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Author Archives: rarefilm
Somewhere in the Night (1946) Joseph L. Mankiewicz

George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity Read More »
Identification of a Woman (1982) Identificazione di una donna

Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship Read More »
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak Read More »
Keeper of the Flame (1942) George Cukor

Journalist Steve O’Malley wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Read More »
The Toy Tiger (1956) Jerry Hopper

Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Read More »
Hope (1970) Umut

“Umut” is the story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. Read More »
The Bus (1975) Otobüs

A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away. Read More »
Family Plot (1976) Alfred Hitchcock

The trickster Madam Blanche Tyler lures the elder millionaire Julia Rainbird that believes she is a spiritualist. Read More »
Four Minutes (2006) Vier Minuten

In Germany, the elder Frau Traude Krueger gives piano classes in a prison for a few prisoners and the security guard Mütze. Read More »