A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
10 to Midnight (1983) J. Lee Thompson, Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens, Crime, Drama, Thriller
In Los Angeles, the rookie Detective Paul McAnn teams up with the veteran Detective Leo Kessler to investigate the murder of Betty Johnson and her boyfriend that were stabbed by a naked serial-killer in a park. Read More »
Sonntagsfahrer / Sunday Drivers (1963) Gerhard Klein, Angelica Domröse, Erika Dunkelmann, Gerd Ehlers, Comedy, Drama
“Sunday Drivers” is an uneasy road comedy in which disgruntled “bourgeois remnants” set out from Leipzig for Berlin, where they plan to sell their cars and cross to the West. Read More »
Onihei Hankacho: Unibrow / Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow (2007) Akira Inoue, Action
Onihei Hankach? is a popular series of stories and television jidaigeki in Japan. A story by Sh?tar? Ikenami in the December 1967 issue of the magazine “All Yomimono” developed into a series, which Bungei Shunju published the following year. Read More »
Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen (2014) Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Fritz Lang, Documentary, Biography, History
Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its ‘collective spirit’ in cinema. The purpose of film as a cultural tool is examined. Read More »
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955) Edward L. Cahn, Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S. John Launer, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Several years earlier gangster Frank Buchanan was deported to his native Italy through the efforts of law enforcement authorities and rival gangsters who inform on him. Read More »
Entre las piernas / Between Your Legs (1999) Manuel Gómez Pereira, Victoria Abril, Javier Bardem, Carmelo Gómez, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Miranda is a crew member of a nightly radio programmme. She and her husband Felix, a cop, are parents of a girl. Read More »
FAQs (2005) Everett Lewis, Joe Lia, Allan Louis, Lance Lee Davis, Drama
After living on the tough streets of LA for a while, India hopes that every gay basher will meet his destiny. Read More »
The Painted Veil (1934) Richard Boleslawski, Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent, Drama, Romance
In Austria, Katrin is lonely after her sister’s marriage and she agrees to marry her father’s research associate Dr. Walter Fane. Read More »
Eat with Me (2014) David Au, Sharon Omi, Teddy Chen Culver, Nicole Sullivan, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Emma only knows one way how to add spice to her life… by squirting it from a bottle of hot sauce. Read More »