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American cinema: All genres

Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Vincente Minnelli

With his daughter Kay now happily married, Stanley Banks thinks that his worries are over. How wrong he is. Just when everything appears to be going swimmingly, Kay drops her bombshell - she is expecting a baby...   [More...]

Fazil (1928)
Howard Hawks

Although faithful to the traditions of his race the Arabian prince Fazil is reluctant to take wives so that he may produce an heir...   [More...]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Terry Gilliam

The freelance journalist Raoul Duke is on his way to Las Vegas, ostensibly to write a report on a motorbike race. Accompanied by his lawyer Dr Gonzo, he combines business and pleasure and undertakes the journey whilst under the influence of mind-altering drugs...   [More...]

Fear in the Night (1947)
Maxwell Shane

Vince Grayson, a modest bank employee, wakes up one morning after dreaming that he stabbed a man to death in an octagonal mirrored room...   [More...]

Feet First (1930)
Clyde Bruckman

Harold Horne, a modest sales assistant in a Honolulu shoe store, falls for a girl whom he believes to be his boss's daughter...   [More...]

Female (1933)
Michael Curtiz

Alison Drake has inherited a large car factory from her father and runs it with ruthless efficiency. She has no time for sentiment in either her personal or professional life...   [More...]

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Norman Jewison

Ukraine, 1905. Tevye is a Jewish milkman who lives in Anatevka, a village in Tsarist Russia. His five daughters are a constant cause of anxiety to him, but one day his burden is eased slightly when the butcher Lazar Wolf, a comparatively wealthy man, offers to marry his eldest, Tzeitel...   [More...]

Finian's Rainbow (1968)
Francis Ford Coppola

Finian McLonergan absconds from his native Ireland with a stolen crock of gold, accompanied by his daughter Sharon. He arrives in Rainbow Valley, USA, believing that if he buries the crock near to Fort Knox he will become a wealthy man...   [More...]

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Robert Aldrich

Frank Towns is piloting a small plane laden with passengers and cargo across the Sahara Desert when a sandstorm brews up, knocking the aircraft off course by several hundred miles and bringing it down...   [More...]

The Fly (1958)
Kurt Neumann

One evening, François Delambre receives a telephone call from his sister-in-law, Hélène, who confesses to having just killed her husband, André...   [More...]

The Flying Deuces (1939)
A. Edward Sutherland

During an enjoyable stay in Paris, Ollie falls in love with Georgette, an innkeeper's daughter. So smitten is he by this object of supreme loveliness that Ollie has resolved to marry her, not knowing that she has fallen for a handsome legionnaire, François...   [More...]

The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter

Antonio Bay, a small Californian fishing town, is about to mark its one hundredth anniversary. On the eve of the centennial celebrations, the town's pastor, Father Malone, finds an old diary in which he uncovers a terrible secret...   [More...]

Follow the Fleet (1936)
Mark Sandrich

When his dancing partner, Sherry Martin, declines to marry him, Bake Baker decides to join the navy. Bake soon grows disillusioned with the life of a sailor and, as soon as his ship docks at San Francisco, he heads straight for the nearest nightclub...   [More...]

Foolish Wives (1922)
Erich von Stroheim

In Monte Carlo of the early 1920s, Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin is a con artist who makes a dishonest living by posing as a member of the Russian nobility, along with his beautiful cousins Olga and Vera...   [More...]

For Me and My Gal (1942)
Busby Berkeley

In 1916, Jo Hayden and Jimmy Metcalf scrape a living, touring American towns with their second rate vaudeville act. Jo earns just enough to support her brother Danny as he studies to be a doctor...   [More...]

Forbidden Planet (1956)
Fred M. Wilcox

In the year 2200, a United Planets expedition led by Commander Adams arrives on Altair-4 to investigate the unexplained disappearance of an Earth colony...   [More...]

Force of Evil (1948)
Abraham Polonsky

Joe Morse is a young Wall Street lawyer who isn't going to allow his conscience to get in the way of his making his first million...   [More...]

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Alfred Hitchcock

At the request of his editor, New York crime reporter Johnny Jones travels to London to cover the deteriorating political situation in Europe...   [More...]

The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Billy Wilder

CBS cameraman Henry Hinkle is covering a football game at Cleveland Stadium when one of the players, Boom Boom Jackson, runs into him, rendering him unconscious...   [More...]

Frankenstein (1931)
James Whale

For years, the scientist Dr Henry Frankenstein has devoted himself to the creation of artificial life. With the help of his hunchback assistant Fritz, he has assembled a man-like creature from the body parts of corpses stolen from graveyards...   [More...]

Frantic (1988)
Roman Polanski

Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper...   [More...]

Freaks (1932)
Tod Browning

The main attraction of a travelling circus is a collection of deformed human beings, which includes dwarves, pinheads, Siamese twins, a hermaphrodite, a bearded lady and several unfortunates without arms and legs...   [More...]

The Freshman (1925)
Fred C. Newmeyer

Harold Lamb can hardly wait to begin his first term as a student at Tate University, one of America's leading educational establishments which prides itself on being a football stadium with a college attached...   [More...]

The Freshman (1990)
Andrew Bergman

Clark Kellogg leaves his home in Vermont to study film at New York University. His first week in the city gets off to a promising start when everything he possesses is stolen by crooked taxi driver Victor Ray...   [More...]

Friday the 13th (1980)
Sean S. Cunningham

On Friday 13th June, some time in the late 1970s, a group of young people are busy renovating an old camp site which is due to be reopened...   [More...]

From Here to Eternity (1953)
Fred Zinnemann

December, 1941. Whilst a fierce war is being waged in Europe, North Africa and the Far East, the United States waits on the sidelines...   [More...]

From This Day Forward (1946)
John Berry

On his return to the United States after active service in WWII, Bill Cummings struggles to find work to support himself and his young wife Susan...   [More...]

The Fugitive Kind (1960)
Sidney Lumet

Having run into trouble with the law in New Orleans, a 30-year-old drifter named Val Xavier leaves town determined to turn over a new leaf...   [More...]

The Fugitive (1947)
John Ford

In a Latin American republic, a young priest is on the run. He is fleeing from militant revolutionaries whose aim is to eradicate every last trace of the Catholic religion in their country...   [More...]

The Full Monty (1997)
Peter Cattaneo

Sheffield, England in the mid-1990s. Unable to find work, former steelworker Gaz and his best friend Dave are forced to steal scrap metal so that they can make ends meet...   [More...]



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