
Rocco is a young Italian living in New York. He is desperate for a job and willing to do anything, including being in porn movies, just like his friend Lilly. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) Joseph Pevney, James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer

Loose biography of actor Lon Chaney. Growing up with deaf parents, he learns what it is like to be different. Read More »
Suffering Bastards (1989) Bernard McWilliams, John C. McGinley, David Warshofsky, Eric Bogosian

Buddy Johnson recounts the story of his life to a lovely woman who comes into his bar: how he and his brother Al Read More »
The Serpent (1973) Henri Verneuil, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde

Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a Soviet spy. In France, Vlassov defects. He is whisked to the U.S.A., where Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) takes over the case. Read More »
The Burning Court (1962) Julien Duvivier, Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Perrette Pradier

A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. Read More »
Femme Fatale (1991) Andre R. Guttfreund, Colin Firth, Lisa Zane, Billy Zane

Joseph Price, a former artist (painter) and now nature park ranger, has fallen for a woman who he meets in the park. Read More »
Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971) Shinsuke Ogawa

It’s the mid 60s. Tokyo needs a new airport. There isn’t anywhere in Tokyo to put it, so the government decides on displacing some adjacent villages. Read More »
Another Time, Another Place (1958) Lewis Allen, Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns

Lana Turner is a female American journalist who has an affair with BBC war correspondent, Sean Connery, during WWII. Read More »
Road House (1948) Jean Negulesco, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm

Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Read More »
The Deserter (1971) Burt Kennedy, Niksa Fulgosi, Bekim Fehmiu, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors

Bitter over his wife’s death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. Read More »