
This is a Romeo and Juliet type tale based in Detroit, Michigan. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Unfaithfully Yours (1984) Howard Zieff, Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante

Claude Eastman, is a composer and conductor. He is married to Daniella, who is half his age. Read More »
One Foot in Heaven (1941) Irving Rapper, Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi

In the early twentieth century, William Spence and Hope Morris Spence are a Methodist minister and his wife. Read More »
She’s Too Tall (1999) Redge Mahaffey, Brigitte Nielsen, Corey Feldman, George Hamilton

In the glamorous and competitive world of hi-fashion, Veronica Lamar now designs the clothes that she once modeled on the runway. Read More »
Carnival Magic (1981) Al Adamson, Don Stewart, Jennifer Houlton, Howard Segal

A magician in a carnival–who actually can read minds and levitate people and objects–works with a superintelligent chimp named Alex, who can also talk. Read More »
Disquiet (2010) João Botelho, Cláudio da Silva, Pedro Lamares, Ricardo Aibéo

A room in Lisbon. A man dreams and establishes a theory to make it come true. Read More »
Retreat from Kiska (1965) Seiji Maruyama, Toshirô Mifune, Sô Yamamura, Makoto Satô

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. Read More »
Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972) Martin Ritt, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn’t marry soon. Read More »
The Merry Widow (1952) Curtis Bernhardt, Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel

Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek Read More »
Four Minutes (2006) Chris Kraus, Hannah Herzsprung, Monica Bleibtreu, Vadim Glowna

In Germany, the elder Frau Traude Krueger gives piano classes in a prison for a few prisoners and the security guard Mütze. Read More »