In a medieval fantasy kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Super Cops (1974) Gordon Parks, Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier
Dave and Rob, fresh from the Police Academy, enrage their captain because they want Read More »
Belshazzar’s Feast, or Night with Stalin AKA Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym (1989) Yuriy Kara, Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Evgeniy Evstigneev
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin Read More »
Kekkô Kamen 3 (1993) Yutaka Akiyama, Shun Sugata, Megumi Takahashi, Rie Kondoh
A teacher sent out by Toenail Of Satan to the prestigious Sparta Academy had students Read More »
Wild Flower AKA Flor silvestre (1943) Emilio Fernández, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz
Completed before his immensely successful Maria Candelaria, Emilio Fernandez’ Flor Sylvestre was released Read More »
The Grey Zone (2001) Tim Blake Nelson, David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler
The true story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew chosen by Josef Mengele Read More »
Twelve Chairs AKA 12 stulev (1971) Leonid Gayday, Archil Gomiashvili, Sergey Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. Read More »
Cleopatra’s Daughter AKA Il sepolcro dei re (1960) Fernando Cerchio, Debra Paget, Ettore Manni, Erno Crisa
Cleopatra, after the civil war that followed the assassination of Caesar Read More »
Sword Devil AKA Ken ki (1965) Kenji Misumi, Raizô Ichikawa, Michiko Sugata, Kei Satô
Hanpei is an orphan mistreated by other vassals of the manor. Read More »
Men on Her Mind (1944) Wallace Fox, Mary Beth Hughes, Edward Norris, Ted North
A famous singer reflects on her life, including her journey from being an orphan Read More »
Mr. Skitch (1933) James Cruze, Will Rogers, Rochelle Hudson, Zasu Pitts
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression Read More »
On the Night of the Fire (1939) Brian Desmond Hurst, Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard, Romney Brent
A barber steals £100 from a tailor to settle his extravagant wife’s debts. Read More »
The Quiet Woman (1951) John Gilling, Derek Bond, Jane Hylton, Dora Bryan
In this drama, the manager of “The Quiet Woman,” a coastal inn, finds herself falling in love with a smuggler. Read More »
Toto and the King of Rome AKA Totò e i re di Roma (1951) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Totò, Aroldo Tieri, Alberto Sordi
Ercole Pappalardo (Totò), married, five daughters, lives with only dream to be upgraded Read More »
Saturday, Sunday, Monday (1978) Alan Bridges, Caroline Blakiston, Nicholas Clay, John Duttine
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch Read More »