
This is a retelling of the old tale of Hansel and Gretel, but set in England in the 1920s. To the children and staff at the orphanage, Auntie Roo is a kindly American widow who gives them a lavish Christmas party each year in her mansion, Forrest Grange. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Wild and the Innocent (1959) Jack Sher, Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Romance, Western

Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy’s first taste “big city” life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. Read More »
The Sisters (2005) Arthur Allan Seidelman, Elizabeth Banks, Maria Bello, Erika Christensen, Drama

Based on Anton Chekov’s “The Three Sisters” about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives. Read More »
Farewell to the King (1989) John Milius, Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo Read More »
The Alamo (1960) John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Adventure, Drama, History, War, Western

In 1836, General Santa Anna and the Mexican Army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him, General Sam Houston needs time to get his main force into shape. Read More »
So Red the Rose (1935) King Vidor, Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Drama

SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor’s quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation Read More »
Ordeal by Innocence (1984) Desmond Davis, Alan Birkinshaw, Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, Mystery, Thriller

Paleontologist Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to give them an address book that belongs to Jack Argyle. Read More »
The Second Arrival (1998) Kevin Tenney, Patrick Muldoon, Jane Sibbett, Michael Sarrazin, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After Zane Ziminski is found dead five people received envelopes with details of an alien invasion. Read More »
Leptirica / The Butterfly (1973) Djordje Kadijevic, Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic, Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic, Drama, Horror

Story follows young man Strahinja who is in love with a local beauty Radojka, but their relationship has an obstacle – her father Zivan, who considers Strahinja as nothing but a loser. Read More »
Indul a bakterház / The Stationmaster Meets His Match (1980) Sándor Mihályfy, Imre Olvasztó, Róbert Koltai, Teri Horváth, Comedy

The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody’s first though is “I wish you had been hanged when you were born!” drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. Read More »