
‘Tattooed Life’ begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973) Yasuzô Masumura, Shintarô Katsu, Keiko Aikawa, Kazuko Inano, Keizô Kanie

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. Read More »
Lawful Larceny (1930) Lowell Sherman, Bebe Daniels, Kenneth Thomson

A woman of low morals who runs a gambling operation in her house takes pride in destroying the men she ensnares in her net. Read More »
Le destin exécrable de Guillemette Babin (1948) Guillaume Radot, Héléna Bossis, Michel Barbey, Germaine Kerjean

Being born a witch’s daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Read More »
The Lost One (1951) Peter Lorre, Karl John, Helmuth Rudolph

German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy. Read More »
The Man in Grey (1943) Leslie Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert

At an estate auction in WWII England, two strangers meet and muse about their families’ history and possible connections. Read More »
Knock on Any Door (1949) Nicholas Ray, Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready

Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. Read More »
Peccato veniale (1974) Salvatore Samperi, Laura Antonelli, Alessandro Momo, Orazio Orlando

In Versillia’s sandy beaches during the summer of 1956, a gawky adolescent, Sandro, spends his vacation by the sea Read More »
Isle of the Dead (1945) Mark Robson, Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. Read More »
Colt in the Hand of the Devil (1973) Gianfranco Baldanello, Robert Woods, William Berger, George Wang

When a cowboy is released from prison he fulfils a promise to visit a town run by a gang of ruthless gunmen. Read More »