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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Inheritance (1976) Mauro Bolognini, Anthony Quinn, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi

Quinn plays a retired bakery tycoon, alienated from his two sons and jealously guarding his vast wealth… Read More »
Zazà (1944) Renato Castellani, Isa Miranda, Antonio Centa, Aldo Silvani

A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antonio Centa). Read More »
Marquis de Sades Prosperities of Vice (1988) Akio Jissôji, Yasumi Hara, Renji Ishibashi, Seiran Li

An obsession with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade leads a depraved, 1920s-era Japanese count down Read More »
Nazi Agent (1942) Jules Dassin, Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher

A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Veidt), one a loyal American and the other, a Nazi official. Read More »
The Feminine Touch (1941) W.S. Van Dyke, Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis

John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. Read More »
Joy of Living (1938) Tay Garnett, Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alice Brady

Broadway star Margaret Garrett has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. Read More »
Benito Cereno (1969) Serge Roullet, Ruy Guerra, Georges Selmark, Tamour Diop

When Captain Amaso Delano approaches a three-masted ship in distress Read More »
Love from Paris / Monpti (1957) Helmut Käutner, Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Mara Lane

A poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who’s recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. Read More »
Bright Road (1953) Gerald Mayer, Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte

A young teacher helps a troubled student who’s fascinated by a caterpillar’s metamorphosis. Read More »