FR #12 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English, German
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Philip Kaufman
Cast
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Denholm Elliott, Alfred Molina
Plot
In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones is tasked by Army Intelligence to help locate a legendary ancient power, the Ark of Covenant, before the Nazis get it first.
FR #16 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Irvin Kershner
Writer
Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas
Cast
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
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.
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
FR #77 | Movie | War, Thriller | Germany | English, German
Director
Wolfgang Petersen
Writer
Lothar G. Buchheim, Wolfgang Petersen
Cast
Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
Plot
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
FR #78 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Action | UK, USA | English, Spanish
Director
James Cameron
Writer
James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, William Wisher
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn
Plot
A cyborg assassin from the future attempts to find and kill a young woman who is destined to give birth to a warrior that will lead a resistance to save humankind from extinction.
FR #84 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Thriller | USA, UK | English, Spanish
Director
James Cameron
Writer
James Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill
Cast
Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Bill Paxton
Plot
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
FR #103 | Movie | Action, Drama | Japan, France | Japanese, German
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Plot
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
FR #125 | Movie | Drama, Musical | USA | English, Latin
Director
Peter Weir
Writer
Tom Schulman
Cast
Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke
Plot
Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
FR #131 | 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.
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.
Kamal Haasan, Saranya Ponvannan, Delhi Ganesh, Janakaraj, Nassar, Tinnu Anand, Nizhalgal Ravi
Plot
A common man's struggles against a corrupt police force put him on the wrong side of the law. He becomes a don, who is loved and respected by many, but his growing power and influence exact a heavy toll.
FR #186 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Russia, USA | Russian, Belarusian
Director
Elem Klimov
Writer
Ales Adamovich, Elem Klimov
Cast
Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Plot
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
FR #188 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Germany | French, German
Director
Louis Malle
Writer
Louis Malle
Cast
Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette
Plot
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
FR #203 | TV | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA | English, Klingon
Writer
Gene Roddenberry
Cast
Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes
Plot
Set almost 100 years after Captain Kirk's five-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers sets off in the U.S.S. Enterprise-D on its own mission to go where no one has gone before.
After losing their jobs in Kerala, Dasan and Vijayan decide to migrate to the Middle East. But they end up in Tamil Nadu where they are mistaken as two CID officers by a group of smugglers.
FR #214 | Movie | Drama | France, Italy | English, French
Director
Claude Berri
Writer
Marcel Pagnol, Claude Berri, Gerard Brach
Cast
Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Plot
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
Arun Govil, Deepika Chikhalia, Sunil Lahri, Dara Singh Randhawa
Plot
An adaptation of the ancient epic in which the exiled Prince Rama and his brother Laxman set out to save Rama's wife, Sita, who has been kidnapped by the demon king of Lanka Ravana.
FR #278 | Movie | War, Drama | UK, USA | English, Vietnamese
Director
Oliver Stone
Writer
Oliver Stone
Cast
Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David, Forest Whitaker
Plot
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
FR #285 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA, UK | English, German
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Jeffrey Boam, George Lucas, Menno Meyjes
Cast
Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott
Plot
In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheri...
FR #293 | Movie | Action, Thriller | USA | English, German
Director
John Mctiernan
Writer
Roderick Thorp, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. De Souza
Cast
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
Plot
A New York City cop, John McClane, tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas Eve party at the Nakatomi Plaza Skyscraper in Los Angeles, California.
The adventures of Earth's martial arts defender, Son Goku, continue with a new family and the revelation of his alien origins. Now Goku and his allies must defend the planet from an onslaught of new extraterrestrial enemies.
FR #319 | Movie | War, Drama | UK, USA | English, Vietnamese
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
Cast
Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio
Plot
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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 #329 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, USA | Italian, French
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Harry Grey, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
Cast
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth Mcgovern
Plot
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk
Plot
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
FR #339 | Movie | Drama | UK, Germany | English, Spanish
Director
Wim Wenders
Writer
L.M. Kit Carson, Sam Shepard, Walter Donohue
Cast
Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell
Plot
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Amrish Puri, Satish Kaushik, Annu Kapoor, Sharat Saxena, Ashok Kumar, Ramesh Deo
Plot
A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
FR #442 | TV | Crime, Drama | UK | English, French
Cast
David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson
Plot
Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective, who has an impeccable knack for getting embroiled in a mystery, solves crimes along with Captain Hastings and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector James Japp.
