In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later, on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Inside/Out (1997) Rob Tregenza, Stefania Rocca, Frédéric Pierrot, Bérangère Allaux
Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. Read More »
Ebola Syndrome (1996) Herman Yau, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Yeung-Ming Wan, Fui-On Shing
Hong Kong 1986: A restaurant employee murders his boss and mutilates his wife, he escapes to South Africa where he rapes a Zulu-girl, who is infected with the ebola virus. Read More »
With a Song in My Heart (1952) Walter Lang, Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne
Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Read More »
I Knew Her Well (1965) Antonio Pietrangeli, Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business. Read More »
Cocktail Hour (1933) Victor Schertzinger, Bebe Daniels, Randolph Scott, Sidney Blackmer
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist Read More »
Moving (1993) Shinji Sômai, Kiichi Nakai, Junko Sakurada, Tomoko Tabata
Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents’ decision to separate. Read More »
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994) Kidlat Tahimik
A unique collaboration between Tahimik and his eldest son Kidlat Gottlieb Kalayaan, Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? Read More »
Oasis of Fear (1971) Umberto Lenzi, Irene Papas, Ray Lovelock, Ornella Muti
Two hippies find themselves on the run from the law and soon end up going undercover in a villa owned by a mysterious woman. Read More »
The Watcher in the Woods (1980) John Hough, Vincent McEveety, Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards
When a normal American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange Read More »
The Mantrap (1943) George Sherman, Henry Stephenson, Lloyd Corrigan, Joseph Allen
Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. Read More »
The Great Sacrifice (1944) Veit Harlan, Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Albrecht is a son in a family of wealthy intellectuals that has a seaside estate near Hamburg. Read More »
Big Night (1996) Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Marc Anthony
Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Read More »
The Holy Mountain (1926) Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen
The dancer, Diotima, meets an engineer and skier, Karl, in his cottage in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. Read More »
A Tale of the Wind (1988) Joris Ivens, Henxiang Han, Zhuang Liu
This film travels through fantasy and reality as Joris Ivens goes to China to capture the wind. Read More »