rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films

Yerevanyan Oreri Khronikan (1972)

Jon W. — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:38:51 +0000

In 1970s Yerevan, Armen, a compassionate archivist at the National Archives, spends his days helping ordinary citizens uncover forgotten truths about their past. Haunted by the human consequences of the records he handles, he becomes increasingly troubled by the way history can preserve injustice as easily as it preserves memory. As Armen struggles to reconcile his desire for truth with his concern for the people affected by it, his personal life and growing relationship with a young woman named Anahit intertwine with a profound meditation on memory, identity, and the weight of history.

Director: Frunze Dovlatyan. AKA Chronicle of Yerevan Days
Writers: Frunze Dovlatyan, Perj Zeytuntsyan.
Stars: Khoren Abrahamyan, Julietta Avakyan, Armen Ayvazyan, Leonard Sarkisov, Gurgen Janibekyan, Yelizaveta Khudabashyan, Ruben Martirosyan.
Cinematographer: Albert Yavuryan.
Composer: Avet Terteryan.

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MP4 | 1.59 GB | 1024×498 | 24 FPS | 2000 kb/s | AAC 161 kb/s
Language: Armenian | Subtitles: English (hard)

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MKV | 1.64 GB | 1024×498 | 24 FPS | 2042 kb/s | AC3 192 kb/s
Language: Armenian | Subtitles: English (soft)

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Unless there’s an official release on Bluray this is probably the best quality copy we’ll see of this Armenian gem and of course it wouldn’t have been possible to see it if it wasn’t for the selfless work of an internet pirate who spent countless hours working on the restoration of this film working with multiple sources and combining them to create the best copy available, both in video and audio. Thanks a lot to sjostrom27 @KG for this restoration!

De stedeling (1984)

Jon W. — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:38:34 +0000

A young man from the city decides to travel into the Dutch countryside. There, he notices strange mound-like shapes in the fields covered by white plastic tarps. The local farmers casually explain that the mounds contain silage or hay, but the man becomes suspicious. When he secretly peeks underneath, he discovers something bizarre instead: stacks of consumer goods like sugar, canned soup, and sliced bread.

Director: Alex van Warmerdam.
Writer: Alex van Warmerdam.
Stars: Alex van Warmerdam.

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MP4 | 162 MB | 704×568 | 25 FPS | 2000 kb/s | AAC 160 kb/s
Language: Dutch | Subtitles: English (hard)

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MKV | 160 MB | 704×568 | 25 FPS | 1950 kb/s | AC3 192 kb/s
Language: Dutch | Subtitles: English, Dutch, French (soft)

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Ema (1992)

Jon W. — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:17:54 +0000

In the winter of 1992, in a small provincial town in Moldova, a young woman named Ema wanders through the drab corners of her surroundings in search of meaning, pleasure, or a way out. Like Flaubert’s Emma Bovary, she dreams of a different life, finding refuge in films, fantasies, and daydreams as she struggles to escape the monotony and emptiness of her everyday existence.

Director: Bogdan-Cristian Dragan.
Writer: Bogdan-Cristian Dragan.
Stars: Ioana Moldovan, Constantin Rădoaca, Bianca Brad, Mara Gregory, Lia Bugnar, Adina Cartianu.
Cinematographer: Emil Stan.

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MP4 | 745 MB | 2048×1080 | 24 FPS | 5489 kb/s | AAC 192 kb/s
Language: Romanian | Subtitles: English (hard)

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You can find many more graduation films from former students of the I.L Caragiale University of Theatre and Film all in restored HD quality and with English subtitles on their website.

Imagining October (1984)

Jon W. — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:07:37 +0000

Produced for the 1984 London Film Festival, Derek Jarman’s Imagining October is a dreamlike meditation on art and politics in the final years of the Cold War. In this film Jarman explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite Britain. The title refers to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and Sergei Eisenstein’s propaganda film October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928).

Director: Derek Jarman.
Writers: Shaun Allen (commentary), Derek Jarman (commentary).
Stars: Angus Cook, Peter Doig, Toby Mott, Stephen Thrower, Keir Wahid, John Watkiss, Peter Wollen.
Cinematographers: Richard Heslop, Derek Jarman, Carl Johnson, Sally Potter, Cerith Wyn Evans
Composers: Dave Ball, Genesis P-Orridge

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MP4 | 260 MB | 674×540 | 25 FPS | 1225 kb/s | AAC 112 kb/s
Language: English | Subtitles: None

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L’oeuvre au noir (1988)

Jon W. — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:53:26 +0000

André Delvaux’s final feature film, based on the novel L’oeuvre au noir (Het hermetisch zwart/The Abyss) by Belgian-born novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, tells the story of Zeno, a doctor and alchemist whose quest for knowledge takes him around 16th-century Europe. The film focuses on the end of Zeno’s travels, when he has returned to Bruges to contemplate his life. Living quietly under an assumed name, he treats the sick in one of the town’s religious houses. But once his identity becomes known, the church authorities put him on trial.

Director: André Delvaux. AKA The Abyss
Writers: André Delvaux, Marguerite Yourcenar (novel).
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe, Anna Karina, Philippe Léotard, Jean Bouise, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marie-France Pisier, Mathieu Carrière, Pierre Dherte, Johan Leysen, Mathieu Carrière, Senne Rouffaer, Geert Desmet, Michel Poncelet, Harry Cleven, Roger Van Hool, Jules-Henri Marchant, Christian Maillet.
Cinematographer: Charles Van Damme.
Composer: Frédéric Devreese.

