A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
FR #76 | 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...
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
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 #191 | Movie | Romance, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Vijay Anand
Writer
Vijay Anand, Pearl S. Buck, R.K. Narayan
Cast
Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Leela Chitnis, Anwar Hussain, Ulhas, Gajanan Jagirdar, Rashid Khan, Praveen Paul
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.
Sunil Dutt, Saira Banu, Mehmood, Kishore Kumar, Om Prakash, Agha, Mukri, Sunder, Praveen Paul
Plot
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 #282 | Movie | Drama, Musical | USA, Hong Kong | English, Cantonese
Director
Damien Chazelle
Writer
Damien Chazelle
Cast
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie Dewitt, J.K. Simmons
Plot
When Sebastian, a pianist, and Mia, an actress, follow their passion and achieve success in their respective fields, they find themselves torn between their love for each other and their careers.
Progressive, reform-minded young warden gets permission to take six surly murderers from prison to dilapidated country farm, to rehabilitate it and themselves through hard work and kindly guidance.
FR #567 | Movie | Musical, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Kaige Chen
Writer
Pik-Wah Lee, Wei Lu
Cast
Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong LI
Plot
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
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.
Raj Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Simi Garewal, Rishi Kapoor, Achala Sachdev, Dharmendra, Dara Singh Randhawa, Rajendra Kumar Tuli
Plot
Raju is a joker, a clown. It is what he is and what he always shall be. As his life story unfolds in three chapters, from his school days to the circus to the streets, he must always make people laugh and be happy, no matter how u...
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Louis Calhern
Plot
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...
Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Kumari Naaz, Johnny Walker
Plot
Suresh Sinha, a famous director, discovers star potential in Shanti, a woman he stumbled into one rainy evening, and casts her as the lead in a film. In a twist of fate, Shanti becomes a superstar and Suresh faces a decline in his...
The scion of a wealthy landowner family turns to alcohol and self-pity and slowly self-destructs after class differences force him to break off his relationship with his childhood sweetheart.
FR #742 | Movie | Musical, Drama | Ireland, USA | English, Czech
Director
John Carney
Writer
John Carney
Cast
Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova, Hugh Walsh
Plot
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
A soldier receives a life-changing letter from a woman named Sita, leading to a beautiful romance. Their love story takes an unexpected turn when he returns to his military post in Kashmir and faces imprisonment.
Michelle, a disabled girl who can't see, hear, or speak, suffering in a world that has given up on her. But when the teacher Debraj enters her life, he becomes a ray of hope that she might pursue her passions and have a normal life.
Shah Rukh Khan, Preity G Zinta, Rani Mukerji, Divya Dutta, Boman Irani, Anupam Kher, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Manoj Bajpayee
Plot
An Indian Air Force pilot rescues a Pakistani girl stranded in India. Years later, a lawyer seeks to unravel the truth behind the pilot's mysterious imprisonment in Pakistan for over two decades, during which he remained silent.
After breaking up with his childhood sweetheart, a young man finds solace in drugs. Meanwhile, a teenage girl is caught in the world of prostitution. Will they be destroyed, or will they find redemption?
A village woman abandoned by her husband is forced into prostitution in Kolkata and forms nameless yet strong relations with a wealthy patron as well as an abused boy in the neighbourhood.
FR #964 | 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, Sig Ruman
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 | Musical, Drama | India | Bengali, English
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Tarashankar Banerjee, Satyajit Ray, Santi P. Choudhury
Cast
Chhabi Biswas, Gangapada Basu, Padmadevi
Plot
Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore, Sujit Kumar, Farida Jalal, Madan Puri, Ashok Kumar, Abhi Bhattacharya, Asit Kumar Sen, Manmohan
Plot
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...
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.
Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Rabi Ghosh, Sanjeev Kumar, David Abraham, D.K. Sapru, Rajan Haksar, Manmohan
Plot
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...
Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.
FR #1094 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
John Landis
Writer
Dan Aykroyd, John Landis
Cast
John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway
Plot
Jake Blues rejoins his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
FR #1107 | Movie | Documentary, Musical | Belgium, Germany | English
Director
Adrian Maben
Cast
David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
Plot
British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.
Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit, Jackie Shroff, Tiku Talsania, Vijayendra Ghatge
Plot
After his wealthy family prohibits him from marrying the woman he is in love with, Devdas Mukherjee's life spirals further and further out of control as he takes up alcohol and a life of vice to numb the pain.
