
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Ipcress File (1965) Sidney J. Furie, Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman

A number of leading Western scientists have been kidnapped only to reappear a fews days later. Read More »
The New Barbarians (1983) Enzo G. Castellari, Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, George Eastman

The year is 2019 in a post-apocalyptic future, a group of weary survivors is faced with a relentless onslaught from a gang of roving bandits. Read More »
New Waterford Girl (1999) Allan Moyle, Liane Balaban, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Mary Walsh

It’s sometime in the 1970’s. Fifteen year old loner Agnes Marie Pottie – nicknamed Mooney – dreams of escaping life in New Waterford, a coastal Nova Scotia town on Cape Breton Island. Read More »
The Weaker Sex (1948) Roy Ward Baker, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins

Life on the home front during World War 2. Martha Dacre tries to keep her home running as normal, during the run up to the D Day landings. Read More »
Office Killer (1997) Cindy Sherman, Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn

When Dorine Douglas’ job as proofreader for Constant Consumer Magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing Read More »
Miss Robin Hood (1952) John Guillermin, Margaret Rutherford, Richard Hearne, Edward Lexy

Henry Wrigley is happy writing stories for a children’s’ comic. Then he meets Miss Honey, who encourages him to go into minor crime. Read More »
The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970) John Krish, Rod Taylor, Carol White, James Booth

A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. He moves in with his friend and begins an affair with the man’s wife. Read More »
The Ditch (2010) Bing Wang, Ye Lu, Renjun Lian, Cenzi Xu

It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’. Read More »
Executioners from Shaolin (1977) Chia-Liang Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Lieh Lo, Yue Wong

A couple unite – she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy’s father is killed by the evil eunuch Bai Mei. Read More »