
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 »
Author Archives: rarefilm
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 »
Im Going Home (2001) Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Comedy, Drama

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Read More »
Forbidden (1984) Anthony Page, Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Drama, Romance, War

In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. Read More »
Down Mexico Way (1941) Joseph Santley, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Comedy, Thriller, Western

Gene and Frog head down to Mexico, hot on the trail of a group of swindlers who convince townspeople to invest in movies to be filmed on location in their town, and then skip out without making the films. Read More »
Mandalay (1934) Michael Curtiz, Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Drama, Romance

Russian refugee Tanya Borisoff is suddenly abandoned penniless in Rangoon, Burma, by her lover, Tony Evans, who accepted a gunrunning deal from Nick, the owner of an amoral nightclub. Read More »
Ratas, ratones, rateros (1999) Sebastián Cordero, Carlos Valencia, Marco Bustos, Cristina Dávila, Action, Crime, Drama

The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Read More »
The Rise of Louis XIV (1966) Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, César Silvagni, Biography, History

1661: Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum, the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Read More »