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Author Archives: rarefilm
Romper Stomper (1992) Geoffrey Wright, Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie

Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Read More »
Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978) Lamont Johnson, Farrah Fawcett, Jeff Bridges, John Wood

A woman’s husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves. Read More »
La Chute des Aigles / Night of the Eagles (1989) Jesús Franco, Christopher Lee, Ramon Estevez, Mark Hamill

In World War II Germany, two young men, one, an ardent Nazi, and the other, a secret anti-Nazi Read More »
Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997) John Henderson, Daniel Abineri, Danny Aiello, Justin Avoth

Marla Darland is blessed with the voice of an angel, a singing legend. Read More »
Noviembre (2003) Achero Mañas, Óscar Jaenada, Ingrid Rubio, Javier Ríos

Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives in Madrid intent on creating “a performance which is freer. Read More »
The Palace (2023) Roman Polanski, Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant, John Cleese

A drama set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of hotel workers and various guests get intertwined. Read More »
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022) Ashley McKenzie, Sarah Walker, Ziyin Zheng, Xue Yao

A suicidal teen develops a rapport with the student from Shanghai assigned to watch her in the hospital. Read More »
La schiava del peccato / The Slave of Sin (1954) Raffaello Matarazzo, Silvana Pampanini, Marcello Mastroianni, Camillo Pilotto

The only survivors of a serious train accident are a little girl and a prostitute. Read More »
Tire-au-flanc 62 / The Sad Sack (1960) Claude de Givray, François Truffaut, Christian de Tillière, Ricet Barrier, Jacques Balutin

Jean Lerat de la Grignotière is as full of himself as his name is long. Read More »