
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Big Sleep (1946) Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

The Big Sleep is the story of a private investigator, named Philip Marlowe, hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his youngest daughter Read More »
Lucifer (2014) Gust Van den Berghe, María Acosta, Jeronimo Soto Bravo, Norma Pablo, Drama

On his downfall from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer passes through the earthly paradise, a village in Mexico, where elderly Lupita and her granddaughter Maria live. Read More »
Le banquet (1989) Marco Ferreri, Lucas Belvaux, Jean Benguigui, Marc Berman, Drama

At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial. Read More »
Tout va bien (1972) Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli, Drama

Jean-Luc Godard dissects the structure of society, movies, love and revolution. He asks compelling questions: Can love survive a relationship? Read More »
In Your Absence / En tu ausencia (2008) Iván Noel, Francisco Alfonsin, Pedro Salido Saborido, Gonzalo Sánchez Salas, Drama

13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence Read More »
Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula (1966) Pino Mercanti, Lang Jeffries, José Greci, Helga Liné, Adventure

1945. After releasing two armored boxes in the bay of Istanbul, a plane crashes into a mountain. The pilot survives but goes crazy and is admitted to an asylum. Read More »
Body Count (1998) Robert Patton-Spruill, David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, John Leguizamo, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Read More »
The Informers (1963) Ken Annakin, Nigel Patrick, Margaret Whiting, Katherine Woodville, Crime, Drama, Thriller

When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies, starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. Read More »
The Cannibals (1988) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Musical, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. Read More »