FR #9 | Movie | SuperHeroes, Sci-Fi | UK, USA | English, Mandarin
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
Cast
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman
Plot
When a menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman, James Gordon and Harvey Dent must work together to put an end to the madness.
FR #43 | TV | History, Drama | UK, USA | English, Russian
Writer
Craig Mazin
Cast
Jared Harris, Jessie Buckley, Stellan Skarsgard
Plot
In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
When a teenager from the slums of Mumbai is interrogated about his suspicious performance on a quiz show, he revisits various events from his past to explain how he knew all the answers.
FR #74 | Movie | Biography, History | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin
Cast
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Plot
A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II.
FR #75 | 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, Keenan Wynn, James Earl Jones
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 | 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 #81 | Movie | Fantasy, Adventure | UK, USA | English, Latin
Director
David Yates
Writer
Steve Kloves, J.K. Rowling
Cast
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes
Plot
Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on a quest to eliminate the remaining horcruxes. On the other hand, the students and teachers must unite to defend Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and his army.
FR #93 | Movie | Biography, History | UK, USA | English, Arabic
Director
David Lean
Writer
Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Cast
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy
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 #113 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Drama | UK, USA | English, Greenlandic
Director
Alfonso Cuaron
Writer
Alfonso Cuaron, Jonas Cuaron
Cast
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
Plot
Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.
The quirky spin on Conan Doyle's iconic sleuth pitches him as a "high-functioning sociopath" in modern-day London. Assisting him in his investigations: Afghanistan War vet John Watson, who's introduced to Holmes by a mutual acquai...
FR #124 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Drama | UK, USA | English
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Cast
Matthew Mcconaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow
Plot
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
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.
FR #140 | Movie | War, Drama | UK, USA | English, Japanese
Director
David Lean
Writer
Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
Cast
William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Plot
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
FR #246 | Movie | Biography, Court-Drama | UK, Ireland | English
Director
Jim Sheridan
Writer
Gerry Conlon, Terry George, Jim Sheridan
Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Anthony Brophy, Emma Thompson
Plot
An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
FR #255 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | UK, USA | English, Serbian
Director
Martin Campbell
Writer
Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis
Cast
Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench, Mads Mikkelsen
Plot
After earning a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, in Montenegro.
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 #314 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | UK, USA | English, Turkish
Director
Sam Mendes
Writer
Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan
Cast
Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney
Plot
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
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 #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.
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.
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.
FR #497 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | UK, USA | English
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Priest
Cast
Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine
Plot
Two friends and fellow magicians become bitter enemies after a sudden tragedy. As they devote themselves to this rivalry, they make sacrifices that bring them fame but, with terrible consequences.
FR #523 | Movie | Fantasy, Adventure | UK, USA | English, Latin
Director
Alfonso Cuaron
Writer
J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves
Cast
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
Plot
Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard.
FR #540 | Movie | Biography, Drama | UK, USA | Persian, German
Director
Ben Affleck
Writer
Chris Terrio, Tony Mendez, Joshuah Bearman
Cast
Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin
Plot
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
FR #720 | 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 #747 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Alfonso Cuaron
Writer
Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata
Cast
Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi, Mishal Husain, Rob Curling, Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Michael Caine
Plot
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.
FR #759 | Movie | War, Action | UK, Netherlands | English, French
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance
Plot
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
FR #760 | Movie | War, Action | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Sam Mendes
Writer
Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Cast
Dean-Charles Chapman, George Mackay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth
Plot
April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
FR #782 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writer
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast
Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Plot
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
FR #788 | Movie | Biography, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Ron Howard
Writer
Peter Morgan
Cast
Daniel Bruhl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde
Plot
James Hunt and Niki Lauda, two extremely skilled Formula One racers, have an intense rivalry with each other. However, it is their enmity that pushes them to their limits.
FR #796 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK, USA | English, Russian
Director
Guy Ritchie
Writer
Guy Ritchie
Cast
Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham
Plot
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Bumbling, childlike Mr. Bean has trouble completing the simplest of day-to-day tasks, but his perseverance and resourcefulness frequently allow him to find ingenious ways around problems.
FR #816 | TV | Adventure, Drama | UK, USA | English
Writer
Sydney Newman
Cast
Jodie Whittaker, Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie
Plot
Continuing on from Doctor Who (1963), this revival follows the further adventures of the Doctor and their companions as they encounter various alien threats and save civilizations on different planets and time periods.
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.
FR #894 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
John Huston
Writer
C.S. Forester, James Agee, John Huston
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Plot
In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.
FR #909 | 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, Bernard Lee
Plot
James Bond willingly inserts himself into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the evil SPECTRE organization.
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim Mcinnerny, Miranda Richardson
Plot
In the Tudor court of Elizabeth I, Lord Edmund Blackadder strives to win Her Majesty's favour while attempting to avoid a grisly fate should he offend her.
FR #954 | Movie | Court-Drama, Fantasy | UK | English, French
Director
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Richard Attenborough
Plot
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
FR #955 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK | English, Italian
Director
Robert Hamer
Writer
Roy Horniman, Robert Hamer, John Dighton
Cast
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
Plot
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
A former secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is actually a bizarre prison. He refuses to give his warders information while attempting to escape.
FR #1024 | Movie | Action, Comedy | UK, France | English
Director
Edgar Wright
Writer
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
Cast
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy
Plot
An overachieving London police sergeant is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, all while a string of grisly murders strikes the town.
FR #1141 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Terence Young
Writer
Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather
Cast
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee
Plot
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.
FR #1148 | Movie | Adventure, Action | UK, USA | French, German
Director
Robert Aldrich
Writer
Nunnally Johnson, Lukas Heller, E.M. Nathanson
Cast
Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Robert Ryan
Plot
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
FR #1177 | TV | Mystery, Crime | UK, USA | English
Writer
John Hawkesworth
Cast
Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalie Williams
Plot
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of copper beeches, a Greek interpreter, the Norwood builder, a resident patient, the red-headed league, and one final problem.
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Plot
A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking what really happened.
FR #1302 | Movie | Fantasy, Adventure | UK, USA | English, Latin
Director
Chris Columbus
Writer
J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves
Cast
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith
Plot
An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.
FR #1406 | Movie | Biography, Drama | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Anthony Harvey
Writer
James Goldman
Cast
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins
Plot
1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a ...
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.
FR #1512 | Movie | Biography, Drama | UK, USA | English
Director
Bryan Singer
Writer
Anthony Mccarten, Peter Morgan
Cast
Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee
Plot
With his impeccable vocal abilities, Freddie Mercury and his rock band, Queen, achieve superstardom. However, amidst his skyrocketing success, he grapples with his ego, sexuality and a fatal illness.
The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss and their grifting supervisor Jen, a rag-tag team of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.
