A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents’ home while an unpaid mortgage force the couple to rent out their home for the summer to the husband’s boss. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Lightning Strikes Twice (1934) Ben Holmes, Ben Lyon, Thelma Todd, Pert Kelton, Comedy, Mystery
A crazed gunman fires a shot. As officer Casey reports the assumed murder to headquarters another shot is fired causing Casey to fall. Read More »
Kono ten no niji / The Eternal Rainbow (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Takahiro Tamura, Drama
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker. Read More »
The Private Navy of Sgt. OFarrell (1968) Frank Tashlin, Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jeffrey Hunter, Comedy, War
Sgt. O’Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to bring the two basics of life to his fellow servicemen, women and beer. Read More »
Wuthering Heights (2011) Andrea Arnold, Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave, Drama, Romance
A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.
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The Letter (1929) Jean de Limur, Jeanne Eagels, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Drama
Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). Read More »
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957) Arnold Laven, Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three men gun down Solly Pitts, ‘rebel’ against the racket-ridden Longshoremen’s Union. Before dying, Pitts tells his wife ‘Cockeye’ Cook was one of the killers…but won’t repeat it to the police, nor will anyone else help them. Read More »
Once More / Encore (1988) Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Louis Rolland, Florence Giorgetti, Pascale Rocard, Drama
A man decides to leave his wife and finds his happiness elsewhere. Along the way he meets a man with whom he falls in love. Read More »
Baad el Mawkeaa / After the Battle (2012) Yusri Nasrullah, Menna Shalabi, Bassem Samra, Nahed El Sebaï, Drama, History
Mahmoud was part of the armed groups coerced by the Egyptian Government which carried out attacks on protestors in Tahir Square the 2nd of February 2011. Read More »
Procès de Jeanne dArc / Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) Robert Bresson, Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat, Drama, History
A reconstruction of the trial of Joan of Arc (based entirely on the transcripts of the real-life trial), concerning Joan’s imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English, filmed in a spare, low-key fashion. Read More »
The Stud (1978) Quentin Masters, Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias, Sue Lloyd, Drama, Romance
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, the hobo, and partying. Read More »
La Tendre ennemie / The Tender Enemy (1936) Max Ophüls, Simone Berriau, Catherine Fonteney, Laure Diana, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Two ghosts attend an engagement party, unseen by the other guests. One ghost, Dupont, is the father of the bride-to-be. Read More »
Absolution (1978) Anthony Page, Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
At a Catholic public school, Benjamin Stanfield is tired of being the teacher’s pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard. Read More »
Le mura di Malapaga / The Walls of Malapaga (1949) René Clément, Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Drama, Romance
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter. Read More »
Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver / This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967) José Mojica Marins, Tina Wohlers, Nadia Freitas, Horror
Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and sadistic practices. Read More »