
A chance encounter at a laundromat between a young man and young woman turns into an afternoon lunch date. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Blackout (1988) Doug Adams, Gail O’Grady, Carol Lynley, Michael Keys Hall, Drama, Thriller

Caroline Boyle returns to her childhood home in Northern California, drawn there by a cryptic letter from her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was a child. Read More »
Hanna Amon (1951) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Lutz Moik, Ilse Steppat, Drama

Hanna and her brother Thomas Amon live on the estate of their deceased parents. Read More »
Secret Ceremony (1968) Joseph Losey, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Mia Farrow, Drama, Thriller

Leonora, a prostitute, mourns the death by drowning years earlier of her daughter. Read More »
Galileo (1975) Joseph Losey, Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Biography, Drama

This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Read More »
The Nurses Secret (1941) Noel M. Smith, Lee Patrick, Regis Toomey, Julie Bishop, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Murder mystery with a nurse (Lee Patrick) moving into a mansion after an apparent suicide to care for the old mother. Read More »
The Go Getter (1937) Busby Berkeley, George Brent, Anita Louise, Charles Winninger, Comedy, Romance

Billy Austin served on the crew of the USN airship Macon until it crashed at sea during a storm. Read More »
Northern Pursuit (1943) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine

Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. Read More »
Out of Africa (1985) Sydney Pollack, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Drama, Romance, Biography

Initially set on being a dairy farmer, the aristocratic Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) travels to Africa to join her husband, Bror (Klaus Maria Brandauer) Read More »
La guerre des boutons / War of the Buttons (2011) Yann Samuell, Eric Elmosnino, Mathilde Seigner, Fred Testot, Adventure, Family

In the countryside of France, two groups of boys from the rural villages of Longeverne and Velran are in constant war against each other. Read More »