An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Bloodiest (2005) Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Adèle Ado, Dorylia Calmel, Emile Abossolo M’bo
A futuristic film set in a dystopian Cameroonian city vaguely reminiscent of the dystopian Los Angeles in Ridley Scott’s classic BladeRunner Read More »
Mousey (1974) Daniel Petrie, Kirk Douglas, Jean Seberg, John Vernon
In Mousey a made-for-TV thriller, a disturbed and obsessed man seeks to regain his son from his overbearing, controlling wife. Read More »
Mandy (1952) Alexander Mackendrick, Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan
Mandy was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life. Her parents believe she is able to speak if she can only be taught and so enrol her with a special teacher. Read More »
A Gunfight (1971) Lamont Johnson, Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two famous gunfighters who are getting old and need money. Read More »
The Dirty Dozen (1967) Robert Aldrich, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission Read More »
The Young Runaways (1968) Arthur Dreifuss, Brooke Bundy, Kevin Coughlin, Lloyd Bochner
Follows the lives of three unrelated teenagers as they run away from their respective homes, each for different reasons. Read More »
Outside the Law (1920) Tod Browning, Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney
In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing Read More »
Oh! Man (2004) Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Benito Mussolini
This analytically organized compilation of archival footage is nothing less than a horror documentary. Read More »
The Baron (2011) Edgar Pêra, Marina Albuquerque, Marcos Barbosa, Vítor Correia
A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Read More »
The Cameraman (1928) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin
After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels Read More »
Nightcap (2000) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »
The Living Idol (1957) René Cardona, Albert Lewin, Steve Forrest, Liliane Montevecchi, James Robertson Justice
Several mysterious deaths are attributed to an ancient stone idol. Read More »
Knockout (1941) William Clemens, Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela Read More »
The Horse of Pride (1980) Claude Chabrol, Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Le Saché, François Cluzet
In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof Read More »