FR #67 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Hong Kong, Taiwan | Mandarin, Chinese
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai
Cast
Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang
Plot
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
FR #116 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Mexico | Spanish
Director
Alejandro G. Inarritu
Writer
Guillermo Arriaga
Cast
Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo
Plot
An amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.
FR #347 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Hong Kong, France | Cantonese, French
Director
Wong Kar-Wai
Writer
Wong Kar-Wai
Cast
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Ping-Lam Siu
Plot
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
FR #512 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA, Germany | Spanish, English
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Writer
Simon Moore, Stephen Gaghan
Cast
Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Plot
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife ...
Larry David stars as an over-the-top version of himself in this comedy series that shows how seemingly trivial details of day-to-day life can precipitate a catastrophic chain of events.
Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone
Plot
An Indian version of the popular quiz show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Contestants start off with easy questions, but as they move forward the questions get more and more challenging. To help them out, they are given "lifeli...
FR #1011 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK, USA | English, Russian
Director
Guy Ritchie
Writer
Guy Ritchie
Cast
Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham
Plot
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
FR #1550 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | USA, India | English, French
Director
Cameron Crowe
Writer
Cameron Crowe
Cast
Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson
Plot
A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
FR #1563 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Japan | English, Japanese
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Writer
Koushun Takami, Kenta Fukasaku
Cast
Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
Plot
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country and sets out to kill him.
FR #1782 | TV | Animation, Action | Japan | Japanese, English
Cast
Rikiya Koyama, Kohei Kiyasu, Steve Staley
Plot
Ippo, a teenage boy with a pure heart and unrelenting determination, discovers a passion for boxing after veteran fighter Takamura saves him from bullies.
A couple with no kids, four city girls and three country boys, all under the same roof: arguing, fighting and sometimes understanding they are not that much different.
FR #2306 | Movie | Biography, Comedy | USA, India | English, Hindi
Director
Boaz Yakin
Writer
Gregory Allen Howard
Cast
Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris
Plot
In 1971, Virginia high-school football was everything to the people of Alexandria, but when the school board was forced to integrate an all-Black school with an all-white one, the foundation of football's tradition was put to the ...
FR #2510 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | USA, France | English
Director
Mark Dindal
Writer
Chris Williams, Mark Dindal, David Reynolds
Cast
David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt
Plot
Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne and his human form with the help of Pacha, a gentle llama herder.
FR #2787 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA, Canada | English, Spanish
Director
Mary Harron
Writer
Bret Easton Ellis, Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner
Cast
Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas
Plot
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
FR #2811 | Movie | Action, Drama | South Korea, Germany | English, German
Director
Park Chan-Wook
Writer
Park Chan-Wook, Kim Hyun-Seok, Seong-San Jeong
Cast
Lee Yeong-Ae, Lee Byung-Hun, Song Kang-Ho
Plot
After a shooting incident at the North-South Korean border DMZ leaves two North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss and Swedish team investigates what actually happened.
College friends Jenny and Shiva part ways due to a misunderstanding. Although they are in love and realize they cannot live without each other, their egos prevent them from uniting.
FR #2894 | Movie | Crime, Action | Russia, USA | Ukrainian, Russian
Director
Aleksey Balabanov
Writer
Aleksey Balabanov
Cast
Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Makovetskiy
Plot
Arriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
FR #3046 | Movie | SuperHeroes, Sci-Fi | USA, Canada | English, Japanese
Director
Bryan Singer
Writer
Tom Desanto, Bryan Singer, David Hayter
Cast
Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian Mckellen
Plot
In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.
FR #3275 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, Thai
Director
Jay Roach
Writer
Greg Glienna, Mary Ruth Clarke, Jim Herzfeld
Cast
Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo
Plot
Chicago male nurse and chronic under-achiever Greg Focker meets his charming teacher girlfriend Pam Byrnes' parents Jack and Dina before proposing, but suspicious Jack is an overprotective former CIA agent - every date's worst nig...
