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Author Archives: rarefilm
Playing Around (1930) Mervyn LeRoy, Alice White, Chester Morris, William Bakewell
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. Read More »
Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed (1913) Louis Feuillade, René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior
After a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. Read More »
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) Jamie Uys, N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo
A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time–in the shape of a Coke bottle. Read More »
Stage Struck (1936) Busby Berkeley, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Warren William
Broadway dance director George Randall (Dick Powell) is stuck with staging a Broadway show starring Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell) Read More »
Vice Versa (1948) Peter Ustinov, Roger Livesey, Kay Walsh, Petula Clark
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. Read More »
One Life (1958) Alexandre Astruc, Maria Schell, Christian Marquand, Pascale Petit
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. Read More »
The Thief of Paris (1967) Louis Malle, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Read More »
Last Plane to Baalbeck (1964) Marcello Giannini, Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas, George Sanders
Euro spy thriller about a secret agent who attempts to penetrate a multi-national criminal organization that traffics in drugs and weapons. Read More »
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Isabel Jeans
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII. Read More »
Love – Part one (2004) Alejandro Fadel, Martín Mauregui, Leonora Balcarce, Luciano Cáceres, Víctor Hugo Carrizo
The story of a young couple, from beginning to end, from the euphoria of falling in love until the final days blurred and dark Read More »
Antony and Cleopatra (1974) Jon Scoffield, Richard Johnson, Janet Suzman, Rosemary McHale
After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt’s queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. Read More »
World Gone Wild (1987) Lee H. Katzin, Bruce Dern, Michael Paré, Catherine Mary Stewart
In the nuclear ravaged wasteland of Earth 2087 water is as precious as life itself. Read More »
Riders of the Purple Sage (1941) James Tinling, George Montgomery, Mary Howard, Robert Barrat
Lassiter discovers the judge (Barrat) who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of badguys posing as vigilantes. Read More »
The Right of the Weakest (2006) Lucas Belvaux, Éric Caravaca, Claude Semal
In Liège, a group of men gathers every day in a café situated near the steel factory which once reigned supreme. Read More »