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Author Archives: rarefilm
Crooks in Cloisters (1964) Jeremy Summers, Ronald Fraser, Barbara Windsor, Grégoire Aslan

Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. Read More »
Bastoni: The Stick Handlers (2002) Kazuhiko Nakamura, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tomorô Taguchi, Hideomi Nakazato

Husband and wife Yamaguchi and Natsuki are young, attractive stars in Japanese adult films. Read More »
Mamma Roma (1962) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti

After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) Read More »
The Decameron / Il Decameron (1971) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic

An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples Read More »
Rape Shot Momoes Lips / Rape shot: Momoe no kuchibiru (1979) Katsuhiko Fujii, Minako Mizushima, Yûko Asuka, Noriaki Abe

Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next “big” story. Read More »
Back to Back, Face to Face / Bei kao bei, lian dui lian (1994) Jianxin Huang, Yazhou Yang, Zhenhua Niu, Kesheng Lei, Qiang Li

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director.  Read More »
King of Burlesque (1936) Sidney Lanfield, Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie

Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite.  Read More »
The Night Club Lady (1932) Irving Cummings, Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher

Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolph Menjou) sets out to discover who murdered Read More »
Black Zoo (1963) Robert Gordon, Michael Gough, Jeanne Cooper, Rod Lauren

The owner of a small zoo uses the animals to kill his enemies. Read More »