FR #3395 | Movie | Comedy, Short | Germany, Turkey | German, Turkish
Director
Stefan Prehn, Jorg Wagner
Writer
Jorg Wagner, Stefan Prehn
Cast
Konstantin Graudus, Gustav Adolph Artz, Jurgen Kittel
Plot
Short film depicting a fictional educational film about fork lift truck operational safety. The dangers of unsafe operation are presented in gory details.
FR #3775 | TV | Crime, Drama | USA, Canada | English, Spanish
Writer
Anthony E. Zuiker
Cast
William Petersen, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson
Plot
A team of Crime Scene Investigators (CSI's) work with the Las Vegas Police Department (LVPD) to solve crimes by using advanced scientific methods and technology.
FR #3816 | Movie | Biography, History | India | English, Hindi
Director
Jabbar Patel
Writer
Daya Pawar, Arun Sadhu, Sooni Taraporevala
Cast
Mammootty, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Gokhale
Plot
Biopic of B. R. Ambedkar, known mainly for his contributions in the emancipation of the downtrodden and oppressed classes in India and shaping the Constitution of India.
FR #4143 | Movie | Animation, Comedy | Czech, UK | Czech, Japanese
Director
Jan Svankmajer
Writer
Karel Jaromir Erben, Jan Svankmajer
Cast
Veronika Zilkova, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerova
Plot
A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.
An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.
FR #4633 | TV | Crime, Drama | Argentina, USA | Spanish
Cast
Rodrigo De La Serna, Diego Alonso Gomez, Ariel Staltari
Plot
4 young men with different backgrounds merge in the same house and have to face new experiences living in a stolen house, being prosecuted by the police and other gangs.
Bernard Black runs a book shop, though his customer service skills leave something to be desired. He hires Manny as an employee. Fran runs the shop next door. Between the three of them many adventures ensue.
FR #5143 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Czech | German, Czech
Director
Jan Hrebejk
Writer
Jan Hrebejk, Petr Jarchovsk12
Cast
Bolek Polivka, Csongor Kassai, Jaroslav Dusek
Plot
In German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechia), a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
FR #5571 | Movie | Crime, Mystery | France | French, English
Director
Mathieu Kassovitz
Writer
Jean-Christophe Grange, Mathieu Kassovitz
Cast
Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Fares
Plot
Two French cops, investigating separate murders, find a common link between the killings. As more murders occur, the two find an increasing number of horrific details pointing to a conspiracy.
FR #5789 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA, UK | English, French
Director
Lasse Hallstrom
Writer
Joanne Harris, Robert Nelson Jacobs
Cast
Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench
Plot
Single mother Vianne Rocher and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town in the winter of 1959, and open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.
FR #5820 | TV | Animation, Action | Japan | Japanese
Writer
Kazuki Takahashi
Cast
Dan Green, Amy Birnbaum, Wayne Grayson
Plot
Yu-Gi-Oh! follows the adventures of high school student Yugi, who has a magical secret that comes to life when he plays his favorite card game: 'Duel Monsters.
FR #6064 | TV | Romance, Drama | USA, Canada | English
Writer
Ron Cowen, Daniel Lipman, Russell T. Davies
Cast
Gale Harold, Hal Sparks, Randy Harrison
Plot
Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contemporary Pittsburgh, PA.
FR #6066 | Movie | Animation, Action | Japan, Hong Kong | Japanese, English
Director
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Writer
Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Cast
Andrew Philpot, John Rafter Lee, Pamela Adlon
Plot
A legendary dhampir competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to return a young woman, who has been seemingly abducted by a vampire, to her family.
FR #6312 | TV | Animation, Action | Japan | English
Writer
Kazuki Takahashi
Cast
Dan Green, Wayne Grayson, Amy Birnbaum
Plot
Yugi Moto solves an Ancient Egyptian Puzzle and brings forth a dark and powerful alter ego. Whenever he and his friends are threatened by evil in Duel Monster Card Game, this alter ego breaks out to save them.
