Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard, Oliver H.P. Garrett
Cast
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
Plot
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
FR #85 | Movie | Adventure, Musical | USA | English
Director
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Norman Taurog
Writer
Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf
Cast
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Plot
Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others...
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
FR #219 | Movie | Adventure, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Writer
James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose, Merian C. Cooper
Cast
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Plot
A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
FR #362 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Japan | Russian, German
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir
Cast
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Plot
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his c...
FR #458 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Writer
Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller, Rowland Leigh
Cast
Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Plot
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
FR #656 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, USA | French, Russian
Director
Jean Vigo
Writer
Jean Guinee, Albert Riera, Jean Vigo
Cast
Dita Parlo, Jean Daste, Gilles Margaritis
Plot
Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
FR #692 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
John Ford
Writer
Ernest Haycox, Dudley Nichols, Ben Hecht
Cast
John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine
Plot
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
FR #702 | Movie | Horror, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Tod Browning
Writer
Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon
Cast
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
Plot
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side th...
FR #719 | Movie | Crime, Mystery | UK, USA | English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Buchan, Charles Bennett, Ian Hay
Cast
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Plot
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
FR #925 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | Arabic, French
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Henri La Barthe, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Constant
Cast
Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre
Plot
A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.
FR #967 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, Italian
Director
Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
Writer
George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, James Kevin Mcguinness
Cast
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Plot
A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
FR #970 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Russian
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Robert Riskin, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
Cast
Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore
Plot
The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
FR #976 | Movie | Horror, Fantasy | USA | Hungarian, Latin
Director
Tod Browning, Karl Freund
Writer
Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston
Cast
Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Plot
Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
FR #982 | Movie | Biography, Adventure | USA | English, Tahitian
Director
Frank Lloyd
Writer
Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson
Cast
Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Plot
First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
FR #1205 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | USA | English, German
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones, Aladar Laszlo
Cast
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
Plot
A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.
FR #1214 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, Latin
Director
William Dieterle
Writer
Sonya Levien, Bruno Frank, Victor Hugo
Cast
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke
Plot
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
FR #1216 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | Russian, English
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch
Cast
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
Plot
A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
FR #1404 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | French, English
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Emile Zola, Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
Cast
Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Plot
In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
FR #1464 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | French, English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Rafael Sabatini, Casey Robinson
Cast
Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill
Plot
After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.
FR #1714 | Movie | Documentary, Short | France | English
Director
Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo
Writer
Jean Vigo, Boris Kaufman
Plot
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
FR #1915 | Movie | Documentary, Short | Spain | French
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Rafael Sanchez Ventura, Pierre Unik
Cast
Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Plot
A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved's glory.
A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling to clear his name and prove hi...
FR #1959 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Jules Furthman, Howard Hawks, Eleanore Griffin
Cast
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth
Plot
At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is compelled to risk the lives of his pilots in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl/harlot stops in town.
FR #1976 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, French
Director
George Stevens
Writer
Howard Lindsay, Allan Scott, Erwin Gelsey
Cast
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
Plot
Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning th...
FR #2176 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Marquis De Sade
Cast
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad De Laberdesque
Plot
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Dashiell Hammett
Cast
William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
Plot
Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
Stan and Ollie are enlisted to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to its rightful owner, but they soon discover that the task is not as easy as it looks.
FR #2202 | Movie | Comedy, Family | USA | English, Italian
Director
Sam Wood
Writer
Robert Pirosh, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer
Cast
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Plot
A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.
FR #2208 | Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English, Latin
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang, Norman Krasna
Cast
Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
Plot
When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
FR #2211 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | Mandarin, English
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Robert Riskin, James Hilton, Sidney Buchman
Cast
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton
Plot
When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
FR #2427 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | French, English
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Maxim Gorky, Yevgeni Zamyatin, Jacques Companeez
Cast
Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet
Plot
A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.
FR #2453 | Movie | Film-Noir, Horror | USA | English, Cantonese
Director
Erle C. Kenton
Writer
Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, H.G. Wells
Cast
Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen
Plot
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
