
In his first feature film, Jean-Louis Costes is impersonating a modern day Caligula. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Daredevil in the Castle (1961) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa, Yuriko Hoshi

Mohei is a wandering swordsman. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him Read More »
Days of Hope / L’espoir (1940) André Malraux, Boris Peskine, Andrés Mejuto, Nicolás Rodríguez, José Santpere

1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but high commitment) Read More »
Canciones para después de una guerra (1976) Basilio Martín Patino, Celia Gámez, Imperio Argentina, Miguel de Molina

This documentary is frame in the spanish hyper realism. A journey through the legendary songs of Franco dictatorship. Read More »
Degree of Murder (1967) Volker Schlöndorff, Anita Pallenberg, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Manfred Fischbeck

After accidentally shooting dead her ex-lover during a fight, Marie enlists the help of a stranger Read More »
The Greatest Attack / Le toubib (1979) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Alain Delon, Véronique Jannot, Bernard Giraudeau

The story is set in June 1983. Famous surgeon Jean-Marie Desprée Read More »
Everybody Loves Sunshine / Busted (1999) Andrew Goth, Rachel Shelley, Clint Dyer, David Baker

Two toughs from the wrong side of the tracks in Manchester, choose different paths when they are released from prison. Read More »
The Human Jungle (1954) Joseph M. Newman, Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey

Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled Read More »
Subterfuge / Faux fuyants (1983) Alain Bergala, Jean-Pierre Limosin, Olivier Perrier, Rachel Rachel, Serge De Closets

After coming out of a cinema, car driver Serge accidentally hits a man. Read More »
Tokyo Eyes (1998) Jean-Pierre Limosin, Shinji Takeda, Hinano Yoshikawa, Kaori Mizushima

A young man shooting at people is nicknamed Four Eyes in the press because of his thick-lensed glasses. Read More »