Ambitious politician Frank Carlton decides to run for a senatorial seat in Washington. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Darker Than Night (2014) Henry Bedwell, Zuria Vega, Adriana Louvier, Eréndira Ibarra
Greta moves into her recently deceased aunt’s mansion and starts throwing wild parties with her friends Read More »
Earth (1939) Tomu Uchida, Isamu Kosugi, Akiko Kazami, Donguriboya
The setting is that of a farming family in Ibaraki from where also the originating writers hailed. Read More »
Uzumasa Limelight (2014) Ken Ochiai, Seizô Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Gôda
The film centers an aged movie extra who specializes to be killed in samurai movies without ever being lit by the limelight. Read More »
Senso (1954) Luchino Visconti, Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti
Venezia, spring of 1866, in the last days of the Austrian occupation. Read More »
Yakuza Ladies 3 (1989) Yasuo Furuhata, Yoshiko Mita, Rino Katase, Ken’ichi Hagiwara
Upon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan’s boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his disciple Terada breaks out. Read More »
Bad Behaviour (1993) Les Blair, Stephen Rea, Sinéad Cusack, Philip Jackson
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie’s grapples with work Read More »
Almost a Man (1966) Vittorio De Seta, Jacques Perrin, Lea Padovani, Gianni Garko
Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal Read More »
009-1: The End of the Beginning (2013) Koichi Sakamoto, Mayuko Iwasa, Minehiro Kinomoto, Nao Nagasawa
In 20xx, the world is divided into two powers: the Western Block and the Eastern Block. Read More »
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942) Harold Young, Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, John Hubbard
A high priest travels to America with a living mummy to kill those who had desecrated the tomb of an Egyptian princess thirty years earlier. Read More »