Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Attack Squadron! (1963) Shûe Matsubayashi, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Takashi Shimura
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. Read More »
Wise Blood (1979) John Huston, Brad Dourif, Dan Shor
US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian Read More »
Firebird: Daybreak Chapter (1978) Kon Ichikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Toshinori Omi, Masao Kusakari
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made Read More »
Tale of a Scarface (1999) Eiichi Kudô, Kiyoshi Nakajo, Nagare Hagiwara, Ken Kanako
“Gunro no keifu” is known as “Tale of a Scarface.” It follows the life of Kumoro, a yakuza member Read More »
Fight for Us (1989) Lino Brocka, Phillip Salvador, Dina Bonnevie, Gina Alajar
In 1985, in the obscure town of Santa Filomena, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra (Roco) Read More »
The Incorrigible (1963) Seijun Suzuki, Ken Yamauchi, Masako Izumi, Midori Tashiro
A teenager is dismissed from school for misconduct. Read More »
The Witness (1969) Péter Bacsó, Ferenc Kállai, Lajos Öze, Béla Both
Banned for over a decade for its outspoken criticism of the post-WWII communist regime in Hungary Read More »
Ladies Man (1962) Bernard Borderie, Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Claudine Coster
Eddie Constantine, One of Eddie’s many portrayals as super sleuth/agent, Lemmy Caution. This time the action and danger is set on the French Riviera. Read More »
Fantasm Comes Again (1977) Colin Eggleston, Rick Cassidy, Con Covert, Uschi Digard
An intern and a professional writer at a newspaper agency read over 10 different erotic letters Read More »
Night Eyes (1990) Jag Mundhra, Andrew Stevens, Tanya Roberts, Cooper Huckabee
The rock star Brian Walker’s Wife is surprised by her husband shagging another woman in the bathroom in a party. Read More »
Fantasm (1976) Richard Franklin, John Holmes, Uschi Digard, Candy Samples
Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality Read More »
Maybe It’s Love (1935) William C. McGann, Gloria Stuart, Ross Alexander, Frank McHugh
Director William C. McGann’s 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they’re wed. Read More »
Key Largo (1948) John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Frank McCloud travels to a run-down hotel on Key Largo to honor the memory of a friend who died bravely in his unit during WW II. Read More »
Sexy Wives Sindrome (2011) Jim Wynorski, Frankie Cullen, Cindy Lucas, Julie K. Smith
A doctor at a clinic where erotic role-playing is used to save troubled marriages gets turned on by his patients’ sizzling fantasies. Read More »