The middle age bon-vivant Max is a former gangster and close friend of his partner Riton. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Black Duke (1963) Pino Mercanti, Cameron Mitchell, Conrado San Martín, Maria Grazia Spina, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Cesar Borgia–a cardinal in the Catholic church, a confidant of the Pope and a member of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in 16th-century Italy–must deal with a host of political and personal crises. Read More »
Offbeat (1961) Cliff Owen, William Sylvester, Mai Zetterling, John Meillon, Crime
When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down. Read More »
His Picture in the Papers (1916) John Emerson, Douglas Fairbanks, Clarence Handyside, Rene Boucicault, Comedy
A young man can only get the woman he loves if he becomes famous and manages to get his picture in the newspapers. Read More »
Clint el solitario / Clint the Stranger (1967) Alfonso Balcázar, George Martin, Marianne Koch, Gerhard Riedmann, Western
Clint Harrison is a gunslinger that has been running from vengeful foes for years. He returns to the town he abandoned years earlier to find that his family has moved away to get away from his bad reputation. Read More »
Simple mortel (1991) Pierre Jolivet, Philippe Volter, Christophe Bourseiller, Nathalie Roussel, Thriller
A young man, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive strange radio messages in a language only he knows. Read More »
Rest in Pieces (1987) José Ramón Larraz, Scott Thompson Baker, Lorin Jean Vail, Dorothy Malone, Horror
A newlywed couple move into the mansion of the bride’s recently dead aunt. Soon strange things begin to happen when the various tenants and servants of the mansion don’t want to leave and the bride and groom are in a deadly predicament. Read More »
Los confines (1987) Mitl Valdez, Rigoberto Carmona, Carlos Esteban Chávez, Uriel Chávez, Drama
Mitl Valdez’s film Los confines (1987) is an adaptation of several works of fiction by the Mexican author Juan Rulfo. Read More »
Camerons Closet (1988) Armand Mastroianni, Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Scott Curtis, Horror, Sci-Fi
A young and lonely boy named Cameron has telekenetic powers which his father experiments with. The young boy’s loneliness is the cause of a strange spell to be cast. Read More »
The Fisher King (1991) Terry Gilliam, Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Adam Bryant, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
After hearing a popular DJ rail against yuppies, a madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar. Read More »