Van Ekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up, to get a very valuable diamond, so big it’s named Titan. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Nightforce (1987) Lawrence David Foldes, Linda Blair, James Van Patten, Richard Lynch, Action, Drama
Carla is devastated when her friend is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel. After going to her father, a U.S. Senator, she gets her friends, and arms, to cross the border for a rescue mission. Read More »
Perla w koronie / Pearl in the Crown (1972) Kazimierz Kutz, Lucja Kowolik, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jan Englert, Drama
Polish Silesia, the 1930’s. A coal mine is slated for shutdown. Scared of losing their jobs, the miners declare a sit-in. Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spiders Lair (1968) Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Raizô Ichikawa, Mako Midori, Maka Sarijo, Action, Drama
The titular “tarantula” is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Read More »
Massacre Gun (1967) Yasuharu Hasebe, Jô Shishido, Hideaki Nitani, Yôko Yamamoto, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Read More »
Face of a Fugitive (1959) Paul Wendkos, Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green, Western
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. Read More »
Hakase no aishita sûshiki / The Professor and His Beloved Equation (2006) Takashi Koizumi, Akira Terao, Eri Fukatsu, Takanari Saito, Drama, Family, Romance
This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.
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The Ghost Goes Wild (1947) George Blair, James Ellison, Anne Gwynne, Edward Everett Horton, Fantasy, Comedy, Mystery
Monty Crandall is a commercial artist who ridicules a dowager with a caricature of her on a magazine cover and she sues him. Read More »
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005) Albert Brooks, Sheetal Sheth, John Carroll Lynch, Comedy
The American senate, in order to improve it’s fast declining global image, asks comedian Albert Brooks to write a 500 page document about what makes Muslims laugh in India and Pakistan. Read More »
I soliti ignoti / Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) Mario Monicelli, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Comedy, Crime
Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other members of the gang. Read More »