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Author Archives: rarefilm
Too Many Winners (1947) William Beaudine, Hugh Beaumont, Trudy Marshall, Ralph Dunn

Michael Shayne accepts an assignment to investigate a gang of pari-mutual race tickets Read More »
Another Lonely Hitman / Shin kanashiki hittoman (1995) Rokuro Mochizuki, Ryo Ishibashi, Kazuhiko Kanayama, Asami Sawaki

Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. Read More »
Mayor (2020) David Osit, Musa Hadid

MAYOR is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. Read More »
The Fire Within / Onibi (1997) Rokuro Mochizuki, Yoshio Harada, Reiko Kataoka, Show Aikawa

A yakuza hitman gets out of jail and decides to start a new life, but soon his old life catches up with him. Read More »
The Woman Racket (1930) Albert H. Kelley, Robert Ober, Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet, Sally Starr

During a raid on a speakeasy, a cop finds himself attracted to a pretty female employee. Read More »
Clash by Night (1964) Montgomery Tully, Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne, Harry Fowler

A bus carrying prisoners on their way to jail, is hijacked by a gang, who want to free one of the passengers. Read More »
La machine (1977) Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Monique Mélinand

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. Read More »
Berlin Chamissoplatz (1980) Rudolf Thome, Hanns Zischler, Sabine Bach, Wolfgang Kinder

An architect falls in love with a student who engages actively against Read More »
Eye of the Storm / L’oeil du cyclone (2015) Sekou Traoré, Maimouna N’Diaye, Fargass Assandé, Abidine Dioari

In a nameless, African country riven with civil war, a young female lawyer is the court-appointed counsel for a rebel leader. Read More »