
In Brazil in the 1920s, boy is sent to live with some parents in a sugarcane plantation, after losing his mother. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)

An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company’s interests. Read More »
Intervista (1987)

Cinecitta, the huge movie studio outside Rome, is 50 years old and Fellini Read More »
Syngué sabour, pierre de patience / The Patience Stone (2012)

In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck Read More »
Mother / Madar (1990)

The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. Read More »
Purple Butterfly / Zi hu die (2003)

Manchuria, 1928. During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Itami, a young Japanese man Read More »
Robbers’ Roost (1955)

Jim “Tex” Wall (George Montgomery), searching for the last of the three men who raped and killed his wife Read More »
Ballad of Tara / Tcherike-ye Tara (1979)

Tara, the young beautiful widow, returns with her two little kids from country to her village. Read More »
Two Seconds (1932)

Allen claims he his being executed for the wrong murder. Flashbacks show him working with Clark as a riveter. Read More »
House of Secrets (1993)

Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. Read More »