A not-so-young doctor tries to explain to women of the fifties(in a small village in the mountain) that painless childbirth is possible Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Hand in the Trap (1961) Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Elsa Daniel, Francisco Rabal, Leonardo Favio
A woman uncovers the secret of her aunt’s withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her. Read More »
Just an American (2012) Fred Ashman, Montice Harmon, Michelle Ashman, Michael Barreta
Fred Ashman’s 102-minute propaganda film is sponsored by Coca-Cola, MasterCard, American Airlines, and Walmart. Read More »
Genius at Work (1946) Leslie Goodwins, Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys
Two actors who star in a radio detective show find themselves pitted against a villain calling himself the Cobra, who has an affinity for torture chambers. Read More »
Amityville Death House (2015) Mark Polonia, Kyrsten St. Pierre, Michael Merchant, Cassandra Hayes
A young woman and her friends returning from helping with hurricane relief efforts in Florida stop in the town of Amityville to check in on her sickly grandmother. Read More »
Memories They Told Me (2012) Lúcia Murat, Clarisse Abujamra, Otávio Augusto, Eduardo Cravo
A group of friends who resisted Brazilian dictatorship face, along with their sons, the conflicts between past and present as one of theirs is passing away. Read More »
Age Of Nudity (1959) Seijun Suzuki, Keiichirô Akagi, Kyôko Hori, Bokuzen Hidari
The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. Read More »
Strangers in Good Company (1990) Cynthia Scott, Alice Diabo, Constance Garneau, Beth Webber
A bus breaks down in the wilderness. Seven elderly women,average age 71 and one 27 year old are stranded at a deserted farmhouse. Read More »
Spring Night, Summer Night (1967) Joseph L. Anderson, Larue Hall, Ted Heimerdinger, Marjorie Johnson
Jessica, the eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother Carl, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant. Read More »
Shadowed (1946) John Sturges, Anita Louise, Lloyd Corrigan, Michael Duane
Fred J. Johnson (Lloyd Corrigan) scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball Read More »
Rough Shoot (1953) Robert Parrish, Joel McCrea, Laurence Naismith, Denis Lehrer
U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Robert Taine and his wife Cecily live in a village in England. Read More »
Blood of Revenge (1965) Tai Katô, Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Tetsurô Tanba
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running Read More »
The Man Behind the Gun (1953) Felix E. Feist, Randolph Scott, Patrice Wymore, Dick Wesson
Posing as a schoolteacher, undercover government agent Ransome Callicut arrives in 1850’s California to gather intelligence Read More »
The Bellman (1945) Christian-Jaque, Fernand Ledoux, Renée Faure, Madeleine Robinson
The story begins with the murder of a horse trader, which sets free a black stallion that roams through the snow and the village terrifying the people as it gallops. Read More »
The Sun and the Moon (2008) Stephen Dwoskin, Beatrice Cordua, Helga Wretman
The Sun and the Moon, a film fairy tale, is about two women’s terrifying encounter with ‘Otherness’ in the form of a man, abject and monstrous Read More »