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Author Archives: rarefilm
Cash Calls Hell AKA Gohiki no shinshi (1966) Hideo Gosha, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Hisashi Igawa

Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. Read More »
Making the Grade (1984) Dorian Walker, Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump

Lazy preppie Palmer Woodrow hires street-smart Eddie Keaton to go to school for him while he lives it up in Europe. Read More »
9 Souls AKA Nain souruzu (2003) Toshiaki Toyoda, Yoshio Harada, Ryûhei Matsuda, Genta Dairaku

Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Read More »
Born to Be Bad [+Extra] (1950) Nicholas Ray, Mel Ferrer, Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan

Christabel fools everyone with her sweet exterior including her cousin Donna and Donna’s wealthy fiancée Curtis. Read More »
Suspect AKA The Risk (1960) John Boulting, Roy Boulting, Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. Read More »
The House in the Square (1951) Roy Ward Baker, Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie

An American physicist, Peter Standish, lives in London in an inherited flat on Berkeley Square Read More »
The First Film (2015) David Wilkinson, Bernard Atha, Stephane Cornicard, Tom Courtenay

In October 1888 Louis Le Prince produced the world’s first films in Leeds,England. Read More »
The House of Exorcism (1975) Mario Bava, Alfredo Leone, Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina

Tourist Lisa Reiner faints on the street and is taken to hospital. Read More »
Girl with Hyacinths AKA Flicka och hyacinter (1950) Hasse Ekman, Eva Henning, Ulf Palme, Birgit Tengroth

The young Dagmar Brink commits suicide. Her belongings are inherited by the resident caretaker in the house she lived in. Read More »