Jean Cocteau – RareFilm

Beauty and the Beast / La belle et la bête (1946) Jean Cocteau, René Clément, Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély

rarefilm — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 21:29:59 +0000

Adélaïde, Belle, Félicie and Ludovic are young adult siblings who once lived in grandeur until their father’s merchant ships were lost at sea. The family is now near ruin, but Adélaïde and Félicie nonetheless still squander away the family money on themselves and keeping beautiful, whereas Belle slaves around the house, doting on her father. Ludovic detests his two spoiled sisters, but is protective of Belle, especially with his friend Avenant, a handsome scoundrel who wants to marry Belle. Crossing the forest one dark and stormy evening, the father gets lost and takes refuge in a fantastical castle. Upon leaving, he steals a blossom off a rose bush, which Belle requested. The castle’s resident, an angry beast, sentences him to one of two options for the theft of the rose: his own death, or that of one of his daughters. As she feels she is the cause of her father’s predicament (despite her sisters asking for far more lavish gifts), Belle sacrifices herself to the beast.

Also Known As (AKA): Es war einmal, A Bela e a Fera, Die Schöne und die Bestie, La bella e la bestia, A Bela e o Monstro

IMDB

File Name : Beauty and the Beast 1946.mkv
File Size : 1.85 GB / 1896.71 MB
Resolution : 768×576
Duration : 01:33:55

Quality: BRRip
Language: French + commentary
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: France
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Beauty_and_the_Beast_1946.mkv

The Eagle with Two Heads / L’aigle à deux têtes (1948) Jean Cocteau, Edwige Feuillère, Silvia Monfort, Jean Marais

rarefilm — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:41:54 +0000

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband’s assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who’s drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen’s enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.

Also Known As (AKA): Der Doppeladler, L’aquila a due teste, A Águia de Duas Cabeças, El águila de dos cabezas

IMDB

File Name : L.Aigle.a.Deux.Tetes.1948.avi
File Size : 1119.7 MB
Resolution : 640×464
Duration : 01:27:21

Quality: DVDRip
Language: French
Subs: English, German (srt)
Genre: Drama

L.Aigle.a.Deux.Tetes.1948.avi
L.Aigle.a.Deux.Tetes.1948.ENG.srt
L.Aigle.a.Deux.Tetes.1948.DE.srt

Orpheus (1950) Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares

rarefilm — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:40:00 +0000

Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee’s wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess’ henchmen and Orphee goes after her into the Underworld. Although they have become dangerously entangled, the Princess sends Orphee back out of the Underworld, to carry on his life with Eurydice.

Also Known As (AKA): Orphée, Orfeu, Orfeo

IMDB

File Name : Orpheus 1950.mkv
File Size : 1617.07 MB
Resolution : 768×576
Duration : 01:36:01

Quality: BRRip
Language: French + commentary
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance

Orpheus_1950.mkv

The Storm Within / Les parents terribles (1948) Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, Josette Day, Yvonne de Bray

rarefilm — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:28:55 +0000

When Michel, who’s 22, tells his parents he is in love, his mother Yvonne is distraught, believing she will lose his love (which is the center of her life), and his father Georges is distressed because it is Georges’ mistress, Madeleine, whom his son loves. Yvonne and Georges financially and emotionally depend on Michel’s maiden aunt, Léo, who was once engaged to Georges but gave him up to her sister. Léo resolves to help them separate Michel and Madeleine, choreographs an elaborate meeting at Madeleine’s flat where Georges concocts a lie that Madeleine feels she must embrace, and the lovers part. Aunt Léo then has a change of heart and tries to put everything right.

Also Known As (AKA): O Pecado Original, Die schrecklichen Eltern, I parenti terribili, La familia terrible, Los padres terribles

IMDB

File Name : The Storm Within 1948.mkv
File Size : 1.92 GB / 1963.16 MB
Resolution : 792×576
Duration : 01:40:10

Quality: BRRip
Language: French
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: France
Genres: Drama

The_Storm_Within_1948.mkv

America As Seen by a Frenchman / L’Amérique insolite (1960) François Reichenbach, Jean Cocteau, Paul Klinger, June Richmond

rarefilm — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:14:17 +0000

This documentary is a general, unquestioning travelog of the United States through the eyes of French director and co-cameraman Francois Reichenbach, a director often fascinated with life in the home of the French-made Statue of Liberty. From the attractions of the West Coast including Disneyland to the skyscrapers of New York, Reichenbach is curious about everything. A prison rodeo (later to come under closer and more critical scrutiny in the ’90s), culturally and ethnically mixed neighborhoods, religions outside the mainstream, ghost towns, and the unique world of the American teen are all given a peek. These views of the U.S. are informative though absent of critical analysis.

Also Known As (AKA): Traumland Goldener Westen, L’America vista da un francese, USA ohne Maske

IMDB

File Name : Amerique_insolite.avi
File Size : 748.29 MB
Resolution : 640×288
Duration : 01:26:13
Video : MPEG-4 Visual (XviD), 1 075 Kbps, 25.000 fps
Audio : MPEG Audio (MPEG-1 Audio layer 3), 128 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: VHSRip
Language: French
Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Documentary

Amerique_insolite.rar

The Blood of a Poet (1932) Jean Cocteau, Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton

rarefilm — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:05:04 +0000

A young artist draws a face at a canvas on his easel. Suddenly the mouth on the drawing comes into life and starts talking. The artist tries to wipe it away with his hand, but when he looks into the hand he finds the living mouth on his palm. He tries to wipe it off on the mouth of an unfinished statue of a young woman. The statue comes into life and tells him that the only way out of the studio is through the looking glass. The artist jumps into the mirror and comes to the Hotel of Dramatic Lunacies. He peeps through the keyholes of a series of hotel rooms. In the last room he sees desperate meetings of hermaphrodites. One of them has a signboard saying “Mortal danger”. Back in the studio the artist crushes the statue with a sledgehammer. Because of this he himself becomes a statue, located at the side of a square. Some schoolboys start a snowball fight around the statue. One of the boys is killed by a snowball. A fashionable couple start playing cards at a table beside the corpse.

Also Known As (AKA): Le sang d’un poète, Sangue de Um Poeta, Das Blut eines Dichters, La sangre de un poeta, Das Blut eines Dichters

IMDB

File Name : the.blood.of.a.poet.1932.720p.mkv
File Size : 2235.12 MB
Resolution : 848×720
Duration : 00:50:43

Quality: BRRip
Language: French
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Fantasy

the.blood.of.a.poet.1932.720p.mkv