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 #77 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Director
Sidney Lumet
Writer
Reginald Rose
Cast
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam
Plot
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
FR #126 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Sweden | Swedish, Latin
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bengt Ekerot
Plot
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
FR #144 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Ernest Lehman
Cast
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Plot
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
FR #149 | 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.
A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
FR #170 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde, Whitfield Cook
Cast
Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
Plot
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.
FR #345 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor, Pierre Boileau
Cast
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Plot
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
FR #370 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA, France | English, Latin
Director
Elia Kazan
Writer
Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson, Robert Siodmak
Cast
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Plot
An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
FR #411 | Movie | Religion, Drama | India | Telugu, Tamil
Director
Kadiri Venkata Reddy
Writer
Pingali Nagendra Rao, Kadiri Venkata Reddy
Cast
N.T. Rama Rao, S.V. Ranga Rao, Savitri
Plot
Balarama promises Subhadra to get his daughter married to her son. But when the Pandavas loses their kingdom to the Kaurava's, Balarama breaks his promise.
The wife of a band leader constantly tries to become a star - in spite of her having no talent, and gets herself (along with her best friend) into the funniest predicaments.
Salil Choudhury, Paul Mahendra, Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Cast
Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ratan Kumar
Plot
In the hope of earning enough money to pay off his debts and save his land, a poor farmer becomes a rickshaw puller in Calcutta and faces many difficulties.
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.
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
FR #620 | Movie | Animation, Family | USA | English
Director
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Writer
Charles Perrault, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner
Cast
Ilene Woods, James Macdonald, Eleanor Audley
Plot
When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq and from her Fairy Godmother.
FR #628 | Movie | Adventure, Western | USA | English, Spanish
Director
John Ford
Writer
Frank S. Nugent, Alan Le May
Cast
John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
Plot
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
FR #637 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Fred Zinnemann
Writer
Carl Foreman, John W. Cunningham
Cast
Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell
Plot
A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon tr...
FR #641 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Director
Otto Preminger
Writer
Wendell Mayes, John D. Voelker
Cast
James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
Plot
An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth and will he win his case?
Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
FR #687 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson
Plot
In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.
FR #729 | 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.
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...
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminally ill father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
FR #889 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, B.H. Mccampbell
Cast
John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Plot
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
FR #890 | 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 #902 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Les Clark, Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson
Writer
Erdman Penner, Charles Perrault, Joe Rinaldi
Cast
Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley
Plot
After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.
FR #909 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Orson Welles
Writer
Orson Welles, Whit Masterson, Franklin Coen
Cast
Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh
Plot
A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation h...
FR #912 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Billy Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, Ernest Lehman
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
Plot
After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter, who's long had a crush on him, but he questions his more serious brother's motives when he warns against getting involved ...
FR #918 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Poland, France | Polish, French
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski
Plot
As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
FR #962 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Max Von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand
Plot
A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.
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.
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
FR #1143 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Arabic
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Michael Hayes, Charles Bennett, D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Cast
James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie
Plot
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
FR #1150 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Henry Koster
Writer
Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney, Myles Connolly
Cast
James Stewart, Wallace Ford, William H. Lynn
Plot
A whimsical man is thought to be insane due to his insistence that he is best friends with an invisible, humanoid rabbit, but he may be wiser than anyone knows.
At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a pugilistic private is cruelly punished for refusing to join his unit's boxing team. Meanwhile, his commanding officer's wife and top NCO are indulging in a torrid love affair.
FR #1156 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Billy Wilder, Edwin Blum, Donald Bevan
Cast
William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger
Plot
After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
FR #1162 | Movie | War, Drama | Poland | German, Polish
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Cast
Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Plot
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
An innocent guy who has arrived from a village to Kolkata gets himself involved into trouble in search of water after he gets thirsty in the middle of the night.
A rom-com involving Rao and Mary, two unemployed new graduates, who decide to act as a married couple so that they qualify for two teaching jobs at a High School and eventually fall in love.
FR #1232 | Movie | Thriller, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Bimal Roy
Writer
Ritwik Ghatak, Rajinder Singh Bedi
Cast
Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Johnny Walker
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.
FR #1390 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Irish
Director
John Ford
Writer
Frank S. Nugent, Maurice Walsh, John Ford
Cast
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald
Plot
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.
Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain the favor of their affectionate but strict, Bible-toting father as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.
