After stopping a pickpocket on his job, Yukiko gets drawn into a high-stakes game of the Yakuza clans in her father’s home town. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 3 AKA Showa zankyo-den: Ippiki okami (1966) Kiyoshi Saeki, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Sumiko Fuji
Takei Shigejiro belongs to the Shimazu family. When his boss gets killed, he takes revenge and ends up in prison. Read More »
The Mouse That Roared (1959) Jack Arnold, Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the smallest country in the world, is nestled in the French Alps. Read More »
Loving (1970) Irvin Kershner, George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace Read More »
The Wild Eye AKA L’occhio selvaggio (1967) Paolo Cavara, Philippe Leroy, Delia Boccardo, Gabriele Tinti
Paolo is a documentary filmmaker on a mission to see the world and present human nature in its true and raw form Read More »
Fragile as the World AKA Frágil Como o Mundo (2002) Rita Azevedo Gomes, Maria Gonçalves, Bruno Terra, Sophie Balabanian
An impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can’t find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Read More »
The Beast of the City (1932) Charles Brabin, Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. Read More »
The Promised Land AKA Ziemia obiecana (1975) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles Read More »
Chad Hanna (1940) Henry King, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany the star equestrian rider. Read More »
Don’t Go Near the Water (1957) Charles Walters, Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman
On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy’s P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Read More »
Eureka (1983) Nicolas Roeg, Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer
Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world’s wealthiest men Read More »
Born to Be Loved (1959) Hugo Haas, Carol Morris, Barbara Jo Allen
A seamstress (Carol Morris) and a music teacher (Hugo Haas) play Cupid for each other, ending with a double wedding. Read More »
An Everlasting Piece (2000) Barry Levinson, Barry McEvoy, Brían F. O’Byrne, Anna Friel
Colm (Barry McEvoy) is a Catholic, and George (Brian O’Byrne) is a poetry-loving Protestant. Read More »
Sara (1997) Maciej Slesicki, Boguslaw Linda, Agnieszka Wlodarczyk, Cezary Pazura
Leon, the 40-year-old former soldier who is an alcoholic now, gets a job as a bodyguard. Read More »
Theirs Is the Glory (1946) Brian Desmond Hurst, Stanley Maxted, Thomas Scullion, Allan Wood
In 1944, British General Montgomery and his command were way north of the Allied line Read More »