FR #790 | Movie | Animation, Short | Japan | Japanese
Director
Megumi Ishitani
Writer
Eiichiro Oda, Tomohito Oosaki, Momoka Toyoda
Cast
Kokoro Kikuchi, Yasuyuki Kase, Hiroki Takahashi
Plot
Two years after the Paramount War, the Straw Hats are about to reunite on the Sabaody Archipelago. At the same time, a girl who is head over heels for Nami is trying to hand a fan letter to her before the group leaves the island.
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-s...
FR #1400 | Movie | Comedy, Short | Germany, Switzerland | English, German
Director
Heinz Dunkhase, Franco Marazzi
Writer
Peter Frankenfeld, Freddie Frinton, Lauri Wylie
Cast
Freddie Frinton, May Warden, Heinz Piper
Plot
At Miss Sophie's 90th birthday dinner, her butler James must fill in for her four departed friends - and that includes lots of drinks before every course.
FR #1469 | Movie | Comedy, Short | France, Mexico | Spanish
Director
Georges Melies
Cast
Georges Melies
Plot
Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
FR #1537 | Movie | Short, Action | Sweden | English, Swedish
Director
David Sandberg
Writer
David Sandberg
Cast
David Sandberg, Jorma Taccone, Steven Chew
Plot
In 1985, Kung Fury, the toughest martial artist cop in Miami, goes back in time to kill the worst criminal of all time - Kung Führer, a.k.a. Adolf Hitler.
FR #1639 | TV | Short, Adventure | France | French
Writer
Alexandre Astier
Cast
Alexandre Astier, Lionnel Astier, Franck Pitiot
Plot
King Arthur, accompanied by the Knights of the Round Table, sets out on the mission given to him by the Lady of the Lake: the quest for the Grail. But the knights Perceval, Karadoc, Lancelot and others have a hard time grasping th...
FR #1652 | Movie | Short, Action | Turkey, India | Turkish, English
Director
Bahri Baykal
Writer
Bahri Baykal
Cast
Ibrahim Selim, Gurur Cicekoglu, Didem Topcuoglu
Plot
Atay auditions for the role of a hitman. When he learns of his rejection, he must make a choice; one possibility being he replaces his gun's blank magazine with a magazine full of real bullets.
FR #1704 | Movie | Action, Short | France, Mexico | French, German
Director
Georges Melies
Writer
Georges Melies, Jules Verne, Adolphe D'Ennery
Cast
Georges Melies, Fernande Albany, Jehanne D'Alcy
Plot
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
FR #1712 | 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 #1876 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia | Russian
Director
Yuri Norstein
Writer
Sergei Kozlov
Cast
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Mariya Vinogradova, Aleksey Batalov
Plot
A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
FR #1919 | 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.
A boy named Malysh suffers from solitude being the youngest of the three children. The acute sense of solitude makes him desperately want a dog, but before he gets one, he "invents" a friend - the very Karlson who lives upon the r...
FR #1964 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia, USA | English
Director
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Writer
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Plot
Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adul...
FR #1970 | Movie | Short | France | French, English
Director
Rene Clair
Writer
Francis Picabia, Rene Clair
Cast
Jean Borlin, Inge Friss, Francis Picabia
Plot
An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
FR #2109 | Movie | Documentary, Short | Brazil, Denmark | Portuguese, English
Director
Jorge Furtado
Writer
Jorge Furtado, Cecilia Meireles
Cast
Paulo Jose, Cica Reckziegel, Douglas Trainini
Plot
The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since ...
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
Cartoon about the adventures of the wandering musicians from Bremen such as Troubadour, Donkey, Dog, Cat and Rooster. In one of the towns Troubadour falls in love with a Princess and makes up a plan how to get the King's confidence.
FR #2199 | Movie | Documentary, Short | France | English
Director
Louis Lumiere
Plot
Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
FR #2409 | Movie | Adventure, Short | France | English
Director
Robert Enrico
Writer
Ambrose Bierce, Robert Enrico
Cast
Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker-Spang Larsen
Plot
In 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home.
FR #2555 | Movie | Animation, Short | UK | English
Director
Nick Park
Writer
Nick Park, Bob Baker, Brian Sibley
Cast
Peter Sallis
Plot
Gromit butts heads with a mysterious penguin lodger, who hatches a sinister scheme involving the ex-NASA Techno Trousers that have been modified by Wallace for walkies.
FR #2663 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Chuck Jones
Writer
Michael Maltese, Ben Washam
Cast
Mel Blanc
Plot
The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
FR #2668 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Chuck Jones
Writer
Michael Maltese
Cast
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Plot
Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.
FR #2712 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Walt Disney
Writer
Carl W. Stalling
Plot
The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.
