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Author Archives: rarefilm
Princess (2014) Tali Shalom-Ezer, Shira Haas, Keren Mor, Ori Pfeffer, Drama

While her mother is away from your home, 12-year-old Adar and her stepfather push their sanity games into hazardous territory. Read More »
Jan Zizka (1957) Otakar Vávra, Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Horák, Karel Höger, Drama, War

1419: The atmosphere in Prague after Hus’ death is very tense. Several rebels are prisoned and radical priest Jan Zelivský leads large masses of people to the Old Town’s council house occupied by corrupt councillors, where the prisoners are kept. Read More »
The Furthest End Awaits (2014) Hsiu-Chiung Chiang, Hiromi Nagasaku, Nozomi Sasaki, Hiyori Sakurada, Drama

Misaki returns to the hometown of his father, after he’s reported to be lifeless. Read More »
Violette (1978) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Within a interwar France struggling with deep political and social change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the limits of her working-class (and potentially incestuous) household, with troubling consequences. Read More »
The Iron Crown (1972) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Hideo Kanze, Meg Flower, Drama

Dependent on the Noh play with the identical title, The Iron Crown is about a girl plotting revenge against her husband that leaves her for a younger girl. Read More »
Heads or Tails (2003) Camilo Luzuriaga, Valentina Pacheco, Marilú Vaca, Luis Vivanco, Drama

After being shipped overseas in the tender age of eight, Virginia yields to Quito, her birthplace, twenty five decades after. Read More »
Lucrezia Borgia (1935) Abel Gance, Edwige Feuillère, Gabriel Gabrio, Maurice Escande, Drama, History, Romance

After the advice of his main adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to try to unify the nation so as to become even stronger. Read More »
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959) Ismael Rodríguez, María Félix, Dolores del Rio, Emilio Fernández, Drama, Romance, War

The Cucaracha is a courageous woman soldier who directs a group of comparable women to the fray from the forces of the Villa colonel, Zeta. Read More »
Polly of the Circus (1932) Alfred Santell, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C. Aubrey Smith

After Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is injured while acting, she’s brought to the home of a nearby ministry, John Hartley. Read More »