1950s – Rarefilm Archive

Suburban Legend (1957)

rarefilm — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:39:26 +0000

The film, depicting life in the tenement houses of Angyalföld in the thirties joins the neorealist currents of Hungarian film. Ambrus Pista, the good humoured, attractive tram conductor is loved by women for his excellent job as well. With his lover, the street-walker Terus they spy upon the neighbour as he beats his wife in jealousy.

Director: Félix Máriássy

Stars: Mari Töröcsik, Géza Tordy, Manyi Kiss

Also Known As (AKA): Külvárosi legenda

IMDB

File Name : Suburban Legend 1957.1080p.mkv
File Size : 2.61 GB / 2675.63 MB
Resolution : 1440×1080
Duration : 01:26:12
Video : AVC, 4 208 kb/s, 24.000 FPS
Audio : AAC, 128 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: Hungarian
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Hungary
Genre: Drama

Download:
Suburban_Legend_1957.1080p.mkv

Aunt Clara (1954) Anthony Kimmins

rarefilm — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:03:49 +0000

A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings–including a brothel, a gambling den, racing greyhounds, and a sleazy bar–to his eccentric niece Clara Hilton (Dame Margaret Rutherford). Clara vows to “clean up” her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den just when it’s being raided by the Police.

Director: Anthony Kimmins

Stars: Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford, A.E. Matthews

Also Known As (AKA): Die Erbschaft der Tante Clara

IMDB

File Name : Aunt Clara.avi
File Size : 1.46 GB / 1493.39 MB
Resolution : 656×496
Duration : 01:20:52
Video : MPEG-4 Visual, 2 383 kb/s, 25.000 FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: VHSRip
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Comedy, Family

Download:
Aunt_Clara.avi

Other movies by Anthony Kimmins:

The Stranger Left No Card (1952)

rarefilm — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:25:15 +0000

A strangely-garbed and eccentric-acting stranger arrives in a small English town. But, after several days on being in the town, the citizens accept him as a harmless, though a bit daft, member of the community. He then pays a visit to the town’s leading citizen and reveals himself as a man with the perfect plan for murder.

Director: Wendy Toye

Stars: Alan Badel, Cameron Hall, Geoffrey Bayldon

IMDB

File Name : The.Stranger.Left.No.Card.1952.720p.mkv
File Size : 0.73 GB / 752.41 MB
Resolution : 960×720
Duration : 00:23:20
Video : AVC, 4 376 kb/s, 24.000 FPS
Audio : AAC, 127 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: English
Subs: English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish (embedded)
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Short, Crime, Drama, Mystery

The.Stranger.Left.No.Card.1952.720p.mkv

The Faithful City (1952)

rarefilm — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:23:16 +0000

The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of orphans, Jewish refugees of the concentration camps. It takes some doing, but Smith wins the love and trust of these displaced youngsters. Like most government-funded Israeli productions of the early 1950s, Faithful City is designed more to instruct and inform than entertain.

Director: Joseph Lejtes

Stars: Jamie Smith, Ben Josef, John Slater

Also Known As (AKA): The Faithful City, Lágrimas da Rebeldia, Kirya Ne’emana, Un americano a Gerusalemme

IMDB

File Name : Faithful City 1952 1080.mkv
File Size : 2.87 GB / 2942.2 MB
Resolution : 1920×1080
Duration : 01:22:12
Video : AVC, 4 872 kb/s, 30.000 FPS
Audio : AAC, 129 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 1 channel, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: English
Subs: Hebrew, French (hardcoded)
Country: Israel, United States
Genre: Drama, History, War

Faithful_City_1952_1080.mkv

The Captain from Cologne (1956)

rarefilm — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:43:34 +0000

Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage and becomes the Director of the Montan Corporation, and a member of the West German Parliament. Herr Karjanke, the real Captain, learns of Albert’s ruse, and wants to claim his “rightful” position in Parliament. But Karjanke cannot come forward until his politicking “Doppelganger” succeeds in passing an amnesty law for war criminals. When Albert is finally brought before a judge on charges of fraud, he learns that this own amnesty law does not apply to him.

Director: Slatan Dudow

Stars: Rolf Ludwig, Erwin Geschonneck, Else Wolz

Also Known As (AKA): Der Hauptmann von Köln, Le capitaine de Cologne

IMDB

File Name : The.Captain.from.Cologne.1956.mkv
File Size : 2.78 GB / 2843.46 MB
Resolution : 714×570 @ 760×570
Duration : 01:54:27
Video : AVC, 3 280 kb/s, 25.000 FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: German
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: East Germany
Genre: Comedy

The.Captain.from.Cologne.1956.mkv

Three Cases of Murder (1955) David Eady

rarefilm — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:53:51 +0000

Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Second, when two lifelong friends fall in love with the same woman and she is killed, they are obvious suspects. Is their friendship strong enough for them to alibi each other? Third, when a young politician is terribly hurt by the arrogant Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lord Mountdrago, he uses Mountdrago’s dreams to get revenge.