1998 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

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MP4 | 1.96 GB | 718×572 | 25 FPS | 2500 kb/s | AAC 192 kb/s
Language: French | Subtitles: English (hard)

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MKV | 2.94 GB | 718×572 | 25 FPS | 3799 kb/s | AC3 256 kb/s
Language: French | Subtitles: English (soft)

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Edes Anna (1958)

Jon W. — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:49:16 +0000

The heroine of this drama played out at the beginning of the Horthy era is a chambermaid who has travelled up from the countryside to work in the capital. Through her vulnerability we clearly see the interdependency of society at that time. Anna moves from paradise to a family lacking in love or compassion, where she loses everything and everyone who once loved her. The director of the film based on the novel of the same name by Dezső Kosztolányi worked out the scenes with absolute precision. Thanks to this and the finest actors of the age, we have one of the most moving films ever made in Hungary.

“From the very moment when Anna turns up in the story, everything you see is presented from her point of view… My purpose was to make the viewer experience along with her the complicated psychological process she is undergoing: the mental stages of heart-sickening solitude, of endless humiliation, of suddenly awakening love, of sudden ecstasy, of the pangs of love, of forsakenness, of ultimate depression, and of final exaltation.” – Zoltán Fábri.

Director: Zoltán Fábri. AKA Sweet Ana
Writers: Péter Bacsó, Zoltán Fábri, Dezsö Kosztolányi (novel).
Stars: Mari Töröcsik, Mária Mezei, Károly Kovács, Zsigmond Fülöp, Béla Barsi, Anna Báró, Kati Böröndi, Zoltán Greguss, Hilda Gobbi, János Horkay, Zoltán Makláry, Gellért Raksányi, Erzsi Simor, Viktória Ujváry, György Kálmán, Éva Vadnai, József Vándor, János Zách.
Cinematographer: Ferenc Szécsényi.
Composer: György Ránki.

1959 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

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MP4 | 1.58 GB | 960×720 | 25 FPS | 2500 kb/s | AAC 128 kb/s
Language: Hungarian | Subtitles: English (hard)

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MKV | 2.83 GB | 1440×1080 | 25 FPS | 4602 kb/s | AAC 128 kb/s
Language: Hungarian | Subtitles: English (soft)

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Growing Up Female (1971)

Jon W. — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:09:55 +0000

Growing Up Female is the very first film of the modern women’s movement. Produced in 1971, it caused controversy and exhilaration. It was widely used by consciousness-raising groups to generate interest and help explain feminism to a skeptical society. The film looks at female socialization through a personal look into the lives of six women, age 4 to 35, and the forces that shape them–teachers, counselors, advertising, music and the institution of marriage. It offers us a chance to see how much has changed–and how much remains the same.

Directors: Julia Reichert, Jim Klein.
Writers: Julia Reichert, Jim Klein.

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MP4 | 1.01 GB | 684×468 | 29.970 FPS | 2717 kb/s | AAC 192 kb/s
Language: English | Subtitles: English (soft)

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Dzīvīte (1989)

Jon W. — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:08:12 +0000

A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life’s work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas, thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on Krišjānis Barons’ life during late 1800s and early 1900s – his childhood and youth in Latvia, studies and work in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia, his relationship with his faithful wife Dārta, and the awakening of the Latvian national self-awareness.

Director Aivars Freimanis and poet Jānis Peters worked on the screenplay for the film on Krišjānis Barons for many years, creating a sincere story about a great personality, but trying to avoid the traditional glorification of the Father of Dainas. The director wanted to make a film about a true personality, therefore he let loose his creative spirit, and Dear Life is not a “regular” biopic by any means. It surprises with various artistically and professionally challenging methods that attract the audience’s attention. The main characters, Krišjānis and Dārta, are played by two pairs of great actors, but the story is full of unexpected plot twists, merging the characters and events of the first national awakening with elements of the third national awakening that took place at the time when the film was made.

Director: Aivars Freimanis.
Writers: Aivars Freimanis, Janis Peters.
Stars: Valdemars Zandbergs, Leonîds Grabovskis, Velta Line, Indra Brike, Gundars Abolins, Maija Apine, Janis Baltvilks, Juris Bartkevics, Bruno Egle, Ivars Brakovskis, Dace Eversa, Ingmars Freimanis, Alvis Hermanis, Peteris Korsaks, Dita Krenberga, Vizma Kvepa, Kristine Lipina, Peteris Lucis, Aivars Neibarts, Arturs Nikitins, Regina Razuma, Aris Rozentals, Askolds Saulitis, Haralds Ulmanis, Hermanis Vazdiks, Varis Vetra, Juris Zagars.
Cinematographer: Valdis Eglitis.
Composer: Martins Brauns.

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MP4 | 2.27 GB | 790×576 | 25 FPS | 1582 kb/s | AAC 192 kb/s
Language: Latvian | Subtitles: English (hard)

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MKV | 2.79 GB | 1280×720 | 25 FPS | 2000 kb/s | AAC 192 kb/s
Language: Latvian | Subtitles: English (soft)

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