
In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Treaty (1991) Jonathan Lewis, Brendan Gleeson, Patrick Condren, Ian Bannen

In 1921, the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic Read More »
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) Roland Joffé, Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia

In real life, Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific head of the Manhattan Project Read More »
Shine (1996) Scott Hicks, Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine

As a child piano prodigy, David Helfgott’s musical ambitions generate Read More »
Betrayed by Love (1994) John Power, Mare Winningham, Steven Weber, Patricia Arquette

FBI agent Jeff Avery hopes to move ahead in the Bureau by cracking down Read More »
Genevieve (1953) Henry Cornelius, Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall

It’s time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally Read More »
Three Floors / Tre piani (2021) Nanni Moretti

The story of three families living in three apartments in the same bourgeois condominium. Read More »
Parallel Mothers / Madres paralelas (2021) Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Rossy de Palma, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Read More »
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1999) George Bloomfield, Gary Busey, Mark McKinney, Miranda Richardson

One day, a boy named Jacob Two-Two (aptly named because every phrase that he utters is repeated) Read More »
The Herd / Sürü (1979) Zeki Ökten, Tarik Akan, Melike Demirag, Erol Demiröz

Sürü portrays the lives of desperate Kurdish farmers in Turkey’s backward Southeast. Read More »