
In Tokyo, the freelance cameraman Takuyoshi Masuoka is obsessed investigating the fear sensation near death. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Guilt Is My Shadow (1950) Roy Kellino, Elizabeth Sellars, Patrick Holt, Peter Reynolds

Linda (Elizabeth Sellars) is driven to the breaking point by her no-good husband. One day, he pushes her too far, and she kills him. Read More »
Down to Earth (1947) Alexander Hall, Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, Marc Platt

Upset about a new Broadway musical’s mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. Read More »
Real Soulja (1984) Fernando Di Leo, Henry Silva, Harrison Muller, Woody Strode

Mike Martin is an ex CIA agent who goes on a final mission to Thailand to expose a group of KGB infiltrators in the area. Read More »
Johnny Rocco (1958) Paul Landres, Richard Eyer, Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray

Gangster and police look for a gangster’s son who witnessed a murder. Read More »
The Black Vampire (1953) Román Viñoly Barreto, Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nathán Pinzón

This clever “feminist” reworking of Fritz Lang’s classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile. Read More »
The Captain from Kopenick (1931) Richard Oswald, Max Adalbert, Ernst Dernburg, Willi Schur

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain’s uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen Read More »
A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) Anthony Asquith, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Uno Henning, Norah Baring

Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.  Read More »
The Crooked Circle (1957) Joseph Kane, John Smith, Fay Spain, Steve Brodie

A young prizefighter finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight. Read More »
Battle of the Commandos (1969) Umberto Lenzi, Jack Palance, Thomas Hunter, Claudio Undari

Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of twenty-eight slaughtered by German troops. Read More »