
In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Shanghai jiaqi / My American Grandson (1991) Ann Hui, Kun-Hsuan Huang, Carina Lau, Peng Sun, Drama

A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai. Read More »
Bucktown (1975) Arthur Marks, Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Action, Crime, Drama

Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. Read More »
Deadly Friend (1986) Wes Craven, Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Paul Conway and his mother Jeannie Conway travel to a new town where Paul will join the local university invited by Dr. Johanson. Read More »
Splav meduze / The Medusa Raft (1980) Karpo Acimovic-Godina, Olga Kacijan, Vladislava Milosavljevic, Boris Komnenic, Drama

In the early 20’s there’s a group on anarchic artistic yugoslawian yahoos traipsing around the rural never-lands of what then was the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Read More »
Underbara älskade / Suddenly (2006) Johan Brisinger, Michael Nyqvist, Anastasios Soulis, Moa Gammel, Drama

The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
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The Lost Man (1969) Robert Alan Aurthur, Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Al Freeman Jr., Drama

Former U.S. Army lieutenant Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) who, after becoming a black militant during the 1960s Black Reveolutionary movement Read More »
The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962) Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Umgelter, June Wilkinson, Don Kenney, Karin Dor, Comedy

The bellboy aspires to be a private eye and is reading a book to learn the trade. Read More »
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964) Terence Fisher, Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Horror, Sci-Fi

A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. Read More »
The Killers (1964) Don Siegel, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Don Siegel directed this intensely pessimistic re-make of Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Killers, based upon a story by Ernest Hemingway. Read More »