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Author Archives: rarefilm
Daredevil Drivers (1938) Reeves Eason, Beverly Roberts, Dick Purcell, Gloria Blondell
A hotshot race-car driver gets suspended, and winds up driving for a shady bus company. Read More »
Mirror of Death AKA Dead of Night (1988) Deryn Warren, Julie Merrill, Janet Graham, Ray Quiroga
An abused woman conjures up a spirit to take revenge on the men who have misused her. Read More »
Carolina Blues (1944) Leigh Jason, Kay Kyser, Ann Miller, Victor Moore
Band Leader Kay Kyser wants to take a holiday, but his publicist Charlotte Read More »
Pyromaniac AKA Pyromanen (2016) Erik Skjoldbjærg, Per Frisch, Agnes Kittelsen, Trond Nilssen
The setting is a small, secluded village in Norway. The son of the chief of the fire department Read More »
20,000 Species of Bees AKA 20.000 especies de abejas (2023) Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain
During a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping Read More »
Rails Into Laramie (1954) Jesse Hibbs, John Payne, Mari Blanchard, Dan Duryea
An army officer is sent to Laramie to find out why all progress on the railroad has stopped. Read More »
Sweetie (1989) Jane Campion, Geneviève Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos
Based solely on a tea leaf reading, superstitious and introspective Kay believes she Read More »
When Love Is Over AKA Après l’amour (1931) Léonce Perret, Gaby Morlay, Marcelle Monthil, Jacqueline Brizard
An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected Read More »
The Voice of Love AKA Aline (2020) Valérie Lemercier, Sylvain Marcel, Danielle Fichaud
Quebec, late 1960s, Sylvette and Anglomard welcome their 14th child: Aline. Read More »
Blue Jeans and Dynamite AKA La dynamite est bonne à boire (1974) Aldo Sambrell, Gérard Trembasiewicz, Christopher Mitchum, Claudine Auger
The scene opens upon a sinister South American copper mine. Read More »
Crows AKA Wrony (1994) Dorota Kedzierzawska, Karolina Ostrozna, Katarzyna Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska
A thin child of about 10, nicknamed “Crow” because she mimics the bird, has no friends Read More »
The Hawk (1993) David Hayman, Daryl Webster, Thomas Taplin, Joshua Taplin
Housewife Annie Marsh (Dame Helen Mirren) suspects her husband might be The Hawk Read More »
Peeping Tom (1960) Michael Powell, Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer
Mark Lewis, works as a focus puller in a British film studio. On his off hours, he supplies Read More »
All the Gold in the World AKA Tout l’or du monde (1961) René Clair, Bourvil, Alfred Adam, Philippe Noiret
Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. Read More »