Siv is an 18 yr old naive and beautiful Swedish girl. She is invited to live with a hippie couple attending the local university. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Night and the City (1992) Irwin Winkler, Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Robert DeNiro and Jessica Lange are the most impossible couple. He’s a failed lawyer. She’s a common waitress. Read More »
Hora 79 (2013) Gila Almagor, Eli Cohen, Nathan Dattner, Comedy, Drama
The Hora 79 dance troupe was the face of Israeli folk dancing. Following a traumatic event. Read More »
The Hideous Sun Demon (1959) Robert Clarke, Tom Boutross, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson, Horror, Sci-Fi
Sunblock can’t save you from the solar-powered monster in this sci-fi cult item. Dr. Gilbert McKenna (Robert Clarke) is a research scientist who is exposed to dangerously radioactive materials during a visit to an atomic power plant. Read More »
Head On (1998) Ana Kokkinos, Alex Dimitriades, Julian Garner, Elena Mandalis, Drama, Romance
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Read More »
Gang Bullets (1938) Lambert Hillyer, Anne Nagel, Robert Kent, Charles Trowbridge, Crime, Drama
A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant. Read More »
Below the Belt (1971) Bethel Buckalew, John Tull, George ‘Buck’ Flower, Steven Hodge, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance, Erotic
A boxer’s manager pays a prostitute to make his boxer’s nights hot, and endless. Not so strange, considering all the dirty deals the manager has with the local mafia. Read More »
Gli inesorabili / The Fighting Men (1950) Camillo Mastrocinque, Rossano Brazzi, Charles Vanel, Claudine Dupuis, Drama
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti’s estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer Read More »
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Horror
A grotesquely disfigured composer known as the “Phantom” haunts Paris’ opera house, where he’s secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Read More »
Friedrich Schiller – Eine Dichterjugend (1923) Curt Goetz, Theodor Loos, Hermann Vallentin, Isabel Heermann, Biography, Comedy, Drama
In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself Read More »
Liste noire / Black List (1995) Jean-Marc Vallée, Michel Côté, Geneviève Brouillette, Sylvie Bourque, Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir
At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. Read More »
Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943) Gordon Douglas, Harold Peary, Billie Burke, Claire Carleton, Comedy
A drug supply company plans to go out of business, which could force Peavey the druggist to close up shop. Read More »
I’m from Arkansas (1944) Lew Landers, Slim Summerville, El Brendel, Iris Adrian, Comedy, Musical, Romance
The town of Pitchfork, Arkansas makes national headlines when Esmeralda the sow gives birth to 18 piglets. Read More »
Honeymoon Limited (1935) Arthur Lubin, Neil Hamilton, Irene Hervey, Lloyd Hughes, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
A publisher bets an author that he won’t be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco. Read More »
Fickende Fische / Do fish do it? (2002) Almut Getto, Tino Mewes, Sophie Rogall, Hans Martin Stier, Drama
16-year old Jan is absent-mindedly strolling through the streets when he’s run over by roller-skating Nina. Read More »