
Stanley Evans is a Welsh teacher who heads to Australia after an unsuccessful romance. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
His Colt, Himself, His Revenge / Allegri becchini… arriva Trinità (1972) Ferdinando Merighi, Dino Strano, Gino Turini, Gordon Mitchell

A gang of outlaws, led by a mysterious figure hooded in black, kidnaps a woman for ransom but ends up killing her. Read More »
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) Robert Wise, Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger

One of the few failures for RKO Radio’s resident “prestige programmer” producer Val Lewton Read More »
There Will Be No Leave Today / Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet (1958) Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky, Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells Read More »
Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky, Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Read More »
Fratricide / Brudermord (2005) Yilmaz Arslan, Xevat Gectan, Erdal Celik, Bulent Buyukasik

Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way Read More »
Not Delivered / Échec au porteur (1958) Gilles Grangier, Paul Meurisse, Jeanne Moreau, Serge Reggiani

After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides Read More »
Neapolitan Mystery / Giallo napoletano (1979) Sergio Corbucci, Marcello Mastroianni, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli

A mandolin professor, reduced to playing the itinerant player Read More »
It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980) Nicolas Gessner, Tony Curtis, Louis Gossett Jr., Sally Kellerman

Robert Talbot and Leopold Garcia are two charming gunrunners who Read More »
Orbis Pictus (1997) Martin Sulík, Dorota Nvotová, Emília Vásáryová, Frantisek Kovár

In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Read More »