The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tempest (1928) Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone, John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Drama, Romance
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. Read More »
White Nights (1985) Taylor Hackford, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Drama
An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. Read More »
Young Fury (1964) Christian Nyby, Rory Calhoun, Virginia Mayo, William Bendix, Western
A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the leader must take action. Read More »
Tih Minh (1918) Louis Feuillade, Mary Harald, René Cresté, Georges Biscot, Adventure, Mystery
Jacques d’Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that Read More »
Little Old New York (1940) Henry King, Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene, Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn’t. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat.
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Les Témoins / The Witnesses (2007) André Téchiné, Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Drama, Romance
June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer’s return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien, meets Manu, a young gay man from the provinces who lives with his sister, an opera singer. Read More »
Miss Julie (1999) Mike Figgis, Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Drama
Midsummer night, 1894, in northern Sweden. The complex strictures of class bind a man and a woman. Read More »
Cita imposible (1958) Antonio Santillán, Beni Deus, Claudine Dupuis, Juanita Espín, Crime, Drama
When Rosario is released from a one year prison sentence in Barcelona women’s detention center, she is determined to prove her innocence. Read More »
Union Pacific (1939) Cecil B. DeMille, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Drama, Western
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. Read More »