
In Marseilles, a woman commits suicide after she is raped in an alley. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Scandal at Scourie (1953) Jean Negulesco, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Agnes Moorehead

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. Read More »
Tangiers (1982) Michael E. Briant, Ronny Cox, Billie Whitelaw, Glynis Barber

A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler. Read More »
Winged Victory (1944) George Cukor, Lon McCallister, Jeanne Crain, Edmond O’Brien

Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. Read More »
Bamako (2006) Abderrahmane Sissako, Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré, Maimouna Hélène Diarra

Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work Read More »
Poil de carotte (1973) Henri Graziani, Philippe Noiret, Monique Chaumette, Isabelle Ceaux

In rural France, an undernourished and unloved young boy attempts suicide. Based on the classic by Jules Renard. Read More »
Guard! Alert! (1937) Jean Grémillon

A girl, left pregnant by a seducer, sets off to look for him when the child is born. Read More »
Le bonheur / Happiness (1935) Marcel L’Herbier

Released in English-speaking countries as Happiness, Le Bonheur was based on a play by Henry Bernstein. Read More »
Desperate Women (1978) Earl Bellamy

Three unjustly convicted female prisoners are being transported to prison. Read More »
Étoile / Ballet (1989) Peter Del Monte

An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school Read More »