FR #446 | TV | Comedy | UK, India | Bengali, English
Writer
John Sullivan
Cast
David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Roger Lloyd Pack
Plot
Comedy that follows two brothers from London's rough Peckham estate as they wheel and deal through a number of dodgy deals and search for the big score that'll make them millionaires.
Al is the quintessential working class dad. Peggy, his wife, always wants more from him. With their children, they go through the highs and lows of ordinary life.
A school teacher living in a village belongs to a family with a history of lunatic males, and soon he falls prey despite being normal due to society misinterpreting his actions.
Rajendra Prasad, Rajani, Nuthan Prasad, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam
Plot
Krishnamurthy (Rajendra Prasad) is the only son of industrialist Satyanarayana (Nutan Prasad). He wants his son to get married to a girl whom he has chosen because of his bitter experience with love marriage. Before selecting the ...
Divya, a woman grieving over the death of her lover, is convinced into an arranged marriage with Chandra Kumar. Over a year the couple attempt to adjust to each other's presence and live with each other.
When a dynastic struggle between the collateral branches of the Kuru clan, the Kauravas and Pandavas lead them to the threshold of war, Lord Krishna decides to step in and take control of the situation.
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.
A young martial artist named Goku teams up with inventor Bulma and other quirky allies on a globe-trotting quest to find the seven Dragon Balls, mystical orbs that can summon a wish-granting dragon.
FR #589 | Movie | Animation, Action | Japan | Japanese
Director
Katsuhiro "Tomo
Writer
Katsuhiro "Tomo, Izo Hashimoto
Cast
Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama
Plot
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a teenage biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by his best friend.
Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia, Patricia Clarkson
Plot
During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
FR #592 | 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, John Gielgud
Plot
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily-disfigured and mistreated young man working as a sideshow freak, who gradually reveals his capacity for kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he l...
FR #614 | Movie | Animation | Japan | Japanese, English
Director
Hayao Miyazaki
Writer
Eiko Kadono, Hayao Miyazaki
Cast
Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Mieko Nobusawa, Kappei Yamaguchi
Plot
Along with her black cat Jiji, Kiki settles in a seaside town and starts a high-flying delivery service. Here begins her magical encounter with independence and responsibility, making lifelong friends and finding her place in the ...
The regulars of the Boston bar "Cheers" share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.
A young woman regresses to childhood after suffering a head injury in a car crash. Lost, she ends up trapped at a brothel before being rescued by a lonely school teacher who falls in love with her.
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.
FR #681 | TV | Comedy, Drama | USA, Norway | Norwegian, English
Writer
Carol Black, Neal Marlens
Cast
Fred Savage, Dan Lauria, Alley Mills
Plot
Kevin Arnold recalls growing up during the late 60s and early 70s; the turbulent social times make the transition from child to adult unusually interesting.
FR #685 | Movie | Comedy, Action | India | Tamil, Hindi
Director
Singeetam Srinivasa Rao
Writer
Panchu Arunachalam, Kamal Haasan, Manohar Shyam Joshi
Cast
Kamal Haasan, Nagesh, Srividya, Delhi Ganesh, Janakaraj, Aachi Manorama
Plot
Appu and Raja are twins who were separated at birth, grow up in different localities. Appu's quest for revenge begins upon learning that his father was killed by four criminals.
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.
FR #838 | Movie | Drama, Comedy | USA | English, Italian
Director
Spike Lee
Writer
Spike Lee
Cast
Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, John Turturro
Plot
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
FR #845 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Iran, USA | Persian, English
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Writer
Abbas Kiarostami
Cast
Babek Ahmedpoor, Ahmed Ahmedpoor, Khodabakhsh Defaei
Plot
Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.
FR #847 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Poland | Polish, Portuguese
Director
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Cast
Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska
Plot
A naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.
FR #854 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK, USA | Italian, Russian
Director
Charles Crichton, John Cleese
Writer
John Cleese, Charles Crichton
Cast
John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline
Plot
In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.
