Candy Christian is an innocent young girl when she first hears NcPhito, an alcoholic Welsh poet, talk of love and self-sacrifice. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Waiting for Happiness (2002) Sissako, Khatra Ould Abder Kader, Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed, Drama, Music
On the seacoast of Mauritania, some wait to go to Europe. Khatra, a spirited boy, wants an electric light so he can read at night. Read More »
Terror in a Texas Town (1958) Joseph H. Lewis, Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Western
Sven Hanson is one of a number of farmers whom Ed McNeil wants to run off their land (because he knows there’s oil on it). Read More »
Upstage (1926) Monta Bell, Norma Shearer, Oscar Shaw, Tenen Holtz, Drama, Romance
Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Read More »
Trigger, Jr. (1950) William Witney, Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans, Western
Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his “protection”. Read More »
Swing Kids (1993) Thomas Carter, Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Drama, Music
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Read More »
Murder Without Crime (1950) J. Lee Thompson, Dennis Price, Derek Farr, Patricia Plunkett, Crime, Drama
When author Stephen and his wife Jan have a violent quarrel, both storm out of the house and it seems as if their marriage is at an end. Read More »
Breaking Point – Pornografisk thriller (1975) Bo Arne Vibenius, Andreas Bellis, Barbara Scott, Jane McIntosch, Adult, Horror, Thriller
Andreas Bellis plays a rapist murderer who runs amok. He stalks women, follows them home, then rapes and kills them. He also plays with his toy trains and suffers from sexual nightmares. Read More »
Murder by Proxy / Blackout (1954) Terence Fisher, Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir
An American in London, down on his luck, runs into a beautiful blonde in a bar who offers him a lot of money to marry her. Read More »
An American in Paris (1951) Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Musical, Romance, Drama
Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Read More »