Jules Dassin – RareFilm

Celui qui doit mourir / He Who Must Die (1957) Jules Dassin

rarefilm — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:23:16 +0000

Three townspeople cause an uproar when they try to help refugees on a Greek island occupied by Turks.

Also Known As (AKA): Aquele que Deve Morrer, Colui che deve morire, El que debe morir, Der Mann, der sterben muss

File Name : He.Who.Must.Die.1957.mkv
File Size : 3.89 GB / 3987.34 MB
Resolution : 1024×438
Duration : 02:07:49

Quality: BRRip
Language: French + commentary by film historian/filmmaker Daniel Kremer
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: France, Italy
Genre: Drama

He.Who.Must.Die.1957.mkv

La legge / The Law (1959) Jules Dassin, Gina Lollobrigida

rarefilm — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:00:56 +0000

Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the ‘game of the Law,’ selecting one by lot to boss and humiliate the others. Illicit passions abound: the judge’s wife pursues Francesco, son of crime boss Matteo, who is after Marietta (so is her brother-in-law); Marietta wants engineer Enrico for a husband, but he claims he’s too poor to marry. So she decides to steal herself a dowry!

Also Known As (AKA): A Lei dos Crápulas, La Loi, A Lei, Where the Hot Wind Blows!, Wo der heiße Wind weht

IMDB

File Name : The.Law.1959.1080p.mkv
File Size : 3.17 GB / 3249.4 MB
Resolution : 1920×1080
Duration : 02:01:14

Quality: WEBRip
Language: French
Subs: English (hardcoded)
Country: Italy, France
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

The.Law.1959.1080p.mkv

Nazi Agent (1942) Jules Dassin, Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher

rarefilm — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:16:11 +0000

A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Veidt), one a loyal American and the other, a Nazi official.

Also Known As (AKA): Sombra do Passado, Fuera del pasado, Salute to Courage, House of Spies, Out of the Past

IMDB

File Name : Nazi.Agent.1942.mkv
File Size : 1208.81 MB
Resolution : 624×476
Duration : 01:23:29

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama

Nazi.Agent.1942.mkv

Circle of Two (1980) Jules Dassin, Tatum O’Neal, Norma Dell’Agnese, Donann Cavin

rarefilm — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 21:20:27 +0000

The story of the impossible love between a schoolgirl and a sixty-year-old painter.
In Toronto, the fifteen-year-old student and aspirant writer Sarah Norton meets the sixty-year-old painter Ashley St. Clair in a cafeteria while hiding from her stalker boyfriend Paul. Ashley hasn’t painted for ten years. He agrees to read the poems that Sarah has written. They start seeing each other at his studio and Sarah falls in love with him. Ashley feels a platonic love for Sarah that becomes his muse and he decides to paint again. Paul spies Sarah in Ashley’s studio, and misunderstands their relationship, he attacks her in a cornfield, but she defends herself.

Also Known As (AKA): Círculo de Dois Amantes, Les âges du coeur, Quei due, Círculo de dos, Obsession, 2 Herzen voller Liebe

IMDB

File Name : Circle of Two 1980.avi
File Size : 1.44 GB / 1476.71 MB
Resolution : 640×480 @ 650×480
Duration : 01:38:31

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English, Russian (2 tracks)
Country: Canada
Genre: Drama

Circle_of_Two_1980.avi

Thieves’ Highway (1949) Jules Dassin, Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb

rarefilm — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:44:59 +0000

The soldier Nick Garcos returns back home from the war very happy with gifts for his parents Yanko and Parthena Garcos and money in his pocket to open a business and get married with his girlfriend Polly Faber. Out of blue, Nick realizes that his father lost both legs and Yanko, who was a truck driver, tells that he was cheated by the dealer Mike Figlia in the San Francisco’s market when he delivered a truckload of tomatoes and was not paid. He believes that his accident was provoked by Figlia’s gangsters. He also tells that he sold the truck to a driver named Ed Kinney that has not paid him. Nick meets Ed and tells that he will bring the truck back, but Ed proposes a deal with apples, where they may earn a great amount. Nick invests his savings in another truck and buys apples from a Polish farmer. They need to drive directly to the market in San Francisco without sleeping to keep the fruits fresh, but Ed’s truck has problem on its axle and Nick arrives first.

