1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Mania (1985) Giorgos Panousopoulos, Alessandra Vanzi, Aris Retsos, Antonis Theodorakopoulos
It is on Ascension Day that Zoe, a brilliant computer analyst, visits the National Park in the center of Athens with her daughter, Katerina. Read More »
Crazy Desire (1962) Luciano Salce, Ugo Tognazzi, Catherine Spaak, Béatrice Altariba
A middle-aged and slightly conservative businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one named Francesca. Read More »
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Robert Florey, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. Read More »
Dr. Sexual and Mr. Hyde (1971) Anthony Brzezinski, Suzanne Fields
A Scientist runs a spooky asylum and does sexual experiments on the female inmates. Read More »
Calmos (1976) Bertrand Blier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. Read More »
Power of the Press (1943) Lew Landers, Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper’s policy and support the US war effort. Read More »
Stagecoach (1939) John Ford, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine
A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. Read More »
Panic in the Streets (1950) Elia Kazan, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it’s pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. Read More »
Higher and Higher (1943) Tim Whelan, Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra
Formerly rich Mr. Drake is broke…with his household staff’s wages seven months in arrears. Read More »