FR #6336 | Movie | Action, Drama | India | Malayalam
Director
Shaji Kailas
Writer
Ranjith
Cast
Mohanlal, Thilakan, N.F. Varghese
Plot
Induchoodan is wrongly implicated in a murder case. Later, his father is imprisoned for murdering his daughter and Induchoodan vows to prove his innocence.
FR #6549 | Movie | Thriller, Horror | USA, Canada | English, French
Director
James Wong
Writer
Glen Morgan, James Wong, Jeffrey Reddick
Cast
Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith
Plot
After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student, saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.
Forrester, the author of a famous book, decides to help Jamal, a 16-year-old student, discover his writing prowess by mentoring him and enrolling him into a prestigious private school.
FR #6640 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden | Arabic, Swedish
Director
Josef Fares
Writer
Josef Fares
Cast
Fares Fares, Torkel Petersson, Tuva Novotny
Plot
Roro, second generation swede with family from Lebanon is a park worker together with MÃ¥ns in this comedy about where Middle East and Sweden clashes. About forced marriage and true love.
A mother-in-law's struggle to put up with her three bahu's. The three bahu's have grown up sons. The bahu's sons start to get involved with having girlfriends and the bahu's try and break their relationships up.
FR #6799 | Movie | Animation, Short | Belgium, Netherlands | English
Director
Michael Dudok De Wit
Writer
Michael Dudok De Wit
Cast
James Laufer
Plot
A father says goodbye to his young daughter. Time passes and the daughter moves through life age by age, but within her there is always a deep longing for her father.
FR #6839 | Movie | Romance, Drama | India | Tamil, Hindi
Director
K. Selvabharathi
Writer
Bhupati Raja
Cast
Joseph Vijay, Simran, Radhika Chaudhari
Plot
Vijay has no faith in marriage. However, on his father's insistence, he marries Priya but lays down a condition wherein at the end of the year he will decide whether to continue their marriage or not.
FR #7273 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Denmark, Sweden | Danish
Director
Anders Thomas Jensen
Writer
Anders Thomas Jensen
Cast
Soren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen
Plot
A gang of 4 Danish criminals are ordered by Færingen to steal a bag from a safe. When they see DKK4,000,000 in the bag, they keep it for themselves and head for Spain. They end up in a ruin of an old restaurant on Jutland and reno...
To save his brother, ex-thief Memphis must steal 50 luxury cars in 3 days for a crime boss. He reunites his old crew, including his mentor Otto and ex-girlfriend Sway, while police track them.
FR #7294 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA, Germany | English
Director
Curtis Hanson
Writer
Michael Chabon, Steve Kloves
Cast
Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances Mcdormand
Plot
An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.
FR #7559 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | South Korea | Korean
Director
Hyun-Seung Lee
Writer
Eun-Jeong Kim, Mi-Yeong Kim, Won Tae-Yeon
Cast
Lee Jung-Jae, Jun Ji-Hyun, Kim Moo Saeng
Plot
In 1999, a voice actor moves from Il Mare, a seaside house, and leaves a Christmas card in its mailbox. An architecture student receives it in 1997, and a friendship separated by two years begins.
FR #7774 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA, Hong Kong | English, Mandarin
Director
Tom Dey
Writer
Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
Cast
Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu
Plot
A Chinese man travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped Princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss.
FR #7888 | Movie | Comedy, Mystery | Austria, France | German, English
Director
Wolfgang Murnberger
Writer
Wolf Haas, Josef Hader, Wolfgang Murnberger
Cast
Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Barbara Rudnik
Plot
Ex-detective Brenner wants to keep himself out of trouble but several murder cases and his ex-girlfriend Klara finally get him involved. But making decisions is not one his strengths.
FR #8070 | Movie | Biography, Crime | Italy | Italian, English
Director
Marco Tullio Giordana
Writer
Emanuel Ag, Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana
Cast
Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo
Plot
Peppino Impastato, an activist in 1970s Sicily, used radio to defy the mafia's reign. His bold defiance led to his murder by the mob, exposing society's silence on organized crime.
A reality show where a group of contestants are stranded in a remote location with little more than the clothes on their back. The lone survivor of this contest takes home a million dollars.
