot
Four teenagers must prove their mettle as they begin their journey at the New York High School of Performing Arts. They must navigate through heartbreak, school work, adolescence and challenges.
FR #9115 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Sidney Poitier
Writer
Bruce Jay Friedman, Charles Blackwell
Cast
Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown
Plot
Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends are sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. However, no prison cell can keep them locked in a cage.
Kaaliyan and Jaishankar are like dictators in neighboring villages separately, but in contrast to Kaaliyan, Jaishankar is selfish and bad. Engagement of Jaishankar's sister with Kaaliyan triggers rivalry between the two villages.
FR #10623 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Spain, Italy | English, Italian
Director
Sergio Corbucci
Writer
Sergio Corbucci, Sabatino Ciuffini
Cast
Terence Hill, Ernest Borgnine, Joanne Dru
Plot
Red powder from a nuclear explosion gives a police officer super powers as long as he doesn't see anything red. He is eventually framed for murder and is unsuccessfully executed by many different methods.
FR #11376 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Hong Kong | Cantonese, Mandarin
Director
Chia-Liang Liu
Writer
Kuang Ni
Cast
Chia-Hui Liu, Lung-Wei Wang, Hou Hsiao
Plot
After failing to help his friends at the local dyeing mill who're getting bullied by Manchurians, a lowly street hustler sneaks into the Shaolin Temple, and is willing to do anything to learn kung fu and help his friends.
FR #11397 | TV | Adventure, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Cast
Ikuo Nishikawa, Ichiro Nagai, Yoshiko Matsuo
Plot
Tom Sawyer is a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the mid 1800s. Along with his best friend Huckleberry Finn, he spends his days ditching school, fishing, climbing trees and having adventures.
