
On Queensland’s Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Schwarzer Kies (1961) Helmut Käutner, Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy

In 1960, in a rural part of West Germany, an American military base is set up in a small village of 250 inhabitants. Read More »
Somewhere in Time (1980) Jeannot Szwarc, Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer

Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to “Come back to me”. Read More »
Summer Affair (1971) Giorgio Stegani, Alessio Orano, Ornella Muti, Luigi Pistilli

Lisa, a fifteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy industrialist, falls in love with Robert, a young hippie, slightly older than her. Read More »
The Future Is Woman (1984) Marco Ferreri, Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla, Niels Arestrup

The story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for a while Read More »
All Fall Down (1962) John Frankenheimer, Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden

Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for nothing son Berry-Berry. Read More »
Victims of Sin (1951) Emilio Fernández, Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco, Rodolfo Acosta

In México City, a Cuban dancer from “Cabaret Changó” rescues a baby from a garbage can and decides to raise him, but her pachuco pimp gets in her way. Read More »
The Getting of Wisdom (1977) Bruce Beresford, Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund

In the early 1900s, Laura Tweedle Ramsbotham (Susannah Fowle) arrives at an exclusive Melbourne ladies’ Read More »
The Girl of the Golden West (1938) Robert Z. Leonard, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon

Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called “The Poker”. Read More »
Portrait of Jason (1967) Shirley Clarke, Jason Holliday, Carl Lee

The highlights of a 12-hour interview with Aaron Payne, alias Jason Holliday, a former houseboy Read More »