Based on the play of the same name the film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Florodora Girl (1930) Harry Beaumont, Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter Catlett
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold-digger. Read More »
Outskirts AKA Okraina (1933) Boris Barnet, Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. Read More »
I Believe in You (1952) Basil Dearden, Michael Relph, Celia Johnson, Cecil Parker, Godfrey Tearle
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of The Blue Lamp (1950) Read More »
The Abnormal Female (1969) George Rodgers, Pamela Berkley, Jeanette Foster, Carol Wilson
A psychiatrist encourages his female patients to tell him their sexual problems. Read More »
Taoism Drunkard AKA Gui ma tian shi (1984) Cheung-Yan Yuen, Yat Chor Yuen, Shun-Yee Yuen
A Taoist priest is ordered to find a Cherry Boy to appease his temple’s ancestors. Read More »
What a Carve Up! (1961) Pat Jackson
Ernie’s uncle Gabriel has only died but to assert his inheritance he should spend the night at the ancestral house Read More »
The Dark Side of the Heart AKA El lado oscuro del corazó (1992) Eliseo Subiela, Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency Read More »
The End of August at the Hotel Ozone AKA Konec Srpna v Hotelu Ozon (1967) Jan Schmidt, Vladimír Hlavatý, Jitka Horejsi, Ondrej Jariabek
A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress Read More »
Heat AKA Fiebre (1971) Armando Bo, Isabel Sarli, Horacio Priani
Sandra was married to a racehorses landowner. They do not love each other. Read More »