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Author Archives: rarefilm
A Night at the Opera (1935) Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx

The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man’s lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Read More »
The Black Torment (1964) Robert Hartford-Davis, Heather Sears, John Turner, Ann Lynn

A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumors that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Read More »
The Stone Wedding (1973) Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu, Leopoldina Balanuta, Eliza Petrachescu, Nina Doniga

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. Read More »
Erotic Ghost Story III (1992) Kai-Ming Lai, Pauline Chan, Fui-On Shing, King-Man Chik

Set in the Tang Dynasty, the plot concerns an engaged couple, Chu Chung and Liu Su-su Read More »
A Coachman (1961) Dae-jin Kang, Seung-ho Kim, Yeong-gyun Shin, Jeong-sun Hwang

A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. Read More »
Declaration of War (2011) Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, César Desseix

Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. Read More »
There Is No Sexual Rapport (2011) Raphaël Siboni, Hervé P. Gustave, Cindy Dollar, Michael Cerrito

An amusing and poignant examination of one man’s career as a director-performer of pornography. Read More »
Passport for a Corpse (1962) Mario Gariazzo, Alberto Lupo, Hélène Chanel, Linda Christian

When a robbery goes wrong the only survivor tries to smuggle himself across the border by hiding in a coffin. Read More »
Handle with Care (1967) Guido Zurli, Rod Dana, Luisa Rivelli, Spela Rozin

Secret agent Mark Roberts is described by his very angry boss as a “lascivious pleasure seeking sybarite”. Read More »