
Story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Bang Bang (1971) Andrea Tonacci, Paulo César Peréio, Abrahão Farc, Jura Otero

The actor of a film being made lives without distinction his own personal reality and his character’s fiction. Read More »
Isi and Disi, alto voltaje (2006) Miguel Ángel Lamata, Santiago Segura, Florentino Fernández, El Gran Wyoming

After a disastrous funeral of his father, a heavy metal rocker is fined for the damages and is in danger of losing all his inheritance. Read More »
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (1970) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Reiko Oshida, Masumi Tachibana, Yukie Kagawa

After a life in reform school, Rika (Reiko Oshida) tries her hand at becoming a decent, upstanding citizen. Read More »
Flight for Freedom (1943) Lothar Mendes, Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall

Fictionalized biography of Amelia Earhart (here called Tonie Carter). First, a flagwaving preface about air warfare in the Pacific Read More »
Bride of the Wind (2001) Bruce Beresford, Sarah Wynter, Vincent Perez, Jonathan Pryce

Vienna, 1902: Alma Schindler meets Gustav Mahler. She beautiful, young, plays, and composes: music is her life. Read More »
Walk Tall (1960) Maury Dexter, Willard Parker, Joyce Meadows, Kent Taylor

When Ed Carter and his gang violently raids a Shoshone village, killing their women and children Read More »
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) Terence Fisher, Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee

Dr. Henry Jekyll is a dull, bookish scientist who spends more time with his lab animals testing theories of alternate personalities than with his beautiful, young wife. Read More »
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977) Agnès Varda, Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès

The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women’s movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Read More »
Puppets Under Starry Skies (1978) Hôjin Hashiura, Yoichi Miura, Kazuhito Takei, Ako

A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. Read More »