Also Known As (AKA): Mercado de Ladrões, Les bas-fonds de Frisco, I corsari della strada, Mercado de ladrones, Gefahr in Frisco

IMDB

File Name : Thieves Highway 1949.mkv
File Size : 1.35 GB / 1380.92 MB
Resolution : 768×576
Duration : 01:33:59

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

Thieves_Highway_1949.mkv

Rififi / Du rififi chez les hommes (1955) Jules Dassin, Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel

rarefilm — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:16:51 +0000

After making such American noir classics as Brute Force and The Naked City, the blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious robbery in the City of Light. Rififi is the ultimate heist movie, a mélange of suspense, brutality, and dark humor that was an international hit, earned Dassin the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and has proven wildly influential on the decades of heist thrillers that have come in its wake.

IMDB

File Name : Rififi 1955.mkv
File Size : 2.05 GB / 2098.94 MB
Resolution : 790×576
Duration : 01:58:24

Quality: BRRip
Language: French
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: France
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir

Rififi_1955.mkv

Never on Sunday / Pote tin Kyriaki (1960) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Foundas

rarefilm — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:17:58 +0000

Illia is Piraeus’s most popular person: an energetic prostitute, full of life and good humor. Every day, she swims at the pier, entertaining the dock hands. Sundays she has an open house with food, drink and song. Homer Thrace, an amateur philosopher from Middletown, Conn., arrives in town to find out why Greece has fallen from ancient greatness. He decides Illia is a symbol of that fall, so he sets out to study and to save her. Unknown to Illia, he gets the money for the books and all else he gives her from Mr. No Face, the local vice boss who wants Illia retired because her independence gives other whores ideas. Whose spirit is stronger: Homer’s classical ideal or Illia’s?

Also Known As (AKA): Nunca aos Domingos, Jamais le dimanche, Mai di domenica

IMDB

File Name : Never on Sunday.avi
File Size : 1.33 GB / 1360.04 MB
Resolution : 656×400
Duration : 01:32:49

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Greek
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Greece
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Never_on_Sunday.avi
Never_on_Sunday.srt

Night and the City (1950) Jules Dassin, Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers

rarefilm — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:53:10 +0000

Harry Fabian is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at a London wrestling arena run by his son Kristo, he dreams up a scheme that he thinks will finally be his ticket to financial independence. As Fabian attempts to con everyone around him to get his scheme to work, he of course only ends up conning himself. This is an interesting tale of blind ambition, self-deception, broken dreams, and how a man who always thinks he’s ahead of the game ends up tripping himself very badly.

Also Known As (AKA): Sombras do Mal, Les forbans de la nuit, I trafficanti della notte, Foragidos da Noite, Noche en la ciudad, Die Ratte von Soho

IMDB

File Name : Night.and.the.City.1950.rarefilm.net.mkv
File Size : 2.04 GB / 2084.7 MB
Resolution : 768×576
Duration : 01:35:38

Quality: BRRip
Language: English + commentary
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: United Kingdom
Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Night.and.the.City.1950.rarefilm.net.mkv

UpTight (1968) Jules Dassin, Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera

rarefilm — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:31:48 +0000

Uptight is an updated remake of John Ford’s 1935 film, The Informer. Dublin becomes the Cleveland ghetto and the Irish Republicans are replaced by black revolutionary fighters.
Days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Tank Williams (Julian Mayfield) is an unemployed and itinerant steelworker who turns over his militant friend, Johnny (Max Julien) to the police for the $1,000 reward, resulting in an underground all-points bulletin to exact vengeance on the squealer.

Also Known As (AKA): No delatarás, O Poder Negro, Point noir, Tradimento, Black Power

IMDB

File Name : Uptight.1968.mkv
File Size : 2.61 GB / 2676.91 MB
Resolution : 1024×576
Duration : 01:44:22

Quality: BRRip
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Thriller

Uptight.1968.mkv

Reunion in France (1942) Jules Dassin, Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn

rarefilm — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 20:08:34 +0000

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.

Also Known As (AKA): Uma Aventura em Paris, Réunion en France, La grande fiamma, Encontro em França, Mademoiselle France

IMDB

File Name : Reunion In France.mkv
File Size : 1527.98 MB
Resolution : 688×512
Duration : 01:43:57

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Subs: English, French (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Reunion_In_France.mkv

The Naked City (1948) Jules Dassin, Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart

rarefilm — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:58:25 +0000

Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence. Filmed entirely on location in New York City.