FR #1176 | Movie | Romance, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Sooraj R. Barjatya
Writer
Sooraj R. Barjatya, S.M. Ahale
Cast
Salman Khan, Bhagyashree Patwardhan, Alok Nath, Reema Lagoo
Plot
After Suman's father leaves her in the care of another family while he travels abroad, she falls in love with Prem. However, in order to for them to marry, Prem has to prove to Suman's father that he is not the same as his own dad.
This is the tale of an angry young man with flavours of Teacher-student relationship, the stubbornness of Ramachari(protagonist) and his attempts at having a romantic relationship.
FR #1228 | Movie | Thriller, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Bimal Roy
Writer
Ritwik Ghatak, Rajinder Singh Bedi
Cast
Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Johnny Walker, Pran Sikand, Ramayan Tiwari
Plot
A young man takes shelter in a mansion when a landslide blocks his route to the railway station. Then, he finds the mansion familiar and soon learns about the story of his previous birth.
Ashok Kumar, Nutan, Dharmendra, Asit Kumar Sen, Satyendra Kapoor
Plot
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.
Returning home from war after being assumed dead, a pilot weds the woman he has long loved, unaware that she had been planning to marry his best friend.
FR #1270 | Movie | Animation, Musical | USA | English
Director
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Writer
Jennifer Lee, Hans Christian Andersen, Chris Buck
Cast
Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff
Plot
Fearless optimist Anna teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey to find Anna's sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter.
FR #1298 | Movie | Musical, Drama | Ireland, UK | English, French
Director
John Carney
Writer
Simon Carmody, John Carney
Cast
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Plot
A young lad notices a beautiful girl who begins to occupy his thoughts. While struggling with poverty, personal relationships and life's woes, he starts a band, hoping to catch her attention.
FR #1344 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Randal Kleiser
Writer
Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, Bronte Woodard
Cast
John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing
Plot
Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Mohnish Behl, Alok Nath, Anupam Kher, Reema Lagoo, Bindu Desai, Satish Shah
Plot
Prem and Nisha meet and fall in love at the wedding of their elder siblings, but their plans to be together are put in jeopardy when Nisha's sister dies, leaving behind a baby.
After being sold to the mortician Sowerberry, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by their elderly mentor Fagin in 1830s London in this musical based on Charles Dickens' Oliver T...
FR #1417 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | UK, USA | German, French
Director
Richard Lester
Writer
Alun Owen
Cast
John Lennon, Paul Mccartney, George Harrison
Plot
Over two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.
The cross-cultural romance between Vaasu and Sapna meets heavy opposition from their family, who vow to stop their union at any cost. As the star-crossed lovers forbidden love ensues, nothing will prepare them for their tragic des...
A lawyer's wife dies in his arms. Yet, another woman - identical in appearance and accused of aiding a gang of bandits - claims to be the lawyer's wife. A courtroom drama ensues.
FR #1506 | Movie | Animation, Musical | USA, Japan | English, German
Director
Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Writer
Dan Fogelman, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Cast
Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman
Plot
The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.
Chandan and Gunja, who hails from a village across the river, fall in love with each other. After her sister dies, Gunja is compelled to marry her brother-in-law who is Chandan's brother.
FR #1679 | Movie | Romance, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Gulzar
Writer
Gulzar, Bhushan Banmali, Kamleshwar
Cast
Sanjeev Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Om Shivpuri, Agha, Satyendra Kapoor, Dina Pathak, Pinchoo Kapoor
Plot
A medical student, Amarnath meets and falls in love with the daughter of a herbal medicine healer, Chanda while preparing for his exams in Darjeeling. He returns to Calcutta to sit his exams. Fast forward two decades Amarnath sets...
An engineer visiting a town, has a brief affair with a local girl and walks off, leaving her with a child. The son grows up to avenge his deserted mother. Vijay is the angry young man playing the son.
When a homeless and orphaned young man finds work in the house of a wealthy man, he falls in love with the daughter of that wealthy man. But things start to change a lot thereafter.
In Mughal Emperor Akbar's court, young musician Baiju challenges maestro Tansen to a musical duel in order to avenge the death of his father, which he holds Tansen responsible for.
FR #1774 | Movie | Animation, Musical | USA | English, French
Director
Ron Clements, John Musker, Don Hall
Writer
Jared Bush, Ron Clements, John Musker
Cast
Auli'I Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House
Plot
In ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out Maui to set things right.
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
