Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Bhakti Barve, Satish Shah, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Satish Kaushik, Neena Gupta
Plot
Two photographers, who are employed by a magazine editor to expose the scandalous activities of the rich, come across corruption by a builder and accidentally photograph a murder.
FR #321 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA | English, Kikuyu
Director
Richard Marquand
Writer
Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas
Cast
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, James Earl Jones
Plot
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempts to destroy the second Death Star while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
FR #568 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Brian De Palma
Writer
Oliver Stone, Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht
Cast
Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia
Plot
In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.
FR #732 | TV | Drama | Germany, Sweden | German, Swedish
Cast
Ewa Froling, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin
Plot
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
FR #1348 | Movie | Biography, Adventure | USA | English, Russian
Director
Philip Kaufman
Writer
Philip Kaufman, Tom Wolfe
Cast
Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Barbara Hershey
Plot
The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers pr...
Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Denholm Elliott
Plot
A snobbish Wall Street commodities broker and a wily street hustler find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaire brothers who run a brokerage house.
Four ex-Army Special Forces soldiers become heroes for hire, after being branded as war criminals for a crime they didn't commit. After breaking out of Prison, they end up helping the downtrodden while on the run from the Military...
FR #2105 | Movie | Comedy, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Harold Ramis
Writer
John Hughes
Cast
Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid
Plot
The Griswold family's cross-country drive in their brand new Wagon Family Truckster to the Walley World theme park in California proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated.
FR #2127 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Shohei Imamura
Writer
Shohei Imamura, Shichiro Fukazawa
Cast
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
Plot
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
FR #2143 | TV | Animation, Comedy | Japan | Japanese
Cast
Akari Hibino, Mutsumi Tamura, Katsuyuki Konishi
Plot
Tsubasa Oozora is an 11-year-old elementary school student who is deeply in love with football and dreams of one day winning the FIFA World Cup for Japan.
Shirley Maclaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow
Plot
Widow Aurora Greenway juggles her own struggles with a new romantic interest while trying to sort out the emotional problems of her daughter who's married to a philandering husband.
FR #2880 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Hong Kong | English, Cantonese
Director
Jackie Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
Writer
Jackie Chan, Edward Tang
Cast
Jackie Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Biao Yuen
Plot
Fighting against pirates at the turn of the 20th century, the Hong Kong navy are failing miserably. It's up to Sergeant Dragon Ma to take matters into his own hands.
FR #2882 | Movie | History, Comedy | Turkey, India | Turkish, Malayalam
Director
Atif Yilmaz
Writer
Yavuz Turgul
Cast
Ilyas Salman, Sener Sen, Yaprak Ozdemiroglu
Plot
In the harsh times of the small time crime in Istanbul, a conscientious police officer Cumali is recognized by the police chief Ziver Bey who sees Cumali as a threat and matches him with Sekerpare, a famous harlot.
Anil Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure, Naseeruddin Shah, Dina Pathak
Plot
Maya, coming from poor family, is married to the affluent Dr. Anand; but she tries to commit suicide on the nuptial night. She tells Anand that she was in love with Prem whose ambition was to be a music director. He too was in lov...
Sanskrit and upper-caste poet, Kalidas, faces many challenges after falling in love with a low-caste woman, and being entered into a competition against a learned princess.
FR #3391 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Turkey, France | Turkish, French
Director
Natuk Baytan
Writer
Ahmet Ustel
Cast
Kemal Sunal, Oya Aydogan, Sevket Altug
Plot
Hüsnü, who is in love Hüsnüye, seeks help from his friend Cemal to get with Hüsnüye but Cemal keeps scamming Hüsnü to get his money. Cemal hears from the people on the streets that a wealthy man named Malik is overtaxing the peopl...
A tragicomedy dramatizing how an innocent villager is driven into the crime world only to collect enough cash to make his biggest dream come true: Return to his village home and marry the girl next door.
Arthur Conan Doyle (Novel), Igor Maslennikov (Screenplay)
Cast
Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
Plot
Holmes and Dr. Watson help a young lady who is receiving anonymous letters 10 years after her father passed away under shady circumstances. They find themselves in an enigma involving a treasure, murder and a love interest for Wat...
FR #3614 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | USA, Canada | English, Polish
Director
David Cronenberg
Writer
Stephen King, Jeffrey Boam
Cast
Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen
Plot
Five years after a traffic accident that left him in a coma, a man awakens to discover that he has the ability to foresee future events and even prevent tragedies from happening. Will these new abilities prove to be a blessing or ...
FR #3651 | TV | Animation, Action | USA, France | English, French
Writer
Jean Chalopin, Andy Heyward, Bruno Bianchi
Cast
Don Adams, Holly Berger, Frank Welker
Plot
A bumbling cyborg inspector outfitted with an array of bizarre gadgets pursues the criminal organization M.A.D., all while his precocious niece and dog do the real investigative work.
Avtaar Krishen lives a poor lifestyle with his wife, Radha, and two sons, Ramesh and Chander. He works in a factory and toils hard so that his sons can get the necessary education, and live a better lifestyle. He gets injured and ...
FR #4096 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA, France | English
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Writer
Kathleen Rowell, S.E. Hinton
Cast
C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane
Plot
In Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.
FR #4131 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Poland, France | French, Polish
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jean-Claude Carriere, Stanislawa Przybyszewska, Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Plot
In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
The most powerful man in the universe, He-Man, goes against the evil forces of Skeletor to save the planet Eternia and to protect the secrets of Castle Grayskull.
