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A Passage to India (1984) David Lean, Judy Davis

rarefilm — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:19:55 +0000

Circa 1920, during the Indian British rule, Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed was born and brought up in India. He is proficient in English, and wears Western style clothing. He meets an old lady, Mrs. Moore, at a mosque, who asks him to accompany her and her companion, Adela Quested, for sight-seeing around some caves. Thereafter the organized life of Aziz is turned upside down when Adela accuses him of molesting her in a cave. Aziz is arrested and brought before the courts, where he learns that the entire British administration is against him, and would like to see him found guilty and punished severely, to teach all native Indians what it means to molest a British citizen. Aziz is all set to witness the “fairness” of the British system, whose unofficial motto is “guilty until proved innocent.”

Also Known As (AKA): Passagem para a Índia, La route des Indes, Passaggio in India, Pasaje a la India, Reise nach Indien

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File Name : A.Passage.To.India.1984.720p.mkv
File Size : 2.78 GB / 2842.97 MB
Resolution : 1200×720
Duration : 02:43:57

Quality: BRRip
Language: English
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

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This Happy Breed (1944) David Lean, Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness

rarefilm — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:48:04 +0000

David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noël Coward’s epic chronicle of a working-class family in the London suburbs over the course of two decades. Robert Newton and Celia Johnson are surpassingly affecting as Frank and Ethel Gibbons, a couple with three children whose modest household is touched by joy and tragedy from the tail end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second. With its mix of politics and melodrama, This Happy Breed is a quintessential British domestic drama, featuring subtly expressive Technicolor cinematography by Ronald Neame and a remarkable supporting cast including John Mills, Stanley Holloway, and Kay Walsh.

Also Known As (AKA): Este Povo Alegre, Heureux mortels, Wunderbare Zeiten, La famiglia Gibson, Esta Nobre Raça, La vida manda

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File Name : This.Happy.Breed.1944.mkv
File Size : 2.74 GB / 2803.62 MB
Resolution : 790×576
Duration : 01:51:12

Quality: BRRip
Language: English
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: United Kingdom
Genres: Comedy, Drama

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Madeleine (1950) David Lean, Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny

rarefilm — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 18:02:47 +0000

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

Also known as: As Cartas de Madeleine, Ei syyllinen eikä syytön, To mystiko tis Madeleine Smith, L’amore segreto di Madeleine, Culpada ou Inocente?, The Strange Case of Madeleine

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File Name : Madeleine 1950.avi
File Size : 1473.46 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:50:13
Video : MPEG-4 Visual (XviD), 1 728 Kbps, 25.000 fps
Audio : MPEG Audio (MPEG-1 Audio layer 3), 128 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama

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Brief Encounter (1945) David Lean, Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway

rarefilm — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 21:48:32 +0000

After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, swooning Rachmaninoff score, and pair of remarkable performances (Johnson was nominated for an Oscar), this film, directed by David Lean and based on Noël Coward’s play Still Life deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of an illicit romance, and has influenced many a cinematic brief encounter since its release.

Also Known As (AKA): Desencanto, Brève rencontre, Begegnung, Breve incontro, Breve encuentro

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BRRip 720p | MKV | 986 x 720 | x264 @ 1984 Kbps | 1h 26mn | 1.35 GB
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Romance

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Ryan’s Daughter (1970) David Lean, Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills

rarefilm — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:28:54 +0000

World War I seems far away from Ireland’s Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy (Sarah Miles) goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her father’s pub and Rosy was tending bar for the first time since her marriage to the village schoolmaster. Then one stormy night some Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns arrive at Ryan’s pub. Is it Rosy who betrays them to the British? Will Shaugnessy take Father Collin’s advice? Is the pivotal role that of the village idiot who is mute?

Also Known As (AKA): A Filha de Ryan, La fille de Ryan, La figlia di Ryan, La hija de Ryan, Michael’s Day, Ryans Tochter

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File Name : Ryans.Daughter.1970.mkv
File Size : 4441.23 MB
Resolution : 1280×720
Duration : 03:26:17

Quality: BRRip
Language: English
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Romance

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In Which We Serve (1942) Noël Coward, David Lean, John Mills, Bernard Miles

rarefilm — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:32:10 +0000

In the midst of World War II, the renowned playwright Noël Coward engaged a young film editor named David Lean to help him realize his vision for an action drama about a group of Royal Navy sailors (roles that would be filled by Coward himself, Bernard Miles, and John Mills, among others) fighting the Germans in the Mediterranean. Coward and Lean ended up codirecting the large-scale project – an impressive undertaking, especially considering that neither of them had directed for the big screen before (this would be Coward’s only such credit). Cutting between a major naval battle and flashbacks to the men’s lives before they left home, In Which We Serve (an Oscar nominee for best picture) was a major breakthrough for both filmmakers and a sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda.

This is a really first-rate film, much more convincing than the fairly crude WWII propaganda films the US studios were turning out around the same time. The good guys and the bad guys are just as clearly delineated, but in some ways – perhaps the consistent understatement of emotions and the sometimes over-the-top stiff upper lips displayed by the characters – the stakes, and the dangers, seem clearer. There are no John Waynes or Errol Flynns on this ship.

The acting is extremely good, although Noel Coward seems a little stiff and uncomfortable in his leading role. John Mills and Bernard Miles are outstanding, and Celia Johnson (in her first film role) is simply extraordinary. The final scene, where Coward as the captain of the lost ship shakes hands with the survivors, is unexpectedly moving.

