U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Black Robe (1991) Bruce Beresford, Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, Adventure, Drama, History
In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. Read More »
Battle Royale / Batoru rowaiaru (2000) Kinji Fukasaku, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
With school children all over the country growing increasingly delinquent, the Japanese government takes decisive action and introduces the Battle Royale Act. Read More »
L’immorale / The Climax (1967) Pietro Germi, Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Renée Longarini, Comedy
Sergio Masini, a violin player, is going to be the father of a sixth child… by his second mistress, Marisa. Read More »
Nagisa (2000) Masaru Konuma, Madoka Matsuda, Arisa Inasaka, Yoshie Yoshiki, Drama
This film takes place one summer during the 1960s near a beach in Enoshima located outside of Tokyo. Read More »
The Arnelo Affair (1947) Arch Oboler, John Hodiak, George Murphy, Frances Gifford, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Anne Parkson feels neglected by her lawyer-husband Ted, so she falls in love with night-club owner Tony Arnello, a shady character who is a client of her husband’s. Read More »
Vachan (1955) Raj Rishi, Geeta Bali, Balraj, Rajendra Kumar, Drama
Kamla lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in Uttar Pradesh, India, along with her widowed dad, Dinanath Read More »
Se qing nan nu / Viva Erotica (1996) Tung-Shing Yee, Leslie Cheung, Karen Mok, Qi Shu, Comedy, Drama
A struggling director is offered the opportunity to direct a Cat-III film to revive his career. Read More »
Zugvögel – … einmal nach Inari / Trains’n’Roses (1998) Peter Lichtefeld, Joachim Król, Outi Mäenpää, Peter Lohmeyer, Comedy, Romance, Crime
Hannes is a beer-truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Time-Table Contest in Inari (Finland). Read More »
The Golden Dream / La jaula de oro (2013) Diego Quemada-Díez, Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez, Drama
Juan, Samuel and Sara leave Guatemala hoping for a better life in the US. On their way, they are joined by a Tzotzil indian boy, Chauk. Read More »
CrissCross (1992) Chris Menges, Goldie Hawn, Arliss Howard, James Gammon, Crime, Drama
Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. Read More »
Balkanska pravila / Balkan Rules (1997) Darko Bajic, Branislav Lecic, Lazar Ristovski, Ana Sofrenovic, Drama, Thriller
Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Read More »
Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938) Reinhold Schünzel, Robert Young, Lana Turner, Lew Ayres, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A rich businessman wants to marry his secretary, but first he has to pass muster with her middle-class family. Read More »
Oklahoma Blues (1948) Lambert Hillyer, Jimmy Wakely, Dub Taylor, Virginia Belmont, Western
State Commissioner Walton is uncertain about making Rainbow’s End the new county seat after the Drago brothers, Matt and Slip, hold up his tage and beat up Sheriff Sam Oldring. Read More »
The Killer Inside Me (1976) Burt Kennedy, Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell, Tisha Sterling, Crime, Drama
Everyone figures Lou Ford, a small-town, Montana, deputy sheriff, to be a normal, good-old-boy kind of regular Joe. But no one knows about “the sickness” that drives him to kill. Read More »