A man decides to leave his wife and finds his happiness elsewhere. Along the way he meets a man with whom he falls in love. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Baad el Mawkeaa / After the Battle (2012) Yusri Nasrullah, Menna Shalabi, Bassem Samra, Nahed El Sebaï, Drama, History
Mahmoud was part of the armed groups coerced by the Egyptian Government which carried out attacks on protestors in Tahir Square the 2nd of February 2011. Read More »
Procès de Jeanne dArc / Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) Robert Bresson, Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat, Drama, History
A reconstruction of the trial of Joan of Arc (based entirely on the transcripts of the real-life trial), concerning Joan’s imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English, filmed in a spare, low-key fashion. Read More »
The Stud (1978) Quentin Masters, Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias, Sue Lloyd, Drama, Romance
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, the hobo, and partying. Read More »
La Tendre ennemie / The Tender Enemy (1936) Max Ophüls, Simone Berriau, Catherine Fonteney, Laure Diana, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Two ghosts attend an engagement party, unseen by the other guests. One ghost, Dupont, is the father of the bride-to-be. Read More »
Absolution (1978) Anthony Page, Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
At a Catholic public school, Benjamin Stanfield is tired of being the teacher’s pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard. Read More »
Le mura di Malapaga / The Walls of Malapaga (1949) René Clément, Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Drama, Romance
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter. Read More »
Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver / This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967) José Mojica Marins, Tina Wohlers, Nadia Freitas, Horror
Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and sadistic practices. Read More »
In Between (1991) Thomas Constantinides, Robert Forster, Wings Hauser, Robin Mattson, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Three strangers – two women and one man – find themselves trapped inside an unfamiliar house with no recollection of how they got there. Read More »
A Flea in Her Ear (1968) Jacques Charon, Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan, Comedy
A Frenchwoman (Rosemary Harris), suspecting her lawyer husband (Rex Harrison) of having an affair, plots to catch him in the act. Read More »