Dora (Ryo Ryusei) and associates runs a badger game scheme to extort victims out of money. One day though, their target looks like an ordinary guy, but he tuns out to be a yakuza. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Wednesday’s Child (1934) John S. Robertson, Karen Morley, Edward Arnold, Frankie Thomas, Drama
Ten-year-old Bobby and a group of friends see Bobby’s mother kissing a man not her husband. Read More »
Veliki transport / The Great Transport (1983) Veljko Bulajic, James Franciscus, Steve Railsback, Edward Albert, Action, Drama, War
Events from the World War II, when the Liberation Army Supreme Headquarters decided to send reinforcements of more than 1000 young men and women Read More »
Amazing Grace (1974) Stan Lathan, Moms Mabley, Slappy White, Rosalind Cash, Comedy
An elderly woman in a Baltimore neighborhood finds out that a somewhat slow-witted neighbor is being put up for local office Read More »
Ha-Mashgihim / God’s Neighbors (2012) Meni Yaish, Roy Assaf, Gal Friedman, Itzik Golan, Drama
The film follows Avi, Kobi and Yaniv, three young men who belong to the Breslev Hassidic community and place themselves in charge of supervising the codes of modesty Read More »
So Faraway and Blue (2001) Roy Cross, Nicole Eliopoulos, Daniel Richard Giverin, Julie Ménard, Drama
Julie, our narrator and guide, is a young woman whose father left her when she was young and whose mother recently threw her out of the house because she reminded her too much of him. Read More »
Sao ren / Young Dudes (2012) Yin-jung Chen, Edison Wang, Tsuyoshi Abe, Larisa Bakurova, Drama
Aspiring rock musician Adam (Wang Po-Chieh) is obsessed with a forthcoming apocalypse, rumoured to be on much the same scale as the biblical flood that led to Noah building his infamous ark. Read More »
Hot Dogs auf Ibiza (1979) Max Pécas, Marco Perrin, Sylvain Chamarande, Andréa Schmidt, Comedy, Erotic
Bored with life in Paris, Christian takes off for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to sunny Ibiza. Read More »
Queen Christina (1933) Rouben Mamoulian, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Queen Christina of Sweden is a dominant European ruler in the 17th century, and has never thought of romance. Read More »
Pouic-Pouic / Squeak-Squeak (1963) Jean Girault, Louis de Funès, Mireille Darc, Roger Dumas, Comedy
Léonard Monestier has made his fortune trading on the stock exchange. His eccentric wife Cynthia almost bankrupts him by selling some of his shares to buy an oil concession in South America. Read More »