In 1943, ‘Mac’ MacClain, Canadian Navy, has lost his ship and many men to a German torpedo. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
A Room for Rent AKA Kashima ari (1959) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Nobuko Otowa, Ikio Sawamura
The story follows the various tenants living in a multi-room tenement on a hill overlooking the city of Osaka. Read More »
Don’t Torture a Duckling AKA Non si sevizia un paperino (1972) Lucio Fulci, Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian
In the backward village of Accendura, the boy Bruno Lo Casio goes missing and the police inspector Read More »
Desperate Moves AKA Rollerboy (1981) Ovidio G. Assonitis, Steve Tracy, Eddie Deezen, Isabel Sanford
A naive young man from a small Oregon town travels to the big city–in this case San Francisco–to pursue his dream. Read More »
Casanova ’70 (1965) Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell
Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, a U.N. official and modern-day Casanova, cannot get aroused unless there’s danger in sex Read More »
Bloody Morning AKA Xuese Qingchen (1992) Shaohong Li, Zhaohui Gong, Yajie Hu, Lu Hui
The young teacher Li Mingguang is to be murdered in the north of China because Read More »
Death Row Woman AKA Onna shikeishû no datsugoku (1960) Nobuo Nakagawa, Miyuki Takakura, Tatsuo Terashima, Yôichi Numata
Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence Read More »
Scared Straight! (1978) Arnold Shapiro, Peter Falk, Doug Cronin, Mickie Cold
This film shows the Scared Straight program that has hardened convicts from maximum security prisons Read More »
Angel Eyes (1993) Gary Graver, Erik Estrada, John Phillip Law, Monique Gabrielle
Angel is a disturbed teen who becomes obsessed with her nice stepfather Steven. Read More »
The Moon and the Sledgehammer (1971) Philip Trevelyan
Mr. Page and his two sons and two daughters live a primitive life in the woods in southern England with traction engines. Read More »