Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Murri Affair (1974) Mauro Bolognini, Catherine Deneuve, Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister’s reactionary Read More »
In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles (1984) Andrzej Kotkowski, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Grazyna Szapolowska, Gustaw Holoubek
In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Read More »
Mad Detective (2007) Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai, Ching Wan Lau, Andy On, Ka Tung Lam
A rookie cop teams up with a former detective with a supernatural gift to hunt down a serial killer. Read More »
A Stranger in Town (1957) George Pollock, Alex Nicol, Anne Paige, Mary Laura Wood
In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed. Read More »
Overnight Sensation (1976) Robert Benjamin, Al Jarry, Sharon Thorpe, John Leslie, Annette Haven
A group of actors are made to perform various sex fantasies for a pseudo-documentary film. Read More »
In un posto bellissimo (2015) Giorgia Cecere, Isabella Ragonese, Alessio Boni, Faysal Abbaoui
A beauteous depiction of a woman’s life and gradual liberation. Read More »
Married Before Breakfast (1937) Edwin L. Marin, Robert Young, Florence Rice, June Clayworth
After a leading razor company pays inventor Tom Wakefield a quarter of a million dollars Read More »
The Coming of Sin (1978) José Ramón Larraz, Patricia Granada, Lidia Zuazo, Rafael Machado
Lorna is a beautiful widow living all alone at her country chateau, with only her books and paintings for company. Read More »
The Hanged Man (1964) Don Siegel, Edmond O’Brien, Vera Miles, Robert Culp
A gunman who believes his friend has been murdered sets out to get the people who killed him and finds himself enmeshed in corrupt labor union politics. Read More »
The Naked Seven (1972) Yasuharu Hasebe, Mari Tanaka, Keiko Tsuzuki, Yuri Yamashina
A gang consisting of seven women roams around the country to steal and resell everything that makes money. Read More »
Primate (1974) Frederick Wiseman
This film casts a forensic observational eye over researchers working with primates. Read More »
The Thief of Baghdad (1978) Clive Donner, Roddy McDowall, Kabir Bedi, Frank Finlay
A resourceful thief helps a handsome Prince fight an evil wizard, and win the hand of a beautiful Princess. Read More »
Jet Pilot (1957) Josef von Sternberg, John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen
Air Force Colonel Shannon is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Anna. Read More »
Babette Goes to War (1959) Christian-Jaque, Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier, Ronald Howard
During WW2, as the German forces rapidly advance toward the French coast, naive French country girl Babette makes her way to the coastal town of Dieppe. Read More »