
Ville Herman, a small town librarian falls in love with janitors daughter Liisa. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
After the Dance (1935) Leo Bulgakov, Nancy Carroll, George Murphy, Thelma Todd

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man Read More »
Blithe Spirit (1945) David Lean, Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond

Blithe Spirit, David Lean’s delightful film version of Noël Coward’s theater sensation Read More »
Harbor Drift (1929) Leo Mittler, Lissy Arna, Paul Rehkopf, Fritz Genschow

A pre-Depression slice of proletarian life from Weimar Germany, Harbour Drift is unusually interesting Read More »
Ankur (1974) Shyam Benegal, Shabana Azmi, Sadhu Meher, Anant Nag

Laxmi lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in India along with her husband, Kishtaya, who is a deaf-mute. Read More »
The Radio Girl (1944) Arthur Duarte, Maria Matos, António Silva, Maria Eugénia

Cipriano Lopes & D.Rosa Gonçalves are shopkeepers and hate each other. Read More »
Vulgar (2000) Brian O’Halloran, Bryan Johnson, Jerry Lewkowitz

A loser with a crummy apartment, an odious mother, and a job that isn’t taking him anywhere (kid’s clown), gets a new idea. Read More »
Losing Ground (1982) Kathleen Collins, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Clarence Branch Jr.

A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering Read More »
Experiment Perilous (1944) Jacques Tourneur, Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas

In 1903, Dr. Bailey meets a very strange woman on a train, then hears that she has died under mysterious circumstances. Read More »
The Delavine Affair (1955) Douglas Peirce, Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman, Gordon Jackson

The Delavine Affair is a jewel robbery orchestrated by a particularly vicious criminal gang. Read More »