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Author Archives: rarefilm
Urgences (1988) Raymond Depardon
A documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Motel Dieu at a large hospital in Paris. Read More »
Memories and Confessions (1993) Manoel de Oliveira, Maria Isabel de Oliveira, Diogo Dória
A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira’s life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal. Read More »
Zappa (1983) Bille August, Adam Tønsberg, Peter Reichhardt, Morten Hoff
In the early ’60s, 3 Danish classmates join a “den”/tree house. Read More »
Scorpio Nights (1985) Peque Gallaga, Orestes Ojeda, Anna Marie Gutierrez, Daniel Fernando
In a crowded, multi-appartment house, a young student peeps on his neighbours making love Read More »
Trent’s Last Case (1952) Herbert Wilcox, Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles
After a wealthy businessman is found dead, reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Read More »
Slave of Crime (1987) Jesús Franco, Marco Moriarty, Lina Romay, Mel Rodrigo
Tsai Chin, the daughter of the infamous Fu Manchu, controls a large empire of vice in her part of the Far East. Read More »
Cafe Hostess (1940) Sidney Salkow, Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fowley
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave. Read More »
Caged Fury (1983) Cirio H. Santiago, Bernadette Williams, Jennifer Lane, Taaffe O’Connell
North American and Asian women are brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers in an evil Filipino POW camp. Read More »
Clash by Night (1952) Fritz Lang, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas
The bitter and cynical Mae Doyle returns to the fishing village where she was raised after deceptive loves and life in New York. Read More »