
In 1960 Germany, Army lawyer Major Steve Garrett is assigned to defend four American soldiers charged with raping 16 year-old Karin Steinhof. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916) Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber, Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian, Wadsworth Harris

Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe. Read More »
The Jericho Mile (1979) Michael Mann, Peter Strauss, Richard Lawson, Roger E. Mosley

Larry “Rain” Murphy is stuck in Folsom Prison for life on a first-degree murder charge. Read More »
Waterloo Bridge (1940) Mervyn LeRoy, Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I Read More »
Relations (1969) Hans Abramson, Brandon Chase, Gertie Jung, Bjørn Puggaard-Müller, Jeanne Darville

Sonja, 16 is a porn model, and her middle aged lover is obsessed with her Read More »
Kuei-Mei, A Woman (1985) Yi Chang, Hui-Shan Yang, Hsiang-Ping Hu, Li-Chun Lee

Arriving in Taiwan in the 1950s, Kuei-mei makes a disadvantageous marriage to a widower with three unruly kids and a bad gambling habit. Read More »
Key Witness (1947) D. Ross Lederman, John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Jimmy Lloyd

Milton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don’t sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn’t commit—the killing of a girl he had just met Read More »
Japans Longest Day (1967) Kihachi Okamoto, Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkô Toura, Chishû Ryû

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Read More »
Whom the Gods Love (1936) Basil Dean, Stephen Haggard, Victoria Hopper, John Loder

The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. Read More »
Against the Wind (1948) Charles Crichton, Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner

Philip Elliot, refugee Belgian priest, reports to a secret school in London for spies and saboteurs behind German lines. Read More »