The method for motion-compensated frame rate up-conversion includes the step of detecting a film-mode video signal comprising a sequence of 3-2 pull-down frames, and extracting a sequence of feature frames from the sequence of 3-2 pull-down frames. In addition, a motion vector for each pair of the sequence of feature frames is calculated. Also, a plurality of intermediate frames between each pairof the sequence of feature frames is interpolated based on the corresponding motion vector.