Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Ax (2005) Costa-Gavras, José Garcia, Karin Viard, Geordy Monfils
Bruno Davert, a chemist working for a paper company, is fired. Read More »
Trouble in the Glen (1954) Herbert Wilcox, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker
Major Jim “Lance” Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps Read More »
Verdict (1974) André Cayatte, Sophia Loren, Jean Gabin, Julien Bertheau
A French judge try to acquit a man who is accused of murdering his lover. Read More »
The Possessor (1975) Franco Lo Cascio, Angelo Pannacciò, Richard Conte, Françoise Prévost, Patrizia Gori
This movie starts with the teenager Peter (Jean-Claude Verne) who takes a picture of a mysterious naked woman (Mimma Monticelli) near a pastoral waterfall. Read More »
The Ghost Ship (1943) Mark Robson, Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett
Tom Merriam signs on the ship Altair as third officer under Captain Stone. Read More »
Strongroom (1962) Vernon Sewell, Colin Gordon, John Chappell, Ann Lynn
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom while the crooks escape. Read More »
Quick Money (1937) Edward Killy, Fred Stone, Gordon Jones, Dorothy Moore
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Read More »
The Gambler from Natchez (1954) Henry Levin, Dale Robertson, Debra Paget, Thomas Gomez
Returning to New Orleans, following four years of army service in Texas in the 1840s Read More »
The Axe of Wandsbek (1951) Falk Harnack, Erwin Geschonneck, Käthe Braun, Gefion Helmke
After a crime is committed during the Nazi era in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, the aspiring local leader Read More »