Stockbroker Joe Downey(Warren Douglas), mistaken in the dark for gangster “Slats” Slattery (Robert Osterloh), is brutally beaten by a rival gangster Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Sisters (1938) Anatole Litvak, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Drama
Sisters Louise Elliott, Helen Elliott and Grace Elliott – the daughters of pharmacist Ned Elliott and his wife Rose Elliott Read More »
Deux hommes dans Manhattan / Two Men in Manhattan (1959) Jean-Pierre Melville, Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) and hard drinking photographer Delmas (Pierre Grasset) on an assignment to find him. Their only lead is a picture of three women.
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So Big! (1932) William A. Wellman, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Drama, Romance
Selina lived well until her father Simeon died. Her aunts sold the estate and put her in a boarding school. Read More »
A Freira e a Tortura (1983) Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias, David Cardoso, Vera Gimenez, Claudia Alencar, Drama, Erotic
Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who’s accused of political crimes. Read More »
The Profiteer (1974) Sergio Nasca, Valeria Moriconi, Al Cliver, Giancarlo Marinangeli, Drama, Romance, Erotic
By all accounts, this slick production aims at exposing the corruption of southern Italian Catholicism. Read More »
Delinquent School Girls (1975) Greg Corarito, Michael Pataki, Bob Minor, Stephen Stucker, Comedy, Drama, Erotic
Three mental patients (a bad impersonator, a baseball player, and a gay fashion designer) escape their asylum and sexually assault their way into a girl’s private school. Read More »
Lydia (1941) Julien Duvivier, Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotten, Edna May Oliver, Drama, Romance
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, is invited by an old beau, Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick Read More »
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) Tony Richardson, Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Paul McCrane, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on the novel by John Irving, this unusual comedic drama follows the exploits of the eccentric hotel-operating Berry family. Read More »
Honolulu (2001) Uschi Ferstl, Florian Gallenberger, Peter Bechtel, Daniel Brühl, Shira Fleisher, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Produced and directed by seven Munich Film School students, Honolulu takes place not in Hawaii, but inside of a rural town just outside of Munich, Germany. Read More »