FR #2716 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia, Egypt | Russian, Arabic
Director
Roman Kachanov
Writer
Eduard Uspenskiy, Roman Kachanov
Cast
Vasiliy Livanov, Klara Rumyanova, Vladimir Rautbart
Plot
Cheburashka is a creature unknown to science. After the zoo rejects him, he becomes lonely and wants friends. Meanwhile, a crocodile named Gena is in the same boat and seeks friendship. The two meet and build a house for the lonely.
FR #2838 | Movie | Documentary, Short | India | Hindi
Director
Praveen Chaturvedi
Writer
Kshitiz Rai
Plot
The dark truth about some of the most significant events of the colonial period in India and the deliberately hidden facts about the 'Ideological Subversion' of Indian people.
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Zhil-Byl Pyosaka Once Upon A Time There Lived A Dog(1982)
FR #2878 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia | Russian, Ukrainian
Director
Eduard Nazarov
Writer
Eduard Nazarov
Cast
Georgiy Burkov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Eduard Nazarov
Plot
Two lonely souls met: a dog outcast by his owners, and a poor wolf living in the woods.
FR #2948 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Burt Gillett
Writer
Pinto Colvig, Albert Hunter, Boris V. Morkovin
Cast
Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Marcellite Garner, Marcellite Garner
Plot
The Three Little Pigs each build a house of different material. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and blows away the straw and stick homes, but is unable to destroy the house of bricks.
FR #3049 | Movie | Animation, Short | Japan | Japanese
Director
Kunio Kato
Writer
Kenya Hirata
Cast
Masami Nagasawa
Plot
To save his house from rising flood waters, an old man uses bricks to build it higher, then he relives events from his past while searching for his dropped pipe.
FR #3141 | Movie | Short | Turkey, Spain | Turkish, Spanish
Director
Burak Aksoy, Altug Gultan
Cast
Kerem Bursin
Plot
You find it hard to believe what you see anymore. Now take a moment and look again. Don't the artificial filters and practiced poses seem a bit fake to you? Stop, take a moment and think. None of it is real. Züber; real snacks.
FR #3402 | TV | Animation, Short | Switzerland, UK | English
Writer
Erika Brueggemann, Otmar Gutmann
Cast
Carlo Bonomi, David Sant, Marcello Magni
Plot
Children's stop-motion series set in Antarctica and focusing around penguin families living and working in igloos. The main character, Pingu, belongs to one such family. He goes on various adventures with his little sister and his...
FR #3448 | TV | Animation, Short | Russia | Russian
Writer
Oleg Kuzovkov
Cast
Boris Kutnevich, Alina Kukushkina, Oriana Medina
Plot
A retired circus bear settles into the woods and prepares for a quiet new life surrounded by peace and tranquility until he is introduced to an adventurous little girl named Masha.
FR #3636 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia, Belarus | Russian
Director
Vladimir Popov
Writer
Eduard Uspenskiy
Cast
Oleg Tabakov, Valentina Talyzina, Mariya Vinogradova
Plot
A six-year-old boy called Uncle Fyodor, because he is very serious, leaves his home after his parents don't let him keep Matroskin, a cat. Uncle Fyodor and Matroskin, with the dog Sharik, set up a home in a village "Prostokvashino".
FR #3642 | 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.
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
FR #3708 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Wilfred Jackson
Cast
Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash
Plot
Mickey is a frustrated bandleader dealing with obnoxious ice cream seller and flute player Donald, who tries to persuade the band to play "Turkey in the Straw," when a tornado hits during the concert.
FR #3975 | Movie | Adventure, Short | France | English, French
Director
Georges Melies
Writer
Georges Melies, Madame D'Aulnoy
Cast
Georges Melies, Marguerite Thevenard, Bleuette Bernon
Plot
In this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play "La Biche au Bois", the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.
FR #4141 | Movie | Animation, Short | Russia, Germany | Russian, English
Director
Vladimir Popov
Writer
Eduard Uspenskiy
Cast
Oleg Tabakov, Valentina Talyzina, Mariya Vinogradova, Georgiy Vitsin, Georgiy Vitsin
Plot
When his mom plans a vacation to a resort, little Fyodor runs away to family's cottage house instead, to visit his friends Matroskin the Cat and Sharik the Dog.
FR #4210 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Jack Cutting, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Writer
Hans Christian Andersen, Vernon Stallings
Cast
Clarence Nash, Amanda Cewel, Tom Cotry
Plot
A baby duckling is shunned by his family because he is different. He is also rejected by all of the other birds and animals. Finally a mother swan adopts him as one of her brood.
FR #4212 | Movie | Comedy, Short | France | French
Director
Jacques Tati
Writer
Jacques Tati
Cast
Jacques Tati, Paul Demange
Plot
School for Postmen" is a 1947 short film directed and starring Jacques Tati, playing a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.
FR #4440 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts
Writer
Joe Rinaldi, Bill Peet, Homer Brightman
Cast
Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Paul Frees, James Macdonald
Plot
A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant's magnificent castle up in the blue sky?
