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Author Archives: rarefilm
Berlin kaputt (1981) Milivoje ‘Mica’ Milosevic, Svetozar Cvetkovic, Milan ‘Lane’ Gutovic, Ljiljana Krstic

Story of three partisans whose fates are determined by different encounters with women. Read More »
Hotel Splendide (1932) Michael Powell, Jerry Verno, Anthony Holles, Edgar Norfolk

Jerry Mason inherits the Hotel Splendide at Speymouth but is disappointed when Read More »
Her Last Affaire (1935) Michael Powell

The wife of a politician is found dead at a country inn, where she had been Read More »
Stories from Madrid / Historias de Madrid (1958) Ramón Comas, Tony Leblanc, Licia Calderón, Mario Morales

In Madrid, both the owner of a building and its tenants have asked help to San Nicolás Read More »
Youth (Spring) AKA Qingchun (2023) Wang Bing

Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai – the richest city in China. Read More »
Follies Girl (1943) William Rowland, Wendy Barrie, Doris Nolan, Gordon Oliver

An Army private falls for his father’s employee, a dress designer working on a burlesque show. Read More »
Two in Love / Dvoe (1965) Mikhail Bogin, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Valentin Smirnitskiy, Lina Braknyte

A young musician courts a beautiful woman who refuses Read More »
House of Numbers (1957) Russell Rouse, Jack Palance, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt

Arnie Judlow, an inmate at San Quentin prison serving a life sentence for murder Read More »
The Butterfly Affair (1971) Jean Herman, Claudia Cardinale, Stanley Baker, Henri Charrière

Popsy double-crosses her older partner Silva. Silva has arranged to divert diamonds Read More »