
Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Conseil de famille / Family Business (1986) Costa-Gavras, Johnny Hallyday, Fanny Ardant, Guy Marchand, Comedy, Crime

French rocker Johnny Hallyday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. Read More »
Eneste ene, Den / The One and Only (1999) Susanne Bier, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Niels Olsen, Søs Egelind, Comedy, Romance

This romantic comedy follows two couples in Copenhagen trying to settle down. Sus, who works in a beauty clinic, tries to live happily with her Italian husband. Read More »
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) Henry King, Otto Lang, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Biography, Drama, Romance

Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent in Hong Kong, separated from his wife. Read More »
Carry on Camping (1969) Gerald Thomas, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Comedy

Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. Read More »
The Man I Married (1940) Irving Pichel, Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Drama

Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America. Read More »
The Toy Tiger (1956) Jerry Hopper, Jeff Chandler, Laraine Day, Tim Hovey, Comedy

Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Read More »
Deported (1950) Robert Siodmak, Märta Torén, Jeff Chandler, Claude Dauphin, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Read More »
Tempest (1928) Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone, John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Drama, Romance

In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. Read More »
White Nights (1985) Taylor Hackford, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Drama

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. Read More »