
Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Rat-Trap (1982) Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Jalaja, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Rajam K. Nair

The protagonist is trapped within himself and is unable to comprehend the changes taking place around him. Read More »
A House Is Not a Home (1964) Russell Rouse, Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero

Based on Polly Adler’s best-selling autobiography about her life in the Roaring Twenties as a legendary Madam. Read More »
Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero (1990) Macoto Tezuka, Masao Kusakari, Kaori Mizushima, Hideyo Amamoto

A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be physically handled Read More »
A Woman’s Vengeance (1948) Zoltan Korda, Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy

Country squire Henry Maurier is patient with his wife Emily, a neurotic invalid, but her brother surprises Henry with his young mistress Doris. Read More »
Le soleil des voyous / Action Man (1967) Jean Delannoy, Jean Gabin, Robert Stack, Margaret Lee

Sophisticated crook talks ex-crook and now respectable business man into one last caper. Read More »
The Underworld Story (1950) Cy Endfield, Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm

Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing Read More »
Oliver Twist (1982) Clive Donner, George C. Scott, Tim Curry, Michael Hordern

The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets. Read More »
Goyokin (1969) Hideo Gosha, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurô Tanba, Yôko Tsukasa

Tatsuya Nakadai plays a samurai overcome with guilt over his unwitting part in a massacre of a small village. Read More »
Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons

The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic Read More »