A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tseka komissar Mirostsenko (1925) Paul Sehnert, Alfred Hindrea, Leoniide Jürisson, Mihkel Lepper, Drama
The Soviet Russia of 1920s. A group of Estonians, including young woman Agnes and her mother, Agnes’s friend engineer Karl Raudsepp and his fiancee Erna, are waiting for permission to return to Estonia. Read More »
Revenge of the Alligator Ladies (2013) Antonio Mayans, Jesús Franco, Irene Verdú, Comedy, Erotic
Al Pereira was so disappointed after his last film that he doesn’t ever want to work with Jess Franco again, who is constantly insisting on it. Read More »
Six-String Samurai (1998) Lance Mungia, Jeffrey Falcon, Justin McGuire, Kim De Angelo, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
A mysterious and powerful hero of the classic kind, Buddy is as skilled with his guitar as he is with his samurai sword. Read More »
Raus aus der Haut / Changing Skins (1997) Andreas Dresen, Susanne Bormann, Fabian Busch, Otto Mellies, Comedy, Drama
Anna and Marcus are in the same class and there are just some weeks left before they get their leaving certification and with it the permission to study. Read More »
O Melissokomos / The Beekeeper (1986) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Drama
Spiros retires as a schoolteacher, his daughter is married, and he starts his annual journey with his bees to get honey from different areas. Read More »
Marija (2016) Michael Koch, Margarita Breitkreiz, Georg Friedrich, Sahin Eryilmaz, Drama
Marija, a young Ukranian woman, earns a living as a cleaning woman in a hotel in Dortmund, but dreams of having her own hairstyling salon, and puts away some money each month. Read More »
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) Robert Mulligan, Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Angie Rossini is an innocent (Italian Catholic) Macy’s salesgirl, who discovers she’s pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Read More »
Leaving Normal (1992) Edward Zwick, Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly, Patrika Darbo, Comedy, Drama
For her entire life, twenty-seven year old Marianne Johnson has been on the move, the decisions which she’s made as an adult which have been total failures, such as her second most recent marriage to Curtis Johnson, which brought her to Normal, Wyoming. Read More »
Le Diable Probablement / The Devil, Probably (1977) Robert Bresson, Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Drama
In order to be technically free of the mortal sin of suicide, a young man who has given up on the world pays a drug-addict to shoot him. Read More »
Gunslinger (1956) Roger Corman, John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Western
Oracle, Texas Marshal Scott Hood is murdered and his wife, Rose, takes his badge and sets out on a personal vendetta to find the killers. Read More »
Fail Safe (1964) Sidney Lumet, Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Drama, Thriller
American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it’s a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted?
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Fear (1946) Alfred Zeisler, Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A medical student–broke, hungry and desperate for money–is hired to murder a loan shark. After the killing he is tormented by guilt over what he’s done. Read More »
La fille inconnue / The Unknown Girl (2016) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier, Crime, Drama, Mystery
The efficient Dr. Jenny Davin works hard and has been chosen to replace Dr. Habran, who has just retired, at the Kennedy Hospital. Read More »
Anche per Django le carogne hanno un prezzo / Djangos Cut Price Corpses (1971) Luigi Batzella, Jeff Cameron, John Desmont, Esmeralda Barros, Action, Romance, Western
Django’s fiancee was abducted. So he must rescue her but that’s not very easy. The problem is that the kidnappers are the Cortez brothers and their gang. Read More »