FR #72 | Movie | War, Comedy | UK, USA | English, Russian
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George
Cast
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Plot
A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
FR #78 | Movie | Western, Drama | Italy, USA | English, Italian
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Sergio Donati, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento
Cast
Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
FR #98 | Movie | Biography, History | UK, USA | English, Arabic
Director
David Lean
Writer
Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Cast
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Plot
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
FR #110 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Director
Robert Mulligan
Writer
Harper Lee, Horton Foote
Cast
Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
Plot
A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.
FR #145 | Movie | Western, Action | Italy, Germany | Italian, English
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Luciano Vincenzoni
Cast
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte
Plot
Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to track down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.
FR #162 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Ira Levin, Roman Polanski
Cast
Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Plot
A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
FR #203 | Movie | Drama | Sweden, UK | Latin, Swedish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max Von Sydow
Plot
Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.
FR #212 | Movie | Romance, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Vijay Anand
Writer
Vijay Anand, Pearl S. Buck, R.K. Narayan
Cast
Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Leela Chitnis
Plot
When mistaken to be a sage by some villagers, an ex-tour guide reflects on his past and lost love to search for spiritual wisdom to guide the villagers.
A simple man from a village falls in love with his new neighbor. He enlists the help of his musical-theater friends to woo the lovely girl-next-door away from her music teacher.
FR #286 | Movie | History, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Masaki Kobayashi
Writer
Yasuhiko Takiguchi, Shinobu Hashimoto
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita
Plot
When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
FR #350 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Italy, UK | English, Russian
Director
David Lean
Writer
Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt
Cast
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
Plot
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.
FR #365 | Movie | Court-Drama, War | USA | English, German
Director
Stanley Kramer
Writer
Abby Mann, Montgomery Clift
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Plot
Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
FR #367 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
John Sturges
Writer
Paul Brickhill, James Clavell, W.R. Burnett
Cast
Steve Mcqueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
Plot
Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II make a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of POWs hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.
In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
FR #379 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Algeria | French, Russian
Director
Costa-Gavras
Writer
Vassilis Vassilikos, Jorge Semprun, Costa-Gavras
Cast
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Plot
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
FR #380 | Movie | Biography, Crime | USA, Mexico | English, Spanish
Director
George Roy Hill
Writer
William Goldman
Cast
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Plot
In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels..
FR #383 | Movie | Biography, History | USA | English
Director
Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann
Writer
Dalton Trumbo, Howard Fast, Peter Ustinov
Cast
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis
Plot
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
FR #386 | Movie | Biography, Action | USA | English
Director
Arthur Penn
Writer
David Newman, Robert Benton, Robert Towne
Cast
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Plot
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
FR #393 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English, Latin
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Daphne Du Maurier, Evan Hunter
Cast
Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy
Plot
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
FR #408 | Movie | War, Drama | Russia | German, Russian
Director
Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov
Writer
Vladimir Bogomolov, Mikhail Papava, Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast
Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov
Plot
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
FR #440 | Movie | Drama | Sweden | Swedish, German
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ulla Isaksson
Cast
Max Von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Plot
In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along t...
The adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs.
A series of unfortunate events cause Ramu, a young boy, to lose his parents and his legs. He is befriended by Mohan, a boy with visual impairment, and they team up to survive on the streets.
FR #611 | Movie | Horror, Thriller | USA | English
Director
George A. Romero
Writer
John A. Russo, George A. Romero
Cast
Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman
Plot
A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
FR #632 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Writer
Bill Peet, Dodie Smith
Cast
Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, J. Pat O'Malley
Plot
When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the owners must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.
A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
FR #636 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer
Michael Wilson, Rod Serling, Pierre Boulle
Cast
Charlton Heston, Roddy Mcdowall, Kim Hunter
Plot
After being kept in hypersleep during a long expedition into deep space, an astronaut crew crash-lands in the 40th century on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.
A middle-aged New England associate professor and his wife, with the help of alcohol, use their young guests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
FR #671 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Russia | Russian
Director
Leonid Gaidai
Writer
Leonid Gaidai, Yakov Kostyukovskiy, Moris Slobodskoy
Cast
Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley, Vladimir Etush
Plot
A young student Shurik comes to a remote mountainous region in search of ancient legends and traditions. Fooled by the corrupt local governor, he helps him to kidnap a beautiful young girl, but soon realizes what he's done.
FR #672 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | India | Bengali
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Satyajit Ray, Upendra Kishore Raychowdhuri
Cast
Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee
Plot
Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.
Widower Sheriff Andy Taylor, and his son Opie, live with Andy's Aunt Bee in Mayberry, North Carolina. With virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent philosophizing and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney Fife.
FR #730 | TV | Animation, Adventure | USA | English
Writer
Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Joseph Barbera
Cast
Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe
Plot
A group of teenage friends and their Great Dane (Scooby-Doo) travel in a bright green van solving strange and hilarious mysteries, while returning from or going to a regular teenage function.
Arun meets Vandana during a vacation and very soon they secretly get married. Arun is an Air Force pilot and dies in a crash, leaving pregnant Vandana heartbroken--and unable to prove that she is a married mother-to-be. As her mar...
FR #831 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France | English, French
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer
Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut
Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Richard Balducci
Plot
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
FR #862 | Movie | History, Drama | France, Italy | French, Italian
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Giuseppe Tomasi DI Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
FR #863 | Movie | Comedy | France, Italy | English, German
Director
Jacques Tati
Writer
Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald
Cast
Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Plot
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
FR #914 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | UK, USA | Russian, Turkish
Director
Terence Young
Writer
Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Ian Fleming
Cast
Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya
Plot
James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the organization Spectre.
FR #919 | Movie | Horror, Drama | USA, Japan | English, Japanese
Director
Robert Aldrich
Writer
Henry Farrell, Lukas Heller
Cast
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Plot
A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.
FR #923 | Movie | Drama | Sweden, USA | English, Spanish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten
Plot
Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.
FR #927 | Movie | Drama | Sweden, France | Swedish, French
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
LIV Ullmann, Max Von Sydow, Sigge Furst
Plot
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of thei...
FR #945 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Sweden | Swedish, Norwegian
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Max Von Sydow, LIV Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh
Plot
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
FR #951 | TV | Animation, Action | Russia | Russian
Writer
Aleksandr Kurlyandskiy, Arkadiy Khayt, Feliks Kamov
Cast
Anatoliy Papanov, Klara Rumyanova, Igor Khristenko
Plot
The series follows the comical adventures of a mischievous yet artistic Wolf , trying to catch - and presumably eat Hare. It features additional characters that usually either help the hare or interfere with the Wolf's plans.
Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, battles the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his competent partner Agent 99.
Gundamma, a rich widow, has one goal - to get her spoilt daughter married to a rich boy. She, however, treats her step daughter like a maid. Gundamma does not care about the step daughter's life or marriage. How two brothers, who ...
FR #992 | Movie | Thriller, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Vijay Anand
Writer
Nasir Hussain
Cast
Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh, Raj Mehra
Plot
A woman blames a nightclub drummer for the suspicious death of her sister, and seeks revenge. However, the pair work together to solve the mystery and become romantically involved, after he introduces himself under another name.
The tale begins in the final days of the British Raj in India. A cohort of engineering students graduate a few months before Independence. Satyapriya and Naren are among the graduate engineers. The principality of Bhawanigarh is r...
During the British Raj of the 1930s, a prison-doctor falls in love with a convict who eventually reveals the story of her past and her connection to a freedom fighter.
