
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Shotgun Wedding (1963) Boris Petroff, J. Pat O’Malley, Jenny Maxwell, Valerie Allen

Melanie tries to come up with a way to get her boss to marry her after she becomes pregnant. Read More »
My Brother’s Wedding (1983) Charles Burnett, Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett

A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother Read More »
David and Lisa (1962) Frank Perry, Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis Read More »
Cop Game (1988) Bruno Mattei, Brent Huff, Max Laurel, Romano Puppo

In the final days of the Vietnam War, someone is killing the officers of the elite Cobra Force. Read More »
The Sicilian (1987) Michael Cimino, Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland

Giuliano robs from the rich conservative landowners to give to the poor, serf-like peasants, who in turn hail him as their savior. Read More »
Whirlpool (1934) Roy William Neill, Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook

Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight Read More »
Silent Dust (1949) Lance Comfort, Stephen Murray, Beatrice Campbell, George Woodbridge

A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son Read More »
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997) Bille August, Julia Ormond, Ona Fletcher, Agga Olsen

Based on Peter Hoeg’s bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. Read More »
The Sad Sack (1957) George Marshall, Jerry Lewis, Phyllis Kirk, David Wayne

Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. Read More »