A waitress from the provincial railway station falls in love with an accidental passenger. Before this passenger lies the menace of distant prison for the crime he didn't commit.
When Iqbal gets separated from his mother and brother by a flood, he becomes a coolie at Mumbai railway station. He then fights for the coolies rights and faces challenges from a businessman.
FR #4850 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Canada | English, Spanish
Director
David Cronenberg
Writer
David Cronenberg
Cast
James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits
Plot
A Toronto cable TV station co-owner who specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast titled "Videodrome."
FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world and American television's top long-form news and current affairs series since 1983.
FR #5615 | Movie | History, Drama | France, Italy | Italian, German
Director
Federico Fellini
Writer
Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
Cast
Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti
Plot
In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.
FR #5673 | TV | Animation, Adventure | France, USA | French, German
Cast
Jacques Thebault, Robert Ridgely, William Callaway, Frank Welker
Plot
An animated series based on the European comic book about an American cowboy described as "The man who shoots faster than his shadow." Lucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old West to right wrongs and bring evildoers...
Veerabhadraiah is a feudal lord who presides over a village. Veerabhadraiah lends money to Venkateswarlu, a local farmer living with his widowed daughter. Venkateswarlu's son Suryam is a student living in the nearby city and he fa...
Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline
Plot
A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
Kailashnath is a widower, and father of an only son, Ramesh. He feels that his son has come of age, and must get married. He goes to see a number of young ladies for him, but is disappointed with them, as he feels they are too mod...
After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.
FR #6606 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English
Director
Mike Nichols
Writer
Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
Cast
Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Plot
A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.
Helmut Fischer, Ruth-Maria Kubitschek, Christine Kaufmann
Plot
Franz Muenchinger, called "Monaco", is married to Annette von Soettingen. But he can't take his eyes of young girls and as a police officer he often goes out for "Fahndung". Always at his side is Manni Kopfeck, also policeman and ...
Sparkling comedy about a meddling friend whose attempt to rekindle the spark in his friend's relationship with his wife of seven years leads to complications to their lives, and to the lives of his secretary and her boyfriend he h...
FR #7226 | TV | Comedy, Fantasy | Czech, Germany | Czech
Writer
Ota Hofman, Jindrich Polak
Cast
Josef Blaha, Josef Dvorak, Dagmar Patrasova
Plot
It's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising - Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of 20th century developed 500 years ago an ingenious formula for e...
FR #7598 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Irvin Kershner
Writer
Kevin Mcclory, Jack Whittingham, Ian Fleming
Cast
Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max Von Sydow
Plot
James Bond is called upon to try to recover nuclear bombs stolen by Spectre, but he will have to get rid of a professional assassin, hired especially to eliminate him.
An 18-year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school.
FR #7643 | TV | Comedy, Drama | UK | English, Turkish
Writer
Franc Roddam
Cast
Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail, Tim Healy
Plot
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever-growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Düsseldorf. Follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left b...
Veerendranath Yandamoori, A. Kodandarami Reddy, G. Sathyamurthy
Cast
Chiranjeevi, Radhika Sarathkumar, Raogopalrao
Plot
A young lawyer strives to remove the death sentence from the judicial system. With support from his mentor, he devises an ingenious plan. When the plan goes terribly wrong halfway through, he has to race against time to save his o...
When a woman exacts deadly revenge on the aggressors who raped her and her sister ten years earlier, Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to the case.
The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
FR #8119 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | France | French, German
Director
Jean Becker
Writer
Sebastien Japrisot
Cast
Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon
Plot
A young woman who oozes sensuality arrives in a small town and marries the local mechanic. Was it love at first sight? What links her enigmatic presence to the family's piano? Is it curiosity or is it something far more sinister?
Juvenalian satire comedy adapted from stage features a withdrawn family man who just doesn't respond to anything done to him. Only until a serial killer steals his driver's licence and the family man is mistaken as a serial killer.
FR #8608 | Movie | Action, Adventure | Netherlands, UK | Italian, Spanish
Director
Richard Lester
Writer
David Newman, Leslie Newman, Jerry Siegel
Cast
Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder
Plot
Entrepreneur Ross Webster teams up with a computer genius in order to realise his own evil intentions. When Superman obstructs his plans, he decides to destroy him.
"Tales from the Darkside" was a horror anthology series where the viewer is taken through ghost stories, science fiction adventures, and creepy, unexplained events.
Rajinikanth, Hema Malini, Reena Roy, Amitabh Bachchan, Madhavi, Prem Chopra, Danny Denzongpa, Pran Sikand, Madan Puri, Amrish Puri
Plot
Two siblings attempt to avenge the death of their parents. But the sister believes in the law while the brother believes in administering justice himself.
K.G. George, K. Ramachandran, Kallikad Ramachandran
Cast
Srividya, Suhasini, Soorya, Mammootty, Thilakan
Plot
Aadaminte vaariyellu depicts parellel stories of three women who are subjected to various forms of patriarchy and exploitation by the men around them and the society at large, and how they try to literally break free from it.
Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Christopher Plummer, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Simmons
Plot
In the arid 1920s Australian Outback, a Catholic priest and the beautiful niece of a vast sheep station owner stand powerless before God's will, tormented by desire. How far are they willing to go in the name of love?
Remake of Balachander's Tamil hit Varumayin Niram Sivappu, Kamal Haasan reprises his role as Raja, a graduate looking for work in capital, sharing a small home with two other unemployed youth. He falls in love with a struggling ac...
