
Jean Lerat de la Grignotière is as full of himself as his name is long. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Tormento (1950) Raffaello Matarazzo, Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Annibale Betrone

Living with her father and stepmother in Naples, Anna is very unhappy as her stepmother hinders her attempts to live her own life. Read More »
Giallo alla regola (1988) Stefano Roncoroni, Remo Girone, Daniela Poggi, Paolo Malco

Fugitive criminal is hiding a suitcase full of dollars under the machine. Read More »
Tonny (1962) Per Gjersøe, Nils R. Müller, Per Christensen, Wenche Foss, Liv Ullmann

Tonny is a schoolboy in fostercare who serves his first sentence in a jail for adults. Read More »
Class of ’44 (1973) Paul Bogart, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant

The “terrible trio” of “Summer of ’42” has graduated high school. Read More »
Wolves, Pigs and People (1964) Kinji Fukasaku, Ken Takakura, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Shinjirô Ebara

A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang. Read More »
Technique of Love: Kama Sutra (1970) Kôji Wakamatsu, Eri Ashikawa, Jôji Ichimura, Yûko Etô

A how-to SEX documentary that interprets the Indian sexual scripture Kama Sutra in the style of Koji Wakamatsu. Read More »
Hissein Habré, une tragédie tchadienne (2016) Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Hissène Habré

In 2013 former Chadian dictator Hissein Habré’s arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat Read More »
Alien Apocalypse (2005) Josh Becker, Bruce Campbell, Renée O’Connor, Remington Franklin

Astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space Read More »
Born Reckless (1930) Andrew Bennison, John Ford, Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, William Harrigan

Hoping to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war. Read More »