FR #36 | Movie | Romance, History | USA | English, German
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Howard Koch
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Plot
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
FR #171 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
John Huston
Writer
John Huston, B. Traven
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
Plot
Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
FR #193 | Movie | Drama, Mystery | USA | English, Portuguese
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, John Taintor Foote
Cast
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Plot
The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Fred Macmurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Plot
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
FR #477 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Dutch
Director
George Seaton
Writer
George Seaton, Valentine Davies
Cast
Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne
Plot
After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mis...
FR #478 | Movie | Romance, Comedy | USA | English, German
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Cast
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Plot
Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...
FR #480 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Writer
Borden Chase, Charles Schnee
Cast
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
Plot
Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
FR #675 | Movie | War, Drama | Italy | English, German
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Klaus Mann
Cast
Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs
Plot
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
FR #699 | Movie | Film-Noir, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville
Cast
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Plot
A teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
FR #703 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht, Charles Macarthur
Cast
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Plot
When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
FR #723 | 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.
FR #928 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Cast
Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Plot
During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
FR #931 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Russia, UK | Russian, English
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Cast
Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Plot
As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
FR #957 | Movie | Court-Drama, Fantasy | UK | English, French
Director
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote
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 #959 | Movie | Crime, Action | USA | English, Italian
Director
John Huston
Writer
Richard Brooks, John Huston, Maxwell Anderson
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Plot
A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.
A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.
FR #975 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
George Cukor
Writer
John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston
Cast
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Plot
Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the house rises from a secret that may require driving his wif...
FR #1167 | Movie | Drama | Italy, USA | English, Italian
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola
Cast
Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele
Plot
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
FR #1196 | Movie | Family, Drama | USA | Welsh, English
Director
John Ford
Writer
Philip Dunne, Richard Llewellyn
Cast
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee
Plot
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
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.
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 #1450 | Movie | Drama | Italy | Italian, Sicilian
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Antonio Pietrangeli, Giovanni Verga, Luchino Visconti
Cast
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono
Plot
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
Hit men arrive in a small New Jersey town to kill an unresisting victim, and insurance investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
FR #1462 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch
Cast
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie
Plot
A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
FR #1706 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling, Alfred Hitchcock
Cast
Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak
Plot
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
FR #1710 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA, UK | Spanish, English
Director
John Ford
Writer
Frank S. Nugent, James Warner Bellah
Cast
John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
Plot
At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.
FR #1715 | Movie | Adventure, Family | UK, USA | English
Director
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan
Writer
Miles Malleson, Lajos Biro, Miklos Rozsa
Cast
Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez
Plot
After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.
