
“O Estranho Mundo de Zé do Caixão” is a collection of three creepy and bizarre horror tales. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Smokescreen (1964) Jim O’Connolly, Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain, Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a blazing car goes over the cliff to the east of Brighton an insurance investigator is sent to the coast to poke around. Read More »
Dilemma (1962) Peter Maxwell, Peter Halliday, Ingrid Hafner, Patricia Burke, Drama, Thriller

Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing. Read More »
Futtocks End (1970) Bob Kellett, Michael Hordern, Ronnie Barker, Roger Livesey, Comedy

In this ‘silent’ sound-effect comedy, Ronnie Barker stars as General Futtock who has a motley group of guests stay at his country estate for the weekend. Read More »
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) Val Guest, Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Horror, Sci-Fi

In the countryside of London, a rocket crashes on a farm and Professor Bernard Quatermass and Scotland Yard Inspector Lomax arrive in the spot. Read More »
A Tale of Two Cities (1980) Jim Goddard, Chris Sarandon, Peter Cushing, Kenneth More, Drama, History, Romance, War

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. Read More »
Peter’s Friends (1992) Kenneth Branagh, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Seven friends in an acting troupe graduate from Cambridge University in 1982 and go their separate ways. Read More »
Alice in Wonderland (1966) Jonathan Miller, Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller, Drama, Family, Fantasy

There have been numerous film adaptations of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, over the years. Read More »
Hell is a City (1960) Val Guest, Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Crime, Thriller

Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Read More »
Kiss the Other Sheik / Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965) Eduardo De Filippo, Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak, Virna Lisi, Comedy

Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film which combines much of the 1965 release Paranoia with new footage. Read More »