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Rider on the Rain (1970)

Rider on the Rain poster
Original title
Le Passager de la pluie
Directed by
René Clément
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
2h
Rated
e 14
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 103 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman kills the man who raped her. She is then followed by a mysterious American man who seems to know what happened.

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What happens

Rider on the Rain (French: Le passager de la pluie) is a 1970 mystery thriller film directed by René Clément, from a screenplay by Sébastien Japrisot, and starring Marlène Jobert and Charles Bronson. Jobert plays a young woman who kills her rapist, only to be pursued by a mysterious American man (Bronson). The French-Italian co-production was released on 21 January 1970, and was both a critical and commercial success. It won Best Foreign Language Film at the 28th Golden Globe Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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