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Author Archives: rarefilm
Violent Province (1978) Mario Bianchi, Calogero Caruana, Antonella Dogan, Alicia Leoni
Franco Sereni, a captain of carabiniers, is dismissed from service for being the proponent of “the law of the gun”. Read More »
I Remember Mama (1948) George Stevens, Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka
The life of a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910 San Francisco centers around Mama and her detailed, pennywise household budget. Read More »
Who Killed Johnny Ringo (1966) José Luis Madrid, Lex Barker, Joachim Fuchsberger, Marianne Koch
Captain Conroy’s family dies in a fire, the result of a battle between lawmen and the cohorts of outlaw gunslinger Johnny Ringo. Read More »
All My Good Countrymen (1969) Vojtech Jasný, Vlastimil Brodský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Mensík
Stories about seven friends in a small Moravian village following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948 Read More »
Eldorado XXI (2016) Salomé Lamas
This 21st century El Dorado is an inhospitable place, where untold numbers of people live and work in the most precarious of conditions, hoping both for gold and a better life. Read More »
A Hero Never Dies (1998) Johnnie To, Leon Lai, Ching Wan Lau, Fiona Leung
Jack and Martin are members of rival Chinese triads in the middle of a gang war. Read More »
Night Court (1932) W.S. Van Dyke, Phillips Holmes, Walter Huston, Anita Page
Judge Moffett is as crooked as they come and the Board of Judicial Corruption is after him. Read More »
The Crew of the Dora (1943) Karl Ritter, Hannes Stelzer, Hubert Kiurina, Josef Dahmen
Depicts a love triangle involving two Luftwaffe pilots being overcome by their participation in battle together. Read More »
Struggle in Italy (1971) Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Paolo Pozzesi, Jerome Hinstin
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology. Read More »
Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) Aleksander Ford, Urszula Modrzynska, Grazyna Staniszewska, Andrzej Szalawski
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. Read More »
Bread and Roses (2000) Ken Loach, Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Read More »
La liceale seduce i professori (1979) Mariano Laurenti, Gloria Guida, Alvaro Vitali, Lino Banfi
There’s a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster’s neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Read More »
The Fruit Machine (1988) Philip Saville, Emile Charles, Tony Forsyth, Robert Stephens
The 16 years old gay Eddie runs away from home, where he’s constantly harassed by his father. Read More »
Levelland (2003) Clark Walker, Lathan McKay, Matt Barr, Erik Ostos
Zach (Matt Barr) is a smart and talented, but troubled 18-year-old growing up in suburban Texas. Read More »