Caroline Boyle returns to her childhood home in Northern California, drawn there by a cryptic letter from her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was a child. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Hanna Amon (1951) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Lutz Moik, Ilse Steppat, Drama
Hanna and her brother Thomas Amon live on the estate of their deceased parents. Read More »
Secret Ceremony (1968) Joseph Losey, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Mia Farrow, Drama, Thriller
Leonora, a prostitute, mourns the death by drowning years earlier of her daughter. Read More »
Galileo (1975) Joseph Losey, Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Biography, Drama
This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Read More »
The Nurses Secret (1941) Noel M. Smith, Lee Patrick, Regis Toomey, Julie Bishop, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Murder mystery with a nurse (Lee Patrick) moving into a mansion after an apparent suicide to care for the old mother. Read More »
The Go Getter (1937) Busby Berkeley, George Brent, Anita Louise, Charles Winninger, Comedy, Romance
Billy Austin served on the crew of the USN airship Macon until it crashed at sea during a storm. Read More »
Northern Pursuit (1943) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. Read More »
Maluala (1979) Sergio Giral, Samuel Claxton, Miguel Gutiérrez, Adolfo Llauradó, Drama
Cuba in the late 1800s: After overpowering their Spanish masters, cimarrons – runaway African slaves – hide in settlements in the eastern mountains of Cuba. Read More »
Out of Africa (1985) Sydney Pollack, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Drama, Romance, Biography
Initially set on being a dairy farmer, the aristocratic Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) travels to Africa to join her husband, Bror (Klaus Maria Brandauer) Read More »
La guerre des boutons / War of the Buttons (2011) Yann Samuell, Eric Elmosnino, Mathilde Seigner, Fred Testot, Adventure, Family
In the countryside of France, two groups of boys from the rural villages of Longeverne and Velran are in constant war against each other. Read More »
You Cant Escape (1957) Wilfred Eades, Noelle Middleton, Guy Rolfe, Robert Urquhart, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel Read More »
Sabre Jet (1953) Louis King, Robert Stack, Coleen Gray, Richard Arlen, Drama, War
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Read More »
Past and Present (1972) Manoel de Oliveira, Maria de Saisset, Manuela de Freitas, Bárbara Vieira, Comedy, Drama
This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Read More »
Suspicion (1982) Yoshitarô Nomura, Kaori Momoi, Shima Iwashita, Akira Emoto, Drama, Crime, Mystery
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Read More »
Ann Vickers (1933) John Cromwell, Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Drama, Romance
During WWI, Ann Vickers, a humanitarian who is just starting the adult phase of her life Read More »