Also Known As (AKA): Nosso Barco Nossa Alma, Ceux qui servent en mer, Eroi del mare, Sangre sudor y lágrimas

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BRRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2560 Kbps | 1h 55mn | 2.18 GB
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 160 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama, War

In.Which.We.Serve.1942.720p.mkv

Summertime (1955) David Lean, Katharine Hepburn

rarefilm — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:37:13 +0000

The American secretary Jane Hudson travels from Ohio to Venice. Jane is a middle-age single and lonely woman that have saved money for her dream trip. On the arrival, she immediately befriends the owner of the boarding house Signora Fiorini. During the night, she goes to a café and an Italian helps her to call the waiter. Jane feels sort of uncomfortable for being alone and on the next day, she sees a red glass goblet in the window of an antique store. The owner Renato de Rossi, who is the man that helped her, explains that it is an ancient goblet from the Eighteenth Century and therefore expensive; then he also explains that she should always bargain for a lower price in Venice. Jane recognizes Renato from the previous night and becomes clumsy. Soon Renato woos her but the needy Jane is afraid to love.

Also Known As (AKA): Locuras de verano, Vacances à Venise, Summer Madness, Tempo d’estate, Loucura em Veneza, Traum meines Lebens

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File Name : Summertime.1955.720p.mkv
File Size : 1576.44 MB
Resolution : 1280×720
Duration : 01:39:45

Quality: BRRip
Language: English
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Romance, Drama

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Blithe Spirit (1945) David Lean, Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond

rarefilm — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:47:19 +0000

Blithe Spirit, David Lean’s delightful film version of Noël Coward’s theater sensation (onstage, it broke London box-office records before hitting Broadway), stars Rex Harrison as a novelist who cheekily invites a medium (Margaret Rutherford) to his house to conduct a séance, hoping the experience will inspire a book he’s working on. Things go decidedly not as planned when she summons the spirit of his dead first wife (Kay Hammond), a severe inconvenience for his current one (Constance Cummings). Employing Oscar-winning special effects to spruce up Coward’s theatrical farce, Blithe Spirit is a sprightly supernatural comedy with winning performances.

Also Known As (AKA): L’esprit s’amuse, Geisterkomödie, Spirito allegro, Uma Mulher do Outro Mundo, Un espíritu burlón

IMDB – Won 1 Oscar

BRRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2560 Kbps | 96 min | 1.83 GB
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 160 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy

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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean

rarefilm — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 12:58:10 +0000

This movie deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge, but under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson, they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit, and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese Commandant Saito. He is an honorable, but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded, obsessive man.

Director: David Lean

Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

Also Known As (AKA): Le pont de la rivière Kwaï, Die Brücke am Kwai, Il ponte sul fiume Kwai, A Ponte do Rio Kwai, El puente sobre el río Kwai

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File Name : The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957_1080p.mkv
File Size : 5796.22 MB
Resolution : 1920×752
Duration : 02:41:28

Quality: BRRip
Language: English, Italian, Spanish (3 tracks)
Subs: English, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish (embedded)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Thanks JamesUK for this copy

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Great Expectations (1946) David Lean, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance

rarefilm — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:29:29 +0000

Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife ‘Mrs. Joe’. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy rich Miss Havisham at her estate, who actually has ‘permission’ to break the kind kid’s heart; being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins his heart forever, even after a mysterious benefactor pays through a lawyer for his education and a rich allowance, so he can become a snob in London, by now ‘…

Also Known As (AKA): Grandes esperanzas, Die großen Erwartungen, Cadenas rotas, Les grandes espérances, Grandi speranze

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Oliver Twist (1948) David Lean, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Adventure, Crime, Drama

rarefilm — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:08:17 +0000

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan), for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger (Anthony Newley) and his criminal mentor, Fagin (Alec Guinness). When kindly Mr. Brownlow (Henry Stephenson) takes Oliver in, Fagin’s evil henchman Bill Sikes (Robert Newton) plots to kidnap the boy.

David Lean’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ most irresistible tale must rank as one of the most astounding masterpieces in all of cinema.

Every detail is wrought with the most painstaking detail and nuance. There are many scenes which stand out but none is more exhilarating as the astounding ending when it appears as if all of London has come out to rescue our hero.

My favorite aspect of this film has to be the depiction of a London in which we have all dreamed of living: gritty, lusty, ugly, beautiful, attractive, repulsive but most of all, exceptionally unique and endearing – yet with pomp and poverty existing side by side.

Oh, so much to say about this film. One runs out of words.

Every performance remains in one’s memory, every image in one’s heart.

Also Known As (AKA): Le avventure di Oliver Twist, As Aventuras de Oliver Twist

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BRRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2048 Kbps | 1h 51mn | 1,71 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 160 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama

Oliver.Twist.1948.720p.mkv

The Passionate Friends (1949) David Lean, Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains, Drama

rarefilm — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 23:30:47 +0000

The Passionate Friends were in love when young, but separated, and she married an older man. Then Mary Justin meets Steven Stratton again and they have one last fling together in the Alps.

Also Known As (AKA): Die große Leidenschaft, A História de uma Mulher, Stjålne timer, Amigos apasionados, Els Amics apassionats, Kielletty ystävyys, Les amants passionnés, To fthinoporo mias agapis, Sogno d’amanti, De grote passie, Namietni przyjaciele, Mais Forte Que o Amor, Längtan, One Woman’s Story

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Breaking the Sound Barrier (1952) David Lean, Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, Drama, Romance, War

rarefilm — Tue, 03 May 2016 21:34:28 +0000

Tony successful fighter pilot during World War II marries into the family of a wealthy oil magnate who also designs airplanes. The movie traces the company’s attempt to break the sound barrier, as well as tensions between father and daughter. Lots of footage of early 50s jet aviation in Great Britain as well as shots of the Comet airliner, world’s first jet passenger plane.

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