Director: David Eady, George More O’Ferrall

Stars: Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars

Also Known As (AKA): Tres casos de asesinato, Trois meurtres, Tre casi di assassinio, Três Crimes, Mord ohne Mörder

IMDB

File Name : Three.Cases.of.Murder.1955.1080p.mkv
File Size : 3.92 GB / 4016.58 MB
Resolution : 1480×1080
Duration : 01:40:11
Video : AVC, 5 465 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AAC, 137 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama, Horror, Fantasy

Three.Cases.of.Murder.1955.1080p.mkv

Other movies by David Eady:

La sombra vengadora vs. La mano negra (1956)

rarefilm — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:32:37 +0000

The “Black Hand” looks for a formula to create synthetic drugs, so he kidnaps the daughter of Doctor Fuentes who is the creator. The doctor calls Sombra vengadora (“Vengeful Shadow”) to rescue Margarita who is being manipulated by the Black Hand.

Director: Rafael Baledón

Stars: Armando Silvestre, Alicia Caro, Rodolfo Landa

Also Known As (AKA): The Avenging Shadow vs. The Black Hand

IMDB

File Name : Sombra.vengadora.vs.La.Mano.Negra.1956.mkv
File Size : 1.54 GB / 1573.83 MB
Resolution : 800×600
Duration : 01:23:40
Video : AVC, 2 500 kb/s, 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Audio : AAC, 128 kb/s, 44.1 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: Spanish
Subs: None
Country: Mexico
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Sombra.vengadora.vs.La.Mano.Negra.1956.mkv

Other movies by Rafael Baledón:

Crime of Passion (1957) Gerd Oswald

rarefilm — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:35:29 +0000

Kathy is a smart and tough 1950’s advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city. One day, Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, walks into her office – it is instant attraction. After marrying Bill, Kathy gives up her career and becomes a homemaker. However, she is not your typical 1950’s homemaker. After hosting several cocktail parties in their San Fernando Valley home, she realizes that Bill is content with his position, and shows no ambition in furthering himself. Kathy will not sit idly by while everyone around her is “moving up in the world”.

Director: Gerd Oswald

Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr

Also Known As (AKA): Da Ambição ao Crime, Meurtrière Ambition, Delitto senza scampo, Delito de pasión, Das war Mord, Mr. Doyle

IMDB

File Name : Crime of Passion 1957.mkv
File Size : 1.81 GB / 1849.1 MB
Resolution : 1024×556
Duration : 01:25:44
Video : AVC, 2 821 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: BRRip
Language: English
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: United States
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Crime_of_Passion_1957.mkv

Other movies by Gerd Oswald:

Lucky Boots / Kalosze szczescia (1958)

rarefilm — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:53:43 +0000

Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.

Director: Antoni Bohdziewicz

Stars: Maria Gella, Teofila Koronkiewicz, Tadeusz Fijewski

IMDB

File Name : Kalosze.szczescia.1958.1080p.mkv
File Size : 2.57 GB / 2629.47 MB
Resolution : 1920×1080
Duration : 01:30:14
Video : AVC, 3 982 kb/s, 25.000 FPS
Audio : AAC, 88.9 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: Polish
Subs: English, Polish (embedded)
Country: Poland
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy

Kalosze.szczescia.1958.1080p.mkv

Live Fast, Die Young (1958) Paul Henreid

rarefilm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:38:07 +0000

Two sisters live in a dysfunctional family in a California town. The elder, “nice” Kim, was sexually abused and hates men. Rebellious teen Jill is fed-up generally and runs away, finding her niche as a B-girl and sex-kitten working her way to Vegas. Kim leaves her job and goes in search of Jill, meeting her own misadventures en route; but by this time Jill’s wanted for robbery. Will she live fast and die young?

Director: Paul Henreid

Stars: Mary Murphy, Norma Eberhardt, Mike Connors

Also Known As (AKA): Pressés de vivre, O Poço da Perdição, Live Fast and Young, Seeds of Violence

IMDB

File Name : Live.Fast.Die.Young.1958.mkv
File Size : 1.51 GB / 1547.53 MB
Resolution : 854×462
Duration : 01:22:03
Video : AVC, 2 457 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AAC, 103 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 1 channel, 2 streams

Quality: BRRip
Language: English, commentary (2 separate audio tracks)
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: United States
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Live.Fast.Die.Young.1958.mkv

Other movies by Paul Henreid: