
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956) Fred F. Sears, David Brian, Neville Brand, Richard Long, Western

Part of an outlaw gang rides into town to rob the bank and their accomplice is the local undertaker. Read More »
Istoria mias kalpikis liras / The Counterfeit Coin (1955) Yorgos Tzavellas, Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Mimis Fotopoulos, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. Read More »
Magnificent Obsession (1935) John M. Stahl, Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Drama, Romance

The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital’s only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once Read More »
Tender Comrade (1943) Edward Dmytryk, Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Drama, Romance

Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation. Read More »
Serzanta Lapina atgriesanas / Return of Sergeant Lapins (2010) Gatis Smits, Baiba Broka, Vilis Daudzins, Gatis Gaga, Comedy, Drama

The film is set in Riga, where sergeant Krists Lapins returns from an international mission and moves into a remote flat in the city’s suburb. Read More »
Omar Khayyam (1957) William Dieterle, Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Adventure, Biography, Romance

Omar Khayyam was among the greatest of Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Read More »
Kono hiroi sora no dokoka ni / Somewhere Beneath The Wide Sky (1954) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Hideko Takamine, Drama

A family in the city of Tokyo running a liquor store overcome their impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems. Read More »
Kitty (1945) Mitchell Leisen, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles, Drama, History

London, 1783: Kitty, a saucy wench of the slums, meets the painter Gainsborough by stealing his shoes. Read More »
Hong quan xiao zi / Disciples of Shaolin (1975) Cheh Chang, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi, Ming Li Chen, Action, Drama

Impetuous young martial arts master Kuan takes a job at a textile factory where another disciple of the revered Shaolin discipline warns him about the rival Manchu clan, who run another nearby mill. Read More »