Also Known As (AKA): Stadt ohne Maske, Die nackte Stadt, Cidade Nua, La cité sans voiles, La città nuda, Nos Bastidores de Nova Iorque, La ciudad desnuda, Homicide

IMDB

File Name : The Naked City 1948.mkv
File Size : 4789.08 MB
Resolution : 960×720
Duration : 01:35:57
Video : AVC, 6 500 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 256 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 1 channel, 2 streams

Quality: BRRip
Language: English + commentary
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

The_Naked_City_1948.mkv

The Rehearsal (1974) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Mikis Theodorakis, Olympia Dukakis

rarefilm — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:30:04 +0000

A recreation of how the Greek military junta that started in 1967 tragically affected university students.

Also Known As (AKA): I dokimi, Drifting Cities

IMDB

File Name : The Rehearsal 1974.avi
File Size : 664.32 MB
Resolution : 576×432
Duration : 01:23:58
Video : MPEG-4 Visual (XviD), 971 Kbps, 25.000 fps
Audio : MPEG Audio (MPEG-1 Audio layer 3), 128 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: TVRip
Language: English, Greek
Subs: Greek (hardcoded)
Genre: Drama

The_Rehearsal_1974.avi

The Affairs of Martha (1942) Jules Dassin, Marsha Hunt, Richard Carlson, Marjorie Main

rarefilm — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:18:10 +0000

The town gossips are reporting that a household servant in exclusive Rocky Point is writing an expose of the colony. Mrs. Sophia Sommerfield is convinced it can’t be either one of her maids, Martha Lindstrom or Mrs. McKessic, although, unknown to Sophia, she is totally unaware that her son, Jeff, is married to Martha. At the moment, Jeff wants a divorce so he can marry another woman. The book comes out and Sophia is relieved to find that Martha’s book does not reveal Sophia’s fondness for reading “true-confession” magazines, nor mention that Sophia’s young daughter, Mirand, writers her club reports for Sophia. Other items are cleaned up, also.

Also Known As (AKA): Sua Criada Obrigada, Viviremos otra vez, Once Upon a Thursday

IMDB

File Name : The.Affairs.of.Martha.1942.avi
File Size : 700.12 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:06:28
Video : MPEG-4 Visual (XviD), 1 400 Kbps, 23.976 fps
Audio : MPEG Audio (MPEG-1 Audio layer 3), 60.3 Kbps (VBR), 48.0 KHz, 1 channel, 1 stream

Quality: TVRip
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Romance

The.Affairs.of.Martha.1942.avi

Promise at Dawn (1970) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Assi Dayan, Didier Haudepin, Drama

rarefilm — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:25:19 +0000

Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother — the boy’s father is a famous actor who wants nothing to do with either Nina or her child. She joins an acting troupe where she impersonates a famous French fashion designer, but she leaves the group in Krakow, Poland, when her true identity is discovered. She travels to France, taking several odd jobs in Nice to support her son. When the boy grows to young adulthood, he is recruited to fight during World War II for the French and later the British. He is decorated for valor and returns to locate his estranged mother after two years have passed. Upon arriving home, he finds that his mother had died several years earlier but that she meticulously wrote over 250 letters to give her son moral support and encouragement in the years to come.

Also Known As (AKA): Promesa al amanecer, La promesse de l’aube, Promessa all’alba, A Promessa, Versprechen in der Dämmerung

IMDB

File Name : Promise.at.Dawn.1970.mkv
File Size : 1143.4 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:37:57
Video : AVC (AVC), 25.000 fps
Audio : AAC (AAC LC), 44.1 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: VHSRip
Language: English
Genre: Drama

Promise.at.Dawn.1970.mkv

Kravgi gynaikon / A Dream of Passion (1978) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andréas Voutsinas, Drama

rarefilm — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:03:57 +0000

Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy “Medea” (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. As a publicity stunt, she arranges a meeting with an American woman (Ellen Burstyn) who is serving a prison term for killing her own children. Features Mercouri performing “Medea” in the original, intercut with Burstyn narrating her crime.

Also Known As (AKA): Grito de mujer, Traum einer Leidenschaft, Gritos de pasión

IMDB

File Name : dream passion.avi
File Size : 896.5 MB
Resolution : 544×416
Duration : 01:46:05
Video : MPEG-4 Visual (XviD), 918 Kbps, 29.970 fps
Audio : AC-3 (AC3), 256 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: VHSRip
Language: English, Greek
Subs: English (hardcoded)
Genre: Drama

dream_passion.avi