
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 »
Author Archives: rarefilm
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 »
Julia Has Two Lovers (1990) Bashar Shbib, Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, David Charles, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Julia gets a call to a wrong number, but stays on the phone with the man on the other end for the entire day. Read More »
Crazy Knights / Ghost Crazy (1944) William Beaudine, Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard, Maxie Rosenbloom, Comedy, Horror, Romance

Three goofy guys (Shemp Howard, Billy Gilbert, Maxie Rosenbloom) run into ghosts, a gorilla and a haunted house. Read More »
Dressed to Kill (1941) Eugene Forde, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders. Read More »