
During World War II, American soldier Harry Cook is sent to Norway to aid in the defection of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Topper (1937) Norman Z. McLeod, Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

The funloving Kerbys, stockholders in the bank of which henpecked, stuffy Cosmo Topper is president, drive recklessly once too often and become ghosts. Read More »
Never Say Die (1939) Elliott Nugent, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Andy Devine, Comedy

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Read More »
Lásky mezi kapkami deste / Love Between the Raindrops (1980) Karel Kachyna, Eduard Cupák, Vladimír Mensík, Lukás Vaculík, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Karel Bursík (Lukás Vaculík), as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague – Zizkov. His father (Vladimír Mensík), a shoe-maker Read More »
Dopperugengâ / Doppelganger (2003) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kôji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yûsuke Santamaria, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller

Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. Read More »
Made (1972) John Mackenzie, Carol White, Roy Harper, John Castle, Drama

The story of the relationship between a young single mother and an insecure rock star. Read More »
Two Years Before the Mast (1946) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Drama, Adventure

Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century. Read More »
La partida / The Last Match (2013) Antonio Hens, Milton García, Reinier Díaz, Jenifer Rodríguez, Drama, Romance

Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field at their neighbourhood in Havana. Read More »
The Tamarind Seed (1974) Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Romance, Drama, Crime

While on holiday in Barbados to recover from the lingering effects of a love affair that ended badly, Judith Farrow meets Feodor Sverdlov, a handsome Russian. Read More »
Two Days One Night / Deux jours, une nuit (2014) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée, Drama

Sandra, a young Belgian mother, discovers that her workmates have opted for a significant pay bonus, in exchange for her dismissal. Read More »