As the Mongols invade Baghdad in 1258 the Caliph escapes the city and heads to Basra with his young son, Ali. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Silent Warnings (2003) Christian McIntire, Stephen Baldwin, A.J. Buckley, Billy Zane
After the accidental death of his cousin Joe Vossimer, the just-graduated electronic engineer Layne Vossimer Read More »
Transit (2018) Christian Petzold, Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese
A man attempting to escape Nazi-occupied France falls Read More »
125 rue Montmartre (1959) Gilles Grangier, Lino Ventura, Andréa Parisy, Robert Hirsch
Pascal (Lino Ventura) sells newspapers. He is a simple man who one day resting Read More »
Dauria (1972) Viktor Tregubovich, Vitali Solomin, Petr Shelokhonov, Yefim Kopelyan
Epic about Cossacks in the Siberian province of Dauria. Set in the time of World War I and the Russian revolution of 1917. Read More »
Wild Girl (1932) Raoul Walsh, Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy
Bret Harte’s story of Salomy Jane,a California mountain girl Read More »
Yella (2007) Christian Petzold, Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann
Christian Petzold’s drama deals with a woman, who leaves her hometown for a promising job and a new life Read More »
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002) Takashi Miike, Riki Takeuchi, Ryôsuke Miki, Ken’ichi Endô
After Kunisada’s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered Read More »
Tillie and Gus (1933) Francis Martin, W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt Read More »
Yuma (2012) Piotr Mularuk, Jakub Gierszal, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Jakub Kamienski
YUMA is a gripping drama about the rise and fall of Zyga – a Polish kid in his early twenties Read More »